Jun 21, 2026 Features / Columnists, News

(Kaieteur News) – There are two Guyanas, and the boom is mostly happening in one of them.

The first Guyana is the coast. Ninety percent of our population lives there, on the narrow strip where the construction cranes rise, where the new hotels open, where the traffic thickens, and where almost every dollar of the oil economy first lands. The second Guyana is the hinterland. The vast interior that makes up most of our national territory, home to most of our Indigenous people, and connected to the coastal boom by rivers, rough roads, and expensive flights.