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, 2026 This …
Infrastructure
Teaching the Next One
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 This essay …
From Cubana to Barima: Memory and the Duty to Account
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 apart; what …
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 …
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 …
Turkish Powerships and Their Discontents
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 …
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 …
The Ones Who Left
For decades Guyana exported its most capable people and imported their remittances. Oil money has not yet broken the pattern. Article 7 of twelve in Beyond the Resource Curse.
Gold, Bauxite, Timber: Three Rehearsals
Bauxite, gold and timber gave Guyana three booms, three different ownership structures, and the same outcome each time. Article 6 of twelve in Beyond the Resource Curse.
