Hours after armed masked men robbed a bank in Grenada on Monday, a senior government official is linking five Trinidad and Tobago nationals with the robbery at the Carriacou branch of the Grenada Cooperative Bank.
“As the Member of Parliament for Carriacou and Petite Martinique, I applaud the law enforcement and security forces on the island whose swift action today, Monday, October 18, 2021, ensured that five foreign nationals allegedly implicated in the robbing of a bank in our peaceful community were captured,” Legal Affairs Minister, Kindra Maturine-Stewart, said in a statement posted on her Facebook page.
Maturine-Stewart said her office was informed that the five men were captured at sea during their attempt to get away from the island after robbing the bank.
“Indeed, the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique are heartened by the swift and efficient action of the local police and coast guard which reflects the improved local securit“Indeed, the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique are heartened by the swift and efficient action of the local police and coast guard which reflects the improved local security capacity on the island. In recent years, the g“Indeed, the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique are heartened by the swift and efficient action of the local police and coast guard which reflects the improved local security capacity on the island. In recent years, the government invested great resources in personnel and equipment in our ongoing efforts at improved security,” she added.“Indeed, the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique are heartened by the swift and efficient action of the local police and coast guard which reflects the improved local security capacity on the island. In recent years, the government invested great resources in personnel and equipment in our ongoing efforts at improved security,” she added.overnment invested great resources in personnel and equipment in our ongoing efforts at improved security,” she added.y capacity on the island. In recent years, the government invested great resources in personnel and equipment in our ongoing efforts at improved security,” she added.
Indeed, the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique are heartened by the swift and efficient action of the local police and coast guard which reflects the improved local security capacity on the island. In recent years, the government invested great resources in personnel and equipment in our ongoing efforts at improved security,” she added.
She said that despite the men being captured her office is determined to review even further some of the local security operations since this is the second time within two years that the community in the sister isle has been jolted by what is effectively a cross-border raid by regional criminal elements.
“We are thankful that none of our citizens were hurt during today’s dramatic development, though witnesses would have had some trauma since it is unusual in one of the most serene and peaceful jurisdictions in this hemisphere,” she said.
Police in Grenada are yet to issue a statement on the arrest, but in an earlier statement called for anyone with information to contact them.
In October last year, Acting Police Commissioner, Edvin Martin, confirmed that the police had been informed by their counterparts in St. Vincent and the Grenadines that they had detained two suspects in relation to a robbery at the credit union in Carriacou.
But in February, the police here said that Grenada had withdrawn an application to have two Vincentian nationals extradited to Grenada in connection with the October 2019 robbery.
