President wants Defence Institute at UG to be premier regional security body

The award being presented to UG Vice Chancellor, Dr Paloma Mohamed by Chief of Staff of the Guyana Dafence Force, Omar Khan. President Irfaan Ali is fourth from left. (Office of the President photo)

The government will be developing a National Defence Institute (NDI) at the University of Guyana with the aim of it becoming a premier security institution in the region.

This announcement was made by the Commander-in-Chief, President Irfaan Ali while delivering feature remarks at the university’s Turkeyen Campus yesterday  where its Institute of Human Resiliency, Strategic Security and the Future (IHRSSF) received the 2023 Perry Centre for Hemispheric Defense Studies Award for Excellence in Security and Defense Education, an Office of the President release stated yesterday.

Also present at the event were Chief of Staff of the GDF, Brigadier Omar Khan; National Security Advisor, Captain Gerry Gouveia; and the United States Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot.