Caribbean Airlines says it has completed audited financial statements for 2017, 2018 and 2019, after what its chairman calls an inherited nine-year backlog. The 2020 audit is targeted for end-October. The 2016 accounts showed a TT$2.17 billion accumulated deficit.
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Royal Caribbean Group has signed definitive agreements for a 50 per cent stake in Sandals and Beaches Resorts for about US$3 billion in cash, closing in early 2027. Three months ago President Irfaan Ali publicly asked Sandals to build an eco-resort in Guyana.
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Sheinbaum says Mexico is weighing larger purchases of US goods, and fewer from other countries, to narrow a US$102.6 billion surplus ahead of the USMCA review. Since January, Mexico has taxed imports from countries it holds no trade agreement with, across 1,463 tariff lines.
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Haiti has signed the CARICOM Multilateral Air Services Agreement, which lets Caribbean-owned airlines fly between member states without route or capacity limits, and inside them. It opened for signature at a 2018 summit in Port-au-Prince and has been in force since 2020.
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Guyana's Fast Pay system, announced on 17 May 2026, and a seat in the CARICOM Payment and Settlement System (CAPSS) could cut charges like the 4 to 6% the IMF found in the Eastern Caribbean, helping firms trade outside oil.
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The central banks of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean and The Bahamas met a PAPSS team in Port of Spain on CAPSS, CARICOM's planned system for instant payments between member states in local currencies.
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Cuba's deputy foreign minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío told The Atlantic on 16 September 2026 that central planning "is exhausted". CARICOM has shipped food and medical aid through Mexico since February; its baby-formula payments were rejected three times before clearing.
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A Guyana Times report quotes the Attorney General as wanting a new AML/CFT forfeiture bill in Parliament by year end. CFATF already rates Guyana's confiscation law Compliant but its results Moderate, and among CARICOM members only Jamaica is rated higher on results.
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CARICOM backed Guyana's sovereignty twice this year while Barbados, Grenada and Suriname deepened ties with Caracas. The author's view is that the region's support on Essequibo is a floor, and the partnership above it has to be earned.
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Venezuela's Interim President Delcy Rodríguez signed ten documents with Suriname on 11 September after visiting Grenada and Barbados. Guyana's 2025 customs data show no crude exported to any CARICOM member, and its energy talks with Trinidad and Suriname have produced nothing signed.
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Dario Amodei called on 12 September for AI to be slowed and checked before release. China has reviewed public AI services before release since 2023. The plan never names the Caribbean, where CARICOM agreed an AI commission in July and Dominica signed China's AI organisation agreement.
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The Panama Canal Authority cut daily booking slots to 34 from 4 September and 32 from 15 September under Advisory A-29-2026. The Caribbean Private Sector Organisation puts US$8 billion to US$10 billion of CARICOM's annual imports behind the restriction, a quarter to a third of the non-fuel bill.
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