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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Venezuela confirmed an oil accord with the United States on 28 August 2026 covering 17 fields and 65 billion barrels. Article 150 of its Constitution requires National Assembly approval for public interest contracts with companies not domiciled in Venezuela. No such approval is on the public re
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Omai Gold Mines published a preliminary economic assessment on 19 August proposing a US$1.42 billion gold mine in Guyana. Under the state's own published mining regime, large-scale gold pays an 8 per cent royalty above US$1,000 an ounce. Stabroek oil pays 2 per cent.
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President Irfaan Ali said on 18 August that Guyana's share of Stabroek production had reached 39.8 per cent because the cost bank had been recovered two years early. The Stabroek Block is a single accounting unit, so the US$12.7 billion Errea Wittu was recovering against other fields from 2023.
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Argentine household loan delinquency reached 12.8 per cent in June 2026, against 5.2 per cent a year earlier, and held there after nineteen months of increases. The Central Bank says the pause came partly from moving bad debtors off balance sheet as irrecoverable.
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President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on 26 August 2026 adding 300,000 tonnes of lean beef trimmings to a United States quota, for 90 days from 1 September. The volume goes to a category holding 65,005 tonnes, in which Brazil already takes more than nine tenths.
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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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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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In February the President asked for collaboration with the private sector. The instrument approved in July is a state-owned competitor, and nothing published says whether collaboration now means taking a share in it.
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Guyana's MARAD is inviting Expressions of Interest from marine salvage firms to recover the MV Barima, which sank off the Essequibo Coast, outlets report.
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