Alvaro Pulido Vargas appeared in the Southern District of Florida on 13 October 2026, two days after the Justice Department announced his arrest. The 2021 indictment against him charges four money laundering counts, and two of the charged transfers left accounts in Antigua and Barbuda.
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One regulation, 31 C.F.R. 1010.610, governs every correspondent account a US bank holds for a foreign financial institution. The Bank of America order of 13 October 2026 finds the bank carved its own foreign branches out of that standard, applying "reduced requirements" until December 2024.
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AT&T agreed on 13 October 2026 to sell its Mexican wireless unit to Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings for US$2 billion. In 2021, selling its DirecTV and Sky business across 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries, AT&T said what kept it in the region was that Mexican business.
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Guyana's preliminary December 2026 loading schedule carries 33 million barrels of crude for export, about 1.06 million barrels a day, which would be the first time the country's exports pass a million. The first cargo of the new Uaru grade is set for 11 and 12 December.
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Bank of America's US$1.21 billion anti-money laundering penalty of 13 October 2026 follows Merrill Lynch settlements in 2017, 2023 and 2026 that found similar monitoring gaps, high thresholds and closed alerts. FinCEN's US$1.2 billion credits the OCC's US$750 million penalty.
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Clarke's Productions Inc launched Beyond the Wheels 2.0 on 14 October 2026 in Georgetown, before chamber, private sector and press representatives. The Transportation and Road Safety Summit runs on 9 and 10 March 2027.
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Beyond the Wheels 2.0 launches at 9:30 this morning at Atlantic Suites Hotel, formerly Pegasus Suites and Corporate Center in Georgetown, building toward a Transportation and Road Safety Summit on 9 and 10 March 2027 at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, where a National Road Safety Declaration...
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Cuba opened its first Mercado de Abasto.cu in Sancti Spiritus on 10 October, with a minimum purchase of US$200 or 24,000 Cuban pesos. Resolution 13/2026, the instrument that created these markets, contains no figure. It delegates the minimum to the company running the market.
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An Opposition senator told Jamaica's Senate on 9 October that J$96.3 billion budgeted for capital projects over a decade went unspent. His figures match the Ministry of Finance's own documents. The Ministry reports 94.6 per cent execution for one of those years, against a budget already cut.
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The IMF's October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report names sovereign total return swaps as a frontier-economy risk that standard debt statistics cannot fully capture. Reported users are Angola, Colombia, Nigeria and Senegal. Five Caribbean states are absent from the dataset it used.
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The Netherlands Court of Audit reported on 12 May 2026 that Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba hold no strategic reserve of drinking water, food, medicine or fuel. The cabinet replied on 5 October, two days before the budget debate parliament had set as its deadline.
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The IMF's October 2026 World Economic Outlook projects Latin America and the Caribbean at 2.3 per cent. The fifteen Caribbean economies it covers are 3.9 per cent of that region's output, and their growth rates span 24 points, from Guyana at 22.3 per cent to Haiti at minus 1.7.
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