President Donald Ramotar yesterday said strengthening of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will depend on economic growth, but urged the army to ensure that it gets value for money in its spending.
The president made the comments against the backdrop of Chief of Staff of the GDF Chief-of-Staff Commodore Gary Best speaking of the “necessity” to re-capitalize the force. Although he is willing, the Commander-in-Chief said in his first address to the annual officers’ conference of the GDF that Guyana is a poor developing country and “we must be conscious
