‘A’ DIVISION Commander Clifton Hicken told the Chronicle on Monday that the police are still investigating the incident of carjacking involving former University of Guyana Deputy Registrar Tota Mangar on November 16 at Camp Street, Georgetown.The police have, as yet, neither arrested anyone nor recovered the car which was stolen.

Mangar told the Chronicle that he keeps checking with the police regularly, but has not received any positive word, more than a week after the dreadful incident.

Mangar was robbed on the evening of November 16, after he left a book-launching ceremony at Moray House and went into his car on Camp Street, Georgetown. As he entered the vehicle, two men approached and simultaneously opened the right side doors of his car, one ruthlessly placing a knife at his neck and the other a gun to his face, before demanding that he hand over the keys and exit the silver Toyota Escudo.

Up to Monday last, the respected historian and former GNNL board member said he was “still shaken” by the whole ordeal. He explained that he had been invited by long-time friend and fellow Essequibian Roy Brummel, to a ceremony at Moray House to launch two of his books. The writer had recently migrated from the United States of America (USA), and Mangar was highly anticipating the meeting after a period of separation.

(Shauna Jemmott)