Enterprise
family flees home after kidnap threat
An Enterprise, East Coast Demerara couple was
forced to abandon their recently acquired $4M
home after two armed bandits on Friday evening
looted their place and threatened to kidnap two of
their children.
The robbery victims have since taken up residence
at another location and are still in a state of
shock and fear after witnessing the bandits
ransacking their three-bedroom home and carrying
away over $100,000 in cash, jewellery
and other valuables.
“You could never tell. We can’t tek chance and
stay in dat place they might very well come back
and haunt we life. We ain’t able with dat
worries,” a family member told Stabroek News
yesterday.
According to Indira Rekheran, she her
husband and their three sons had just returned
home around 7:45 pm when the bandits, who had been
lying in wait for them, entered their home.
The woman said the men first accosted her husband
who was sitting in a chair.
Speaking to this newspaper yesterday Rekheran said
she was almost certain that the bandits had been
hiding somewhere in her yard.
The woman’s brother and his family live in the
same yard but they did not see the bandits.
Once in the house, Rekheran said one of the
bandits guarded her husband while the other
commanded the rest of her household to lie face
down.
“After dis he come to me and seh no noise! Hand
me all de money and gold”
Rekheran said she began to tremble with fear but
the man proceeded to order her into her bedroom
where he ransacked their wardrobe.
“When he checking the wardrobe I looking at him
and he then tell me if yall ain’t give me all
yall gat we gon carry the two boys dem to
Buxton.”
On hearing this the children’s father who was
still under guard by the other bandit begged the
man not to take his children.
The bandits then grabbed two cellular phones which
were in the bedroom, a bag with jewellery and some
$55,000 in cash.
Not satisfied with their plunder the men proceeded
to pick up a pair of sneakers and emptied a bag
full of personal documents including bank books,
national identifications cards and other things.
At this point the men prepared to leave the home
but not before warning the family not to sound any
alarm or call the police.
Rekheran said her brother was aware of the robbery
but he was so afraid that he locked up his house
and stayed quiet.
The police were called in but by the time they had
arrived the men had already escaped along the
railway embankment.
The woman said yesterday her husband had worked
very hard to acquire what they have. She related
that the house at Enterprise was built through a
mortgage they had taken from a bank.
Asked whether she would return to the house, the
woman told this newspaper that several family
members and residents had encouraged them to stay.
“But we ain’t safe deh at all. No use stick
around when you gat to wake up every minute ah de
night and peeping to see if anyone deh in you
yard.”
Yesterday when Stabroek News visited the family at
their new location they were now settling in.
Tensions have risen recently in the area following
the kidnapping
of taxi driver Vivekanand
Nandalall.
Despite a ransom being paid for him, the man has
not been seen since.
(Nigel
Williams)
November
03, 2003
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