THE Guyana Defence Force (GDF) has reported that six ranks are to be imprisoned for being absent without leave (AWOL) and desertion.

Their prison sentences were imposed when the Court Martial trials concluded on May 15.
Corporal Jerome Gomes, Ordinary Rating Anthony Mortley and Gavin Andrews were sentenced to three months after being charged with the offence, contrary to Section 48(a) of the Defence Act, Chapter 15:01.
Gomes was represented by attorney-at-law Mr. James Bond, while Mortley and Andrews were unrepresented.
Corporals Ptolemy Ireland and Ravin Carroll, both also unrepresented, were jailed for three and four months respectively, on being convicted of desertion.
Private Kumar Shivlochan who was charged with being absent without leave, contrary to Section 48(a) of the Defence Act, got a 42 days detention and was discharged with ignominy. He, too, was unrepresented.
Gomes, Mortley, Andrews, Ireland and Carroll are to be incarcerated at State prisons.
They had all pleaded guilty.