Buxtonians vow to keep their village clean after apprehending Digicel bandits

Apr 01, 2010 News

Their village was once described as a haven for criminals but Buxtonians are fed up with that label and have vowed to ensure that none of their youths fall prey to the clutches of crime.
They demonstrated this in no uncertain manner last Tuesday when they apprehended two bandits who tried to seek refuge in their community after committing a robbery at the Digicel outlet at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara.
The residents upon learning that the men in a strange car that had entered the village were bandits, came out in their numbers and cornered the perpetrators at the back of the community.
Two of the four suspects were apprehended and subsequently handed over to the police. There was a time when it was easy for criminal elements to seek refuge in Buxton, bringing the village into disrepute, so much so that whenever a major crime was committed, the security forces would swoop down there in numbers.
There was also a time when any stranger passing through the village was attacked by bands of young gunmen, further isolating the community.So much was the village under siege by the Rondell Rawlins gang that some villagers were killed after being labeled snitches, while others were forced to flee their homes in fear.
But today things have taken a complete turnaround, Buxtonians vowing never to have their community return to those days.
About 12:15 hours on Thursday three sales clerks at the Digicel Outlet at Mon Repos, ECD, were attacked and robbed by three men, one of whom was armed with a gun.
According to the police, Anthony Singh, 21, along with two female clerks, was in the outlet when three men entered and held them at gunpoint.
The employees were ordered to lie on the floor while the perpetrators took away an undisclosed sum of cash, a number of cell phones and a quantity of cell phone cards and escaped in a waiting motor car, PHH 4904, driven by an accomplice.
After the bandits left Singh joined a taxi and gave chase after the vehicle used by the perpetrators and which headed into Buxton, along the Railway Embankment.
Realising that he was being lured into the once hostile village, Singh subsequently stopped, but was approached by a Rural Constable attached to a Police Station in Georgetown who was in the vicinity and enquired from him what the problem was.
Upon being informed of the robbery, the Rural Constable joined the taxi and continued the chase after the bandits.
The police stated that, recognising that they were being followed, the four perpetrators abandoned the motor vehicle and ran. They were pursued by residents of the Buxton community which resulted in the apprehension of two of them. The other two managed to escape.
The two captured bandits reportedly hail from the village of Clonbrook further up the East Coast of Demerara.
Yesterday, when this newspaper visited the Company Road line top, several villagers were huddled in a group recounting the incident.
“The police were not involved in the capture of these men. From the time we hear that they were bandits, is every man Jack jump on their bicycles and go after them. Even the smallest child come out,” a female resident related.
The residents said that there were many incidents that were wrongfully blamed on elements in the village.
“People does come in here and use this village but we ain’t allowing that anymore. We can’t afford to lose anymore of our young men,” the woman who lost two of her sons in different circumstances during the crime wave, said.
The two arrested men are scheduled to appear in an East Coast Demerara court today.

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