Woodside agreed on 6 August 2026 to sell its 70 per cent operated interest in Calypso to bp, eight days after flagging impairment losses. No investment decision, capital cost or first-gas date has been published.
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Demerara Distillers broke ground on a US$14 million expansion in St Kitts on 6 August 2026, committing thirteen times that subsidiary's annual revenue. Only one other Guyanese company has established anywhere in CARICOM since 2023.
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Suriname pays SLM up to US$2.2 million a month. Its last approved accounts cover 2015/2016, and the transport minister said in June that money owed to the airport and the civil aviation authority had been booked as income.
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The United States warned directors of Neuquen electricity co-operative CALF that their visas could be restricted over a Huawei fibre contract. The instrument has been used against Huawei employees since 2020. This extends it to a customer's board.
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Dominica announced a Creative Economy Development Agency in its 2026/27 budget, with its structure still to be consulted on. Guyana's Orange Economy framework named the Guyana Development Bank, where creative industries is one of five priority sectors.
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One hundred participants graduated from professional transportation, first aid, CPR and defensive driving courses at Eve Leary on 6 August 2026. The same curriculum feeds the pathway into Beyond The Wheels 2.0 in October.
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ExxonMobil awarded Viridien's Sercel a one-year contract to run simultaneous operations software at Whiptail. Guyana's Local Content Act lists 40 reserved categories and none covers operational software.
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La Caribena News observed water running across the passenger deck of the MV Makouria at Bartica on 7 August 2026. The 67-year-old vessel was left out of Guyana's $440 million ferry repair programme.
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Argentina extended its currency swap with the People's Bank of China to 2031 on 5 August 2026, a day before the framework lapsed. The line reads US$19 billion, but only US$5 billion was ever activated and US$675 million was still owed in January.
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In February the President proposed one shared bottle-making facility so no producer need buy its own. In July the National Assembly voted G$496.3 million for a state-owned bottler instead. Manufacturers who expanded on the first plan now compete with the second.
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Guyana's Local Content Act reserves 90 to 100 per cent of services built on premises and labour for Guyanese companies, and just 5 per cent of engineering and machining. A business cluster, run by a chamber of commerce, is how firms elsewhere crossed that gap.
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IRF Global chief operating officer Magid Elabyad calls transport networks a nation's circulatory system. Build roads to last thirty or forty years instead of ten, he says, and the repair budget becomes the budget for the next road.
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