An US$85.5m equity investment, with US$64.5m private co-investment, to acquire and expand the First Bauxite mine in Guyana and build calcination there. The ore is refractory grade, and America was already buying 78 per cent of it.
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LNC Professional's launched gel liquid range is HEMA-free and TPO-free on every label, MMA-free across the brand. Rubber Base landed this month in Clear and Honey Blush.
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Trinidad has sought Guyanese crude and gas since February 2024. Guyana declined both. In the same period it signed energy agreements with the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, and nothing with Trinidad.
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Woodside agreed on 6 August 2026 to sell its 70 per cent operated interest in Calypso to bp, eight days after flagging impairment losses. No investment decision, capital cost or first-gas date has been published.
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Demerara Distillers broke ground on a US$14 million expansion in St Kitts on 6 August 2026, committing thirteen times that subsidiary's annual revenue. Only one other Guyanese company has established anywhere in CARICOM since 2023.
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Suriname pays SLM up to US$2.2 million a month. Its last approved accounts cover 2015/2016, and the transport minister said in June that money owed to the airport and the civil aviation authority had been booked as income.
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The United States warned directors of Neuquen electricity co-operative CALF that their visas could be restricted over a Huawei fibre contract. The instrument has been used against Huawei employees since 2020. This extends it to a customer's board.
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Dominica announced a Creative Economy Development Agency in its 2026/27 budget, with its structure still to be consulted on. Guyana's Orange Economy framework named the Guyana Development Bank, where creative industries is one of five priority sectors.
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ExxonMobil awarded Viridien's Sercel a one-year contract to run simultaneous operations software at Whiptail. Guyana's Local Content Act lists 40 reserved categories and none covers operational software.
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Argentina extended its currency swap with the People's Bank of China to 2031 on 5 August 2026, a day before the framework lapsed. The line reads US$19 billion, but only US$5 billion was ever activated and US$675 million was still owed in January.
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In February the President proposed one shared bottle-making facility so no producer need buy its own. In July the National Assembly voted G$496.3 million for a state-owned bottler instead. Manufacturers who expanded on the first plan now compete with the second.
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Guyana's Local Content Act reserves 90 to 100 per cent of services built on premises and labour for Guyanese companies, and just 5 per cent of engineering and machining. A business cluster, run by a chamber of commerce, is how firms elsewhere crossed that gap.
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