Before the Flag Came Down
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 4 of 12 What “ours” meant when the flag was still British. By Nabaclis Piknee · September 5, 2026 This essay…
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 4 of 12 What “ours” meant when the flag was still British. By Nabaclis Piknee · September 5, 2026 This essay…
A boy in Form 1A looked out of a classroom window on the Thomas Road side and saw the light coming off the Atlantic. That west wing is gone, and the building that replaced it satisfies eight directives and answers no question. A Sunday essay on the enduring importance of the aesthetic, and on what a school teaches when nobody is teaching.
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 3 of 12 A vault, a university, and what breaking a curse on purpose actually costs. By Nabaclis Piknee · August…
Infrastructure & Governance · Analysis The Corentyne Crossings One Ferry, Two Sovereigns, and a Mirage of a Bridge On the thirteenth of August, the MV Canawaima cleared a…
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…