Justice Gino Persaud was barred from transiting Florida. Justice Abel told a Commonwealth judges' conference that this, and Guyana's twenty-one years of acting judicial appointments, are modern pressures on judicial independence. The Attorney General said the government had no role.
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Peru's Hass avocado shipments will finish the season about 2 per cent below 2025 against a forecast of 6 per cent growth, with US shipments down about 36 per cent. ProHass named El Nino, through variable dry matter at harvest. The Dominican Republic ships into the same American months.
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Twelve CARICOM foreign ministers met India's at the United Nations on 23 September 2026 and backed India's Security Council candidature for 2028-29. India asked them to join two alliances it convenes. Eleven days earlier it had chaired the BRICS summit in New Delhi.
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Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperon International Airport adds Bogota on Wingo from 6 October and Montreal and Toronto on Flair Airlines from 18 and 19 December. The Bogota service adds about 8,900 seats. Georgetown already flies daily to Toronto.
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International Hotel Investments plc will develop a 50-suite Corinthia hotel and branded residences on Grace Bay in Turks and Caicos, on what it calls the last undeveloped beachfront parcel on that stretch. Construction is slated for 2027.
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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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