The United States Securities and Exchange Commission's proposal of 5 May 2026 to permit semi-annual reporting would lower US disclosure cadence below most Caribbean exchanges. Jamaica, the OECS and Trinidad and Tobago already require quarterly filings that exceed the new proposal.
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Cybersecurity firm GuidePoint Security reports a 150 per cent rise in ghost tapping claims over the past year. The scam uses cheap portable card readers to trigger small wireless transactions near a victim's wallet or phone, as Guyana races to launch contactless payments by September 2026.
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CARICOM and Germany's development agency GIZ signed six implementation agreements at the CARICOM Secretariat in Turkeyen, Georgetown on 23 April 2026, releasing €31.9 million for climate, energy and biodiversity work across the region through 2029, funded by Germany's federal development ministry.
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Arrival Day. A boat. A shore. A people who stayed, built, and helped to give Guyana its soul. We do
Read More →The World Trade Centre Georgetown is calling on the United States to restore duty-free access under CBERA for CARICOM exporters, taking the case to a global trade forum in Philadelphia. Guyana faces a 15 per cent US tariff as of May 2026, five points above the regional rate.
Read More →The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has published its most comprehensive annual assessment of expression freedoms in the hemisphere. Two Georgetown organisations, SASOD and Red Thread, have spent decades building the case it now puts to governments across the region.
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German oil trader Christopher Eppinger, 31, plans to invest up to US$60 million in Guyana through Petrichor Energy, buying a quarry, opening a trading office and bidding on contracts to move crude and fuel. A Financial Times investigation put his Russian crude earnings at US$250 million.
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The Organization of American States' Inter-American Commission of Women convenes a virtual Regional Forum on women's economic rights from 12 to 15 May 2026. Guyanese women already lead across every theme on the agenda, from chamber presidencies to ISO certification to maritime.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization and China endorsed six new South-South cooperation projects under a 2025-2026 workplan worth nearly US$68 million, extending digital agriculture tools to Caribbean and Latin American producers under CARICOM's 25 by 2025+5, now running to 2030.
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Rashawna Alleyne, who holds an MBA, founded Lifestyle Concierge Services Guyana and runs Georgetown's first dedicated corporate and personal concierge firm, serving executives, diplomats, expats and energy professionals. The wholly woman-owned business serves clients in Guyana and the United States.
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Candelle Bostwick, former Executive Director of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards and founder of CKB Enterprise Guyana, is helping Caribbean agro-processors close the ISO implementation gap that has kept the region's food producers out of international supply chains for decades.
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Guyana's Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha named Belize a key contributor to Caribbean food security at the National Agriculture and Trade Show in Belmopan on 30 April 2026, as CARICOM's 25 by 2025 Initiative enters a second extension having missed its target.
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