Mexico's IMSS tied voluntary pension top-up contributions to a worker's last salary plus one UMA by accord of 21 October 2026. The accord calls the measure temporary and orders a financial analysis by 10 April 2027.
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Employers pay 8.4 per cent of every wage up to G$280,000 a month into Guyana's National Insurance Scheme. The Scheme's 2023 accounts state that the actuarial valuation due as at 31 December 2016 was completed and that the Actuary's recommendations were not implemented.
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Brazil's Senate approved a constitutional amendment on 14 October 2026 reducing the maximum working week from 44 hours to 40 with no salary cut, by 75 votes to 1 in each of two rounds. Businesses have 14 months to adopt it. It passed eleven days before a presidential runoff.
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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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Own-account workers rose to 19.2 per cent of Guyana's employed in the fourth quarter of 2025 from 16.7 per cent, and 43.2 per cent of workers were informal. A World Bank study argues the region's informal self-employed often choose the work.
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Dr Ashni Singh told the National Insurance Scheme to stop sending people from branch to branch and to find missing employer contributions before workers reach pension age.
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Proclamation 10998 restricted entry from Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and Cuba on 16 December 2025. Dominica signed a third-country deportee memorandum on 17 December and Antigua and Barbuda on 19 December. No US official has confirmed a link, and St Vincent was told refusal carried no penalty.
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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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Guyana admits nationals of 13 Schengen states and the United States without a visa, and American companies hold 75 per cent of the Stabroek Block. Not one of those countries admits ordinary Guyanese passport holders without a visa. A Guyanese applicant pays the US Embassy US$185, non-refundable.
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The UNDP 2026 Democracy and Development Report ranks Guyana 12th globally for brain drain, with nearly 90 per cent of tertiary-educated Guyanese eventually emigrating. The three sectors losing most workers are healthcare, education and the public service. UK and UAE access opened two corridors.
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The Henley Passport Index of June 2026 ranks Guyana's passport 55th globally with 89 visa-free destinations, down from 91 in 2025. UK and UAE access were secured through direct bilateral agreements since 2022, and Schengen access is in negotiation with five European states backing the bid.
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MJM Accounting and Management Institute Inc. is a Region 3, Guyana-based ACCA Gold Approved Learning Partner. It trains young professionals through GOAL scholarships and supports the Region 3 Youth Business Alliance, an idea Joshua E. Hammichand championed as R3CCI Treasurer.
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