Dr Priya Marajh ran the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago on an interim basis from March 2026. In that period she signed bilateral agreements with Guyana's Georgetown Chamber in Houston on 5 May and with the Suriname Energy Chamber in Paramaribo on 23 June. She was confirmed on 14 August 20
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Washington replaced General Licence 50B with 50C on 27 August 2026, the day before President Trump announced a Venezuela oil deal in a social media post. The licence names six companies cleared to operate there, none from the Americas south of the United States.
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CARICOM offers a business three routes to raise a trade barrier. Two address tariffs on imports, not barriers on exports. The third is Article 222, under which companies brought 35 of the Caribbean Court of Justice's first 37 cases. Suriname used COTED twelve times and still needed a court.
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The Georgetown Chamber signed two Trinidad agreements in nine weeks, in May and on 8 July 2026, both naming the removal of non-tariff barriers on Guyanese exports. The barriers named are honey, pineapples, peppers and eddoes. Trinidad's honey prohibition has been law since 14 November 1935.
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The US Climate Prediction Center issued an El Nino Advisory on 13 August 2026, giving above a 90 per cent chance of a very strong event and 69 per cent that October to December exceeds every El Nino since 1950. In 1997-98 Guyana's rice fell 37 per cent and sugar 13 per cent.
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Guyana has 271,946 households and average residential consumption near 175 kWh a month, needing 1.56 kW each. Fitting every household costs between US$486 million and US$1.27 billion. The Wales gas programme is budgeted at no less than US$1 billion. Neither figure buys firm capacity from solar.
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Guyana's Linden solar contract of 22 May 2025 is US$22.58 million for 15 MWp with 22 MWh of storage, or US$1.51 a watt. The Wales gas programme is budgeted at US$1 billion, but that single figure also covers the liquids facility, transmission and substations, so the plant cannot be priced per watt.
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The US State Department says a letter of invitation is not one of the factors used in deciding whether to issue a visa, so a Caribbean exporter's US buyer cannot help. Four things a firm controls: the renewal window for an interview waiver, the bond, the 214(b) evidence, and where else it sells.
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Proclamation 10998 restricted entry from Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and Cuba on 16 December 2025. Dominica signed a third-country deportee memorandum on 17 December and Antigua and Barbuda on 19 December. No US official has confirmed a link, and St Vincent was told refusal carried no penalty.
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A US business visa costs a Caribbean applicant US$185 in fees. Nationals of Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica and Grenada must also post a bond of US$10,000 to US$20,000, defaulting to US$15,000, under the State Department final rule of 3 August 2026. That is US$15,185 to reach a buyer meeting.
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Refurbishment began at Point Lisas on 10 August with production targeted for end-2027. The plant uses gas-based direct reduction, and no supply agreement has been reported.
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The First Schedule reserves dredging, crewing, chandlery and aviation support. No category covers offshore vessel provision, anchor handling, marine transport or subsea services.
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