One wonders what are the physical requirements that must be met before participating in these fitness runs? What sort of preparation went into this before the actual run. Are these soldier participants all active physically to endure this fitness run? Have they had medical check-ups before they participate in these runs. Surely the military must provide these answers. This is unacceptable and suggests either the soldier had an underlying problem that was not known; he was not properly screened medically or not properly prepared for the rigorous physical exercise. Very sad.

This is very sad. My sympathy to his family and his colleagues at the GDF.
Indeed life is but a vapour.
May his family and colleagues find comfort in God who can give us peace that passeth all understanding.

This is just sad!!! RIP and condolences to the family.

SAD ,TRULY SAD,MY CONDOLANCE TO HIS FAMILY.

Condolences the the Blair family, friends and loved ones. Just 28yrs, so sad. RIP young one

WOW! :/ .. i was on the seawall this morning looking at these guys run..and i THINK i saw him.. life is so strange.. im sure i saw this guy..now he's dead :(

sad happenings indeed ,wonder if he had any symptoms before like chest pain or shortness of breath as a former soldier myself I would walk at times when we had runs even Pt in the morning, some soldiers are fitter than some hope he was not push to the limit ,condolences to his families and closed friends may he RIP.

He,s like my brother I really miss him n it is hard for me to deal with

G/T the Govt needs to Examine the Cause of Death,with any necessary Criteria that became a Factor for the Govt.

So young, my condolences to his family. May his soul rest in eternal peace.

Why was he taken to GDF Medical Centre ? The Center does not have the expertise and equipment to deal with heart issues. Does the Ambulance attendants know how to recognise a heart attack ? I am an Ex soldier. In my time when you go to the Center for an illness, Annand will just look at you and say take some tablets and back to work. Doing PT in the morning is mandatory and if you are too weak to move with the fitter guys, you are barked on to speed up and called a
f----ing lazy c--t.Sad affair in the Army. Army food is cooked in Bulk with no nutrition value attached to it. The pork is cooked and served with the fat and the fat oil can be seen floating on top of the curry pork.Ask cook Ishmael and he will tell you- is he still alive?

Thank you all for the condolences. We were told that he did indicate that he was feeling sick and was told to "pick up your F%^@#ing gun and go run". So who really is to be blamed here. The question is asked, why wasn't he sent to the hospital after complaining that he was unwell? Why did the ambulance take him to the GDF medical centre when they were closer to the hospital? What are they trying to cover up. As his family, we intend to get to the bottom of this tragegy. He was ONLY 28 yrs old.

Again my people when are you going to get it.This is who we are!The 1st stage of cure for a drug addict is to admit he has a drug habit and seek help willingly.History lesson here,back in my day if you wanted to get into the civil service you needed X amount of GCE or CXE subjects. The more you has the better Ministries you got into. It was a status colonial thing. Don't hate but the less you got the more attractive was the police force then the GDF. Now the cadet officers knowing this were attracted to the ignorance of power and discriminated against the lower ranks,assuming their job was to serve them.Believe it or not the same ignorance prevails today. Hence you have the GDF and The GPF. How on Gods earth you folks expect the Minister to work with this based on his tools is beyond me,last time I checked he was not a God. The Minister is being asked to fetch water uphill in a basket and questioned by you guys as to why he has an empty basket.Look at Apnu we has two leaders who came from the police force and the GDF. Mr Granger and Mr Felix,now do your home work,I rest my case.Could you learned comentators give solutions. I have one for you to mull over,adopt a family member in Guyana or a total stranger and pledge what you can afford,ask your friend/family member to help,honour your pledge,go for the long hall,$10 a week is a good start,hell of a lot,and a positive start.

FOLKS, FOLKS FOLKS, RELAX, CALM DOWN.

SORRY TO UPDATE YOU SO LATE I WAS TOTALLY BUSY.

THE GUY WAS A DIABETIC.

ON THE DAY OF THE FITNESS RUN HE WAS ALREADY ILL AND AND HE STATED THIS THO HIS O.C.
HE HAD ALREADY SUBMITTED A MEDICAL TO THE GDF DOCTOR PRIOR TO TO HIS COMPLAINT.

THIS IS MURDER.
Thank you.