For now at least, we must accept as made public, information provided by Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Office for Investment (G-Invest) Dr Peter Ramsaroop and reported by the Department of Public Information (DPI) not just that “the government has held talks with members of the diaspora in Texas and Florida, USA on the roles they could play in Guyana’s development” but also that “many overseas-based Guyanese have expressed a desire to return home.”
The note of caution sounded here has to do with the fact that these are just the kinds of ‘soundings’ regarding the interest of overseas-based Guyanese that we have heard from respective political administrations. Those official assurances have, for the most part, not been attended by a profusion of migratory traffic back to Guyana by nationals, many of whom have spent most of their lives out of Guyana.
