The Anguilla Tourist Board ran a sales and media mission in Rio de Janeiro from 30 October to 3 November 2026. Brazilians spent US$19.28 billion abroad in the first nine months of this year, and MSC Cruises has been selling a Dominican Republic package in Sao Paulo since August.
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Belize hosted a WTO follow-up mission in Belmopan from 3 to 5 November 2026, naming a potential second phase of its Electronic Single Window among its priorities. In May, concluding its fourth Trade Policy Review, the government said it would implement a time-bound post-review workplan.
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Ghana's foreign minister told the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua on 4 November 2026 that Ghana wants AfCFTA extended to Caribbean countries. Article 22 opens accession to Member States, and Article 1 defines those as the Member States of the African Union.
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Brazil exported 231,000 tonnes of beef in October 2026, down 35.5 per cent, after its Chinese quota ran out in mid-July. Shipments to China fell 76.1 per cent while shipments to the United States rose 174.4 per cent inside a ninety-day American quota window.
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Resolución JPRFM-2026-048-T, issued 6 November 2026, creates non-financial card acquiring in Ecuador at USD 500,000 of paid-in capital, gives acquirers five days to settle merchants, and puts the obligation to charge cards the cash price inside the merchant's own contract.
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The International Maritime Organization has set the vote on its Net-Zero Framework for 4 December 2026. Its own calendar marks that session subject to confirmation by MEPC 85, which sits from 30 November. The fund it would create names Small Island Developing States among what it pays for.
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The Dominican Republic's central bank said on 4 November that its share of spot dollar trading has fallen from 93.06 per cent in 2019 to about a tenth. It publishes the wholesale rate twice a day. Trinidad runs a screened window, and Guyana publishes no equivalent share.
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The Bank of Jamaica sold three-month Treasury bills on 4 November at an average yield of 6.43 per cent. The same instrument pays a Guyanese bank 1.10. Parking clears a Guyanese bank 0.29 points over what it pays savers, and a Jamaican bank 4.33.
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Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited's audited accounts for the year ended 30 September 2026 show 62.8 per cent of the year's new deposits going out again as loans. A year earlier the bank added G$1.57 of government paper for every dollar it lent. EY signed on 27 October.
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The Bank of Guyana publishes what banks earn. Lending pays them about seven times what a short-term government bill pays. Every one of the country's six commercial banks also holds money outside Guyana, where it pays about four times the home rate.
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Bank of Baroda (Guyana) Inc.'s audited accounts for the year ended 31 March 2026 show new holdings of Government of Guyana Treasury bills running at 2.83 times new lending. Agriculture fell 19.9 per cent to 1.1 per cent of the loan book. Mortgages are 57.9 per cent of it.
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The Guyana Development Bank opened in October 2026 outside the statute that carries the Bank of Guyana's collateral rule. Its own Act, at section 32, exempts it from the Financial Institutions Act. The rule six Georgetown Chamber presidents have contested since 2014 therefore does not reach it.
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