.
He
does
not
have
a
clue
of
how
to
deal
with
the
state
of
lawlessness
in
Guyana;
he
gives
in,
it
seems,
to
every
demand
made
of
him
by
the
opposition
PNC
Leader;
he
devalues
democracy
-
all
of
this
in
his
rush
to
please
the
Opposition
Party.
Elderly
pensioners
beaten
in
second
robbery
AN
ELDERLY
couple
was
beaten
and
robbed
of
a
large
sum
of
money
by
four
armed,
masked
bandits
at
Grove,
East
Bank
Demerara,
on
Wednesday
night.
Sugrim
and
Rajmat
Soodin,
of
Lot
‘A’
Grove
Public
Road,
said
they
lost
G$200,000,
US$600
and
Cdn
$400.
Surgim,70,
the
older
of
the
two
pensioners,
said
he
was
in
the
yard,
about
8
p.m.,
locking
up
the
enclosure
where
he
stacks
cooking
gas
for
sale
at
his
small
business
place,
when
the
quartet
emerged
from
the
back
and
started
beating
him
about
the
body.
The
Soodins’
house
where
the
robbery
took
place.
He
said,
as
he
was
wrestling
with
one
of
the
bandits,
the
other
three
entered
the
house
where
his
wife
was
sitting
in
a
hammock
watching
television.
The
67-year-old
woman,
still
visibly
traumatised
yesterday,
said
the
robbers
immediately
pulled
off
her
wedding
ring
from
her
finger
and
tied
her
up.
Sugrim
and
Rajmat
Soodin
in
their
ransacked
home
yesterday.
They
put
her
to
lie
face
down
on
the
kitchen
floor,
insisting
that
she
hand
over
money
and
gold
jewellery
while
torturing
her.
She
recalled
that
one
bandit,
who
was
with
her
husband
downstairs
their
one
storey,
joined
the
rest
inside
the
house
and
assaulted
him.
He,
too,
was
bound
with
pieces
of
curtain
material
and
put
to
lie
beside
her
while
the
men
ransacked
their
home,
the
wife
said.
She
said
one
bandit
lifted
her
bodily
and
took
into
their
bedroom
where
he
forced
her
to
hand
over
the
cash
she
had
been
saving
to
renovate
the
building
in
which
they
live.
Sugrim
suffered
injuries
to
his
eyes,
face,
head
and
ribs
and
Rajmat
had
lacerations
on
her
neck
and
hands.
She
told
the
Chronicle
she
pleaded
with
the
bandits
who
wore
masks
and
carried
handguns
to
leave
them
alone
but
they
continued
their
assault
as
her
husband
tried
desperately
to
fight
them
off.
The
Soodins’
next
door
neighbour,
suspecting
that
something
was
amiss
after
telephone
calls
to
them
were
repeatedly
terminated,
contacted
Police,
at
Grove
station
a
short
distance
away,
but
the
bandits
had
fled
by
the
time
the
cops
arrived.
The
victims
said
it
was
the
second
robbery
they
endured,
after
all
their
gold
jewels
were
stolen
in
the
previous
one
