“Working at the Georgetown Prison was most challenging…it’s difficult because of the overcrowding and shortage of staff—you’ve got to be on your toes and Ps and Qs at all times. And then there are the technicalities in New Amsterdam… including the mixture of females and males—you have to be well–read and diverse to deal with the two settings…the training methodologies are different.”By Leon SuseranFor Poshanand Tahal, making a difference in the prison system in Guyana started out simply as a fascination with the spotless, ‘shine shoes’ and neatly-dressed officers with attractive uniforms. He said that his allure and dream to become an officer in the Guyana Police Force had nothing to do with his father Charles, himself being a prison officer back in the 1950s, even though the principles he stood for while on the job were due to the inspiration of his father.Poshanand TahalUnder his lone watch,Cheap Jerseys From China, young Poshanand, in New Amsterdam, oversaw 16-20?prisoners working in the farming section at the prisons, yielding truck full of crops on a weekly basis, a major plus in his career. He was also instrumental in the design and reconstruction of the Timehri Prisons under then Home Affairs Minister, Ronald Gajraj.Our ‘Special Person’, along with a few other senior police officers,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, helped to draft the Guyana Police Force Strategy which was implemented to better the operations of the force. He has had the unique distinction of heading all the prisons in Guyana, including New Amsterdam, Timehri, Lusignan, Mazaruni and of course, the most challenging one, due to its overcrowded nature,Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys, Georgetown Prisons, throughout his 35-year tenure in the Guyana Prison Service.A significant portion of his earlier days was spent with his mother and father at Mazaruni, where his Dad was stationed. A few transfers later resulted in Poshanand and his mother ending up at Georgetown, during which he attended Campbellville School and later in New Amsterdam at the R.C. School in the town as well as Lochaber School where he wrote his Common Entrance and attended Berbice Educational Institute (BEI).Due to his father being transferred again, he [Poshanand] was relocated to Bartica to attend school where he was involved in cricket and football. But he ended his high school life at Overwinning Secondary in 1972 after which he wrote his GCE Exams and left home in 1974 to seek employment.After working for a period at a gas station on the Corentyne, he applied to the Guyana Police Force, Guyana Fire Service, as well as the Guyana Prisons Service, for employment, after which he received a response from the prison service.On January 20, 1975, his journey in that field began.Cadet?Officer Tahal at Camp Jagaruni, Linden Highway, in 1988.“My intention then was to work awhile and get some money. The marketing thing was looking good.” However, he fell in love with the job as a prison officer and did not want to leave.His first assignment was working as a gate officer at the Timehri Prisons. He stayed there and gained his first experience against the rules, since he was put in charge of working at the front gate only two-and-a-half years in the job (as opposed to one having to be working for over 5 years).During a period of being off- duty, he met beautiful Kowsilla, in Canje, and they fell in love and got married in 1977. That union bore two children, Dennis, now a Civil Engineer and Michael, an Agriculturist.Afterwards, he was selected by the Chief Prison Officer to work at the stock farm just adjacent to the Berbice High School.“I did marvellous things. I remember my first produce was pumpkins and we had to get a canter truck to move it—a lot of pumpkins; eddoes, wonderful boulangers and cassava. You had a number of activities that had to be covered by over 30 prisoners, and you the officer—the single officer—had to control all that activity, but you had to be selective about the prisoners you put [to work]. The law has taught me that every prisoner is a potential escapee.”Poshanand then enlisted in the Guyana Police Force Cadet Course in 1984 but “for the first three months it was blows—I had gained a lot of weight”. He shed nearly 50 pounds of weight during the process, the effects of which took a toll on him. “When you looked back, it was fun”, he recalled. He graduated in 1985.With his loving wife, Kowsilla.In 1990, he was transferred to New Amsterdam and became an Assistant Superintendent after which he was transferred to Mazaruni Prisons.??”My wife made a terrible sacrifice to hold ends at home in New Amsterdam. She was the one behind me, but I continued and I worked”.He talked about his numerous transfers (from prison to prison) and many experiences he was a part of, including a day in 1994 while returning to work