PRESIDENT David Granger is scheduled to leave Guyana today for the United States where he is slated to address a conference on Defence and Security at the Center for Hemispheric Studies in Washington, DC.He will be accompanied by Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Brigadier Mark Phillips.
According to Minister of State, Mr Joseph Harmon, while in the U.S., President Granger is also expected to meet with personnel of the U.S. Department of State to discuss the current controversy between Guyana and neighbouring Venezuela.
A graduate of the Perry Center, as the Center for Hemispheric Studies is now known, President Granger has, since completing his studies in Defense Planning and Resource Management in 2000, on occasion returned to serve as adjunct professor.