Guyana votes for leader to manage coming oil wealth
Opposition People’s Progressive Party has repeatedly slammed oil deal signed under incumbent President David Granger
02 March 2020 - 18:17
Georgetown — Guyanans voted on Monday in an election that will decide who oversees an oil boom set to transform the poor South American country, which faces a test of whether it can sustainably manage a sudden influx of natural resource wealth.
Irfaan Ali, a 39-year-old former housing minister from the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), is seeking to unseat incumbent President David Granger, whose five-year tenure has coincided with the discovery of billions of barrels of crude offshore by a consortium led by ExxonMobil...
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