CONTRIBUTORS to the St. Nicholas Anglican Church Penny Bank, at Supply, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, are becoming more frustrated at not getting any positive word from the police or otherwise regarding their reportedly stolen money.

Yesterday the worried group told the Guyana Chronicle that the police had informed them they may not be able to get it back tomorrow, since the women at the centre of the missing cash drama are claiming they do not have the resources to repay.
Last Friday, those who contributed were promised that they would have been refunded on Monday after the two women secured additional funds to meet the total amount of which they claimed to have been robbed on Tuesday of that week.
But, when this newspaper contacted the complainants yesterday, they said their frustration continues and, from what they have been observing, it seems as if the police are unable to determine what the next move should be in relation to making the culpable women face the law over the millions of unaccounted for dollars.
On Monday, following advice from church sisters who were responsible for the penny bank, the affected savers gathered at the St. Nicholas Anglican Church at Supply, expecting to receive their monies but the two women did not show.
Then, at the police station, they were told the women were unable to garner the cash to start the refunding.
One woman, who spoke to this newspaper by telephone, said she is not exaggerating by stating that the dilemma she now faces shows signs of her family seeing a gloomy Christmas.
Not clear
She explained that the missing penny bank money was being saved to get certain things done in the home and for the family at this festive time and, with yesterday being Wednesday, seven days from Christmas; it is not clear how she will be able to enjoy the season.
On Tuesday, another woman who gave only one name, Rhonda, went to a city bank to withdraw some $4M to pay 40 persons, mostly women who, throughout the year 2012, have been contributing to a penny bank.
The woman claimed she was robbed after she left the bank but those to whom the money belong do not believe her, questioning how she failed to raise an alarm and did not report the crime to any of the many police outposts specially located in the city at this time of the year.
It was the next day that the alleged victim called another church sister, also associated with the penny bank, to tell her she was relieved of the money after leaving the bank the previous day.
Police have not indicated if any headway is being made in their investigation of the report.