For a country which, not many moons ago, had been labeled the ‘sick man’ of the Caribbean, Guyana’s seeming ‘miracle cure’ has now become not just the loudest ‘noise’ that the region has made since the boisterous collective expressions of optimism that had come with the end of colonial rule and subsequent political independence, but, as well, one of the more promising global hotspots for investment anywhere in the world today. If the sense of societal wobbliness currently manifested in a widespread strike by teachers whose salary levels are yet to come even close to reflecting the country’s petro fortune, indications are that the international community is beginning to see past what still remains largely a circumstance of poverty for the country as a whole. For Guyanese workers, the enhanced material fortunes that they are continually being told will come with the country’s oil bonanza, could hardly come too soon.
