Canadian killed in Guyana robbery

The murder of a Canada-based Guyanese during a robbery at the Cool Square bar in Georgetown, Guyana last week was recorded by surveillance cameras, police said.

The surveillance footage shows the face of one of two gunmen involved.

Rawle Harding, who was staying at his sister’s Lot 292 Lamaha Springs home, was shot while resisting the gunmen.

Police are still looking for the identifiable gunman, who was clad in three-quarter pants and striped jersey. The two gunmen, who carried out the robbery and murder, had posed as customers prior to the attack.

The police said Harding, along with his cousin Clarence Roberts, 56, and a taxi driver were at the bar when two men entered and purchased beverages. They then pulled out guns and confronted Harding and his cousin and one of them held on to a gold chain that Harding was wearing. When he resisted, he was shot in the abdomen.

The two gunmen, police said, took away Harding’s jewellery, a billfold containing cash and documents and two cellular phones along with $15,000 and jewellery belonging to Roberts. The gunmen also grabbed an undisclosed sum of cash and a quantity of cellular phone cards from the abandoned bar area before escaping. Harding was rushed to the Georgetown Hospital, where he succumbed while receiving medical attention.

Harding migrated to Canada in 2007. He was a father of three.