{"id":1168110,"date":"2019-05-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"urn:bbc:podcast:p078mntl"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:00:00","slug":"guyana-bracing-for-the-oil-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/05\/08\/guyana-bracing-for-the-oil-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana &#8211; bracing for the oil boom"},"content":{"rendered":"South America\u2019s second poorest nation is about to get very rich - but will the prosperity be shared? A series of oil discoveries in Guyanese waters has revealed almost unimaginable riches beneath the seabed; enough oil to catapult Guyana to the top of the continent\u2019s rich list. Next year, the oil - and cash - is due to start flowing. The major new industry could help solve two of Guyana\u2019s big problems: high youth unemployment and the emigration of most of its graduates. But as young Guyanese prepare for a future in oil and dream of lives transformed, some fear the so-called oil curse will see a corrupt elite squander and steal the country\u2019s newfound wealth. Presenter\/producer: Simon Maybin (Photo: Kiwana Baker, right, hopes that a career in oil will give her opportunities that her mother, Marslyn Pollard, left, never had. Credit: BBC)\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p078mntl\">The Documentary Podcast<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South America\u2019s second poorest nation is about to get very rich &#8211; but will the prosperity be shared? A series of oil discoveries in Guyanese waters has revealed almost unimaginable riches beneath the seabed; enough oil to catapult Guyana to the top of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598848,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168110\/revisions\/1598848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}