A booking app built in Guyana has taken its first live MMG+ payment inside its own checkout, a G$5,000 salon deposit in Georgetown. The money settles into the salon's own merchant account. Square and Stripe do not operate in Guyana.
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The Falkland Islands Government extended every offshore oil production licence by five years, with two further years at its discretion and the stated support of the United Kingdom, five days after an Argentine judge ordered the Sea Lion field halted.
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Haiti has signed the CARICOM Multilateral Air Services Agreement, which lets Caribbean-owned airlines fly between member states without route or capacity limits, and inside them. It opened for signature at a 2018 summit in Port-au-Prince and has been in force since 2020.
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Business stories made up 42 of the 60 reports the Latin American and Caribbean business press carried most widely from 14 to 21 September. The US Federal Reserve's first rate rise since 2023 and Argentina's 2027 budget led.
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Aeroméxico will fly Mexico City to Montego Bay and Nassau from March 2027. Jamaicans and Bahamians enter Mexico without a visa; Guyanese and Mexicans need visas for each other's countries. What it would take to change that, and what the research says.
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President Abinader said the Dominican Republic will know its rare-earth reserves by end-2026, test a refinery in 2027 and export in 2028. The deposits are in Pedernales bauxite. Guyana, also a bauxite producer, is still mapping and has no critical-minerals law.
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A Venezuelan family of five needed US$755.36 to eat in August, up 12.5 per cent in bolívares and 3.8 per cent in dollars. Georgetown food prices fell 0.5 per cent and were 4.4 per cent higher than a year earlier.
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President Ali said selected Guyana Development Bank borrowers will be publicly named before financing, with one to two weeks for objections. Public lenders abroad that name borrowers do so after payment; naming before payment comes from welfare programmes.
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Chile, Argentina and Brazil are trying to refine lithium at home, and Brazil passed a critical-minerals policy this month. Guyana's airborne survey is looking for lithium and rare earths, and it has no dedicated critical-minerals law on the public record.
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The IMF said in July that import-heavy private investment kept Guyana's FX market tight, judged the stabilized regime appropriate and advised deeper markets. The government's nine measures work on documentation and misuse.
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Guyana's commercial banks have told President Irfaan Ali that unmet requests for foreign currency stand at just over US$200 million, part carried forward from earlier months. Former Finance Minister Asgar Ally is helping analyse the demand.
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Importers, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and a US government trade guide reported delays in getting US dollars through 2024 and 2025. In September 2026 the commercial banks put unfilled requests at just over US$200 million.
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