{"id":17773,"date":"2024-04-03T01:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=17773"},"modified":"2024-04-03T01:26:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T01:26:31","slug":"university-of-guyana-to-establish-national-defence-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/university-of-guyana-to-establish-national-defence-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Guyana to Establish National Defence Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has announced plans for the University of Guyana to establish the National Defence Institute (NDI), aimed at enhancing security education and training in the western hemisphere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initiative follows the university&#8217;s receipt of the 2023 Perry Award for Excellence in Security and Defence Education from the William J. Perry Centre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NDI is expected to be operational within the first half of the year, positioning Guyana as a central hub for security training in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal includes extending security education to the secondary school level by introducing &#8220;The Fundamentals of Hemispheric Security&#8221; into the Caribbean Secondary Examinations syllabus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice-Chancellor Dr. Paloma Mohamed-Martin has expressed support for this initiative, with plans to implement it promptly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collaboration between the University of Guyana and the Perry Centre will focus on various security aspects, including banking security, cyber security, port security, gang combat, and joint operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has announced plans for the University of Guyana to establish the National Defence Institute (NDI), aimed at enhancing security education and training in the western hemisphere.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[365,363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-development","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17774,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17773\/revisions\/17774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}