Bandit(s) target Red Cross building
Main computer stolen

By Terresa McCall
Reporter-SKNVibes.com

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – MANAGEMENT of the St. Kitts-Nevis Red Cross is seeking the public’s assistance in regaining a central processing unit (CPU) that was stolen from one of its buildings sometime between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning this week.

In an exclusive interview, the Red Cross Climate Change Project Coordinator, Patricia ‘Pat’ Fahie, told SKNVibes that when she left the Lady Arrindell Building, Infirmary Road on Wednesday evening it was secured but on her return the following morning, she discovered it had been forcibly entered and a computer removed.

“I left work at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday and secured the place. When I got there on Thursday morning I realised that a bulb outside was smashed. I looked around a bit and checked the building and everything was intact.
 
So I entered the upstairs by opening the grill and then the door. I took off the alarm and went further onto the second floor where I opened the second grill and realised that the door to my office as open.
 
I realised that the alarm for that area was off and I knew that the day before when I left the building I armed it.
 
I ran back outside and realised the bell for the alarm was missing and the glass from a window was broken and the burglar bars cut.”

Fahie further explained that when she realised something was wrong she contacted the police, and on their arrival escorted them into the building.

“I went into the building a second time with the police and that is when I realised that the main computer was missing.
 
~~Adz:Left~~ We are the ones who, when you call upon us, are there. So I can’t understand why someone would do this to us. The computer has in all our information which means that we will have to start from scratch in building back our database.”

The Climate Change Project Coordinator is appealing to anyone with information to contact the organisation or the police.

“Any person who may have seen or who may have been approached to house or purchase the cup is asked to kindly contact Red Cross at 465-2584 or the police at 465-2241.