When store assistant at Sharma Home Décor on Independence Street, Abigail Francis, went to work on Monday morning, little did she know that she would be receiving the shock of her life.
Francis said she opened the store’s sealed doors and proceed down the stairs to the basement where the store is located.
As she went down , she suddenly felt something was not right.
“Something just hit my spirit in a way that something was wrong,” she told Dominica News Online.
She went down the stairs slowly, afraid that someone would jump out at her and when she entered the store, what greeted her eyes filled her with horror.
“When I looked all around I seeing everything was just like a hurricane passed through the place,” she stated.
She quickly called a neighbor and her boss showed up right after.
Upon investigation, their fears were confirmed; the store had been visited by thieves.
They had gained entrance into the store by cutting the burglar bars and removing the glass from the window. Then a ladder was used to enter the store.
The thieves eventually made good their escape with some $15,000 worth of items plus the burglar bars and the glass from the window.
Just a stone throw away, Unlimited Services Plus, fared no better.
Owner of the establishment, Edward Coipel, told DNO that on Monday morning a staff member showed up for work and noticed a back door to the office open.
Investigations revealed the office was broken into and ransacked.
“We found that the office was vandalized,” he said. “Everything was on the floor; files, papers and everything were scattered on the floor … some draws were opened and some draws were on the floor, like a real ransack.”
Nothing of value was stolen. “I think they were looking for money,” Coipel said.
The office of talk show host and publicist, Karmala Jno Baptiste-Aaron, which is located in the same building, was also broken into.
She told DNO that to her knowledge nothing was stolen but the office was ransacked.
Even the Grotto Home was not spared by the long hands of the thieves.
On Monday morning it was discovered that a container on the site of the new Grotto Home in Bellevue Rawle was broken into.
President of the board of directors of the Home, Ainsworth Irish, said a padlock to the container was broken and when the thieves realized they could not break another, they sawed off the handle of the metal door to gain access.
A number of items, including cement and power tools, were stolen, Irish said.
He said the entire matter is disturbing, and is calling on anyone with information to call the police.
Both Coipel and Francis said police are investigating the break-ins at their business places.
Do we have finger printing in Dominica?
Hello My People , I am a Career Volere – I leave in Roseau . 3 years ago , I went all over Dominica looking for a Job – and No one Hired me ; therefore I decided to Steal for a leaving . I have rent to pay , I have to Eat , I have to take care of My Woman and Child – and Oh buy Condums – One Child is all I can Afford . Being a VOLERE has been Good To me , When I Steal An Item , I can always Sell it on the Under ground Market or Black Market . I make on Avrage $3000 a month . I Can Find a job that pays $1500 a month ! However I don’t want it Because it’s Hard , Hard Work as a Labourer at a Construction Site . Being a Volere is Easy Work ! And the pay is Double . The money I make Being a Career Thief , I even take my woman and Child on Vacation – once a Year . Please note Being a career Volere is not for everyone , As for me I am fine with IT .
u are such an idiot, what goes around come back around, have ur fun… u must pay up one day
Stop blaming the PM. There are two words we must remember, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Stop the blame games. It starts at the home, school, church. But sometimes no matter what you do, some people will always have sticky hands. The problem with us Dominicans, we like to hade things when we know it. But when it happens to us we want help. “YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING. If you know something bad has happened and you don’t say anything, you are just as bad.
If we want to live in a civilized society, we cannot depend on the law enforcements and government to do everything. We have to do our part. What affects one, affects all. We are in this together. When they finish with Tom, Dick, Harry, Mary, Jane, and get away, who do you think they coming to seal from, it is one of us. Is not if it is going to happen to us, is when, if we don’t do something and say something.
Si yi pas ni soutiweh, yi pas ni volere!!! The parents and family members who benefit knows…one day for them.
Uhmmm so peo0le up on this page talking bout no joBs? First of are you serious? Yu doh give them jobs seing that you so woried about them having no job? Secondly the person taking there precious time to break down windows and e.t.c y they cant go in bush an go cut down grass an try to sell provision huh ? Some people just ignorant as hell I bet the same people that talking bout “no job” I sure if is allu place they had come an rob allu would not come an running ally trap talking bout no jobs! Smfh stop looking for excuses for people with no heart that y Dominica won’t succeed !!#
right now the business owners needs to be a customer of team platinum; team platinum inc always willin to help, help us to help u fight against thieves
do you red people who use the clinic know that this is the avenue used to rip off tax payers money?the natl bank is aiding money laundering.serious money is passing thru this bank for overseas deposit. just go there on wednesday and see for yourself.
when they get caught ,let them tell the court is because they can’t get work ,why they stealing .
are these comment real? come on people thieves are everywhere if u look in the mirror they might even be in your home
See how far we were looking for trouble? Tommy, Sochi and forget about our own…our back yard need some attention…
agreed
it was the same prime minister that was there when all the people were thieving all the thousands of dollars at their work places , was it unemployment that caused it to? grow up people
all i have to say is this is very sad…so sad
Its funny how people are quick to turn every matter on the island into a political something. Robbery is something that happens everywhere all the time. Geeez, people are desperate especially as carnival is here. They will not work because it will take too long to make the money.
I do not agree to say there is no work nuh. How is it that the spanish and the hatians can find work to do until they even EMPLOYING Dominicans? Is it really that there is no work? or is it that some people are too dam lazy and care to make a quick buck as long as they are not caught. Stupes, catch every theif and cut off their hands hopefully, it will come to a hault.
Way papa. Anyhow Skerrit have “marler”. Every negative thing that happen in DA it’s because of Sherrit. People steal all the time as long as they think they can get away with it. It’s not ONLY in Dominica the unemployment rate is high.
Work the land, plant fruits, vegetables and coconut, make cocoa, castor oil and sell them! Do something to earn a living, but don’t blame the PM for everything!
That malhuer You talking about is called Karma “whatever you sow so shall you reap”
No jobs in the country ,fustration is rising .
A Voler is always a Voler, job or not. Those Voler especially those working in financial institutions get a good salary, drive fancy vehicles, own nice homes and they still volering. Don’t blame it on no jobs and frustration.
Well when you doe have a job to put food on the table you have to do something else
Sackway voler ou meme
Nonsense!
this should not get political. It’s carnival and they want money to spend but don’t want to work for it.
Well no jobs for them to put food on the table so u have to look for it in another way
well, no jobs for them to put food on the table so they have to look for it another way? well when you meet them in your place deal with them. Dominica have so much land. why don’t they go and plant dasheen and sell it?
Some of you people who comment here are simply put…..DUMB……RIDICULOUS…..SAD……NONSENSICAL.
Stop making a papishow of very serious matters that affect our society.
Boy fellaz like ants in de place. No work then we go to robbing, cuz we can get a gun faster than we can get a job.
Yes let me hear all you give police pressure. Those people who like to bash police should not call police when those thieves hit their homes and business places! Bon!
I know right…..i was at one of those places that was robbed and the police response was quick……hats off to you guys…..now to only catch those thugs
it would actually be nice to have reports on these thieves.
If anyone has information, suspects anything or has witnessed something, its time to speak up. Help stop crime. We cannot wait till it happens to us for it to become our business. The fact that it happened to someone else, means that you could be next. Take action Poeple. Help the police stop these crimes.
Change is a must.
those that say change is a must sometimes is your party supportes that doing that to try and put the government in bad light so shut up. if workers win then Dominica will be worse than the middle east under crime and violence and social disorder workers have to stay out no place for people with no vision and a plan
From Justice and Truth to Simply the Truth and now let justice live.
You can run but you cannot hide, disciple.
oh shut up…let ppl think of u as a fool than to open ur mouth and prove them right
Afterall man. Grotto is a place for the homeless and less fortunate of our society and people stealing from them. They barely have enough supplies to feed the people at the home. Shame on those theives.
Things Rough. Red Clinic ain’t cashing check like before.
PPL have no choice but to voleh! Look they deport Tommy Lee and the country still suffering from Crime and Moral Decay so whatttttttttttttttt was the point?!
Honestly some of need to .gt a grip……..skerrit have nothing to do with burglaries ….come on……some people are just too wicked …
Very Stupid Comment.
is just that you all the worker who hit on red clinic doe give others a chance to benifit but we preferr the red clinic cause the blue hospital will nothave doctors to aid the people like how red clinic takes care of us
@ let justice live. Is the red clinic money labor money or the country money. That’s our tax money!! Say what all you want. You are so dumb!!!!!
Go and tell that to the judge or the victim.
really? when these thugs come down on your home to take what u worked so hard for u will tell them it’s okay because u not working take what u need. stop defending things that God hates.
Skerrit do something
learn to train you all selves and stop calling on skerrit where are the parents to dicipline their children
what that have to do with skerrit? stop blaming the man for other peoples choices in life. these people chose to steal no one told them too. stupez.