French president arrived in Guyana this Monday morning for a one and a half day visit. Objective: to take an interest in the problems of daily life and take the pulse of the population.

From his first mini-crowd after a ceremony on the Place des Palmistes, Emmanuel Macron came up against an unhappy Guyanese. The fishing industry had a well-known ambassador, Christiane Taubira, who joined the president. “In the fishing industry, it is important that it understands the physical environment: what is this immense maritime expanse, how is it controlled…”, argued the former minister of Justice, originally from Guyana.