Students receive Joint Services Awards for excellence

Joint Services students awardees, at front from left Ramnauth, DeMendonca, Gaskin and Williams and their parents, with Chairman of the Joint Services, other Heads of Service and Senior Officers of the GDF.

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has bestowed nine Joint Services Awards for excellence to four members of the military fraternity and for the first time to five outstanding CSEC students

Chairman of the Joint Services Council, GDF Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Mark Phillips presented the awards, a GDF press release said.

The ceremony took place at the GDF Confer-ence Room at Base Camp Ayanganna although only eight of the nine recipients were present. The awardees were as follows: GDF Lance Corporal, Nicholas Richards; Guy-ana Police Force Corporal, Karel Mars; Guyana Prison Service Superinten-dent, Nicholas Elliot; and