MEMBERS of the community of Agricola have been cooperating with music and movie producers, Charmaine Blackman and husband Bonny Alves in ensuring the return of one of their laptop computers, which was stolen between Saturday night and Sunday morning, at their home at the East Bank Demerara village.

Police are investigating the robbery in which the home of the two was broken into and two laptop computers, containing music and movies, with a lot of work the couple has done recently and over the years, some of which have not yet been released, are on the stolen computers.

Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle on Tuesday, Bonny Alves disclosed, “We’ve gotten one laptop back at 1 o’ clock this morning (Tuesday).”

While the computer which was recovered is the one which contained more of the data, Alves said efforts are also being made to retrieve the other one. He said however, 90% of the information was stored on flash drives for backup. He is still calling for the return of the other computer, since it stores five of their original movies, including one not yet released.

“It can compromise the plans and marketing that we have,” he told this publication.

At the time of the incident Alves and Blackman were in Linden attending the Mashramani Calypso Semi-finals, but he received a telephone call from a relative who informed him that his home had been violated by bandits.

The thieves broke open a window in the vicinity of a bathroom to gain entry into the home, and evidence showed that they were also searching the home further.

Alves said that for over 80 years his family lived in the community and the house was never broken into.
“This is the first time it ever happened in fourscore years,” he said, and added, “It looked like they (thieves) were not seasoned… they wanted to be in quickly and out quickly before anybody might come (back home).”