Intel officer was on ‘legitimate operation’ during fatal Carifesta collision – army

Linden Eastman

Almost a week after army intelligence officer Robert Pyle was killed in a horrific vehicular collision that claimed two other lives, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) yesterday broke its silence and confirmed that he was on a “legitimate operation.”

“Defence Headquarters wishes to notify the public that the late Sergeant Robert Pyle, a member of the Intelligence Unit of the Guyana Defence Force, was deployed on a legitimate operation in support of the Special Organized Crime Unit, (SOCU) on Wednesday December 30, 2015,” the GDF said in a statement yesterday.

The statement came mere hours after the Private Sector Commission (PSC) called on the police and the