Guyana: Waiting for ICJ Decision, but also Investing in Security; Part II By Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith This is the second article of a two-part series on the ongoing territorial-judicial…
Guyana: Waiting for ICJ Decision, but also Investing in Security; Part 1 By Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith This is the first of a two-part series on the ongoing territorial-judicial saga between…
Agriculture and the Oil and Gas economy By Utamu Belle & Dr. Terrence Blackman The ninth installment of the Guyana Business Journal (GBJ) and Caribbean Policy Consortium (CPC) webinar series,…
The Caribbean diaspora, particularly in the United States, has been successful and accomplished in their adopted home. However, one must not lose sight of the fact that, like their Proximate…
Beating The Resource Curse By Terrence Blackman, Ph.D. ExxonMobil initiated oil and gas exploration activities in Guyana in 2008. The company drilled, safely its first exploration well, Liza-1, in 2015.…
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.