Guyana’s oil boom has an expiry date

The South American country's fledgling offshore oil industry is on track to overtake Norway's within a decade, but what will the world look like then?

Guyana President Irfaan Ali and his successors must use the next 10 or 15 years of high oil income to transform the country in a sustainable way, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of the United States Department of State/Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 18, 2023

Guyana is not a "hellhole country" of the sort Donald Trump complained about when he said he wanted immigrants to come to the US from "white" places like Norway instead, but it is tropical, largely populated by people of colour, and it used to be poor.

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