Guyana

The Crown and the Cell

A State Visit, a remand, and what 1954 teaches about an official assurance that a case is criminal, not political. Guyana asks the Crown to account for its past. The same standard of accountability applies, in the present, to Guyana’s own institutions.

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Twenty Years of Listening: What Guyanese Have Been Telling the Pollsters

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.

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The Window on Thomas Road

A boy in Form 1A looked out of a classroom window on the Thomas Road side and saw the light coming off the Atlantic. That west wing is gone, and the building that replaced it satisfies eight directives and answers no question. A Sunday essay on the enduring importance of the aesthetic, and on what a school teaches when nobody is teaching.

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The Speech I Would Give

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.

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