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Leaders at the CARICOM summit in Grenada were all smiles yesterday as they respectively greeted the news.
President Bharrat Jagdeo said he was "very happy that Guyana has also been chosen. We will be very focused in doing all that's possible and practical to make it a memorable occasion".
He visited the stadium site being prepared for World Cup cricket at Providence, East Bank Demerara, before leaving for the summit Friday.
The chosen eight are: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Kitts and Nevis and Trinidad and Tobago.
Prime Minister Keith Mitchell of Grenada, current CARICOM Chairman and head of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee for Cricket, told a media briefing, "this is very good news".
He would be in Jamaica next week to join Prime Minister P.J. Patterson for a meeting at which the venues for the coming series in the Caribbean will be identified.
Mitchell said all of the host countries would be spending "many millions of dollars" to ensure appropriate infrastructure facilities are in place for the thousands of cricket fans from the cricketing world who are expected for World Cup 2007.
CARICOM, he stressed, was pursuing a coordinated approach in areas of security, health care, customs and immigration, air transportation and other facilities to ensure the best possible satisfaction for the series.