BDF Co-Hosts CABSEC/SAMSEC 2019
BDF Media Release| 28 Mar 19
Photography credit: BDF Media
The Barbados Defence Force and the UK-based Defence IQ recently cohosted the Caribbean Basin Coastal Surveillance and Maritime Security Summit 2019 (CABSEC 19) and the South American Security Summit 2019 (SAMSEC19) conferences held at the Hilton Resort 26 – 28 March 2019. The Honourable Dale Marshall, Attorney General of Barbados officially opened the Conferences on behalf of the Prime Minister.
The theme for this year’s conference was: Promoting Regional Cooperation and Countering Transnational Threats paying particular attention to counter-terrorism initiatives, counter-illicit trafficking operations, coordination for Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief operations and protecting the Blue Economy and national Exclusive Economic Zones.
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There were 16 countries’ military and police organizations and over 70 defence and security stakeholders, agencies and industry partners participating in the Conference. Participants were drawn from the Caribbean, North, Central and South America, Europe, the Mediterranean and Israel. The 2018 Conference was hosted in Jamaica and the 2020 event is scheduled for Colombia. In in contribution to the national tourism product, the BDF hosted a cultural cocktail evening themed the “Best of Barbados” for the delegates of the Conference at the Officers’ Mess St Ann’s Fort.
Highlights
Commodore (Cdre) Errington Ricardo Shurland was appointed Chief of Staff of the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) on 1 September 2021. He enlisted in the BDF in February 1984 and in a military career spanning over 34 years, has served in various operational and administrative appointments.
Colonel Glyne Grannum joined the Barbados Defence Force (BDF) on 18 October 1985 and underwent career development training at the Canadian Forces Officer Candidate School, Chilliwack and the Combat Training Centre, Gagetown New Brunswick, Canada. He subsequently attended the Infantry Training Centre and the Signal Wing in Warminster, UK (PCBC and RSO Courses respectively), the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy; the Lester Pearson Canadian Peacekeeping Centre, the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, Kingston, the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College, Toronto, the National Defence University of the People’s Liberation Army People’s Republic of China and the Centre for Hemispheric Defence Studies, National Defence University, Washington. He also attended a Defence Resources Management programme at National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, Canada. In addition to being a qualified infantry officer, Col Grannum is a qualified Regimental Signals Officer and a former Operations Officer and Finance Officer of the BDF.
Colonel Banfield joined the Barbados Battalion of the South Caribbean Force in 1941 having just left the Cadet Corps at Combermere School, and was granted a commission as a Second Lieutenant in 1942. He was a Platoon Commander and a Company Commander during the war and served in Barbados, Dominica (as part of the Gale Force), St Lucia and St Vincent.
Warrant Officer Class 1 Colin Marshall is a graduate of the St Michael, and was born on the 5 November 1969 and enlisted in the Barbados Defence Force on 16 August 1994. He was promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal in August 1997, Corporal in 1999, Sergeant in 2007, Color Sergeant in 2014, Warrant Officer Class Two in 2017 and Warrant Officer Class One in 2020. He was Most Outstanding Student on Junior Leadership Course in 1998, the Most Outstanding Student on Junior Non Commissioned Officer Cadre in Jamaica in 2000, best at Leadership on the Search Adviser Course in Jamaica in 2007 and the Most Outstanding Student on the Warrant Officer Course in Jamaica in 2015.
