A knife-wielding robber yesterday escaped with cash from a Warwick liquor store a fter terrorising a female cashier.

It was the fifth armed robbery this month and Police are appealing for witnesses.

At around 12.40 p.m., a man armed with a knife entered Haywards Liquor Store on Middle Road and threatened the cashier before grabbing cash from the till.

An accomplice was waiting outside on a motor cycle and the two men escaped.

Police said they went west.

It is understood that close to $800 was stolen.

The cashier was shaken but not physically injured during the confrontation.

The robber -- a slimly built black man with a medium brown complexion -- was said to be 5ft 7in and in his mid 20s. He was wearing a scarf over his forehead, dark sunglasses and baggy three-quarter-length jeans.

Bermuda has been rocked by a series of armed robberies over the past few weeks.

On July 1, a 61-year-old female cashier was robbed at knifepoint as she manned the till at the Devonshire Liquor Store on South Road in Smith's Parish.

Two men entered the store at around 1.25 p.m., held the cashier up, removed cash from her till and made off in a westerly direction.

Five days later, on July 6, two men used a nail-studded club to terrorise a 15-year-old store assistant at Dub City on North Shore Road in Hamilton Parish at about 2 p.m. before escaping on a motor cycle with cash.

The Somerset branch of the Bank of Butterfield was the next victim on July 8 when over $50,000 was stolen in an armed robbery involving firearms.

Two men were charged on July 11 in connection with the offence.

Reid H. Jones, 24, of Manchester Street, Sandys Parish, and Randolph G.

Lightbourne, 31, of Devon Springs, Devonshire, are jointly charged with using a firearm to rob the Bank of Butterfield of a bank bag containing $70,000 in cash while concerned together on July 8 in Sandys Parish.

Lightbourne was charged with four additional offences including using a firearm to commit an indictable offence, possessing a firearm and attempting to do grievous bodily harm to Clayton Simmons and Randolph Spencer and unlawfully wounding them at the same time and place.

And on July 16, the Collector's Hill gas station was robbed when two men -- one wearing a bandana over his face and at least one of them armed with a knife -- threatened manager Ronnie Madeiros' wife and escaped on a motorcycle with about $600 in cash.

The thieves hit the gas station, on South Shore Road, Smith's, just after 9 p.m.

Detectives investigating yesterday's robbery would like any witnesses or people with information that could assist them to contact the Major Incident Room at 295-0011 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-623-8477.