–takes GAPSO Bursary Award a second year running

THE Guyana Association of Private Security Organizations (GAPSO) recently made its second bursary presentation to 13-year-old Queen’s College student Jamal Thomas, the first recipient of this award in 2012, following his outstanding academic achievements over the past year, which won him the right to earn the second bursary this year.

Jamal is the son of Bank of Guyana’s Security Officer, Milton Thomas.
This award was named in 2012 after Gregory Gaskin, late Chairman of COPS (Guyana) Limited, now known as Sentinel Security Services, a founding organisation of GAPSO, and is intended for the children of security officers employed with member organisations of GAPSO.
President of GAPSO and Chief Security Officer of Banks DIH Limited, Colonel (retd.) Randy Storm, made the presentation on behalf of GAPSO. He said the organisation was extremely proud of Thomas’s work over the past year, and that Gaskin would also have been pleased to hear of his performances if he were alive.
In accepting the award, Jamal Thomas thanked GAPSO for recognizing his efforts academically, and vowed to continue vindicating GAPSO’s trust in him by continuing the hard work he has been putting in.
Prior to his death last June following an accident at the South Dakota circuit, Gaskin not only served the security sector — where he formed GAPSO along with several other security companies, such as Professional Guard Services (PGS) and Guyana Employment Bureau (GEB) — but was also a practising attorney-at-law within the legal fraternity.

(Calvin Roberts)