The Empty Rig Floor
Oil Sector Policy · Analysis The Empty Rig Floor What ExxonMobil’s Permian Automation May Mean for Guyana’s Next Oil Decade A contractor in West Texas now moves two-thousand-pound drill…
Oil Sector Policy · Analysis The Empty Rig Floor What ExxonMobil’s Permian Automation May Mean for Guyana’s Next Oil Decade A contractor in West Texas now moves two-thousand-pound drill…
GBJ Commentary · Trade & Investment A Trade Centre Is Not Yet Trade What the WTC Georgetown Conference Should Be Measured By Five days in Kingston, a first anniversary,…
The GBJ believes that the success of the no confidence motion and its aftermath coupled with the emerging oil economy has once again provided the key stakeholders with the opportunity to act boldly to seize a “grand bargain” that would see a genuine Government of National Unity preside over the emerging oil economy for the next six years. The broad outlines of the marriage of the economic, security, and environmental bonafides of the three key ethnic groups and its potential impact on Guyana’s social cohesion are clear. The GBJ believes that movement of this type in the political sector, now, would provide the impetus for robust economic growth in 2019.
What a nation built of journeys owes the stranger on the West Coast.
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 2 of 12 What the oldest trap in the resource business actually is — and what it is not. By Nabaclis…
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 1 of 12 Lamming’s one acre of ground, read by lamplight in the middle of an oil boom. By Nabaclis Piknee…
The Sunday Essay · Political Economy Adam Smith Visits Guyana The Wealth of a Nation Is Its People Imagine the professor of moral philosophy landing at Timehri in the…
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Foreword to a twelve-part series Two inherited ideas — Lamming’s and Ngũgĩ’s — and the third term this series will test against…
GBJ Commentary · Labour & the Rule of Law The Dues of Democracy What the State Owes Guyana’s Teachers Two courts have spoken; the dues are still not remitted.…
The Sunday Essay · Language & Power George Orwell Comes Alive in Guyana Precision as a Democratic Ethic In one week: an invitation that chaperones a protest, a rulebook…