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…
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…
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 the contracts have never been published. An essay on what an emergency costs when the emergency is not ended.
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…
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 8 of 12 The Norway deal, Indigenous consent, and a resource that pays by standing still. By Nabaclis Piknee · September…
Guyana has never had more ways to transmit and fewer places to encounter one another. With Stabroek News gone and oil decisions compounding, the national question is not only who gets to speak. It is who is required to listen.
For decades Guyana exported its most capable people and imported their remittances. Oil money has not yet broken the pattern. Article 7 of twelve in Beyond the Resource Curse.
Bauxite, gold and timber gave Guyana three booms, three different ownership structures, and the same outcome each time. Article 6 of twelve in Beyond the Resource Curse.
Nearly seventy-five years after Martin Carter first refused to still his voice, the closing line of “Looking at Your Hands” has become a national slogan. This Sunday Essay asks what it would mean to treat it instead as a standard, and to hold the M/V Barima inquiry, the closure of Stabroek News, and the institutions of the oil era answerable to the poem.
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 5 of 12 Independence morning, the nationalizations, and the gap between the deed and the doing. By Nabaclis Piknee · September…
A GBJ Series · Beyond the Resource Curse Article 4 of 12 What “ours” meant when the flag was still British. By Nabaclis Piknee · September 5, 2026 This essay…