Since 2006 the AmericasBarometer has asked Guyanese whether they trust the courts and the police, whether they are better off than a year ago, and whether democracy is worth the trouble. This first instalment of a GBJ polling initiative reads that twenty-year record, sets out what it cannot tell us, and proposes a Guyanese public opinion series built on its foundations.
Transforming Guyana · Season 4, Episode 1 The Courage to Become Unnecessary: A Conversation on Power, Succession and Guyana’s Institutions Kojo M. Parris and Ruel Johnson on leadership, institutional strength,…
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 body is a political device, not a technocratic one.
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 measure outlast changes of government.
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 education, yet 80 per cent of them obtain better human capital outcomes. Efficiency deficits, inequality and governance failure explain the gap — and the oil window for closing it will not stay open for ever.
A Guyanese petroleum engineer in Houston asks the trajectory question — is Guyana’s oil boom translating into human development? This Sunday Essay imagines the OTC 2026 presidential keynote that would answer him honestly.
Guyana’s 2016 oil agreement with ExxonMobil, retaining 1999 terms post-discovery, sparked intense debate. Its low royalty and high cost recovery raise critical questions about national sovereignty and fiscal equity, impacting Guyana’s economic future.
Guyana is the fastest-growing economy in the Western Hemisphere. More than half its citizens live in poverty. This fact-checked analysis — with six original data visualizations — examines the broken covenant between oil wealth and citizen welfare.