The Small Islanders
A veteran broadcaster says five of Guyana’s ten presidents trace their lineage to Barbados. The record supports part of that claim and leaves the rest to memory. Readers can help close the gap.
A veteran broadcaster says five of Guyana’s ten presidents trace their lineage to Barbados. The record supports part of that claim and leaves the rest to memory. Readers can help close the gap.
Constantine, Gampat and Khemraj reply to Thomas Singh: central-bank financing is one of the channels through which Guyana’s fiscal stance reaches prices.
THE SUNDAY ESSAY · MIGRATION & THE NEW GUYANA Many Waters, One River? The streams of Black migration to Guyana, and what they mean for Afro-Guyanese unity now Four streams…
A State Visit, a remand, and what 1954 teaches about an official assurance that a case is criminal, not political. Guyana asks the Crown to account for its past. The same standard of accountability applies, in the present, to Guyana’s own institutions.
Since 2006 the AmericasBarometer has asked Guyanese whether they trust the courts and the police, whether they are better off than a year ago, and whether democracy is worth the trouble. This first instalment of a GBJ polling initiative reads that twenty-year record, sets out what it cannot tell us, and proposes a Guyanese public opinion series built on its foundations.
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 12 of 12 The case for a National Development University, argued from a whole life. By Nabaclis Piknee · October 28,…
A GBJ Special Report by Dr. Ramesh Gampat. Since 2020, Guyana has become the fastest-growing economy in the world — and one of the slowest-changing. This paper keeps score: what researchers and institutions proposed, what the government adopted, modified or rejected, and what has actually happened to exports, foreign exchange, human capital and procurement.
Food prices in Georgetown rose 6.7 per cent in the first half of 2026, and the government is already reaching for the old instrument — chicken and eggs at advertised prices, farmers’ markets, talk of buffer stocks — without naming it. This essay traces the Guyana Marketing Corporation from its wartime birth to the day in 1985 it stopped trading, and proposes the narrow, limited, publicly accountable mandate that would make reviving it worthwhile.
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 11 of 12 GOAL, the exam data, and the trust no syllabus can teach. By Nabaclis Piknee · October 14, 2026…
The Sunday Essay · In Memory of Eusi Kwayana, 1925–2026 From Cubana to Barima: Memory and the Duty to Account Two mass deaths of Guyanese in transit, half a century…