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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The Central Bank of Barbados reported on 28 October 2026 that real GDP grew an estimated 1.4 per cent in the first nine months, against 2.3 per cent a year earlier. Its July half-year review gave the same figure, when the traded sector was still growing.
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Cuba opened its first Mercado de Abasto.cu in Sancti Spiritus on 10 October, with a minimum purchase of US$200 or 24,000 Cuban pesos. Resolution 13/2026, the instrument that created these markets, contains no figure. It delegates the minimum to the company running the market.
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An Opposition senator told Jamaica's Senate on 9 October that J$96.3 billion budgeted for capital projects over a decade went unspent. His figures match the Ministry of Finance's own documents. The Ministry reports 94.6 per cent execution for one of those years, against a budget already cut.
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The IMF's October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report names sovereign total return swaps as a frontier-economy risk that standard debt statistics cannot fully capture. Reported users are Angola, Colombia, Nigeria and Senegal. Five Caribbean states are absent from the dataset it used.
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The IMF's October 2026 World Economic Outlook projects Latin America and the Caribbean at 2.3 per cent. The fifteen Caribbean economies it covers are 3.9 per cent of that region's output, and their growth rates span 24 points, from Guyana at 22.3 per cent to Haiti at minus 1.7.
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The World Bank's Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Update, published October 2026, projects Guyana will grow 23.7 per cent this year against 2.2 per cent for the region and 2.5 per cent for the Caribbean excluding Guyana. Its April estimate was 16.3 per cent.
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Guyana budgeted G$6 billion for GuySuCo in 2024 and spent G$15.5 billion. Spending has risen from G$7.2 billion in 2021 to a revised G$16.4 billion in 2026, while its share of national expenditure fell from 1.85 per cent to 1.04 per cent. Output remains below 2020.
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Guyana's revised 2026 cost for the Guyana Sugar Corporation is G$16.4 billion, 1.04 per cent of total national expenditure. Sugar exports earned US$18.1 million in 2025, about G$3.8 billion. Production rose 26.5 per cent and earnings still fell.
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President Jennifer Simons presented Suriname's draft 2027 budget on 30 September 2026. Revenue is estimated at SRD 70.1 billion against spending of SRD 80.9 billion, a deficit of SRD 10.8 billion, equal to 4 per cent of gross domestic product.
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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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Guyana's real GDP grew an estimated 33.3 per cent in the first half of 2026 as four oil vessels ran for a full half-year. Non-oil growth slowed to 10.1 per cent, agriculture contracted, and the full-year non-oil forecast was cut from 10.8 to 10.2 per cent.
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