Councillor and Neighbour Report Robberies in Roystonia

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Vanessa Kussie, the UNC councillor for Couva West/Roystonia, told the Guardian that two men approached the small shop outside her home around 9.30 p.m. on Thursday 22 October. She says one took a chain from her neck and the men then robbed a neighbour of his keys, wallet and phone. Kussie says one man displayed a gun and pointed it at the neighbour, though not at her. Her account is a first-person report to the newspaper; the article does not contain an independently verified sequence from surveillance video or a formal police case update.

Sources: Trinidad Guardian, 24 Oct ↗

Kussie said police came promptly after she reported the incident and continued to check on the family. She described regular patrols in the area but said residents remain concerned about crime. The Guardian also recounts two earlier police shootings in nearby Perseverance during separate encounters on 12 October. Those events supply geographic context only. The available reporting does not link the men in this robbery to those incidents or identify them. The neighbour is not named, and his personal details are unnecessary to understand the public-safety issue.

Sources: Trinidad Guardian, 24 Oct ↗

The councillor said the two men appeared to be customers before the chain was taken and that they left on foot. Her account of the neighbour’s robbery describes a gun being pointed at him. These details matter because they distinguish the alleged threat to each person and may guide what evidence investigators seek. The Guardian did not report an arrest, charge, recovered property or suspect identification. It also did not publish a separate interview with the neighbour. Later police information should therefore be dated and added as an update rather than read back into Kussie’s initial account.

Sources: Trinidad Guardian, 24 Oct ↗