Dario Amodei called on 12 September for AI to be slowed and checked before release. China has reviewed public AI services before release since 2023. The plan never names the Caribbean, where CARICOM agreed an AI commission in July and Dominica signed China's AI organisation agreement.
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UK Export Finance told Guyanese businesses on 9 September that British fossil fuel policy bars it from oil and gas contracts, but that companies in the wider supply chain face no purity test. Its published appetite for Guyana is 2 to 3 billion pounds.
Read More →GPL said approximately 10% of affected customers were repowered after the 12 September system disturbance in Demerara and Berbice. Commenters on its own notice named at least twenty communities still dark. The outage fell on Rosh Hashanah and Sabbath.
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GPL told customers to notify it before increasing load and it would facilitate the increase. Information reaching this newspaper describes months of waiting. The Public Utilities Commission found the company met 2.5 of 8 performance targets for 2025.
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Georgetown lost power on 12 September, five days after GPL told a news conference it had sufficient generating capacity and asked customers to raise their air conditioning. A Dominican consultancy has held the modernisation brief since October 2025.
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Nine firms were shortlisted and three bid to raise the MV Barima, the ferry that sank on 18 July with an estimated 179 aboard. The terms of reference require the salvager to preserve forensic evidence for the Commission of Inquiry, whose public hearings are expected later this month.
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The Panama Canal Authority cut daily booking slots to 34 from 4 September and 32 from 15 September under Advisory A-29-2026. The Caribbean Private Sector Organisation puts US$8 billion to US$10 billion of CARICOM's annual imports behind the restriction, a quarter to a third of the non-fuel bill.
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The CELAC business press carried 69 corroborated reports between 31 August and 7 September 2026, flat on the prior week. A United States concession over Venezuelan oil was the most heavily covered story at five independent outlets. Compliance was the only desk to grow.
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The Dominican Republic will publish Contraloria audits from 1 October, covering August 2020 to August 2024, after the reports were found closed to the public. Guyana's Auditor General met his statutory deadline for the fourteenth consecutive year.
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Finance Secretary Edgar Amador Zamora delivered Mexico's 2027 Economic Package on 8 September, projecting growth of 1.5 to 2.5 per cent and funding 1.025 trillion pesos of social spending. It creates no new taxes. The bet is fuel-duty fraud Hacienda valued near US$16 billion.
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Cuba drew 419,863 international visitors between January and July 2026, 37.2 per cent of the same period in 2025, on ONEI figures. Melia, Iberostar and Royalton suspended contracts. Caribbean tourism leaders convene in Georgetown from 5 October for SOTIC 2026.
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Avianca cancelled Gustavo Petro's tickets because he is on the OFAC SDN List, where he was placed on 24 October 2025 while sitting president of Colombia, a founding member of the United Nations. The US embassy never closed, Americans were never barred, and trade never stopped.
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