On the Brain Drain, the Broken Republic, and the Question Oil Cannot Answer
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The Sixty-Year Argument
Sunday Essay · Diaspora & Development Why Guyana keeps having the same diaspora conversation — and what it will take to finally stop By Terrence Richard Blackman, Ph.D. · March 31, …
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The Hourly Intensity Problem: A Data-Driven Approach to Flood Management in Georgetown
Infrastructure | Analysis The Hourly Intensity Problem: A Data-Driven Approach to Flood Management in Georgetown By Guyana Business Journal Data Desk|Guyana Business Journal|March 30, 2026 139.4 in Peak Annual Rainfall (2021) 0.95 …
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What the Child Decides
Sunday Essay · Education & Society In the era of oil, what is Guyana teaching its children about their own worth? By Terrence Richard Blackman, Ph.D. · March 30, 2026 Brooklyn, …
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The Diaspora Is Not the Problem: On Citizenship, Belonging, and the Architecture of Oil-Era Benefit Policy
Social Policy | Analysis The Diaspora Is Not the Problem: On Citizenship, Belonging, and the Architecture of Oil-Era Benefit Policy By Terrence R. Blackman, Ph.D.|Guyana Business Journal|March 23, 2026 878,674 2022 Census …
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After CARICOM: The Case for a Caribbean Development Doctrine
Sunday Essay · Caribbean Political Economy Why coordination is no longer enough — and what the region must build instead By Terrence Richard Blackman, Ph.D. · March 21, 2026 In 1972, …
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The Vertical Wound Race, Class, and the Architecture of Elite Control in Guyana
March 15, 2026 “The African and Indian elite of the 1970s drew on the old racist manipulation to defend their interests as rulers.” — Walter Rodney, Columbia University, 1978 “This privileged political …
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Breaking the Inheritance Gridlock: A National Economic Imperative
March 10, 2026 “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” — …
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Access and Excellence: Beyond the False Binary of Merit and Ethnicity in Guyana’s Economic Empowerment
March 8, 2026 “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” — …
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The Architecture of Exclusion: Patronage, Oil, and the Unfinished Work of Building One People, One Nation, One Destiny
This Sunday Essay is sponsored by Metallica Commodities Corporation. For over two decades, MCC has operated at the intersection of natural resource extraction and global logistics, trading all non-ferrous metals, including copper, …