Beryllium resumes cash deliveries after suspending weekend operations

 

Guardsman Group Limited resumed cash deliveries to Automated Banking Machines across Jamaica on Monday morning following the withdrawal of service on the weekend.

 

Customers across the island were affected on the weekend after most ABMs ran out of cash.

 

Cash shipments were suspended following an attack on a Beryllium truck in Albion, St. Thomas on Saturday – the fourth such attack by gunmen since February.

 

Director of Operations for Guardsman Group Limited Lieutenant Commander George Overton told Radio Jamaica News that the company held a meeting with the guards on Monday morning and urged them to remain on high alert. 

 

"[W]e had staff meetings to reassure and boost the morale of everybody and our services are back to normal at this time. The only thing you can do is encourage them to follow the training, be as alert and as vigilant as they can be and follow the procedures that they know. I don't know how much more we can offer them," he said, adding that Beryllium is "doing what we can to mitigate the risks involved at this time". 

 

Commander Overton said police personnel assisted Beryllium guards during several deliveries on Monday, but he expressed doubt that this kind of arrangement could be adopted across the board. 

 

"There are many crews on the road every day. I don't think the JCF (Jamaica Constabulary Force) have manpower that they can allocate wholly and solely to us," he explained.  

 

A security guard was injured when men carrying high powered weapons attacked the Beryllium truck delivering cash at an ABM and Western Union outlet in St. Thomas on Saturday.

 

No cash was stolen by the robbers.