Trinidad and Tobago signed three memoranda with US companies on 11 July 2026 covering up to 800MW of data centre capacity and a steel restart. National generation capacity is about 2.4GW and runs on gas.
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The World Compliance Association's tenth anniversary congress meets in Lima on 23 and 24 September. GAFILAT, the anti-money-laundering body on its programme, has eighteen members and no CARICOM state among them.
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The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Cuba tourism ministry on 13 July 2026, blocked ten Ecuadorian fishing vessels on 20 August, and authorised six oil companies to work in Venezuela on 27 August. Three countries, three executive orders, one office.
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Dr R. Brian Langrin became Governor of the Bank of Jamaica on 19 August 2026. He left the Bank in 2017 for CARTAC, the IMF Caribbean centre in Barbados, returning after roles at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. Brian Wynter took the same route.
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Venezuela confirmed an oil accord with the United States on 28 August 2026 covering 17 fields and 65 billion barrels. Article 150 of its Constitution requires National Assembly approval for public interest contracts with companies not domiciled in Venezuela. No such approval is on the public re
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Omai Gold Mines published a preliminary economic assessment on 19 August proposing a US$1.42 billion gold mine in Guyana. Under the state's own published mining regime, large-scale gold pays an 8 per cent royalty above US$1,000 an ounce. Stabroek oil pays 2 per cent.
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Venezuela confirmed a US oil deal covering 65 billion barrels across 17 fields, with $100 billion in investment and over $209 billion in state revenue expected.
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Guyana welcomes fifth FPSO Errea Wittu, set to push oil output beyond one million barrels per day at the Uaru development in the Stabroek Block.
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President Irfaan Ali said on 18 August that Guyana's share of Stabroek production had reached 39.8 per cent because the cost bank had been recovered two years early. The Stabroek Block is a single accounting unit, so the US$12.7 billion Errea Wittu was recovering against other fields from 2023.
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Argentine household loan delinquency reached 12.8 per cent in June 2026, against 5.2 per cent a year earlier, and held there after nineteen months of increases. The Central Bank says the pause came partly from moving bad debtors off balance sheet as irrecoverable.
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President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on 26 August 2026 adding 300,000 tonnes of lean beef trimmings to a United States quota, for 90 days from 1 September. The volume goes to a category holding 65,005 tonnes, in which Brazil already takes more than nine tenths.
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Venezuela awarded Loran Phase 2 to a BP-led group on 13 August 2026, with ADNOC's XRG and Qatar-linked UCC holding two thirds of the equity. Loran and Trinidad's Manatee are one reservoir, and the agreement tying them together was terminated in 2019.
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