Longtail and the Word “Could”: On Guyana’s First Gas Project
A GBJ Note · Oil & Gas Longtail and the Word “Could” On Guyana’s First Gas Project Exxon’s eighth Stabroek development is the first built around gas. Whether that gas…
A GBJ Note · Oil & Gas Longtail and the Word “Could” On Guyana’s First Gas Project Exxon’s eighth Stabroek development is the first built around gas. Whether that gas…
Constantine, Gampat and Khemraj reply to Thomas Singh: central-bank financing is one of the channels through which Guyana’s fiscal stance reaches prices.
Oil is not Guyana’s first boom. On the Season 5 opener of Transforming Guyana, forest economist Dr. Rory Fraser argued that gold, bauxite and timber were three rehearsals — and that oil is the fourth sitting of an exam the country has failed three times.
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 and companies now perform that they once needed others to perform for them?
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,…
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 institutions proposed, what the government adopted, modified or rejected, and what has actually happened to exports, foreign exchange, human capital and procurement.
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’ markets, talk of buffer stocks — without naming it. This essay traces the Guyana Marketing Corporation from its wartime birth to the day in 1985 it stopped trading, and proposes the narrow, limited, publicly accountable mandate that would make reviving it worthwhile.
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…
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 shortage is structural, not merely distributional.
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…