The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) says that a Kaieteur News report on the death of the three pirates, who were shot dead at Cromarty, Corentyne wrongly attribute appointments to them “to which they were never entitled while alive”.
A press release from the GDF said that on the second page of last Saturday’s edition of the Kaieteur News, it was stated that “One of the dead bandits has been positively identified as James Gibson, a former GDF officer…” The article continued, the release said “…Another bandit was positively identified as Cliff Chichester… a former cadet officer…”
The army asserted that Gibson was dismissed from the force for failing to meet the required standards on the Army’s Standard Officer’s Course, while Chichester was a Lance Corporal, who was dismissed for stealing from the GDF.
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Chichester…..
was not so dicsipline but was very intelligent and was capable of learning anything in a matter of hours….his family got money but they never allowed him the priviliage of spending it foolishly. He would normally drive in the base (Ayanganna) with many expensive vehicles that were more expensive than many officers toyotas’ and they were jealous of this. One day an officer who was not so recently disciplined for the disappearance of a weapon, interrogated him asking where he was getting all these cars from. From then on they had their eyes on him and were waiting on a false move to kick him out!! The last time i saw him was just before i left to go to SandHurst in 2004……
Gibson
was a cadet on a dog course…the things cadets go through on this course is so unreal that i cannot explain for security reasons (laughs) These days the course is so easy that a Cadet Fly can become an officer in the G.D.F (since the death of a certain cadet) Had the poilcies for tarining human beings severly altered from the begining of the cadet course #1 then we would have had many well rounded officers now in the G.D.F including Gibson…………not the ones who tortures!!
Kaieteur Gold, stop, you is too much. meh belly near buss open. Yes.
sorry , my comment about the Atlantic River was meant for you bro, not Kaieteur Gold. Sorry, but that was funny indeed.
RED MAN…….NOW WE CAN ALL LIVE A BETTER LIFE KNOWING THAT!!
LOL…..HAHAHAHAHAHA
Politics is politics; and, professional soldiering is professional soldiering and the two do not mix.
Just my military scientific $0.02.
Think now what else they would have done had they remain in the army.They live by the sword and by the sword they die.
Case closed.
keep it clean, no fraud.
keep it clean, no fraud.” How surprising you (like some others) did not mention that this “trick” was performed with the assistance of the U. S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the British (Foreign) Military Intelligence (MI6) Too bad you are not yet aware that the descendants of the Women’s Auxiliary walk “Five Paces Ahead” (like their ancestors did prior to 1964) and joined with the President-elect Obama folks in singing “We Can Do It” and “They Did”! You keep watching out for the “change” - it is inevitable. Also, how come you did not end up living in Havana or Moscow? :-D :-D :-D !