Guyanese-born political scientist and regional security specialist Dr Ivelaw Griffith says that while the country’s gold industry is an important economic asset, it has also emerged as a source of security vulnerability.
“Security is not only military, it involves economics. It is also political and environmental and in the context of my broader paradigm of what security is, gold as a resource can be both a positive and a negative; a challenge. If you define security as more than military, then gold, in the case of Guyana is a big plus but also a source of vulnerability in a variety of respects,” Dr Griffith said in an interview earlier this week.
The comment by the specialist on Caribbean security comes even as local watchers continue to weigh the
