Guyana mounted its first official national presence at Toronto this September. The question that follows is not whether Guyana can host films, but whether Guyana can own them.
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Two Arrivals, 1956: An Appreciation of the Mighty Sparrow
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 …
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“What Happens Next Is Politics”: Gampat and Mahabir Reply to Their Readers
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 …
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Two Roads, One Finding: A Response to the Human Capital Paradox
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 …
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The Human Capital Paradox in Guyana: Investing More, Returning Less
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 …
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Dream to Change the World
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 …
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The Empty Rig Floor
Oil Sector Policy · Analysis The Empty Rig Floor What ExxonMobil’s Permian Automation May Mean for Guyana’s Next Oil Decade A contractor in West Texas now moves two-thousand-pound drill pipe from …
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The World Trade Centre Georgetown (WTCG) will host its International Trade and Investment Conference from October 19 to 23, 2026,
GBJ Commentary · Trade & Investment A Trade Centre Is Not Yet Trade What the WTC Georgetown Conference Should Be Measured By Five days in Kingston, a first anniversary, and a …
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The Odyssey from Dhaka to Den Amstel
What a nation built of journeys owes the stranger on the West Coast.
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Adam Smith Visits Guyana
The Sunday Essay · Political Economy Adam Smith Visits Guyana The Wealth of a Nation Is Its People Imagine the professor of moral philosophy landing at Timehri in the year his …
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