Robbery at Busy Foods, Tobago

The Busy Foods Supermarket in Glen Road, Tobago was held up by three men, two weilding guns, at around 2 pm yesterday and robbed of $11,000 and several bottles of rum. Manager of the supermarket, Khadija Ali Samhoul, told Newsday that the men wore no gloves or masks and except for one, were unknown. She noted also that they spoke with “the normal Tobago accent and seemed to be familar with the place.” Samhoul recalled that the men entered the supermarket, walked into her office and headed straight for the draw containing the money. When she questioned their actions, they showed her a gun and continued to empty the drawer of its contents. Sahoul said the robbery took less than ten minutes, which convinced her that they had been staking the outlet for some time and were familiar with their surroundings. The alarm was raised and the police arrived a half hour later but by then, she said, the robbers were long gone. Officers of the Scarborough CID are carrying out investigations.