An­na-Lisa Paul

Two men ac­cused of rob­bing and re­ceiv­ing stolen jew­el­ry from Khan's Gold De­signs, Fred­er­ick Street, Port-of-Spain, last week Sat­ur­day did not reap­pear be­fore in the Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trates Court yes­ter­day. Uri­ah Jones and Chad Ray­mond were re­mand­ed in ab­sen­tia when their mat­ters were called af­ter po­lice de­cid­ed not to bring any pris­on­ers to court yes­ter­day.

The T&T Guardian learnt the de­ci­sion was be­cause of a chick­en pox out­break in the prison. Jones, 29, and Ray­mond, 17, both of Nel­son Street, Port-of-Spain, on Thurs­day ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trates Melvin Daniel and Glo­ria Jas­math re­spec­tive­ly. They were re­mand­ed in cus­tody to reap­pear yes­ter­day pend­ing trac­ing.

Jones was charged with rob­bing Shar­maine Khan of 330 di­a­mond and gold rings val­ued at $1,850,215 on Jan­u­ary 19 at Fred­er­ick Street, Port-of-Spain, while Ray­mond was charged with re­ceiv­ing two di­a­mond rings val­ued at $13,000, the prop­er­ty of Khan's Gold De­signs.