IN addition to the man who was arrested while at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday in connection with the daring Regent Street hijacking of a minibus,the heisting of $42M (not $90M as was previously reported) and escaping with a police high-powered rifle, another man has been taken into custody.Also, the police are still looking for several persons whose names were mentioned as possible players in the execution of the robbery . The men are mainly from Georgetown and the police up to late last evening were very hot on their trail.
Meanwhile, the two police ranks who were tasked with providing escort service for the cash on Wednesday are still under close arrest as the investigations into the robbery continue.
In a press statement yesterday, the Guyana Post Office Corporation said that the amount of cash robbed from the company minibus when it was hijacked was only $42M.
The Post Office said that is was sad to report that the robbery took place even as the company contracted full security personnel and a menu of infrastructural and external security reinforcement complementing the Corporation’s internal agents.
The company said that it implemented the new measures earlier this year and the loss comes at a considerable cost to the Corporation. The robbery was the first of its kind for the year regarding the theft of post office funds.
The Corporation apologized to the pensioners for the inconvenience in the non-payment of their funds at some of the payment offices on Wednesday, even as they assured that the payments at other locations were going smoothly.
The full recommencement of payment of funds will be from the April 07, 2015.