MONTEGO BAY St James – A top level police team headed by crime chief in charge of Area One, superintendent John Morris, has launched an investigation into Tuesday’s daring daylight robbery of six tourists by four armed men in Greenwood, St James.

“We have dispatched a team to the hotel where they (the tourists) are staying to collect statements, and we are interviewing other persons,” DSP Rudolph Taylor, in charge of operations in St James told the Observer last night.

Taylor, who is also part of the team conducting the investigations, added that no arrests have been made.

Reports are that at about 12:30 pm, a masked gunman ordered the driver of the Toyota Hiace minibus, in which the visitors were travelling, to stop the vehicle shortly after they left Greenwood Great House – a popular tourist attraction – and were making their way on bumpy road surface to the Falmouth to Montego Bay mainroad.

The driver reportedly brought the vehicle to a halt, and three other gunmen alighted from the bushes and proceeded to rob the driver and the visitors of cash, jewellery and cameras.

The Observer could not ascertain the names of the visitors, but was reliably informed that four of them are from Canada and the others from the United States of America.

The tourists – four women and two men – were vacationing at the Starfish Resorts in Trelawny.

Efforts to contact the management of the resort yesterday were unsuccessful, but sources told the Observer that the resort would compensate the visitors for their losses.

The newspaper did not find out if any of the tourists have since left the island, but we were told that up to last night at least two were still vacationing here.