Demerara Distillers broke ground on a US$14 million expansion in St Kitts on 6 August 2026, committing thirteen times that subsidiary's annual revenue. Only one other Guyanese company has established anywhere in CARICOM since 2023.
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The United States warned directors of Neuquen electricity co-operative CALF that their visas could be restricted over a Huawei fibre contract. The instrument has been used against Huawei employees since 2020. This extends it to a customer's board.
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Dominica announced a Creative Economy Development Agency in its 2026/27 budget, with its structure still to be consulted on. Guyana's Orange Economy framework named the Guyana Development Bank, where creative industries is one of five priority sectors.
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The negotiation is in its endgame. Trade ministers were asked for guidance in Georgetown in June. The schedules that decide which Guyanese products meet cheaper competition have not been published.
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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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Same basin, adjacent water, contracts signed a year apart. Suriname’s state oil company publishes its terms, says it benchmarked them against Guyana, and puts its own government take at 60 to 70 per cent.
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The Caribbean Development Bank is supporting a feasibility study exploring a regional stock exchange for CARICOM countries, two outlets report.
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Caribbean National Weekly reports three CARICOM countries face new U.S. tariffs tied to forced labour trade enforcement. Here is what has been reported.
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CARICOM turns 53 on 4 July 2026. A clear-eyed birthday scorecard: the historic 2025 free-movement launch, the CCJ and shared institutions, weighed against a single market where intra-regional trade is still only about 15% of the total.
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