BURGLARS last Wednesday night broke into a house at Henrietta on the Essequibo Coast and stole a shoulder bag containing $2,000, ATM and National ID cards.

House-owner Radika Indarpaul said that the thieves removed a glass pane from a louver window at the front of the one-flat concrete building and unlocked a bolt on the door to gain entry.
She and her mother as well as two young daughters were asleep when the thieves entered the house.
According to Indarpaul, who is a clerk in the accounts department of the Regional Administration Office at Anna Regina, she discovered the front door of the house opened and the shoulder bag missing when she woke up just before 06:00hrs last Thursday.
She said the house was not ransacked and suggested that the motive of the burglars was probably to find money in the shoulder bag.
She said the matter was reported to the Anna Regina Police Station and CID officers promptly visited the house to investigate.
Meanwhile, several other residents in Henrietta and Richmond villages have reported that thieves are constantly attacking the villages. One resident said several homes were broken into during the past weeks. The resident said at night many boys are ganging up in groups at the roadside for extended periods. He observed that it’s becoming dangerous to walk along the streets at night.
Residents are now calling on the police to do more patrols in the Henrietta and Richmond Housing Schemes and to stop the youths from gathering at street corners at night.