Armed bandits rob Tessa’s Delight

By Stanford Conway
Editor-in-Chief-SKNVibes.com

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – TWO masked, gun-toting bandits this morning (Dec. 1) robbed an Upper Monkey Hill business of an undisclosed sum of cash and left one man injured.

Proprietress of Tessa’s Delight, Vivian Bedminister told SKNVibes that while at work this morning she received a phone call stating that bandits had robbed her snackette and wounded her husband.

“I was working at the time when someone called for me saying it was an emergency. I thought it was something wrong with my son who suffers with seizure. So I went outside and called my husband who told me that two gunmen just hook him up. I said, ‘Two gunmen just hook you up…you are crazy’, and I hung up the phone.

“I was however disturbed by what he said and I decided to call him back to make sure. When I called him back he said, ‘Girl is true’. I then asked him what they gone with and he said they gone with the money from the cash pan,” Bedminister said.

The Reed Data Services’ employee said that one of the bandits gun-butted her husband on his head and he ran away, leaving them in the business premises.

Bedminister said after speaking with her husband she called the Stapleton Police Station to report the robbery, but a female officer told her that they were already informed.

She said the incident occurred shortly before 11:00 a.m. and on her arrival home she did not see her husband. She was later informed that he was at the Stapleton Police Station.

According to the proprietress, this is the second robbery in the three-year existence of her business. The first robbery was just over a year ago when she had left for Nevis to attend her grandmother’s funeral.

She noted that her husband was at work and no one was home at the time. “Therefore the bandits had a field day…they took away all the foodstuff and nothing else,” she added.

Tessa’s Delight occupies a section of Bedminister’s home and was established to assist in meeting the family’s financial obligations.

Bedminister explained that before the business was established, she had found much difficulty in having to purchase monthly medication for her son while meeting other financial obligations.

She explained that her son’s health was the main reason for establishing the business. Additionally, Bedminister said she started selling sweets and snacks but decided to expand after customers started requesting food items.
Police are investigating.