Guyana’s Local Content Act counts employment, procurement and training. Solids-control specialist Othman Soliman, with more than a quarter century in the field, argues for a harder measure: which tasks can Guyanese workers …
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The University That Doesn’t Exist Yet
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 …
A GBJ Special Report by Dr. Ramesh Gampat. Since 2020, Guyana has become the fastest-growing economy in the world — and one of the slowest-changing. This paper keeps score: what researchers and …
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’ …
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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 …
Guyana is short of foreign exchange in the middle of the largest foreign-exchange windfall in its history. Counting where the dollars go will never tell us why. Uses are not sources: the …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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Negotiate the Future, Not the Title
GBJ Editorial · Guyana–Venezuela Negotiate the Future, Not the Title On Venezuela’s appeal at the United Nations, and what belongs at the table Months before the World Court is expected to …
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