Gazette has learned.

A 50-year-old American woman was held on her bed at knifepoint early yesterday morning while another man searched her room, Police Sgt. Roseanda Jones confirmed last night.

The woman cut her hand while holding the knife and required stitches at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital before leaving the Island.

The woman had only arrived in Bermuda a day earlier and "she was horrified by the incident,'' Sgt. Jones said. "She arrived one day, and had this terrible ordeal, and left.

"It doesn't bode well for our tourists.'' Police did not identify the guest house involved, but it is understood it was the Rosemont on Rosemont Avenue in Pembroke. "Only her hand was hurt,'' said the man who answered the telephone at the guest house.

Sgt. Jones said the two dark-brown skinned males entered the woman's room through an unsecured window at about 2 a.m.

"One of the men was holding the woman down to the bed,'' she said. "He had a sharp object up to her, while the other one searched the room.

"They made no demands of her. They just insisted that she be quiet, when she screamed.'' When the men found nothing, they left without taking anything, she said.

One of the men was described as tall and slim. He wore a blue silk shirt and a black knit hat, Sgt. Jones said.

In March, armed thugs beat and robbed the night manager at White Sands & Cottages in Paget. One of them carried a handgun.

A short time earlier, a group of four visitors was robbed at gunpoint near the Southampton Princess Hotel and a woman was violently robbed at the Hamilton Princess.

The most recent robbery was not released to the news media because of a computer problem, Sgt. Jones said.

Sgt. Roseanda Jones.