GBJ NOTE · DEVELOPMENT FINANCE · LEGISLATION The Guyana Development Bank, Part III: The Board Is the Proof The directors now have names. The question Part II raised still has no answer. …
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Uses Are Not Sources: On Guyana’s Foreign Currency Shortage
Guyana is short of foreign exchange in the middle of the largest foreign-exchange windfall in its history. Counting where the dollars go will never tell us why. Uses are not sources: the …
Stories Worth Filming: Guyana at TIFF, Bushmaster, and the Long Road to a Film Industry
Guyana mounted its first official national presence at Toronto this September. The question that follows is not whether Guyana can host films, but whether Guyana can own them.
Two Arrivals, 1956: An Appreciation of the Mighty Sparrow
The Mighty Sparrow died in New York on 27 September at ninety-one. In 1956 he won his first Calypso King title in Port of Spain, the same year my great uncle Winston …
The Courage to Become Unnecessary: A Conversation on Power, Succession and Guyana’s Institutions
Transforming Guyana · Season 4, Episode 1 The Courage to Become Unnecessary: A Conversation on Power, Succession and Guyana’s Institutions Kojo M. Parris and Ruel Johnson on leadership, institutional strength, and what …
Turkish Powerships and Their Discontents
Two Turkish powerships were hired as a bridge to the Wales gas plant. Twenty-eight months on, the bridge still stands, the rent has risen, September’s blackouts happened with both ships running, and …
From Manufacturing Consent to Manufacturing Discontent
The PPP’s machine still runs, but what it now produces is grievance. Measured against four tests of party leadership, Kojo M Parris argues, the party’s renewal turns on one voluntary decision: who …
Negotiate the Future, Not the Title
GBJ Editorial · Guyana–Venezuela Negotiate the Future, Not the Title On Venezuela’s appeal at the United Nations, and what belongs at the table Months before the World Court is expected to …
Twenty-Six Years Under One Sky
At its 26th anniversary gala in New York, the Health and Educational Relief Organization (H.E.R.O.) kept silence for the lives lost on the MV Barima, remembered co-founder Dr. Collie Oudkerk, and honoured …
Guyana has never had more ways to transmit and fewer places to encounter one another. With Stabroek News gone and oil decisions compounding, the national question is not only who gets to …
