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Was for gold. Now its for oil. Guyana is fast becoming a petrostate, the Fastest Growing economy in the world. But new wealth has stoked old tensions. Neighbouring socialist venezuela claims a vast chunk of guyanese territory. The stakes are suddenly very high. We shall Never Surrender an inch of our territory. Heavily forested guyana has always been a carbon sink. Now, with the oil and gas flowing, some call it a carbon bomb. Fragile ecosystems are vulnerable to possible oil spills and rising sea levels. Guyana is making choices which will have global impact. Will they be wise ones . Its repu...

spills and rising sea levels. guyana is making choices which will have global impact. will they be wise ones? it's republic day in georgetown, guyana's capital. party time for the country's 800,000 people. the ministry of natural resources is on the road. i want to hear you make some noise. the stage is set here for transformational change, a resource—driven economic boom that will spread unprecedented wealth through the generations. in past decades, guyana's dominant commodity was gold, found deep in the forested interior. to get to the gold mines, you need to take a pretty roughâ...

Guyana has one of the world's biggest offshore oil and gas reserves but will this change lives in Essequibo?

Guyana has one of the world's biggest offshore oil and gas reserves but will this change lives in Essequibo?

As Venezuelans vote today on whether their country should claim the Essequibo region in Guyana as their own, a Venezuelan army base is perched on the Barima River near the