More than forty operators and contractors signed 2026 local content plans in June. No list is published, the register is a login portal, and the ministry has said nothing about the ceremony.
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The head of the US Travel Association says the bond may be extended to every country whose nationals need a visa. Not one Caribbean state is in the Visa Waiver Program.
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The Petroleum Law 1990 requires preference for Surinamese labour and supply. It sets no percentage and no penalty, and first oil from GranMorgu is due in 2028.
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BP won the Loran Phase 2 licence in Caracas on 13 August. The American general licence naming BP and Shell is dated 10 June, and Shell signed Phase 1 on 11 June.
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The Court of Justice ended Malta’s passport scheme on 29 April 2025 and no European Union state now sells citizenship. Washington created a US$1 million cash-for-status route on 19 September, then restricted two Caribbean states in December for selling citizenship.
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Washington made its visa bond permanent on 3 August, covering Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada and Cuba. The Department of Homeland Security overstay table does not sort the region the way the designations do.
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A Dominican hotelier says citizenship has been sold below the statutory floor for seven years and the treasury has absorbed the difference. Roseau has called the practice unlawful since 2018.
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Guyana applies 1.5 per cent to every grade of bauxite. India separates the classes, charging 0.60 per cent on smelter ore and 25 per cent on the specialty grade, about seventeen times the Guyanese rate.
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Five Guyanese mineral agreements carry the same stability and compensation clause, word for word. Guyana signalled in 2025 it may extend local content rules to mining. That clause is what any such law would meet.
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US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is in Guyana from 9 to 12 August to discuss energy and critical minerals, two days after the Department of War took equity in a Guyanese bauxite mine. The royalty on that mine is 1.5 per cent, and deductible.
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President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons opened a three-day summit in Paramaribo on 3 August 2026. Her oil minister warned that concentrating local content on oil and gas drains every other sector, the instrument Guyana has already written into law.
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Trinidad's Court of Appeal cleared Republic Bank on 6 August 2026, overturning Justice Carol Gobin's four findings of security failure. The reasons have not been published, and the account in circulation comes from the bank's own news release.
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