Royal Caribbean Group has signed definitive agreements for a 50 per cent stake in Sandals and Beaches Resorts for about US$3 billion in cash, closing in early 2027. Three months ago President Irfaan Ali publicly asked Sandals to build an eco-resort in Guyana.
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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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Sheinbaum says Mexico is weighing larger purchases of US goods, and fewer from other countries, to narrow a US$102.6 billion surplus ahead of the USMCA review. Since January, Mexico has taxed imports from countries it holds no trade agreement with, across 1,463 tariff lines.
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Brazil's defence industry association closed Africa Aerospace and Defence 2026 with delegations from Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Lesotho and Botswana at its state-backed stand. Guyana patrols its border with Brazil each year and buys its aircraft elsewhere.
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A booking app built in Guyana has taken its first live MMG+ payment inside its own checkout, a G$5,000 salon deposit in Georgetown. The money settles into the salon's own merchant account. Square and Stripe do not operate in Guyana.
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Haiti has signed the CARICOM Multilateral Air Services Agreement, which lets Caribbean-owned airlines fly between member states without route or capacity limits, and inside them. It opened for signature at a 2018 summit in Port-au-Prince and has been in force since 2020.
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Business stories made up 42 of the 60 reports the Latin American and Caribbean business press carried most widely from 14 to 21 September. The US Federal Reserve's first rate rise since 2023 and Argentina's 2027 budget led.
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Aeroméxico will fly Mexico City to Montego Bay and Nassau from March 2027. Jamaicans and Bahamians enter Mexico without a visa; Guyanese and Mexicans need visas for each other's countries. What it would take to change that, and what the research says.
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President Abinader said the Dominican Republic will know its rare-earth reserves by end-2026, test a refinery in 2027 and export in 2028. The deposits are in Pedernales bauxite. Guyana, also a bauxite producer, is still mapping and has no critical-minerals law.
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A Venezuelan family of five needed US$755.36 to eat in August, up 12.5 per cent in bolívares and 3.8 per cent in dollars. Georgetown food prices fell 0.5 per cent and were 4.4 per cent higher than a year earlier.
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President Ali said selected Guyana Development Bank borrowers will be publicly named before financing, with one to two weeks for objections. Public lenders abroad that name borrowers do so after payment; naming before payment comes from welfare programmes.
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Chile, Argentina and Brazil are trying to refine lithium at home, and Brazil passed a critical-minerals policy this month. Guyana's airborne survey is looking for lithium and rare earths, and it has no dedicated critical-minerals law on the public record.
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