Guyanese

Guyanese political commentator Francis Bailey says the country is caught in a geopolitical battle between the US and China.

He and Sir Keir Starmer were presented with large plates of Guyanese chicken, somewhat to the dismay of the vegetarian prime minister.

Born in south London to a Trinidadian mother and Guyanese father, Lord Alli got his first job aged 16 via a job centre, doing research for Planned Savings magazine.

Here a group of locals, all of them indigenous Warrau women, gather to tend and pick the surrounding beds of pepper bushes - special Wiri Wiri peppers: tiny, red and highly prized in Guyanese cooking.

It came at a time when neighbouring Venezuela renewed its claim for a disputed part of Guyanese territory that is rich in oil and minerals.