The Speeches They Didn’t Want Us to Hear; I’m 26 yrs old and I’ve Never Listened to a Forbes Burnham Speech
I am 26 years old, and until last week, I had never heard the voice of Forbes Burnham. My grandmother...
Digital Mirage! Guyana’s “One Guyana Digital” a $9.5 Million Canadian Cash for 2,000 Coders, But Just a Handful of Grads and Pipe-Dream Paychecks
Flash back to February 2024, when Canada's International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen jetted into the 46th CARICOM Heads meeting and...
‘Near Death’ Rumors Met With a Nation’s Collective Shrug; People Didn’t Care
News of Bharrat Jagdeo's grave illness has been proven, for now, to be hyperbole. The former President and de facto...
Champagne Bubbles and Broken Drains, Guyana’s Elite Revel While the Masses Wade Through the Wreckage
Picture this, the Guyana Marriott or the Arthur Chung Conference Centre gleaming with high fashion and loud displays of new...
The Ballroom Colonialists; Diplomats, Foreign Leaders, The Nouveaux Riche and the New Extraction of Guyana
by Simone James A new kind of extraction is underway in Guyana, one conducted not only with rigs and pipelines...
Guyana’s Poverty Data Has Not Been Updated Since 2021. What Does That Say About Our Oil Economy?
Guyana is now the world’s fastest growing economy, yet the country’s official poverty statistics tell a very different story. The...
Coding Charade! Guyana’s 150,000 Coders Initiative, Another Billion-Dollar Promise That Delivered Peanuts
by Randy GoPaul, Back in December 2022, the Guyana government pulled out all the stops for the launch of the...
Efforts Made by the (British) Planter Class to Under-develop Black Communities.
by Letroy O.M. Cummings The villages were autonomous in their own rights, whether communal or proprietary. They were the centre...
The Temerity of Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall and his Hollow Pursuit of ‘Justice’
A government that builds its house on sand has no moral authority to condemn the foundations of another. This is...
Opinion: Data Blackout – Withheld Census Fuels Investor Uncertainity in Guyana’s Booming Economy
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The numbers that usually accompany a modern economic miracle are dazzling; triple-digit growth rates, a sovereign wealth...
