She says she has had enough. Eunice Seymour is ‘sick of it”, but refuses to give up, even after Saturday night’s second robbery in three months of her son’s Uncle Clem Meats and Groceries store.

“We still haven’t heard anything about the first one,“ Ms Seymour said, pointing to the bullet hole in the ceiling above the meat counter. On 20 August, she said, a thief entered the store, brandishing a gun, robbed the register and fired into the ceiling.

“I’m still waiting to hear back about that,” she said. “I am sick and tired of this, but I am not going to give up.

A formidable 70-year-old with a streak of gray hair and a determination not to back down, Ms Seymour is “cousin-in-law” to Bodden Town MLA Dwayne Seymour, and sister-in-law to former George Town MLA Lucille Seymour.

“As of 25 March, I have been here 40 years. I helped build this country. I raised [attorney] Michael Alberga when he was a boy. This is a family-run business,” she said.

Owned by her son Clement Ewers, “Uncle Clem Meat and Grocery” has been in the F&J Centre on Mary Street for seven years, five of them in the modest shop at the back of the plaza, well off the street, behind DHL.

“They came in at 7:29,” Ms Seymour said, insisting it was not the 7:30 named in the police report. “We were really scared. There were a lot of people in the store, a lot of customers. Some of them even went through the door as those guys were coming in.”

Two men, one masked, one with a bandana and brandishing a gun — “the tall black one,” she observed — “came through the door and stretched over the counter, and took a bag of coins,” she said, indicating the check-out counter immediately to the right of the main entrance.

Recreating the movements of the men, Ms Seymour reached across and underneath the counter, suggesting they knew exactly where to look.

“I have no idea how much it was. My son just put it there. They grabbed the bag and ran out. The police came pretty quickly, in a couple of minutes, after we called, and they came in, but were laughing a bit as they looked around.”

No one was hurt in the incident and Ms Seymour’s daughter, shop manager, had just gone off shift when the robbery occurred, but had been present at the one-man August heist.

“I’m just tired of it,” Ms Seymour said, but acknowledged she could do little to beef up the store’s security. “We don’t own the building. We just lease the shop.”

F&J Centre Owner Frank Thompson said the building was already equipped with security cameras, and didn’t think further measures were necessary.

“They have cameras in there now and I don’t think we need more at this time,” he told iNews.

Meanwhile, sister-in-law Lucille Seymour called for a renewal of community policing efforts.

“We really need to bring that back,” she said, echoing similar calls from West Bay leaders distraught about violent street crime. Previously, she said, “the government spent an enormous amount of money to put in a structure. We need police walking around, on a beat, and until we get that, we are not going to resolve these issues, you are just going to get these people.

“We also need to work with various youth groups and to see how to restore the moral compass of young people. We each are responsible for our children,” she said.

Police reported on Sunday that “two males entered Uncle Clem’s Store on Mary Street, George Town” at 7:30pm, “and threatened staff.

Police were still reviewing closed-circuit TV footage.