President Jennifer Simons told the fourth International Business Conference in Paramaribo in October 2026 that extraction on its own is not success. The organisers give the dates as 13 to 15 October and the theme as From Energy to Industry: Investing in the Suriname-Guyana Value Chain.
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Portugal selected Deutsche Lufthansa on 14 October 2026 to take 44.9 per cent of TAP Air Portugal for 1.2 billion euros, over a rival bid from Air France-KLM. The Prime Minister said the winning proposal was 16 per cent higher and valued TAP at 2.55 billion euros. The state keeps 50.1 per cent.
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Mexico's anticorruption ministry said on 20 September 2026 that its own forensic monitoring located a Telegram listing offering more than 15 million records attributed to Aeromexico, and that it would investigate of its own motion. The airline has filed nothing with the SEC since 22 September.
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One regulation, 31 C.F.R. 1010.610, governs every correspondent account a US bank holds for a foreign financial institution. The Bank of America order of 13 October 2026 finds the bank carved its own foreign branches out of that standard, applying "reduced requirements" until December 2024.
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AT&T agreed on 13 October 2026 to sell its Mexican wireless unit to Grupo Televisa and Fintech Holdings for US$2 billion. In 2021, selling its DirecTV and Sky business across 11 Latin American and Caribbean countries, AT&T said what kept it in the region was that Mexican business.
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The Netherlands Court of Audit reported on 12 May 2026 that Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba hold no strategic reserve of drinking water, food, medicine or fuel. The cabinet replied on 5 October, two days before the budget debate parliament had set as its deadline.
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The IMF's October 2026 World Economic Outlook projects Latin America and the Caribbean at 2.3 per cent. The fifteen Caribbean economies it covers are 3.9 per cent of that region's output, and their growth rates span 24 points, from Guyana at 22.3 per cent to Haiti at minus 1.7.
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Alvaro Pulido Vargas is due in a Miami federal court on 13 October. The 2021 indictment charges four wire transfers, and two of the four left accounts in Antigua and Barbuda. About US$33,750,295 reached the Antiguan account from a Venezuelan state fund. The bank is never named.
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The Cayman Islands Government extended its fuel relief programme on 29 September 2026, holding a 100 per cent import duty waiver on gasoline, diesel and propane to 31 December and capping electricity fuel charges for most households. It had spent about CI$11.35 million by end of August.
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Haiti's agriculture ministry launched the Port-au-Prince metropolitan component of PMSAN 2 on 9 October 2026, funded by the EU with 4,000,000 euros and a ministry agreement of 254,280 euros. Over three years it mainly targets the Palmes region, outside the capital, where the food is grown.
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New Fortress Energy's LNG carrier Amur River was cleared into San Juan Bay on 12 October after weeks offshore, amid a payment dispute with Puerto Rico's bankrupt power utility. On 5 October the company told the SEC its Fast LNG unit was offline. That filing does not mention Puerto Rico.
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Guyana's Natural Resource Fund closed September 2026 at US$5.47 billion. Every dollar sits in an overnight deposit account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, under an investment mandate the Fund's Board has confirmed four times since May 2024. It earns the overnight rate.
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