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Another car hijacked, driver thrown out at La Parfaite Harmonie
Less than a week after a Schoonord, West Bank Demerara resident lost his car, when three men forced him to drive to an isolated area in La Parfaite Harmonie, another driver has reportedly experienced the same fate.
Shaheed Mohamed
This time it’s 29-year-old taxi driver, Shaheed Mohamed, of 60 Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo.
Mohamed lost the silver Toyota Premio, PVV 5302, he was driving early yesterday morning, after a man hired him from the eastern side of the Demerara Harbour Bridge to go to La Parfaite Harmonie, around 00:45 hrs.
According to Mohamed, he and another taxi driver had parked at the bridge, and were waiting on customers, when a man approached him and asked the price to go to La Parfaite Harmonie.
“I told him the price and he said okay and jumped in the vehicle. When we reached a dark corner at Parfaite, he asked me to stop, because he wanted to make a call, so I did,” the man recounted.
He said that the passenger appeared to make a call while inside his vehicle, but ‘hanged up’ after it appeared that no one answered.
“Suddenly, I see a white Toyota Allion (number given) pull up next to me and two men jump out of the vehicle and come to me with a gun.”
Mohamed said that the men dragged him out of the vehicle and removed his silver band and took his phone along with $45,000 in cash.
“They were talking hard and the people at a house nearby heard and asked ‘what is going on there’ and the two of them jumped in my car and the other one jumped in the white car they come in, and drove away,” Mohamed said.
A report was made at La Grange Police Station.
Last Monday another driver, Vishal Harrichand, said that he had parked near the entrance to the Harbour Bridge, waiting on his girlfriend, when he was attacked by three men, who later made off with his silver-coloured Toyota Premio, PSS 5038.
Harrichand, who works as a driver with a construction company, said that the men beat and kicked him as he was driving to La Parfaite Harmonie—under their command.
He said that when he reached to the designated location, the men stripped him of his rings, chain, cash and even a few pieces of clothing he had purchased earlier and placed in his car.
Harrichand’s car has not been located.
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Thank God that neither of these drivers were killed or badly hurt. The taxi drivers in Guyana needs to be very careful with the kind of passengers that they are picking up but they are unable to know which is the good one and which is the bad one, drivers work by your instinct that may help, if your mind tells you not to take that passenger don’t take them. These taxi drivers need to be allowed to carry a firearm for their safety, give them a back ground check, let them get the training that is required to shoot, have them check in every three months with the police department to make sure that they have their weapon and grill them a little with a few questions. This is just my opinion…