The attack was carried out at a gas station and associated business establishment about eleven o'clock.
A Beryllium guard was shot in the incident, but according to Lieutenant Commander, George Overton, President of the Jamaica Society for Industrial Security, the guard was saved by his bullet proof vest after being shot twice in the back.
It's reported that the Beryllium armoured vehicle was delivering cash at an ATM and Western Union outlet when two vehicles with armed men drove up.
The men, who were carrying high powered rifles, engaged the guards in an exchange of gunfire.
The police were summoned and the vehicles were intercepted shortly after.
It is understood that during a high speed chase and shoot-out with the police one of the vehicles crashed.
A second vehicle was later found abandoned with bloodstains, suggesting that one of the robbers was wounded.
It's believed that the men were travelling in three vehicles.
Meanwhile, Commander Overton said that no police escort was sought for the guards who were targeted in Saturday's incident because the area was not considered high risk.
Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson recently announced that the police had reached an agreement with Guardsman Limited to provide escort service for its amoured vehicles during cash deliveries in police divisions across the island.
This strategy came in response to attacks such as those carried out in Portmore, St Catherine, in which gunmen stole more than $40 million.
But Commander Overton said despite the agreement, it is virutally impossible for the police to provide escort service for every delivery, revealing that more than 70 Beryllium vehicles operate across the country each day.
