Why Guyana’s Plastic Crisis Is a Foreign Investor’s Greenfield Opportunity By the time Guyana’s oil economy reaches full stride, the country faces a paradox: becoming one of South America’s fastest-growing economies while simultaneously drowning in its own waste. For the shrewd foreign investor, that contradiction is not a problem — it is a business model.…
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eyesonguyana In the bustling streets of Georgetown, Guyana, where plastic bags and bottles often litter the sidewalks, one woman dared to imagine a different future. Alana Bunbury-Walton dreamed of a country where sustainability wasn’t just a buzzword, but a way of life. Her vision took shape in JARS Zero Waste Store, Guyana’s first zero-waste shop.…
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Why Suriname can’t take off eyesonguyana They share a border, a coastline, a geology, and a dream. Both Guyana and Suriname sit perched on the northern rim of South America, two small, sparsely populated nations that for most of their post-colonial histories ranked among the poorest on the continent. Then the offshore drilling rigs arrived,…
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How Guyana Could Be the Biggest Winner of the Strait of Hormuz Crisis eyesonguyana Amsterdam, April 14, 2026– While the world holds its breath watching U.S. Navy destroyers patrol the choke point that carries a fifth of the planet’s oil, a small South American nation tucked between Venezuela and Brazil is quietly sitting on one…
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How Cerebras Is Betting Big on Guyana’s AI Future eyesonguyana There is a small country on the northeastern shoulder of South America that most people couldn’t locate on a map a decade ago. Today, Guyana is one of the fastest-growing economies on earth, its fortunes transformed by a gusher of offshore oil wealth that arrived…
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How Guyana Is Spending Its Oil Windfall on Innovation A nation of fewer than a million people is quietly positioning itself as South America’s AI capital. Here’s how it’s doing it — and what its neighbor next door could learn. eyesonguyana In 2019, Guyana struck oil. Not a little oil — an extraordinary gusher of…
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How ENRICH in LAC Is Rewiring Innovation Between Two Continents From the rainforests of Brazil to the solar deserts of Chile, a European-backed network is quietly transforming what it means to innovate across the Atlantic. eyesonguyana There is a moment in every great partnership when paperwork becomes purpose — when a signed agreement stops being…
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Suriname, the Shield of the Americas, and the Impossible Balancing Act of Jennifer Geerlings-Simons SHIELD OF THE AMERICAS · PART III PARAMARIBO, SURINAME | MARCH 2026 The delegation from Suriname arrived in Doral, Florida, as every delegation does at multilateral summits — quietly, with protocol officials rather than presidents, and with carefully worded instructions not…
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A Small Nation’s Giant Moment SHIELD OF THE AMERICAS · PART II Guyana, the Shield of the Americas, and the New Geopolitics of Oil at the Edge of the World GEORGETOWN, GUYANA | MARCH 2026 For most of its 58 years as an independent nation, Guyana occupied a curious position in the global imagination —…
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How Trump’s New Conservative Alliance Is Reshaping the War on Cartels, Migration, and Chinese Influence in Latin America eyesonguyana On a humid Saturday morning in Doral, Florida, the gilded ballroom of Trump National golf resort became the stage for something Washington had not attempted since the Cold War: the deliberate assembly of a conservative military…
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