‘We cannot sell out’ …Granger lauds GDF jungle exercise

President Granger addressing the troops with the senior officers behind him.

Guyana is not prepared to give away even an inch of its territory, President David Granger said yesterday at Bartica as he praised the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on completion of Exercise Greenheart, reasserting that while this country has one of the best defence forces in the Caribbean, he is committed to peaceful resolutions of the issues with Venezuela and Suriname.

“We cannot sell out. We cannot give away. We cannot offer the adversary any corridor or passage,” the Commander in Chief said, in a non-obtuse response to a recent admission by former president Bharrat Jagdeo that his PPP/C government had explored the option of granting Vene-zuela a channel through Guyana’s Atlantic waters as a means of settling the long-running border controversy.

“We have an obligation to hand over to our children and grandchildren the country we inherited from our parents and grandparents,” Granger said to rousing cheers from Barticians, adding that while there have been gunboats from the east and west the GDF must always be