Guyana’s oil-fuelled boom risks enriching too few unless ordinary citizens can own a stake in it. A proposed Development Bank aims to turn excluded entrepreneurs into producers, employers and investors.

Floods are no longer just a coastland menace as heavier rains overwhelm Guyana’s aging drainage system. Billions are being spent on canals and sea defences, but the long-term answer may be moving inland.

Twenty French companies are eyeing Guyana, as the paper argues weak oversight and cheap deals keep the country open for foreign grabs.