A TAXI driver, detained since the $1.1M robbery at Woodlands Hospital on Monday morning, was still in custody yesterday.

The suspect is being held pending further investigations into the heist at Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud said.
The Deputy Commissioner (Crime) informed that police arrested the man after he reported that his motor vehicle had been hijacked by a gunman and investigators are probing to ascertain whether he was involved in the crime, as well.
At about 09:00 hrs on Monday, clerk Sattie Persaud, 47, was taking a bag containing the money to the hospital’s Accounts Office when she was held up by a man with a firearm who stole the cash and her cell phone and escaped.
The taxi driver was apprehended shortly after that happened.
Hospital matron, Mariamma John told the Guyana Chronicle that the cashier had collected the bag with cash from the top floor and was about to enter the Accounts Department, located on the ground floor, when she was surprised by the bandit.
John said the robbery was committed within five to 10 minutes time and the frightened cashier had no choice but hand over the money.
She said the Police were summoned but, by the time their ranks arrived, the lone robber had fled the scene and the cashier and accounts staffers were all questioned at Brickdam Police Station.
Employees of the hospital started to pursue the fleeing gunman but abandoned the chase after he began waving his weapon in the air and threatening to shoot them.
However, they saw when the robber stopped the black Raum vehicle, robbed the driver of money and gold jewels he was wearing, before driving away in the man’s vehicle that he left some distance from the crime scene.
Police were, up to press time, still hunting the man who was alone and unmasked, wearing dark shades and a multi-coloured shirt over jeans and carrying a haversack when he calmly walked into the hospital and lay-waited the cashier.
The incident has caused security at the hospital to be heightened, especially around the cashier’s cage.