POORAN Singh, of Rotterdam, East Bank Berbice, awoke yesterday morning, after heavy rainfall during the night, to discover that his two-flat concrete house had been burglarised.
The pensioner, who lives with his wife, Hardia and grandson, Ganesh, told the Guyana Chronicle that the last, who is an early riser, found that four louvre window panes had been removed to allow for the illegal entry into the lower flat.
He alerted his grandfather, who had slept upstairs and, together, they observed that the place was ransacked.
Clothing, Singh’s passport, bank book and an insurance policy document were on the floor when this reporter visited the scene yesterday afternoon.
Singh said he lost $27,000 which was in bag hung behind a wall divider and had been kept there to pay his electricity bill and to concrete a part of his yard.
He said, fortunately, the staircase between the upper and lower flats was locked and prevented access to bedrooms above.
Singh reported the burglary to Sisters Police Station and was informed that a detective, from Central Police Station in New Amsterdam, also in Berbice, will carry out the investigations.