Manchester family loses $3.5M in cash, jewellery in burglary

Daysha Halley

A Manchester, Corentyne, family was robbed of $3.5 million, including the savings contained in children’s piggybanks, in a burglary on Thursday.

Daysha Halley, 47, of Lot 26 McGowan Street, Manchester Village, Corentyne, told Stabroek News that the money represented savings that were to be used to purchase a plot of land to further expand her business.

She and her husband sell “provisions and citrus on a truck.”

She said, “I sell on donkey cart ’til me save and buy