The Guyana Marketing Corporation Reborn
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.