ROBBERS on Friday broke into Brickdam Secondary School in Georgetown, and stole two laptops and $40,000 in cash from the headmistress’s office.Acting Commander of the Police ‘A’ Division, Calvin Brutus, told Guyana Chronicle that the break-and-entry and larceny took place between the hours of 04:00am and 08:00am.

He said the night guard reported hearing sounds coming from the upper-flat of the two-storey building located at Freeman Street, East La Penitence, and that upon closer inspection, he saw three men running from the school while the door to the headteacher’s office was open.

When Headteacher Chandrina Welcome-Lee showed up for duty, she conducted a check on her office and observed that two laptops were missing. She also told police that $40,000 which had been in her office were taken. The money was donated to the school for its graduation ceremony to be held at month-end.

The door to the headteacher’s office has since been repaired. On a visit to the school on Friday, three guards were seen in the compound, and all were hostile to the Guyana Chronicle.
They prevented this newspaper from meeting with the school’s headteacher.

“You will have to leave, because the HM trying to sort out things and doesn’t want to meet anyone,” one of the guards told this publication.
Despite the robbery, school was in session as per normal.

Residents nearby could not say what happened, since they had heard nothing unusual, and learnt of the robbery only when police visited the school to take a statement from the headteacher.

Police have launched an investigation into the matter, but no arrest has been made thus far.

Students and staff of the Brickdam Secondary School were, on September 5, 2016, relocated to the East La Penitence Primary School at Freeman Street. The move happened after students and teachers in June protested the deplorable conditions of the Brickdam Secondary School.

Pupils from East La Penitence were moved to St Pius Primary School to facilitate the relocation.