West Dem jeweller robbed of $4m by gunman

A West Coast Demerara (WCD) jeweller was yesterday afternoon robbed at gun point of over $4 million in jewellery and $135,000 in cash while at his business establishment, which is located in the Hydronie, East Bank Essequibo market.

The man, Rajendra Harrinarine, recounted the ordeal to Stabroek News even as he bemoaned the sloth of the police at the station there. “About after 1(pm) one man come and was looking in the case…he asked me the price fuh a ring and me tell he $12,000 and next thing I see he pull a gun over the case and tell me don’t move or no noise or he guh shoot meh,” the jeweller said.