GARBAGE collector Leroy Hopkinson of Angoy’s Avenue in Mount Sinai, West Canje Berbice was remanded to prison after he denied a charge of robbery before Magistrate Sherdell Isaacs-Marcus at the New Amsterdam Court.The unrepresented defendant was recently reemployed by the New Amsterdam Municipal Council, after informing a senior official that he needed a job, as he was facing challenging times.

On August 17, fifty-one-year-old Barbara Ramdeo, another Town Council employee, was cycling along the lonely thoroughfare in the vicinity of the Regional Democratic Council when she was accosted and robbed of $37,000, which represented a weekly ‘box hand’ that had earlier been collected from several persons.

Her screams drew scores of persons to her rescue; and the defendant, who jumped overboard into a nearby canal, was pulled therefrom and handed over to the police, who had been summoned.
The stolen sum was recovered in his right side pants pocket.

This case is fixed for hearing on September 5.