BREAKING NEWS: Armed robbery in Bois d’Orange

No one was injured in the armed robbery of a credit union in Bois d’Orange, Gros Islet that occurred around midday today, a company official said.

Windy Moncherie, president of the National Farmers and General Workers Co-operative Credit Union Society Ltd., told St. Lucia News Online (SNO) that the robbery took place around 12:30 p.m. and involved two bandits.

An undisclosed sum of cash was taken.

The credit union also operates a Western Union money transfer business, but Moncherie noted that it was the credit union section that got robbed.

He could not provide additional information at this time.