POLICE at Vigilance have acknowledged receipt of a report about jewellery missing from a taxi and are hoping that, since parties concerned visited the station, the matter would be resolved shortly. The jewels were reported lost by caterer Kowsilla Beharry called ‘Aunty Data’, who said the items are a necklace, a band and a pair of earrings (family heirloom), all worth $500,000.
She said they were in her handbag when she hired the taxi, on Sunday, to transport her to Sixth Street, Non Pariel from Courbane Park, also on the East Coast of Demerara.
Detailing her experience on Monday night, Beharry said she had taken meals that she had prepared, to the destination and left her handbag on the back seat of the taxi to make the delivery.
Upon her return, she retrieved her handbag but did not check inside and the same car took her back home, several streets away.
It was when she reached her gate and opened the bag that, to her dismay, she realised that the jewels were not in it and tried, in vain, to stop the driver who sped away.
To date, despite calls to the taxi service, she was unable to recover her jewels before reporting to the police.
Meanwhile, the owner of the taxi service, Nasser Khan told the Guyana Chronicle yesterday that he spoke to Beharry when she visited his place of business, accompanied by two men she identified as policemen and he noted her complaint.
Khan said he asked the driver in question whether he had taken the woman’s jewels but the man, who is attached to the service but operates his own car, denied taking them.
He added that the man had been with the service for three years and was never involved in any such thing.
Khan said he, too, went to Vigilance Police Station where he lodged a report.