Introduction
Today’s column offers a few general reflections on the experiences of the 2020 crisis and its impact on Guyana’s newly established petroleum sector, now that we are into Q2, 2021 and, temporally at least, that year is firmly in the rear-view mirror. Henceforth, in proceeding with this weekly column I’ll shift its thrust more towards an interactive and perhaps “real time” treatment of topics. This replaces the previous focus I placed on a more deliberative or learning approach. Indeed, I concede the approach to date was designed to laser focus on information providing, rather than engagement in debates and public exchanges, whether polemical or otherwise.