… And his brother’s business is burglarized

Perhaps it was just bad luck, but Madhu Babani was not the only Albert Street businessman who suffered losses yesterday. A store owned by his brother, Danny Babani was burglarized last night across the street from where Madhu was robbed. The store “A Fashion” sits next door to Belize Global Travel Services Limited. Early this morning, before opening hours, Babani and workers realized the store was broken into and according to Lorraine Flores, an employee of the store, the robbers left behind a hammer and a hole in the wall.

Lorraine Flores, Employee, A Fashion
“Last night dehn broke into di store through di back there. Dehn get in, went into di draw took all di cash; and dehn also took di tee shirts, pants, boxers, sox, only dat gone so far and di cash.”

Jose Sanchez
“How did they get in?”

Lorraine Flores
“From through back here. Start from over there by di gate there and dehn get in through here and dehn have a next gate over here. Then dehn break dat open, and dehn came in, broke di wall open wid a hammer. We found di hammer and afterwards dehn left di hammer eena di cement. And after dat dehn take di boss Panama bag wid his documents in there, passports and other stuff but di person took out di passport, left it on di step wid di other documents and di credit bag. And only dat. Wid di thing wid di small change, di dollar coin, di shillings and stuff like dat, dehn neva ker dat. So far only dat gone.”

Jose Sanchez
“That hole is small.”

Lorraine Flores
“But I would say maybe more or less dat dah wah kid get through dah hole because somebody big can’t get through dat. Only a kid could get in.”

Jose Sanchez
“Do you know how much in terms of value was lost?”

Lorraine Flores
“Okay, they took three thousand dollars in cash. And they also take in the clothing, maybe about four hundred dollars in clothing.”

This is the first time that “A Fashion” store has been robbed. Police investigations continue into this incident.