Chief of De­fence Staff of the Guyana De­fence Force, Brigadier Omar Khan, on Tues­day called on res­i­dents of the in­dige­nous com­mu­ni­ties in that coun­try—par­tic­u­lar­ly those along the bor­der with Venezuela—to share all rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion with the army.

“I want you to be vig­i­lant. Peo­ple are tak­ing videos of what’s hap­pen­ing on the oth­er side. We want to know when to turn left and when to turn right, and we need your sup­port,” Brigadier Khan told the more than 200 In­dige­nous lead­ers, at­tend­ing the an­nu­al Na­tion­al Toshaos Coun­cil (NTC) Con­fer­ence.

Guyana and Venezuela have a long run­ning bor­der dis­pute with the mat­ter now be­fore the In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice (ICJ) and in his ad­dress, Brigadier Khan re­mind­ed the in­dige­nous lead­ers that Guyana’s bor­ders are clear­ly de­fined and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised.