The Mighty Sparrow died in New York on 27 September at ninety-one. In 1956 he won his first Calypso King title in Port of Spain, the same year my great uncle Winston …
The authors of the 64/80 paradox answer Rory Fraser, Errol Benn and the readers who pressed them on why the failures they measured outlast governments — and argue that an independent audit …
Rory Fraser’s study of land tenure, forestry enforcement and the public service reaches the same conclusion as Gampat and Mahabir’s 64/80 paradox by a different road, and asks why the failures they …
Drawing on a book-length comparative study of eighteen countries, Ramesh Gampat and Minakshi Mahabir document what they call the 64/80 paradox: Guyana out-invests 64 per cent of its comparators in health and …
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. · March 31, …
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 (2021) 0.95 …
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, 2026 Brooklyn, …
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 2022 Census …
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 In 1972, …
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.