Fishing boats docked in a small river flowing out into the Atlantic Ocean near Georgetown, Guyana. Beneath the coastal waters is the largest oil discovery of the 21st century.Photo: Tim Smith/Panos Pictures

Forever Oil

An oil rush is reshaping Guyana’s future, but as profits bypass locals could a familiar history of exploitation, extraction and colonialism be repeating itself? Ben Jacob reports on a nation at a crossroads.

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Illustration: Emma Peer

Reasons to be cheerful

A people’s vaccine; Policing the police; ¡Adelante!

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Scratchy Lines - The News

Scratchy Lines - The News

Cartoon by Simon Kneebone.

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