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 covenant between oil wealth and citizen welfare.
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…
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…