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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
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“What Happens Next Is Politics”: Gampat and Mahabir Reply to Their Readers
The authors of the 64/80 paradox answer Rory Fraser, Errol Benn and the readers who pressed them on why the failures they measured outlast governments — and argue that an independent audit …
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Two Roads, One Finding: A Response to the Human Capital Paradox
Rory Fraser’s study of land tenure, forestry enforcement and the public service reaches the same conclusion as Gampat and Mahabir’s 64/80 paradox by a different road, and asks why the failures they …
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The Human Capital Paradox in Guyana: Investing More, Returning Less
Drawing on a book-length comparative study of eighteen countries, Ramesh Gampat and Minakshi Mahabir document what they call the 64/80 paradox: Guyana out-invests 64 per cent of its comparators in health and …
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Dream to Change the World
Nearly seventy-five years after Martin Carter first refused to still his voice, the closing line of “Looking at Your Hands” has become a national slogan. This Sunday Essay asks what it would …
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 …