The advent of Guyana’s oil and gas era already having triggered an expansive state-led exercise designed to elicit global attention into the prospects that inhere in the promise of an emerging petro state, the Government of Guyana has also been targeting Guyanese abroad through a continually unfolding PR effort to entice them to return home to take up new job opportunities that are likely to emerge in a transforming society. Unsurprisingly, the United States, where several thousands of Guyanese have made their homes over the years, is the country that is being most targeted as the likely locale where the prospects of recruiting Guyanese to take up jobs that are expected to be created in Guyana in the period ahead in both the public and private sectors as the country’s economy expands against the backdrop of an unfolding oil economy.