Dry goods shop
owners beaten, robbed
 Target: The dry goods shop. (Corwin Williams photos) |
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Mr. Loki
Narine, 50, and his wife, Mrs. Druphattie Narine of 123 Triumph Village
were sitting in their shop on Sunday evening around 20:00 hrs when they
were robbed.
According to Loki, he was selling a case of lemonade to a regular
customer when another man approached him for a case of beer. He proceeded
to sell the man the beer, when another man approached him and placed a gun
to his head telling him not to move.
The man
he was selling the beer to proceeded to take Druphattie into the kitchen,
demanding that she give them money. She gave the money they had downstairs
but was unaware of the amount.
Loki
said that a third man was outside the gate with a machine
gun.
He
recalled that the man holding the gun to his head told the other holding
his wife to "kill she."
The
father of three said he tried to move and that was when he was hit with a
gun and sustained a gash in the head. He was also bruised in an ear and on
the neck and he and his wife were also cuffed on their
mouths.
 Victim: Loki Narine |
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According to Loki, the robbery lasted about 10 minutes and police
arrived at the scene shortly after.
A
neighbour, Amitra Singh of 153 National Walk, Triumph, was going to the
store when he heard a scream and saw a man stooping his way out of the
shop. Singh said that he knew that the owner was being robbed because he
saw the men with guns and he went back home and told his family to call
all the neighbours and alert them.
Another
neighbour, Patrick Singh stated that he received a call from Amitra's
family informing him that the Narines were being robbed so he called the
Beterverwagting Police Station.
According to the neighbours who called the police, the men who appeared to be in their late 30's to 40's, left the scene pointing their guns in opposite directions. -
(YELENA RAMAUTAR)
Wrong
impression
THE wrong
impression may have been created in the second paragraph of the story
headed `President Jagdeo tops PPP/C leadership list' on page one of the
Chronicle yesterday.
Official
sources at the Congress said the President never supported the amendment
that the structure of the party be changed to accommodate a Leader,
Chairman and General Secretary.
The
paragraph in the Chronicle story may have given the wrong impression that
Mr. Jagdeo was contesting for the leadership of the party or supported the
amendment by some delegates to change the current leadership structure of
the party.
The
President, in fact, gave full support for the current structure, the
sources said.
The proposal to change the structure was unanimously rejected by the Congress.
