RESIDENTS of the Roraima Housing Scheme (Versailles, West Bank Demerara) are in fear for their lives and property as bandits have been targeting the area with several burglary attacks recently.

On Tuesday last residents occupying the building at Lot 57 in the said scheme got up to find their apartments broken into, doors sprawling and items of high value gone.
Reeling from shock was our own Alex Wayne who occupies apartment # 4 in the building when he received news at work that his apartment was broken into.
The breakage was discovered by his 18-year old son, Alwyn who resides with him and had just got home from school in the city.
Wayne was literally crushed since it was only a week ago while himself and son were visiting relatives in Mahaicony that the apartment was targeted. The thief at that time was disturbed by another tenant returning home during the night and left the apartment hurriedly, being  able to cart off only a DVD Player valued at $10 000. The building at Lot 57, Roraima Housing Scheme is said to be owned by management of the Aracari Resort located a short distance away.
Yesterday Wayne was highly emotional when he arrived at the apartment and began counting his losses. Bandits had removed a 19” colour television from the living room, but had strangely left a much larger one that was located in the bedroom. Wayne will have now to find new means of cooking since they took a table model gas stove, his cellular phone which was left in the wardrobe by his son and several pieces of cutlery.
Shockingly the thieves emptied a cupboard that contained foodstuff, and removed a large quantity of raw fabric that he was supposed to be using to do decorations for two weddings for which he was contracted as the decorator.
Several pieces of clothing were removed from his wardrobe, one pair of footwear and a large quantity of decorative flowers that were stored in three large plastic containers for future decorative assignments.
Clinton Forsythe occupying Apartment # 8 seemed to have suffered the worst since the culprits removed two digital cameras, one laptop, two DVD Players, a large quantity of jewellery belonging to his wife, two wrist watches, cutlery, cosmetics and high fashion clothing belonging to his wife, and costume jewellery. Forsythe has informed that he has suffered over $400,000 in losses as a result of the theft and break in.
A Jamaican Chef occupying Apartment # 3 is still traumatised after what he described as two tall men spent most of the night rapping at his door and rattling his window panes. The man said he had arrived home at 23:58 hrs and saw two men lurking amongst several vehicles parked in the yard. He said he begged the taxi driver to flash his lights into the yard and the men ran to the rear of the building. He said  while he had entered and secured his apartment, the men began the rampage. Most of the tenants have sworn that they will be relocating to apartments elsewhere but Aracari Resort’s Ganesh Rampersaud has assured that proper security measures will be put in place to ensure tenants are comfortable.
Officials at the Aracari Resort have since installed security lights around the building and changed door locks for the tenants, who are still lamenting their losses.
Earlier this week it appears that the same bandits pounced on the unfinished building belonging to the owner of the Cell Phone Shack entity at Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara and carried away all the electrical tools used by the carpenters and masons. The equipment stolen is said to amount to some $300,000.
In March this year a businessman residing in this housing scheme, arrived home at 18:00 hrs to find a Rastafarian man climbing out of his bedroom window with his laptop. The poor man was too traumatised to act, and the thief made good his escape into the bushy backlands outside the Roraima Housing Scheme.