Caribbean business news, trade intelligence, and economic analysis covering CARICOM member states and the wider Caribbean region. Reported by La Caribeña News.
The International Maritime Organization has set the vote on its Net-Zero Framework for 4 December 2026. Its own calendar marks that session subject to confirmation by MEPC 85, which sits from 30 November. The fund it would create names Small Island Developing States among what it pays for.
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Royal Caribbean published a summer 2028 Caribbean deployment of eleven ships, four of them Icon-class, sailing April to October 2028. The named calls include Perfect Day CocoCay and Royal Beach Club Paradise Island, both of which the line owns. Labadee, suspended through April 2028, does not appear.
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The International Trade Centre and Afreximbank launched a report in Antigua on 3 November 2026 cutting their projection for Africa-Caribbean trade by a fifth against the figure their own heads published sixteen months earlier. Interregional trade stands at US$729 million.
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CEPAL put 2026 regional growth at 2.0 per cent on 22 October and Caribbean growth excluding Guyana at 1.2 per cent. The World Bank gave the same measure as 2.5 per cent earlier in October. On the headline for the region the two are a fifth of a point apart.
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Puerto Valparaíso scheduled 30 cruise calls for 2026-2027 against 24 the season before, with nine overnights and 13 nights of stay projected. Its release of 27 September carries no passenger total, no spend per call and no revenue figure. Saint Vincent publishes one.
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Banks are the dearest of the four channels the World Bank prices for sending money home, and the Financial Stability Board says they have limited interest in the business. Guyana's agency credits fell in each of the four completed years as the banks gained.
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The Inter-American Development Bank's first-quarter remittance figures rest on official data from fourteen countries and in-house estimates for nine, its 16 June 2026 post states. Guyana, Belize and Trinidad and Tobago are among the nine. Guyana has since published, and the estimate was low.
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A docked cruise ship burns fuel for hours to power itself. Shore power lets it switch off and buy electricity from the island instead. Far more ships can do it than ports can supply it, and in the Caribbean the limit is the grid: one ship draws 12 megawatts where Grenada's whole system is 70.
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Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings reported third-quarter revenue of US$2.9 billion and adjusted EBITDA of US$937 million on 29 October 2026, above guidance, and raised its full-year outlook. Gross margin a Capacity Day fell 16.7 per cent against 2025.
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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean launched its International Trade Outlook on 15 October 2026, projecting a 20 per cent rise in the value of goods exports, the largest since 2021. Its second half argues for modern services exports.
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Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd reported its US$3.0 billion purchase of half of Sandals and Beaches Resorts in a Form 8-K of four sentences on 23 September 2026, under Item 8.01 Other Events. The agreements are not among the exhibits. Its earnings call is set for Tuesday 27 October 2026.
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Sagicor Group Jamaica holds two meetings on 28 October 2026, a court-ordered Scheme of Arrangement Meeting and an extraordinary general meeting. The Scheme would exchange each SGJ share for one in Sagicor Group Caribbean, delist Sagicor Jamaica and convert it to a private company.
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