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…
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…
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…
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 “Uncle Charlie” Lewis carried the Invaders to victory at Georgetown’s Astor Cinema. An appreciation of the Caribbean’s auditor in verse, and a question for Guyana: who is singing the audit now?
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…
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,…
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 contracts have never been published. An essay on what an emergency costs when the emergency is not ended.
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 stands at its centre.