Relocating Guyana’s capital from Georgetown to Matthews Ridge in the northwest was under discussion in the 1970s and was one of the issues that attracted the attention of the US.
This discussion would have taken place amid heightened awareness and tensions around Venezuela’s claim to five eights of Guyana and the then PNC government’s drive to counter Caracas’ machinations. It appears that these discussions petered out and it is unclear how serious they were at any point.
A March 16th 1973 cable from the US Embassy in Caracas to the Georgetown embassy
