Coast Guard troops complete training with Brazil Navy

The recently trained coast guards with the training vessel (GDF photo)

Eleven members from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Coast Guard recently concluded a naval exercise spearheaded by their Brazilian counterpart termed ‘Exercise Caribex’, a release from the GDF said yesterday.

The crew headed by Sub. Lieutenant K. Welcome left Guyana on the 10th May 2015, for exercise ‘Caribex’, aboard the Brazilian Naval Patrol Vessel named ‘Bracui’. The training exercise was led by the Naval Patrol Group of the North 4th district.

According to Sub. Lt Welcome, the aim of the exercise was to familiarise the members of the local Coast Guard with the