While Caroni Central Member of Parliament Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie and his wife slept at their Las Lomas home Thursday morning, thieves made off with the family’s car, cash, Parliament documents and other valuables.
According to police around 9.30 pm on Wednesday, Tewarie, 69, secured his Home Farms, Chin Chin Road, Cunupia, home by locking all the doors and windows with the exception of one to the western side of his home.
Tewarie then went to bed.
Police said that around 4.30 am on Thursday when Tewarie awoke he noticed his front door unlocked and on checking, noticed his maroon Honda Accord PDG 333, valued at $260,000, a Samsung Galaxy 3, a silver watch, $900 cash, a Dell laptop, an Apple iPad, and unspecified parliamentary documents missing.
Police are working on a theory that the thief and/or thieves may have been at Tewarie’s home as guests or employees and made mental notes of the house security flaws.
Speaking with the T&T Guardian yesterday morning, Tewarie, who did not want much publicity from the incident said it was just a sad reflection of how the country had become.
He added that in his 32 years living in the area that was the first time he was robbed. He recalled an attempted breaking-in within the first two years of him living there but nothing was stolen.
Tewarie said: “The material things are not as important as the sense of violation of having your home entered by someone unknown while you are asleep.
“We are fortunate not to have been hurt and I am grateful for that. It is still a bad feeling. The police are being very diligent about it and I leave it in their hands and leave it up to insurance to deal with the car.”
Chaguanas West MP, Ganga Singh, who is Tewarie’s neighbour, when contacted yesterday said the break-in was a violation to the sanctity of everyone in the area as the community was a close-knit one.
Singh said he hoped the culprit/culprits would be caught, adding that he and the community would now have to be extra vigilant.
When the T&T Guardian visited Tewarie’s home police officers attached to the Cunupia Police Station were interviewing relatives and said they were doing all that they could to arrest the criminals in the shortest possible time.