Caribbean business news, trade intelligence, and economic analysis covering CARICOM member states and the wider Caribbean region. Reported by La Caribeña News.
Washington made its visa bond permanent on 3 August, covering Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada and Cuba. The Department of Homeland Security overstay table does not sort the region the way the designations do.
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A Dominican hotelier says citizenship has been sold below the statutory floor for seven years and the treasury has absorbed the difference. Roseau has called the practice unlawful since 2018.
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Argentina extended its currency swap with the People's Bank of China to 2031 on 5 August 2026, a day before the framework lapsed. The line reads US$19 billion, but only US$5 billion was ever activated and US$675 million was still owed in January.
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Neither side in the Bahamian dispute published the arithmetic. On BYD’s own charger rating, every electric vehicle in the country charging at once tops out at 17.5 megawatts. Guyana’s comes to 1.96.
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Brazil’s raw sugar paid a duty entering Europe. Caribbean sugar did not. That difference was the whole of the region’s commercial edge, and by 24 July the Commission had already allocated 10,000 tonnes of Brazilian sugar duty-free.
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IBM says one in four malicious breaches is now AI-enabled. The IDB and the OAS, assessing thirty countries, name critical infrastructure protection as one of the region’s weakest areas. In the Dutch Caribbean, tax and government services have already gone down.
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A two-year-old Kingston firm has built a repeating regional conference on crash investigation. What it has not built, because nobody is buying, is a market for the analysis itself.
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A Jamaican forensic reconstructionist came to the IRF Congress in Georgetown to tell lawyers, insurers and judges that the vehicle already knows what happened, and almost nobody in the region is asking it.
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Petrobras and Ecopetrol confirmed gas at Sandia-1 off La Guajira, nine kilometres from one discovery and eighteen from another. Three finds in the same waters stop being luck.
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