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When India emerged from its darkest democratic hour—the Emergency period of 1975–1977—a new political force was born. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), seeking to restore national pride and democratic ideals, adopted the lotus, India’s national flower, as its symbol. The lotus, revered across cultural and religious traditions, symbolizes purity and resilience. “The lotus blooms in […]

“The US will try to pick off Caribbean governments one-by-one with a carrot-and-stick approach” to achieve President Trump’s unreasonable demands, warns Prof. C Justin Robinson. However, the University of the West Indies Pro Vice-Chancellor urges Caribbean leaders to “hold one head”. He was speaking on the podcast, Caribbean Tea. The Trump administration is muscling its […]

In October 2022, the Guyana Business Journal (GBJ) challenged a panel of experts to deliberate on how Guyana could maximize local capture from its oil and gas sector. The question is pregnant with possibilities. However, Guyana, like other developing countries before it, assumes that a local content law is the secret sauce. Therefore, the discourse […]

For decades Guyana abandoned the principles of a merit-based society, opting instead for a system of political patronage. The country’s private sector followed in the shadows of the ruling political elites, elevating patronage and nepotism above merit and competence. Though One People, One Nation, One Destiny, the probability of success on the merits eluded generations of […]

Flashback It was the late 1990s and a near-sighted government, believing all it needed to govern was a mandate at the polls, was brought to its knees. Tear smoke filled the streets of downtown Georgetown as the government cracked down on dissenters, seeking to break the back of a resistance movement that had paralyzed the […]

The municipality, except for a renegade Deputy Mayor, says the introduction of parking meters in Georgetown, Guyana’s capital city, is a necessary leap into modernization. The Private sector, citizens, and activists call the move inhumane, callous, corrupt and a blight on a struggling economy. This gap between what the City thinks of the initiative and […]