President Irfaan Ali yesterday visited the United States Southern Command in Greater Miami where discussions centred on defence and security cooperation.
The President was accompanied by National Security Advisor Captain Gerry Gouveia, Chief of Defence Staff Brigadier Omar Khan, Director of the National Intelligence and Security Agency Colonel Sheldon Howell, and Guyana’s Defence attaché to the US Colonel Julius Skeete.
Also at the meeting were: United States Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole D. Theriot; ADM Alvin Holsey, Combatant Commander; Lt General Evan Pettus Military Deputy Commander; Major General Julie Nethercot, Chief of Staff; and Ambassador Sarah-Ann Lynch, Civilian Deputy to the Commander and Foreign Policy Advisor. Lynch was the former US Ambassador to Guyana.