Vryheid’s Lust: Taxi driver robbed at knife point by `passengers’

A 30-year-old taxi driver was robbed at knife point of a quantity of cash and other valuables on Monday night by two perpetrators whom he picked up as passengers from Giftland Mall.

The victim was robbed of one Samsung Note 9 cellphone, one gold chain (value unknown), one diamond ring (value unknown), one gold ring (value unknown), and $405,000 in cash.

According to a police report, the driver was dispatched to pick up a passenger at Giftland Mall, Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara. When he arrived there at about 9pm, he picked up two men who requested to be taken to Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara (ECD).