In a development that underscores the fact that Guyana is currently strategically positioned in the ‘pecking order’ of potential investment havens in the region, the Caribbean Export Development Agency (CARIBEXPORT) disclosed recently that the 2024 Caribbean Investment Forum, the region’s single largest investment promotion platform will be held here. The announcement is consistent with a recent trend of Guyana staging high-profile meetings of regional and international potential investors drawn to the country on account of its condition as an emerging petro-state. Major international conferences that see high-flying potential investors from Europe and North America rubbing shoulders with more modest delegations from the region have now become a familiar occurrence in a country which, not ‘many moons’ ago, had been limited to attracting modest business fora to which the media, outside of Guyana, paid only limited attention.