Guatemala's Congress passed two fuel measures eleven days apart. One suspends the taxes, one caps the price and pays importers the difference from a Q2.5 billion fund. Together they commit about Q5.8 billion, or US$762 million. President Arevalo must decide on the second.
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GuyExpo 2026 was launched on 24 September and runs 12 to 15 November at Sophia. GMSA President Rafeek Khan named hospitality, garments, agro-processing and ICT as the sectors that must scale. Most sit outside the Local Content Act's forty reserved categories.
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Justice Gino Persaud was barred from transiting Florida. Justice Abel told a Commonwealth judges' conference that this, and Guyana's twenty-one years of acting judicial appointments, are modern pressures on judicial independence. The Attorney General said the government had no role.
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The United States launched the Andes-Atlantic Corridor on 23 September 2026, its first such corridor in the Western Hemisphere. The State Department says deals will be advanced excluding non-market actors. Argentina's foreign minister said there is no conditionality.
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Peru's Hass avocado shipments will finish the season about 2 per cent below 2025 against a forecast of 6 per cent growth, with US shipments down about 36 per cent. ProHass named El Nino, through variable dry matter at harvest. The Dominican Republic ships into the same American months.
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GCCI President Kathy Smith asked the government on 24 September 2026 to monitor foreign oil contractors more closely and tell Guyanese firms more. Section 11(5) of the Local Content Act has required the state to publish an extract of every approved local content plan since 2021.
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President Trump has backed banning US diesel exports. Guyana imports all its fuel, mostly American. Its own crude is 34.5 per cent jet, kerosene and gasoil by volume on the ministry's assay, and a refinery to turn it into fuel was costed at US$5.2 billion with a negative return.
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Twelve CARICOM foreign ministers met India's at the United Nations on 23 September 2026 and backed India's Security Council candidature for 2028-29. India asked them to join two alliances it convenes. Eleven days earlier it had chaired the BRICS summit in New Delhi.
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President Ali met the US Export-Import Bank's chairman in New York on 21 September 2026 and named six Guyanese projects. The next day the same bank signed Argentina a framework worth up to US$7 billion through 2027.
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Petrobras and Mozambique's state hydrocarbons company signed a two-year memorandum in Rio de Janeiro on 22 September 2026, covering joint studies, development, commercialisation and technical expertise. Guyana has no state oil company to sign one.
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Guatemala's Congress voted 148 to suspend value added tax and the petroleum products tax on gasoline and diesel until 31 December 2026. Diesel is estimated to fall Q6.34 a gallon, about 83 US cents, from Q47.00 (US$6.16) to Q40.66 (US$5.33).
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Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperon International Airport adds Bogota on Wingo from 6 October and Montreal and Toronto on Flair Airlines from 18 and 19 December. The Bogota service adds about 8,900 seats. Georgetown already flies daily to Toronto.
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