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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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 speak. It is who is required to listen.
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.
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.
Nearly seventy-five years after Martin Carter first refused to still his voice, the closing line of “Looking at Your Hands” has become a national slogan. This Sunday Essay asks what it would mean to treat it instead as a standard, and to hold the M/V Barima inquiry, the closure of Stabroek News, and the institutions of the oil era answerable to the poem.