Flemming Street store attacked in daring robbery
Reports reaching BVI News indicate that a daring daylight robbery was executed sometime this morning at Aladdin BVI on Flemming Street in Road Town.
It is not immediately clear what was taken during the robbery or how long the ordeal lasted.
Four masked persons were reportedly involved in the incident but it is not clear how many persons were in the store at the time of the robbery.
Amateur video footage showed one of the robbers fully dressed in black wearing white gloves and holding what appeared to be a high-powered firearm while standing guard outside of the store.
Three other men subsequently emerged, all holding weapons and escaping towards a waiting KIA SUV with their takings from the store.
The men reportedly headed west along Main Street and made their escape.
BVI News will bring more details as it becomes available.
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Alreadyy?? Them man getting them funds for andrew fast mehsonn.
imagine if andrew met a real cartel
guns and drugs would be even more rampant in this place smh
wake up BVI don’t defend wrong doing!
Why doesn’t the Police have an Emergency No. similar to their non-emergency “311” number?
RVIPF posted a set of different numbers as though anyone have time to be looking in their contacts for which 5-digit number to dial.
GOVERNMENT FIX THIS!!
911 is the emergency number for all emergencies
911 isn’t the emergency number for police.
Others have complained about this same thing and f it were RVIPF would have included it in their post lastnight.
The RVIPF updated their poster on Facebook to add the 911 number (wasn’t there initially) but it doesn’t work properly.
You really think Andrew just start? He was doing that for years, how you think he used to hand out all the money to the teachers when he was education minister?
Bob HL and more groomed him
What is wrong with these young people? I just read am article narrated by Eileen Parsons praising Andrew Fahie as a courageous leader who can bring horse racing back to the territory. This man was found guilty in Miami for drug conspiracy. Eileen said he is a courageous leader. Those are the people who our youths look uo to. So those young men are the products of the corrupt, unethical and pervasive leaders that have governed and set the rules and principles in our Nature’s Little Secret. God help us.
What is courageous ? Still the lot of them believe it is a set upm…. What denial
Imagine they have tonwait in the UK official to tell them to get someone just to ensure deadlin s are mer
Now thinling about a schedule what adhoc people are runnng here
Eileen Parsons is 94 yo. Giver her a discount.
These brazen and dangerous thieves need to be caught and put away in a cage where they belong. Hope no one was injured. Imogine that, broad day light and they pull this stunt. Clearly they do not fear law enforcement.
There has to be CCTV footage of their movements. Hope they are quickly apprehended. Somebody needs to drop a dime on these criminals. They earned their tickets to Balsum Ghut. Let’s help them collect their reward.
.. what’s the number for 911? (little rascals)
So a crooked [ex]Premier, drugs, unsolved murders and now daylight ARMED robbery. When all the businesses and the expats pull out and there no tourists come the islands just going to go the dogs.
I don’t feel very safe in Road Town at all. Its armed robbery and what if that idiot had used that gun – could have taken out 50 -100 people in minutes. Where are the police? – they should be on patrol in Road Town.
@madea I strongly agree if there is more police presence on the streets, some of these crimes will be deterred.
So what could the foot patrol police have done? Beat the gun totting crooks with their batons?
Never a good idea to bring a stick to a gunfight.
No just seeing police around will make big difference
Road Town needs cameras/CCTV.
That’s exciting for the tourists! It’s been a good 24 hours for the BVI.
Wait ’til the international press pick up on the Fahie conviction.
We’ll have Haiti taking our cruise stops!
Well done BVI; you’ve made the most of the billions of Government revenue paid in since the 1980s.
Did anyone see what color the Kia is? Can’t the police search for the car based on Kia color? Are there pictures of the car?
These people are coming from their different countries with their bad ways, corrupting these peaceful isles. We need to do a better job screening persons.
It’s your attitude that all criminality comes from overseas that is totally wrong. Fahie, Maynard and politicians before them were corrupt and such attitudes have spread through parts of our BVI society.
poor you don’t know it’s your own BVI young people that doing these some of your same SON’s and friends
MY FAMILY AND I HAVE VISITED THE BVI MANY TIMES AND WE’VE REALLY TRY TO NOT LET THE MEDIA SCARE US WITH THE NEGATIVE NEWS. BUT IF I AM HONEST, WE ARE CONCERN THAT THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE. THIS IS DISSAPOINTING NEWS. WHAT IS SCARY FOR US IS THE FACT THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED IN BROARD DAY LIGHT AND IT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME. NOW THINKING OF CANCELING OUR FAMILY VACATION TO THIS ISLAND. THIS IS SAD.
Meanwhile, while my daughter was recently visiting Florida, she walked from the hotel to the mall…..and I begged her to grab and go- not to linger- ever conscious of the mass shooting in the schools ans streets on a weekly basis .
The serial killers were not so much a concern as a concern cause she was with friends and family .
Also, a famous football player was gunned down on that same strip the week before. Maybe it was isolated , or one of the Crack heads living in the alley adjacent to the mall.
I dunno , but I sure did breathe a sigh of relief when she boarded that plane to head back to the BVI.
Thanks for your submission, though.
Good rebuttal, but howdo you know it’s an American tourist? Now that’s a place I am afraid to visit these days, and it’s not one state, it’s all states. I rent cars when I am there and now pay for the gas because I am afraid to go to gas stations for fear of what’s happening around them.
Of course there is gun violence in the US. But this article isn’t comparing BVI to the US. It’s describing a crime that happened during the daytime and probably won’t get solved. A crime like this would never not go unsolved anywhere in the US. Daytime robbery seen license plate. This would of been solved the same day in the states, do to technology and cameras.
Fair point , but it’s just a reference point .. since we talking bVI tourism . Caribbean : Barbados, Trinidad, Jamaica. Scary places most days. Point remains, we all have e increasing challenges, but I will take my chances walking here in told at 2:00 am …. but i can’t think of another Caribbean island where I would be comfortable doing THAT. GOD continues to bless THE BVI – warts and a all. SHANTI
MESSAGE TO THOSE ROBBERS AND KILLERS YEA YOU ONE DAY THE BUCKET GGO A WELL ONE DAY THE BOTTOM WILL DROP OUT KARMA IS A BITCH CANT SAY I DID NOT WARNED YOU REMEMBER THE GUY WITH THE MASK ON HIS FACE WHO WAS GUNNED DOWN LAST YEAR OK THEN I SAY NO MORE SLEEP WELL
Them people who own the stores were them from don’t play that wait and what going to happen that man is no punk insurance will pay them back and them will deal with them
This nonsense I am hearing about how police could stop robbery without a gun is ridiculous, No matter how much guns robbers have they will never rob a business place in the presence of a uniform Police, Police presence alone is a preventative element, Police handle things differently, they have radios, they can quickly sound and alarm, they don’t need Guns.to get in a shoot out..Then the responding officers will come prepared. Stop making excuses for non Police presence and or lack of visibility. Pope being on the Radio almost every day complaining about the lack of police presence in the city. In the 90’s we had half this amount of police. But you could have seen police every where you turn in the city. Commissioner must take responsibility..
Though not completely unavoidable, this could the results of undefined and unregulated immigration and its policies.
Moreover, the culprits probably came in and left by sea the same day.
Thus, border security must be brought front and center also for scrutiny and upgrades.
But instead, the ones responsible are busy trying to destabilize the country from the top down with political weapons that will eventually render to them the entire economic economy that the forefathers worked so long and hard to build, and what they had no hand in building.
How criminal and needing a COI is that!
Dear Cruiae Ship Operators,
Sorry to have to inform you thay gunntoting criminals are now in town along side your guests. Please stick withbus at least until some of you guests get slaughted. Only innocent local chidren, other criminals and people involved in the odd petty arguement currently getting killed. Your guests are not really affected.
We need more police presence but look at the facts
To 1. The local young people are not interested in joining the force
2. Interview all the young men between the ages 20-30
And see how many are interested ? The statistics is surprising . I know i begun to check the out
3. When the expatriates come they are afraid for their own safety
Batons and teareares against hand guns and AK riflles
What do you expect? Where would you get the work force from
BVI in a lot of trouble
Times are hard….Gold is not selling as fast as it use to… so lets cadh in on the insurance instead.
Is there police officers in the bvi at all ? Where the patrol officers mehson i dont see no police officer out patrol or not absolutely none only when something happen we see them then it cool down back off the street . Are we serious here . Where is the police officers really station and what them does be doing just driving around with the government vehicle with them other half and childrens going super marketing and laundry and so . Yhe bvi need waking up
Why have you used the word “daring” in the headline and article? You’re effectively praising their behaviour and making them out to be some kind of heroes. The language you use in your articles is important, it shouldn’t be condoning actions that put others at risk, and which has likely emotionally damaged those who were in the shop at the time.
“Business”, the police can’t be everywhere all the time at once!
Someone, somewhere, must have seen these thugs, and their Kia, as they drove by!
But you see, many of you will not report these criminals, and their criminal enterprises, due to the fact, that they are your sons, brothers, nephews, cousins, uncles, and God children, that are involved!
I say, shame on us, the citizenry, for not reporting criminals, and crimes, regardless, of how trivial!
It is we, after all, that appears to be the very cause, of our own calamity!
Let us get about the business of problem solving, with regards to crime, for the sakes of our lives, our economies, and the future of these UK Virgin Islands!
It’s not the job of the citizens to protect oneself. The idea that the citizens are hiding these criminals is foolish. It’s the job of the Government and the police to make sure it’s citizens are safe.
Just go over rock and by a couple guns, hire water taxi to bri g you back and bypass customs. Easy fix.
Them police should have come let c the the out come of them punk police were was Durent big looking sk**t always want the biggest gun with scope
All u on hear talking f**k do u really know what them guns can’t do . I would have love to c them given them police a run for them money set of blue close p**k island man
WOW, A BUNCH OF CONFUSED PEOPLE THAT TRY TO PRETEND THEY ARE THE . TAKE CARE OF IT LIKE THE USA. WHOLE CARIBBEAN SHOULD LAUGH NOW, THE WAY YOU TREAT CARIBBEAN PEOPLE IN YOUR LITTLE WATER HOLE. STAY IN THERE WITH YOUR SHARKS NOW. THE UNITED KINGDOM SHOULD ROLL YOU ALL INTO THE SEA. WAST OF TIME BOAST NOW . TO GOD BE THE GLORY. CORRUPT FROM TOP TO BOTTOM