Daring daylight robbery at Great Diamond Scheme...
Re-migrant's wife beaten, tied to grill door
• bandits escape with substantial sum of cash and jewellery 

A re-migrant is contemplating returning to the United States after bandits beat his 25-year-old wife and tied her to a grill door during a daring daylight robbery yesterday at the couple's Great Diamond, East Bank Demerara home. 

Example of a grill

The bandits, who were armed with a handgun and a knife, escaped with a substantial sum of cash and jewellery at around 09:30 hrs yesterday, after beating the re-migrant's wife and threatening to kill her one-year-old son. 

The woman and her son were home alone when the bandits struck at their Thirteen Street , Great Diamond home. 

Ganga Persaud, who returned to Guyana a few months ago, said that he was doing construction work at another house a few blocks away when the attack occurred. 

According to reports, the woman and her two-year-old son were inside when two young men, who had a handgun and a knife, entered via the opened back door. 

The bandits reportedly struck Persaud's wife to the ground while asking her for “the money and the gold.” 

Persaud's wife, who declined to be identified by name, said that the men gagged and tied her to the grill door at the back steps. 

According to the woman, they also tied her infant son by his legs to grillwork at a front window and then proceeded to ransack the house. 

When they did not immediately find anything of value, the men reportedly told Persaud's wife that they would hang her son if she didn't tell them where the family's valuables were hidden. 

The woman then directed then bandits to a wardrobe, where her husband had stashed a large quantity of cash and jewellery. 

The men reportedly fled immediately after locating the family's valuables. 

After the bandits left, her little son managed to unloosen his legs and remove the gag from his mother's mouth. 

A female fish vendor, who was coming to visit the home, entered the premises after hearing screams. 

But the re-migrant's wife said that the vendor fled after seeing her tied to the grill. 

Persaud said that he only realised that something was amiss when the same vendor ran to the house where he was working and informed him about the robbery. 

He immediately ran to his home, cut his wife loose with a kitchen knife and then drove to the Grove Police Station to report the robbery. 

The re-migrant said that he now has second thoughts about remaining in Guyana . 

“We feel threatened; we want to leave right now,” he told Kaieteur News. 

According to Persaud, who moved to Great Diamond about three months ago, residents are at the mercy of criminals, since there are no streetlights or telephones in the area. 

• Residents said that there have been several recent robberies in the community.