Gya: $37M woman robbed

The millionaire winner of a recent lotto jackpot was made to scale a fence Saturday evening as she desperately tried to escape four armed bandits who stormed her house and escaped with over $200,000 in cash and jewellery.

Cheryl Skeete of Eastville Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara recently won a $37M Guyana Lottery Company jackpot and was presented with her winning cheque two weeks ago.

Skeete, a fish vendor of the Stabroek Market, told Stabroek News yesterday that following her win the lottery company carried her photograph in an advertisement which appeared in the newspapers and also on the television.

Skeete said she was particularly displeased with the advertisement given the current crime situation in the country. The fish vendor said that she had approached the lottery company beforehand requesting that her photograph and other details not be published but this was not heeded and on February 25 one of the advertisements appeared in this newspaper.
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Stabroek News was told that despite an alarm being raised neighbours hardly showed up. However a call was made to the Vigilance Police Station and a mobile patrol responded within minutes. Skeete said the police took a statement from them and promised to go after the bandits.

Quite frankly, she ought to sue the lottery company. For, because of them, she's got a mile-wide and high bulls-eye on her back with a sign saying rob me, in a country in which banditry and death squads seem to carry the day. Besides that, what was she doing with $200K+ in the house? Madness is really gladness, oui.