Nicola Whittaker comes across as being one of that ‘clique’ of fast-emerging Guyanese women who these days, are taking to the local world of entrepreneurship like ducks to water, exuding all of the confidence which, not many moons ago, was considered the exclusive purview of a ‘species’ that used to be termed ‘hard-nosed businessmen’. If it may well be by accident that their blooming appears to have coincided with a quantum shift in the business climate in Guyana resulting from the country’s oil and gas pursuits, the evidence that they are determined to ‘fight their corner’ is unmistakable.