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reaching Linden, I got straight into a police checkpoint. The officer was asking to see my passport in an accent that reminded me of the Caribbean. His expression didn’ t seem so nice. Exchanging some words in Creole with his colleague, their attention shifted to the vehicle. BMW! Shaft drive? 1000 cc. Carburettors. Good bike! Fanning about the motorcycle, they had forgotten the original topic, which was wanting to check my passport. Exchanging a let-go look with his colleague, the officer then just waved me on.
The atmosphere in Georgetown definitely was different from the South America I was used to and I could experience that energetic friendliness that I would expect in a West African city. Thanks to massive oil findings, and despite it only starting to get explored, Guyana’ s future is looking wealthy. An outlook that drives both Guyanese that had lived abroad back and Venezuelan migrants into the country, leading to a massive population growth, thanks to a modest number of under a million as at 2023, the largest growth in the world right now in terms of percentage. It can be said
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