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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The World Meteorological Organization puts the probability of El Nino's effects reaching February 2027 at close to 100 per cent, with a 95 per cent chance of a peak between October and December 2026. The last comparable event cut Guyana's rice crop by 37 per cent.
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International Hotel Investments plc will develop a 50-suite Corinthia hotel and branded residences on Grace Bay in Turks and Caicos, on what it calls the last undeveloped beachfront parcel on that stretch. Construction is slated for 2027.
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LNC Professional (Guyana) launched in Georgetown on 7 September 2026 and goes to market in the United States this week, with a 26-shade range built from the colours a Georgetown salon used to mix by hand to match its clients.
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Guyana rents 96 megawatts from two floating power plants at 9.5 US cents a kilowatt hour. That is the rental only. The fuel the state buys adds 8.8 to 10.5 cents, taking the true cost close to what a household pays.
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Four New Zealand firms took mining technology to Brazil's largest mining fair in August. New Zealand's own July 2026 report on Guyana names mining-adjacent opportunities and says its trade agency has no established networks in the Caribbean. Trade runs about twenty to one.
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