Beware media

Before the proceedings started, the successful recruits treated Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee to a marching drill.

There are 25 new additions to the ranks of the Guyana Prison Service with the conclusion of its latest Basic Recruit Training Course and Home Minister Clement Rohee has warned them to be wary of their behaviour due to media scrutiny of the security sector.

The media, Rohee told the recruits at their graduation yesterday, is going after information to make the security sector “look bad.”

“Anything negative that they can put their hands on, anything negative they can find – particularly in respect to the Georgetown Prison – trust me, it will be published…it will be published to make you look bad,” he noted.

The recruits, drawn from the Corentyne, Linden, Timehri, George-town and other parts of the country