Sunday Essay · Education & Society In the era of oil, what is Guyana teaching its children about their own worth? By Terrence Richard Blackman, Ph.D. · March 30, …
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The Diaspora Is Not the Problem: On Citizenship, Belonging, and the Architecture of Oil-Era Benefit Policy
Social Policy | Analysis The Diaspora Is Not the Problem: On Citizenship, Belonging, and the Architecture of Oil-Era Benefit Policy By Terrence R. Blackman, Ph.D.|Guyana Business Journal|March 23, 2026 878,674 …
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After CARICOM: The Case for a Caribbean Development Doctrine
Sunday Essay · Caribbean Political Economy Why coordination is no longer enough — and what the region must build instead By Terrence Richard Blackman, Ph.D. · March 21, 2026 …
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The Vertical Wound Race, Class, and the Architecture of Elite Control in Guyana
March 15, 2026 “The African and Indian elite of the 1970s drew on the old racist manipulation to defend their interests as rulers.” — Walter Rodney, Columbia University, 1978 “This …
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Breaking the Inheritance Gridlock: A National Economic Imperative
March 10, 2026 “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to …
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Access and Excellence: Beyond the False Binary of Merit and Ethnicity in Guyana’s Economic Empowerment
March 8, 2026 “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to …
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The Architecture of Exclusion: Patronage, Oil, and the Unfinished Work of Building One People, One Nation, One Destiny
This Sunday Essay is sponsored by Metallica Commodities Corporation. For over two decades, MCC has operated at the intersection of natural resource extraction and global logistics, trading all non-ferrous metals, …
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Rubio in Basseterre: What the Secretary Said, What He Didn’t, and What the Caribbean Must Hear
Secretary of State Marco Rubio flew overnight from the State of the Union to address CARICOM in Basseterre — the first such visit in a decade. What he said mattered. …
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ExxonMobil’s US$100 Million STEM Initiative: A Landmark Investment That Guyana Must Now Match with Institutional Seriousness
ExxonMobil’s decade-long, US$100 million commitment to STEM education in Guyana is one of the most significant private-sector investments in Caribbean human capital. It deserves unreserved welcome — and rigorous, constructive …
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The Rainbow and the Ledger: Jesse Jackson, Economic Justice, and the Unfinished Architecture of Inclusion
“There is no talent deficit. There is an opportunity deficit.” — Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., who died this morning at the age of …