Guyana’s oil-fuelled future

President Irfaan Ali aims to use massive oil windfall to accelerate the country’s strategic priorities.

When Irfaan Ali was eventually sworn in as Guyana’s president in August 2020, following a fractious and protracted legal battle over a disputed general election held five months earlier, he urged the Guyanese people to “join together to peacefully transition our country to a pathway of economic and social development”.