Minister of Home Affairs, Hon. Robeson Benn, M.P., is currently attending the opening ceremony of the Guyana Prison Service Senior Officers’ conference, which is being held at the Officers’ Training Centre today (March 16), under the theme ‘Promoting Rehabilitation and Societal Reintegration of Inmates’, and will run until Saturday, March 18, 2023.

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Ms. Mae Toussaint Jr. Thomas, National Security Advisor Captain Gerry Gouveia, Colonel Omar Khan, Acting Commissioner of Police Mr. Clifton Hicken, Chief Fire Officer (ag) Mr. Gregory Wickham, and several other Prison officials and special invitees are in attendance.

The objectives of the conference are:

1). To creating synergies at the managerial level of the Guyana Prison Service

2). To reflect on and learning from the activities, accomplishments and challenges of operations in 2022

3). To build cohesive and coherent strategies for performance improvement in 2023

4). To devise operational plans that are in alignment with the vision for the Guyana Prison Service