Police are investigating the robbery of a Second Avenue, Bartica, businessman who was robbed again of about $10M in cash by gunmen who punctured the taxi he was travelling in yesterday.

The robbery took place shortly before midday in the vicinity of Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, where police recovered the abandoned car.

Reports said that Nizam Kassim took a taxi from Parika, East Bank Essequibo, where he was believed to have been followed by the robbers who pounced on him when he stopped to get coffee.

The money was snatched from Kassim and the bandits made good their escape.

Kassim was robbed earlier this year of a substantial amount of cash on High Street, Georgetown, where he was also robbed in a taxi he had hired.

Police yesterday held the taxi driver for questioning and lodged the abandoned car at the Lenora Police Station.

Residents of Stewartville, West Coast Demerara, told the Guyana Chronicle that a taxi which was abandoned in the village was driven away by the police who visited the scene.

They said that they heard of a robbery but was unsure of what had happened except for a heightened police presence in the area and several impromptu roadblocks.

A snap road block was observed at the Demerara Harbour Bridge yesterday too where several ranks stopped and searched vehicles and their occupants.