There can now be little doubt that, insofar as the favoured regional venue for the hosting of events that have to do with the development of the Caribbean is concerned, Guyana has become the unquestioned focus of regional attention. Over the past few weeks, alone, Georgetown has been well-and-truly ‘weighed down’ by the comings and goings of a succession of visitors from the Caribbean, South America, North America and Africa, all of these concerned with regional, hemispheric and global issues, the choice of the country’s much less than convivial capital, Georgetown, a function of the global attention that the country’s oil wealth has attracted. Much of what will happen in terms of both the development of the region and the strengthening of its socio-economic ties where the rest of the world is concerned, will revolve around the goings-to and comings from Guyana’s capital.
