Finance Secretary Edgar Amador Zamora delivered Mexico's 2027 Economic Package on 8 September, projecting growth of 1.5 to 2.5 per cent and funding 1.025 trillion pesos of social spending. It creates no new taxes. The bet is fuel-duty fraud Hacienda valued near US$16 billion.
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President Irfaan Ali and First Lady Arya Ali attended the launch of UMAMI's product line in Qatar at Abu Sidra in Doha, at an embassy evening themed Building Guyana's Global Brand. Guyana's entire 2025 export trade with Qatar was US$36,205, with no food category.
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Guatemala's Congress has capped fuel at Q39 a gallon for diesel and regular gasoline and Q41 for premium, Prensa Libre reported on 9 September, eight days after truckers blockaded highways and sealed routes toward Mexico and El Salvador.
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MSC Cruises will send its new flagship MSC World Asia to the Southern Caribbean for Winter 2027/2028, the line said on 20 August, taking the deployment MSC Meraviglia had been scheduled to run. Three ships moved at once.
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Alibaba's Qwen passed three billion downloads in six months against 418 million for Google and 227 million for Meta. In Uganda, a farming advisory system runs on a Chinese model that handled the country's languages better.
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PM Mark Phillips said on 15 August the Wales gas plant starts by year end but bills will not halve until full capacity, expected mid-2027. The two-year delay is costed at about US$884 million.
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Argentina's employer registry fell from 512,357 in November 2023 to 481,724 in May 2026 on Superintendencia de Riesgos del Trabajo data. Only Neuquen, home of Vaca Muerta, added firms.
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SK Gas paid a record US$5.3 million on 25 August for one Panama Canal slot for the LPG carrier G. Spirit. Canal Authority advisories cut daily transits to 34 from 4 September and 32 from 15 September.
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Trinidad and Tobago signed three memoranda with US companies on 11 July 2026 covering up to 800MW of data centre capacity and a steel restart. National generation capacity is about 2.4GW and runs on gas.
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The World Compliance Association's tenth anniversary congress meets in Lima on 23 and 24 September. GAFILAT, the anti-money-laundering body on its programme, has eighteen members and no CARICOM state among them.
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The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Cuba tourism ministry on 13 July 2026, blocked ten Ecuadorian fishing vessels on 20 August, and authorised six oil companies to work in Venezuela on 27 August. Three countries, three executive orders, one office.
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Dr R. Brian Langrin became Governor of the Bank of Jamaica on 19 August 2026. He left the Bank in 2017 for CARTAC, the IMF Caribbean centre in Barbados, returning after roles at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. Brian Wynter took the same route.
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