NAMILCO salesman, twenty-three-year-old Mickey Cheddie was on Wednesday robbed of over $300,000 by two men at gunpoint while he was on company business at a shop in Friendship Village, East Bank Demerara.

Reports are that Cheddie of Best Village, West Coast Demerara, along with two other workers, was making a delivery of flour to the Friendship shop. A senior police officer told the Chronicle that according to reports Cheddie was transacting business in the shop when two armed bandits went up to the truck and demanded money from two others who were in the truck.
The officer said that the two who were in the truck were scared for their lives and told the bandits that they didn’t have the money but Cheddie had it.
As soon as the Cheddie was walking out of the shop the bandits held him at gunpoint and snatched the bag containing the money before escaping on foot.
The officer said that no shots were fired nor was anyone injured. The police are continuing investigations into the matter.
And only on Tuesday the Guyana Post Office Corporation Training Centre on Lamaha Street was robbed of $5M.

In that robbery a security guard was injured as two bandits reportedly carrying firearms robbed the Training Centre shortly after it was opened to members of the public.

(By Asif Hakim)