Guyana's preliminary December 2026 loading schedule carries 33 million barrels of crude for export, about 1.06 million barrels a day, which would be the first time the country's exports pass a million. The first cargo of the new Uaru grade is set for 11 and 12 December.
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Bank of America's US$1.21 billion anti-money laundering penalty of 13 October 2026 follows Merrill Lynch settlements in 2017, 2023 and 2026 that found similar monitoring gaps, high thresholds and closed alerts. FinCEN's US$1.2 billion credits the OCC's US$750 million penalty.
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Beyond the Wheels 2.0 launches at 9:30 this morning at Atlantic Suites Hotel, formerly Pegasus Suites and Corporate Center in Georgetown, building toward a Transportation and Road Safety Summit on 9 and 10 March 2027 at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, where a National Road Safety Declaration...
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Cuba opened its first Mercado de Abasto.cu in Sancti Spiritus on 10 October, with a minimum purchase of US$200 or 24,000 Cuban pesos. Resolution 13/2026, the instrument that created these markets, contains no figure. It delegates the minimum to the company running the market.
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An Opposition senator told Jamaica's Senate on 9 October that J$96.3 billion budgeted for capital projects over a decade went unspent. His figures match the Ministry of Finance's own documents. The Ministry reports 94.6 per cent execution for one of those years, against a budget already cut.
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The IMF's October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report names sovereign total return swaps as a frontier-economy risk that standard debt statistics cannot fully capture. Reported users are Angola, Colombia, Nigeria and Senegal. Five Caribbean states are absent from the dataset it used.
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SpeedX, the US courier carrying the last delivery leg for Shein, Temu and Amazon, holds 1.1 out of 5 on Trustpilot and an F from the Better Business Bureau. It declares one van to the federal regulator and caps a lost parcel at US$50.
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Advisory A-37-2026, issued by the Panama Canal Authority on 5 October 2026, opens the Panamax locks to advance sealed-bid slot auctions for the first time, averaging three slots a day for transits between 3 January and 3 April 2027.
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President Irfaan Ali called European Union visa processing in Guyana a Stone Age kind of operation at a tourism conference in Georgetown on 7 October 2026. Article 8 of the EU's own Visa Code already allows one member state to enrol biometrics on behalf of others.
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The World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Update, published October 2026, projects Guyana will grow 23.7 per cent this year against 2.2 per cent for the region and 2.5 per cent for the Caribbean excluding Guyana. Its April estimate was 16.3 per cent.
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A British auditor flagged US$214.4 million of ExxonMobil's Stabroek Block costs in March 2021. Guyana triggered the contract's dispute procedure in September 2024. The parties could not agree a sole expert within the 30 days Article 26 allows, and the matter is now with the ICC.
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At the Caribbean Tourism Organisation conference in Georgetown, Jamaica's Edmund Bartlett proposed a visitor-funded resilience fund on 6 October and President Irfaan Ali called Caribbean investors "too laid-back" on 7 October. Guyana recorded 360,623 arrivals in nine months.
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