Survival grocery store
reportedly robbed again

For the second time in four days, bandits have hit the Survival grocery store’s Orange Walk outlet in broad daylight.
Sources said that two bandits, who pretended to be customers, fled with a small sum of cash at around 12:45 hrs yesterday after holding an employee at gunpoint.
According to reports, the sales clerk was in the store when two men entered and asked to buy a quantity of cold Viva Water. The employee said that they had none in stock and directed the men to another store. The men walked away as if they were leaving, but then one of them turned back and scaled the counter.
Kaieteur News understands that the man, who had a handgun, forced the clerk to lie facedown on the ground.
He then relieved the salesman of an undisclosed sum of cash before fleeing with his accomplice.
On Friday, two other bandits snatched some $80,000 representing the day’s takings from the same outlet after holding two employees at gunpoint and beating the proprietor’s wife.
The bandits had pretended that they were customers interested in buying some crème liqueur.

Fish vendor’s body
fished out of Demerara River

The body of a well-known Stabroek Market fish vendor was fished out aback of the Stabroek Market wharf yesterday at around noon.
According to reports the dead man was positively identified as Monesh Singh, of 110 West Ruimveldt, minutes after his body was discovered by his brother Vishnu Singh.
Vishnu Singh said the last time he saw his brother alive was Monday when he was seen drinking with a group of friends at a Stabroek Market stall. Vishnu Singh became worried after his brother failed to return home that night.
“Normally, when he drink, he does come home late but Monday night he ain’t come home at all,” Vishnu Singh said.
The grieving brother added that at around noon yesterday, a friend visited his home and informed him that his brother’s body was found aback the market. Vishnu Singh said when he arrived on the scene, he saw his brother lying on the shore.
No marks of violence were found on the body but investigations are continuing.

Wednesday 06-15-2005