Author: Lorraine Sobers

Transforming Guyana, Episode V: Implementing Guyana’s Local Content Policy

Media Advisory Transforming Guyana, Episode V: Implementing Guyana’s Local Content Legislation: Challenges and Opportunities Recording available here: DATE: October 12, 2022 TIME: 10:30 AM- 11:30AM EDT The Challenge Moderators Terrence Blackman, Founder, Guyana Business Journal David Lewis, Vice President, Manchester Trade Ltd. Inc. & Fellow, Caribbean Policy Consortium Speakers Professor Leyland Lucas, Dean, School of Entrepreneurship […]

Transforming Guyana, Episode IV: Guyana’s emergence as a Petrostate and implications for the Venezuela-Essequibo controversy

Media Advisory: The Guyana Business Journal (GBJ) & Caribbean Policy Consortium(CPC) present Episode IV of Transforming Guyana webinar was held on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, at 10:30 AM EST.  You can view the recording HERE Panelists discuss Guyana’s emergence as a Petrostate and its implications for the Venezuela-Essequibo controversy. The presentation made by Prof. Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, Fellow Caribbean Policy Consortium, […]

Transforming Guyana, Episode III: Education & The Oil Windfall

DATE: AUGUST 10, 2022 MEDIA ADVISORY: The Guyana Business Journal and the Caribbean Policy Consortium host Webinar: Transforming Guyana, Episode III How should Guyana leverage oil and gas revenues to produce a world-class twenty-first-century education system at all levels, focusing on broad coverage of the country and with strong links to the best institutions of higher learning abroad while […]

 GUYANA UPSTREAM: A RYSTAD ENERGY June 2022 INDUSTRY AND COUNTRY BENCHMARKING UPDATE

DATE: July 21, 2022 The presentation, by Rystad’s Head of Latin America, Schreiner Parker, explores recent developments in Guyana’s oil and gas industry. Parker reports on what has been done so far in governance and identifies what still needs to be implemented to maximize Guyana’s benefits. The report examines how Guyana’s oil and gas industry can […]

Celebrating Caribbean Americans: What role can they play in advancing US-Caribbean ties?

In celebration of Caribbean American Heritage Month, the Caribbean Initiative and the Caribbean Policy Consortium hosted a public, virtual discussion on how the Caribbean diaspora can strengthen US-Caribbean relations and advance newly announced commitments from the Summit of the Americas. Caribbean Americans are the natural expression of a fruitful US-Caribbean partnership, often playing a major […]