Business news and economic coverage from Guyana — oil sector growth, SME development, trade policy, and investment. La Caribeña News reports from the region's fastest-growing economy.
Guyana applies 1.5 per cent to every grade of bauxite. India separates the classes, charging 0.60 per cent on smelter ore and 25 per cent on the specialty grade, about seventeen times the Guyanese rate.
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Five Guyanese mineral agreements carry the same stability and compensation clause, word for word. Guyana signalled in 2025 it may extend local content rules to mining. That clause is what any such law would meet.
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US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is in Guyana from 9 to 12 August to discuss energy and critical minerals, two days after the Department of War took equity in a Guyanese bauxite mine. The royalty on that mine is 1.5 per cent, and deductible.
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An US$85.5m equity investment, with US$64.5m private co-investment, to acquire and expand the First Bauxite mine in Guyana and build calcination there. The ore is refractory grade, and America was already buying 78 per cent of it.
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LNC Professional's launched gel liquid range is HEMA-free and TPO-free on every label, MMA-free across the brand. Rubber Base landed this month in Clear and Honey Blush.
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Trinidad has sought Guyanese crude and gas since February 2024. Guyana declined both. In the same period it signed energy agreements with the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, and nothing with Trinidad.
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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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One hundred participants graduated from professional transportation, first aid, CPR and defensive driving courses at Eve Leary on 6 August 2026. The same curriculum feeds the pathway into Beyond The Wheels 2.0 in October.
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ExxonMobil awarded Viridien's Sercel a one-year contract to run simultaneous operations software at Whiptail. Guyana's Local Content Act lists 40 reserved categories and none covers operational software.
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La Caribena News observed water running across the passenger deck of the MV Makouria at Bartica on 7 August 2026. The 67-year-old vessel was left out of Guyana's $440 million ferry repair programme.
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In February the President proposed one shared bottle-making facility so no producer need buy its own. In July the National Assembly voted G$496.3 million for a state-owned bottler instead. Manufacturers who expanded on the first plan now compete with the second.
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Guyana's Local Content Act reserves 90 to 100 per cent of services built on premises and labour for Guyanese companies, and just 5 per cent of engineering and machining. A business cluster, run by a chamber of commerce, is how firms elsewhere crossed that gap.
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