Bandits on Tuesday robbed a teacher and her family of over $1 million in cash and other valuables after they broke into her home at East Canje, Berbice, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
Shaleeza Ramcharan, a teacher of Viola Nursery in New Amsterdam, said she arrived home at about 14:45h and discovered that the front door to her Lot 80 Canefield Settlement, East Canje home was not the way she left it.
Before entering the building, she telephoned her husband, informing him that the door was looking kind of strange.
When she opened the door, she found that the house was ransacked.
“I went in and everything was ransacked from downstairs. I went upstairs, it was ransacked,” Ramcharan explained.
The teacher, who also operates a part-time business selling Mobile Money Guyana (MMG), offering photocopying services and selling stationery, said her business’ cash was gone.
“I had MMG money. I had money to carry around the house, like over $500,000 in cash. I had my kids’ jewellery, my jewellery, and my husband’s jewellery… They took all his brand-name boots, all our brand-name cologne and perfumes. My husband had like five bottles of brand-name rum (which were also stolen).”
The 35-year-old teacher further disclosed that the intruders would have carted off about $400,000 worth of jewellery.
“I have been making jewellery for my kids since they were little,” she noted.
“They took all the gold jewellery and left the artificial jewellery,” Ramcharan added.
According to the teacher, it was about 7:30h when she left home, and no one was at home during the period she was out at school.
The mother of two says she is hoping that law enforcement will be able to catch the perpetrators.
“I am quite shaken up, I am hurt, I am sad; lots of emotions. I worked so hard for my things, and then somebody just came and took them all. I am hoping that the police do a proper investigation and I could get back my stuff,” the teacher said.
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