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Guyana’s New Immigrants …. are we prepared?

April 07, 2019  Eye on Guyana with Lincoln Lewis,

Widespread news that Guyana is about to exploit her massive oil and gas resources will see people, from all over the world, flocking to our shores.

The promised El Dorado, spoken of since I was a boy, is not only confined to our precious minerals, gold and diamond, but has encompassed our ‘black gold,’ oil and gas.  Already, the Brazilians are here. Not for oil and gas, necessarily.  Their earlier studied movement and presence, in the last two decades, to our shores, where they have established settlements as in church, supermarket, restaurant, strip club and other forms of entertainment, are demonstrations of permanency.

Then there is the Venezuela political and economic crises. Though in significant part these have to do with external interference, as the USA and Russia test their might and seek world dominance using Venezuela as a guinea pig, we are not spared the impacting effects. Continue reading →