Royal Caribbean has extended its suspension of calls at Labadee in Haiti to at least April 2028, the third extension, revising 44 itineraries across nine ships. The calls move to eight named ports, two in the Dominican Republic on the same island. Haiti publishes no figure for what it loses.
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Puerto Valparaíso scheduled 30 cruise calls for 2026-2027 against 24 the season before, with nine overnights and 13 nights of stay projected. Its release of 27 September carries no passenger total, no spend per call and no revenue figure. Saint Vincent publishes one.
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Trinidad's Budget Statement of 12 October reports EXIMBANK disbursed US$555.7 million in foreign exchange since May 2025, 43 per cent to small and medium firms, and names four import-document patterns it now screens for. Guyana required the same documents a year earlier.
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Brazil's civil aviation regulator created ConciliAnac by Portaria 20.185 of 13 October 2026 to settle airport concession disputes by negotiation. Article 6 excludes eight classes of matter, beginning with any change to the contract's risk matrix. A commission has 60 days.
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The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission published the mining licences it issued on Amerindian titled lands, three in 2023 and one in 2024, and certifies that none issued without an agreement reached under free, prior and informed consent. Section 48 bars it from the negotiations.
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Uaru is the fifth phase of the Stabroek Block, which produces all of Guyana's oil. Two documents published days apart in August gave different start dates: the Ministry of Natural Resources expected September, CNOOC Limited scheduled the fourth quarter.
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Guyana's oil and gas industry expanded 41.3 per cent in the first half of 2026 on production of 163.3 million barrels. In the four weeks from 7 October, two governments made four official appeals for private investment. None named a figure.
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Banks are the dearest of the four channels the World Bank prices for sending money home, and the Financial Stability Board says they have limited interest in the business. Guyana's agency credits fell in each of the four completed years as the banks gained.
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Guyana's commercial banks took in US$81.5 million of arriving remittances in the first quarter of 2026 against US$62.8 million through the agencies. The Dominican Republic shows the same movement. Jamaica's bank channel has lost ground every year since 2022.
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Of every dollar in remittances arriving in Guyana, 20.8 cents left again in 2022 and 29.8 cents in 2025. In the first quarter of 2026 it was 58.4, the Bank of Guyana's figures show. The Ministry of Finance's half-year report puts net transfers flat.
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The Inter-American Development Bank's first-quarter remittance figures rest on official data from fourteen countries and in-house estimates for nine, its 16 June 2026 post states. Guyana, Belize and Trinidad and Tobago are among the nine. Guyana has since published, and the estimate was low.
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Transfers out of Guyana reached US$123.9 million in the first quarter of 2026 against US$52.7 million a year earlier, and net transfers fell to US$241.0 million, the Bank of Guyana's March bulletin shows. The banks told the President in September that requests were going unfilled.
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