The 11.3 km Craig to Land of Canaan four-lane highway on the East Bank of Demerara is about half built, with road works targeted for the first quarter of 2027. Its eight contracts total G$52.56 billion.
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Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh signed and gazetted the Commencement Order for the Guyana Development Bank on 16 September. The bank opens on 5 October with G$20 billion and zero-interest, collateral-free loans of up to G$3 million.
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Migrants sent US$728.6 billion home in 2025, IFAD reports. Caribbean remittances rose 10.8 per cent last year, led by Haiti, then slowed to 5.9 per cent in early 2026, IDB data show.
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Guyana's real GDP grew an estimated 33.3 per cent in the first half of 2026 as four oil vessels ran for a full half-year. Non-oil growth slowed to 10.1 per cent, agriculture contracted, and the full-year non-oil forecast was cut from 10.8 to 10.2 per cent.
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Business led the week with 38 stories and 93.5 signal, well ahead of Energy and Compliance. All three desks moved down. Total coverage eased to 60 stories from
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Jamaica priced US$1 billion of 6.25 per cent notes due 2037 on 10 September. Holders tendered about US$476.6 million of three older bonds, and the final filing puts about US$590 million of proceeds into the budget.
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UK Export Finance told Guyanese businesses on 9 September that British fossil fuel policy bars it from oil and gas contracts, but that companies in the wider supply chain face no purity test. Its published appetite for Guyana is 2 to 3 billion pounds.
Read More →GPL said approximately 10% of affected customers were repowered after the 12 September system disturbance in Demerara and Berbice. Commenters on its own notice named at least twenty communities still dark. The outage fell on Rosh Hashanah and Sabbath.
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GPL told customers to notify it before increasing load and it would facilitate the increase. Information reaching this newspaper describes months of waiting. The Public Utilities Commission found the company met 2.5 of 8 performance targets for 2025.
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Georgetown lost power on 12 September, five days after GPL told a news conference it had sufficient generating capacity and asked customers to raise their air conditioning. A Dominican consultancy has held the modernisation brief since October 2025.
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Nine firms were shortlisted and three bid to raise the MV Barima, the ferry that sank on 18 July with an estimated 179 aboard. The terms of reference require the salvager to preserve forensic evidence for the Commission of Inquiry, whose public hearings are expected later this month.
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The Panama Canal Authority cut daily booking slots to 34 from 4 September and 32 from 15 September under Advisory A-29-2026. The Caribbean Private Sector Organisation puts US$8 billion to US$10 billion of CARICOM's annual imports behind the restriction, a quarter to a third of the non-fuel bill.
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