Prime Minister Mark Phillips commissioned solar mini-grids at Katoonarib, Potarinau and Shulinab on 23 October 2026: 129 kW and 582 kWh of storage for about G$110 million, routed to public buildings. The Guyana Energy Agency puts diesel in off-grid villages at up to three times the Georgetown price.
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Guyana's Civil Defence Commission activated a response by six agencies on 20 October 2026 after a barge holding waste oil listed at a private East Bank Demerara wharf. A High Court application over the barge was dismissed in September for want of jurisdiction and referred to arbitration.
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The Natural Resource Fund Act 2021 requires an Investment Committee of seven members, including a nominee of the Leader of the Opposition. The Government Notice reappointing the committee to 31 August 2030, gazetted on 20 August 2026, names five and records two as TBD.
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IRENA says meeting Caribbean Nationally Determined Contributions needs another US$9 billion and around 4 GW, against a CARICOM target of 47 per cent renewables by 2027. Ember, publishing on 1 October 2026, found four of thirteen countries had weakened or dropped their targets since 2021.
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An account published on 19 and 20 October 2026 has ExxonMobil's head of global exploration describing a big discovery in the Stabroek Block, made about a month before he spoke in London. The company has published no announcement of it.
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The Natural Resource Fund's nine monthly reports for 2026 record US$3,883,350,120 of petroleum receipts to 30 September. Over the same nine months US$1,770,000,000 was transferred to the Consolidated Fund in six withdrawals, each a round dollar amount.
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Cuba has 1,418 megawatts of solar across 144 parks and 50 megawatts of storage. Union Electrica forecasts the shortfall at the peak hour, when photovoltaic output is zero. On 17 October it put availability at 758 megawatts against 2,800 of demand.
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President Yamandu Orsi signed a US$5.7 billion data centre and solar complex with Spain's Solaria on 16 October 2026, which the Presidency calls the largest investment in the country's history. Solaria has held 22.7 megawatts in Uruguay for two years without adding one.
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Argentina asked the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on 13 October 2026 to order the United Kingdom to prevent exploitation of the Sea Lion field, one of four provisional measures sought under Article 290(5). That afternoon a British minister told the Commons such orders are binding.
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On 13 October 2026 the President of Suriname and the economist Roger Hosein in Port of Spain made the same argument: extraction alone will not do it. Suriname attached no measurement, Trinidad has a US$5 billion export target, and Guyana has forty reserved categories in statute.
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President Jennifer Simons told the fourth International Business Conference in Paramaribo in October 2026 that extraction on its own is not success. The organisers give the dates as 13 to 15 October and the theme as From Energy to Industry: Investing in the Suriname-Guyana Value Chain.
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Guyana's preliminary December 2026 loading schedule carries 33 million barrels of crude for export, about 1.06 million barrels a day, which would be the first time the country's exports pass a million. The first cargo of the new Uaru grade is set for 11 and 12 December.
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