–residents had reported presence of two suspicious characters in area, no police action taken
WHILE the occupants were asleep, bandits invaded the home of former Region Three (Essequibo Islands/West Demerara) Chairman, Esau Dookie, early yesterday morning, carting off his laptop and cellular phone. Mrs. Neermala Dookie told the Guyana Chronicle that when she woke up to the incessant barking of the neighbour’s dogs, at about 03:30hrs on Tuesday, she looked through the window and saw a man walking on the road, but she thought nothing of it. However, when the dogs continued to bark, she awoke her husband, and they saw that their house had been ransacked, and then she realized they had been robbed.
She notified the police, and a mobile patrol with ranks arrived at about 05:00hrs to conduct investigations and take statements.
According to Mrs. Dookie, by removing louvre panes from a window on the top flat of the house, the robbers were able to enter the house and uplift the keys to access the lower flat of the building. They took her husband’s laptop and a cellular phone when they ransacked the upper flat; and later went downstairs and searched around, even taking from the refrigerator a beer which they left on the nearby bed before leaving. A spray can which was lodged inside the storeroom was left abandoned in the yard.
The woman said that in the nine years of their residing at Lot 532 Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, this is the second such robbery to have occurred, but persons have entered their yard about five to seven times before, and have taken away various items, including vehicle parts.
Mr. Esau Dookie is currently the headmaster of the Saraswat Primary School at De Willem, WCD.

FISHY FISHER FOLKS
Meanwhile, residents told the Guyana Chronicle they had observed two men in the vicinity of Dookie’s residence on Sunday night, acting suspiciously while they pretended to cast fishing nets as if they were fishing in a nearby trench.
Challenged by villagers, it was discovered that the men were not from the area, but when asked what they were doing there, they said they could fish at any time. This transpired at about 23:30 hrs on Sunday night.
Incessant barking of dogs in the area caused the men to remove from where they had been, but they were deemed suspicious characters, and their presence in the village was reported to the police that very night. However, residents claimed that the police did not investigate the report.
Commander of Police ‘D’ Division, Senior Superintendent Christopher Griffith, yesterday told the Guyana Chronicle that police are investigating the incident, but no arrests have yet been made. It will also be investigated why, in the face of a resident’s report that two suspicious men were seen lurking in the area, no police action was taken.