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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Guyana turned the sod on a $1.03 billion New Amsterdam Market rebuild. The record holds 18 years of unmet appeals, and no public demand for a new market.
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The Guyana Development Bank opens on 5 October with US$100 million and application desks inside commercial banks. Its loans are in Guyana dollars, so an importer like Sankofa Global, which buys shea and cocoa butter from Ghana, must still buy US dollars to pay its supplier.
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Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat says gas at Wales can support two power plants totalling 600 megawatts, a propane plant and a data centre. The Gas-to-Energy project under construction is 300 MW, and its first turbine, 57 MW, is due around 4 December.
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Guyana's Fast Pay system, announced on 17 May 2026, and a seat in the CARICOM Payment and Settlement System (CAPSS) could cut charges like the 4 to 6% the IMF found in the Eastern Caribbean, helping firms trade outside oil.
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The central banks of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and The Bahamas met a PAPSS team in Port of Spain on CAPSS, CARICOM's planned system for instant payments between member states in local currencies.
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Creditinfo Group completed its purchase of EveryData Group on 6 August 2026, taking over the licensed credit bureaus of Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. Guyana's bureau was licensed under the Creditinfo name in 2013.
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Jamaica signed a US$36 million CDB rural water loan on 16 September 2026. Guyana's US$76.2 million CDB water loan, approved in 2023 for five communities on untreated wells, opens its pipe bids on 6 October, while G$496.3 million has gone to a state bottling plant.
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Cuba's deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío told The Atlantic on 16 September 2026 that central planning "is exhausted". CARICOM has shipped food and medical aid through Mexico since February; its baby-formula payments were rejected three times before clearing.
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Judge Mariel Borruto ordered Rockhopper and Navitas on 16 September 2026 to halt drilling, installation and first production at Sea Lion off the Malvinas until an Argentine environmental assessment is done, and to disclose the project's financiers and insurers within ten working days.
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The US designated four Cuban nickel companies, four military research centres and three officers under Executive Order 14404 on 17 September 2026, the third round in four weeks to reach the nickel industry at Moa and Nicaro.
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