Since his election to office as President of Guyana following the March 2020 general elections, Guyana’s Head of State, Irfaan Ali, has been having the time of his life on the international stage, His election to office having coincided, roughly, with Guyana’s emergence as an oil-producing country, his credentials to speak for Guyana – and even in some cases, the Caribbean – on matters of food security, Caribbean business, and the region’s economy, and on attracting investment to a region that had long been ignored by the international business community, appear sound.
His clout as a spokesperson for the Caribbean has been earned through the country’s oil and gas-related ‘bragging rights’ and there are those who may even say that the country’s youthful president has been presented with a better opportunity than any of his predecessors to lead the country to that ‘promised land’ of real development.
