THE curtain came down on the Canadian Armed Forces Exercise Planning and Execution Course with a simple closing ceremony at the Officer’s Mess, Base Camp Ayanganna, Thomas Lands, on Friday.
According to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), the course commenced on Monday, March 28, 2022 and concluded on April 8, 2022.

Participants were drawn from the Joint Services and government agencies, including the Civil Aviation Authority, the Guyana Revenue Authority, the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Maritime Administration.

Colonel-General Staff, Colonel Julius Skeete, said he was pleased with the manner in which the course was conducted and urged participants to not lose focus of the training and the impact it holds for their individual agencies.

Additionally, Colonel Skeete highlighted that over the past two weeks, relationships were formed and encouraged that this is the level of cooperation that will be demonstrated in the lead-up to and during Exercise Tradewinds 2023, which will be held in Guyana.

Lieutenant-Colonel, Stephen Hale, Lead Instructor for the Canadian Armed Forces, in a short course review explained that the course covered the steps of exercise-planning to enable learners to understand the requirements and detailed work needed to put together an international exercise and how to tailor this for national and even single-service exercises.

The participants were also presented with certificates of completion.