The Natural Resource Fund's nine monthly reports for 2026 record US$3,883,350,120 of petroleum receipts to 30 September. Over the same nine months US$1,770,000,000 was transferred to the Consolidated Fund in six withdrawals, each a round dollar amount.
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A notification under the Public Holidays Act, published in the Official Gazette of 17 October, declares Sunday 8 November 2026 a public holiday for Deepavali and declares Monday 9 November a public holiday because the first falls on a Sunday.
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Guyana's Minister of Natural Resources defended Dr Ivor English's appointment as civil-society convener under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative on the ground that he holds no active mining property. Kaieteur News reports renewal and transfer applications have been filed.
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Republic Financial Holdings notified the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange on 30 January 2026 that Richard Sammy would succeed Nigel Baptiste. Sammy left on 14 October after 18 years. Karen Yip Chuck has been named instead. Republic has not said why.
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Vietnam's non-resident ambassador told President Jennifer Simons on 16 October 2026 that Vietnam could share expertise in rice production and processing to make Suriname a regional export hub. Suriname yields 4.66 tonnes a hectare against Guyana's 6.6. Nothing was signed.
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The State Department designated Cuba's Banco Internacional de Comercio S.A. on 15 October 2026, saying it had served Iran's Karafarin Bank since 2022. The designation was made under a clause of Executive Order 14404 requiring only that a firm operate in Cuba's financial services sector.
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President Yamandu Orsi signed a US$5.7 billion data centre and solar complex with Spain's Solaria on 16 October 2026, which the Presidency calls the largest investment in the country's history. Solaria has held 22.7 megawatts in Uruguay for two years without adding one.
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Argentina applied on 2 June 2026 to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, where every member holds a veto. On 13 October two British MPs raised that bid and its OECD accession in the same sitting, as leverage in the Falklands dispute.
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The OCC fined American Express National Bank US$350 million on 8 October 2026 and issued a cease-and-desist order. The bank processed approximately US$13 billion in suspected trade-based money laundering between June 2014 and May 2025, in card charges and their repayments.
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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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Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Susan Rodrigues told a Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association panel on 13 October 2026 that oil and gas will not deliver prosperity alone, and said she is baffled that more private investment is not going to Lethem on the Brazilian border.
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On 13 October 2026 the President of Suriname and the economist Roger Hosein in Port of Spain made the same argument: extraction alone will not do it. Suriname attached no measurement, Trinidad has a US$5 billion export target, and Guyana has forty reserved categories in statute.
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