Even as two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states - Guyana and Suriname - wait to reap the returns of their new-found oil and gas deposits, another member country, The Bahamas, continues to face a resolute environmental pushback from pressure groups that insist that the waters that have long been a major contributing factor to the country’s world-class tour-ism industry should not be despoiled by continued oil searches and perhaps, eventually, oil recovery.

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