Tourists robbed in Bz. City, Cayo

Tourists were the victims of crime in two separate incidents over the long weekend. On Saturday a British visitor was robbed at gunpoint as he conversed with the daughter of the manager of the guesthouse where he was staying. Paul U-Ming told police that around 5:00 p.m. the single assailant took his waist bag containing his passport, eight hundred U.S. dollars and three hundred pounds in cash, as well as thirteen hundred dollars in travellers cheques. The next day the proprietor of the Downtown Guest House on Eve Street found the passport and travellers cheques in the yard.

On Monday two more British tourists were robbed, as they walked to the Maya site of Xunantunich in Cayo. Forty-two year old Carrine Sherman told police that she was making her way to the ruins with her eighteen year old daughter and tour guide Rosario Panti, when they were accosted by three Hispanic men armed with knives and a pistol. They were taken to some nearby bushes and relieved of nearly four thousand dollars in cash and jewelry. No suspects have been arrested in either robbery.