–burns, leaves car at #63 Beach 

A 32-YEAR-OLD man was reportedly held at gunpoint by a lone female and robbed of valuables and had his car torched at the Number 63 Beach, East Berbice Corentyne.

Ravindra Mohabir, of Lot 184 Section `A` Number 59 Village,who operates a hire car, said he was proceeding along the Number  61 Village Public Road when he was stopped by a female soliciting a drop to the Number 63 Beach to purchase fish.
“I left home around 06:00hrs to help a friend who was leaving for Suriname. On my way back I see this lady on the road stopping car. I stop for her and she asked if I can take her by the beach to buy fish,” he related. “So I take the work.”

Mohabir explained that the passenger agreed to pay $2000 for the trip since she had to collect fish.

However, whilst at the destination the woman whipped out a gun and pointed it in the driver’s direction demanding he hand over his cash and valuables.
“The only thing I had was the $2,000 she pay me for the trip and my cell phone. I hand it over and she said come out the car and run so I jump and run to the entrance,” said Mohabir.

He explained that while coming out from the beach entrance he met a man whom he asked for a phone call to alert his relatives, and it was then that he saw smoke followed by an explosion.

Mohabir told the Guyana Chronicle that he bought the car – a white Toyota 192 in 2016 – at the cost of $860,000 and that has been his only source of income. He is now uncertain of his future.
The police have since launched an investigation.