David A. Granger
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David A. Granger is a Guyanese
politician and retired military officer who served for a time as Commander of the Guyana Defence Force
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Born at Georgetown
, Granger joined the Guyana Defense Force in 1965. He trained in Britain, then Brazil, then Nigeria, and eventually became commander of the Guyana Defense Force in 1979; he was promoted to rank of brigadier. He was appointed as National Security Advisor to the President in 1990 and retired from the military service in 1992. In 2010, he made a bid to be selected as presidential candidate for the People’s National Congress Reform.
He founded the Guyana Review news magazine in 1992, and remains its Managing Editor. He has researched and published on military, historical and media themes; and is also the author of Guyana's state media: the quest for control, and A Preliminary Study of Women Soldiers in the Anglophone Caribbean.
First degree at the University of Guyana in History and Master’s degree in political science. International relations at the University of the West Indies and was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland and also attended what is now called the Caribbean Defense and Security Course at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies in Washington, DC.
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
politician and retired military officer who served for a time as Commander of the Guyana Defence Force
Guyana Defence Force
The Guyana Defence Force is the military service of Guyana.-History:The GDF was formed on November 1, 1965. Members of the new Defence Force were drawn from the British Guiana Volunteer Force , Special Service Unit , British Guiana Police Force BGPF and civilians...
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Born at Georgetown
Georgetown
-Africa:*Georgetown, Ascension Island, main settlement of the British territory of Ascension Island*George, Western Cape, South Africa, formerly known as Georgetown*Janjanbureh, The Gambia, formerly known as Georgetown-Asia:*Georgetown, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh...
, Granger joined the Guyana Defense Force in 1965. He trained in Britain, then Brazil, then Nigeria, and eventually became commander of the Guyana Defense Force in 1979; he was promoted to rank of brigadier. He was appointed as National Security Advisor to the President in 1990 and retired from the military service in 1992. In 2010, he made a bid to be selected as presidential candidate for the People’s National Congress Reform.
He founded the Guyana Review news magazine in 1992, and remains its Managing Editor. He has researched and published on military, historical and media themes; and is also the author of Guyana's state media: the quest for control, and A Preliminary Study of Women Soldiers in the Anglophone Caribbean.
First degree at the University of Guyana in History and Master’s degree in political science. International relations at the University of the West Indies and was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland and also attended what is now called the Caribbean Defense and Security Course at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies in Washington, DC.