Tobago hit by armed bandits...again

A clothing store in lower Scarborough was robbed yesterday afternoon of some $6,000 by two gun-toting bandits. The incident occurred around 1 pm. This is the latest in a current spate of armed robberies in Tobago which started on June 29. According to a police report of yesterday’s incident, two men armed with guns confronted the man who was at the time in charge of Gomes clothing outlet at lower Milford Road and demanded money.

Officers from the Scarborough CID are continuing investigations. Meanwhile, four Tri-nidadian men charged witrh several separate counts of armed robbery in connection with the Carnbee gas station robbery, Busy Foods supermarket robbery, and the separate robberies of a man and a woman of Bon Accord re-appeared in the Court yesterday.