Oil Sector Policy

Guyana’s 2016 oil agreement with ExxonMobil, retaining 1999 terms post-discovery, sparked intense debate. Its low royalty and high cost recovery raise critical questions about national sovereignty and fiscal equity, impacting …

Guyana is the fastest-growing economy in the Western Hemisphere. More than half its citizens live in poverty. This fact-checked analysis — with six original data visualizations — examines the broken …

  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. · …

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 …

  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, …

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 …

  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 …

A Report on the GlobeSpan Policy Webinar — examining Guyana’s position amid Middle Eastern conflict, the closure of Stabroek News, governance gaps, and ExxonMobil’s $100 million STEM investment.

A Report on the GlobeSpan Policy Webinar — examining Guyana’s position amid Middle Eastern conflict, the closure of Stabroek News, governance gaps, and ExxonMobil’s $100 million STEM investment.

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 …