Sev­en­teen days have passed since Massy Stores in St Ann's have been robbed, how­ev­er, in­ves­ti­ga­tors say that whilst they may have a lead in the in­ves­ti­ga­tions, noth­ing has ma­te­ri­alised yet.

This was con­firmed to the Guardian Me­dia by Port of Spain Snr Supt Lin­coln Daly. He added that he is hop­ing that the in­ves­ti­ga­tors in this case make a break­through soon with an ar­rest and the in­ves­ti­ga­tions suc­cess­ful. Massy Stores, St Ann's, Port of Spain was robbed on Sep­tem­ber 3.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, at about 6 am on Sun­day, five men, at least one of whom was armed, en­tered the store and or­dered work­ers to get on the ground. Four of the five em­ploy­ees were then tied up with duct tape while the fifth, a fe­male work­er, was forced to open the vault. Guardian Me­dia was told that both US and TT dol­lars were stolen.

How­ev­er, Massy has not dis­closed how much mon­ey was tak­en. The five heav­i­ly masked men al­so stole a work­er’s cell phone. Since the rob­bery, Massy Stores as­sured the pub­lic that the em­ploy­ees who were on du­ty dur­ing the rob­bery were re­ceiv­ing the req­ui­site care and at­ten­tion fol­low­ing the trau­ma­tis­ing in­ci­dent.

In a state­ment is­sued by the com­pa­ny the day af­ter the in­ci­dent stat­ed: "Massy Stores con­firms that a rob­bery oc­curred at our St Ann's lo­ca­tion around 6 am on Sun­day 3rd Sep­tem­ber 2023. The in­ci­dent is cur­rent­ly un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion by the po­lice, with full co­op­er­a­tion from Massy Stores. "We can con­firm that our af­fect­ed em­ploy­ees are re­ceiv­ing the req­ui­site care as the health and safe­ty of our team and cus­tomers is our pri­or­i­ty. The in­ci­dent is the sub­ject of an on­go­ing po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion and as such no fur­ther de­tails are avail­able at this time.”