The Essequibo Illusion
A 185-year-old territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana reveals the enduring contradictions of U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean, with the “Donroe Doctrine” introducing fresh diplomatic risks.
A New Mall for the Village: How Carbon Credits Impact Indigenous People in Guyana
In 2022, Guyana became the first country in the world to issue carbon credits on a national scale. Indigenous people say they were excluded from the negotiations and criticize the loss of autonomy in their territories.
Global Guyana’s Call for Reckoning (Review)
Oneka LaBennett’s recent book excavates layers of myth-making and storytelling in Guyana to examine the gendered dimensions of environmental extractivism and global capitalism.
In Guyana, Colonial Regimes Power the New Oil Frontier
ExxonMobil's promise of booming wealth draws on enduring colonial frontier logics. Attention to relentless resource extraction in the hinterland disrupts the mirage.
Cheddi Japan: Independence leader and former president, Guyana
Dr Jagan, you've been referred to in the U.S. press as an unabashed Stalinist and a Moscow-inspired purist, and on
Guyana – Background to a Murder
Dr. Walter Rodney, interna- tionally renowned historian, author and political activist, was assassinated in Guyana on June 13, 1980 by
Walter Rodney – In His Own Words
Quotations excerpted from Walter Rodney's public speeches to the peo- ple of Guyana, 1977-1980; text in italics by Lewanne Roopnavaint-Jones,
Jagdeo’s Win in Guyana: An Uninspiring Victory
On September 2, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana's People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP), was sworn in to a second five-year term in office. Given the level of violence that marked Jagdeo's last five years as president, August 28's relatively incident-free election was a major success for a country in drastic need of a societal transformation, let alone political change.