POLICE in ‘D’ Division are probing two separate armed robberies on the West Coast Demerara corridor where a business place and a rice farmer, his wife and daughter were relieved of valuables by two gun-toting men on Tuesday night and on Wednesday.On Tuesday night at about 19:30 hrs. two gunmen who pretended to be customers robbed the patrons and owner of the Sun Beam Bar located at New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara. The owner, Yodeshwar Chetram reported that two men came into the handout spot and bought cigarettes and soon after brandished their handguns, relieving the patrons of all valuables and carted off with money, and quantity of liquor from the store.

The robbers escaped with the booty which amounted to an undisclosed sum in a waiting heavily tinted 212 white motorcar of which they did not make out the number plate on Tuesday night. Meanwhile, in the other armed robbery which took place at about 11:00hrs on Wednesday two men, one armed with a gun took away several bags from a family, who were in their rice field at Crane Public Road, West Coast Demerara.

The victims have been identified as rice farmer, Ramkissoon Ramnarine, 57, of Canal No.1, West Bank Demerara, his 56-year-old wife, Indira Ramnarine and their 26-year-old physically challenged daughter.
Ramnarine and an employee were doing some work on the field when two men came up on a motorcycle and one described as a ‘Rastafarian man’ pulled out a gun and came under the makeshift tent they had erected and took away their bags.

Indira Ramnarine, her daughter and an employee were relaxing in hammocks at the time of the incident. The bandits rode off with the bags, which contained important documents, money, and newly purchased medications among other things. The Ramnarines said it is the second such armed robbery they have encountered and the first one left their daughter unable to speak as a result of being tramautised. Police said no arrests have yet been made but the robberies are under investigations.