As Guyana’s global profile continues, increasingly, to reflect its credentials as one of the world’s emerging petro jurisdictions, the traditional sectors which, over time, have traditionally merged to help fashion the country’s overall socio-economic profile, continue to make their own cases for remaining relevant in a transforming economy.
Pursuits like farming, fishing, agro processing and the creative sectors which have constantly contributed, to varying degrees, to the economic profiles of those communities, continue not just to grow but to remain economically relevant in communities which – oil or no oil – refuse to surrender their traditional socio-economic pursuits. Indeed, they continue to grow their profiles and enhance their capacity as valuable economic pursuits even as the country’s oil earnings continue to offer them a broader swathe of economic options.