Bandits stick-up, rob MediCare employee

Two men pulled off a daring daylight robbery on a MediCare Pharmacy outlet on Thursday afternoon and escaped with several personal items belonging to an employee.

According to one of the employees, who was held at gunpoint by one of the bandits, around 1.30 pm two men entered the South Ruimveldt Gardens outlet, and requested to purchase five cards of Panadol. “When I turned to get the Panadol and turned back they point the gun to my face and said not to make a sound,” the visibly traumatized employee told Stabroek News on Thursday.

She added that after one of the two men pointed the gun at her and requested her silence, he subsequently removed a