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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The Vault and the Vote
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 10 of 12 How a sovereign wealth fund holds — and how it learns to bend. By Nabaclis Piknee · October 7, 2026 …
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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 …
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Sugar’s Ghost
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 9 of 12 GuySuCo’s long death, and the Local Content Act’s early test. By Nabaclis Piknee · September 30, 2026 This essay is …
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 …
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 …
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What the Forest Knows
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 8 of 12 The Norway deal, Indigenous consent, and a resource that pays by standing still. By Nabaclis Piknee · September 23, 2026 …
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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