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.
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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The World Meteorological Organization puts the probability of El Nino's effects reaching February 2027 at close to 100 per cent, with a 95 per cent chance of a peak between October and December 2026. The last comparable event cut Guyana's rice crop by 37 per cent.
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LNC Professional (Guyana) launched in Georgetown on 7 September 2026 and goes to market in the United States this week, with a 26-shade range built from the colours a Georgetown salon used to mix by hand to match its clients.
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Guyana rents 96 megawatts from two floating power plants at 9.5 US cents a kilowatt hour. That is the rental only. The fuel the state buys adds 8.8 to 10.5 cents, taking the true cost close to what a household pays.
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Four New Zealand firms took mining technology to Brazil's largest mining fair in August. New Zealand's own July 2026 report on Guyana names mining-adjacent opportunities and says its trade agency has no established networks in the Caribbean. Trade runs about twenty to one.
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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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Trans Guyana Airways wrote to the Civil Aviation Authority on 16 June and 9 September about animals and people on hinterland airstrips. On 17 September an animal forced one of its aircraft off the runway at Mabaruma. Operators are calling for inspections, perimeter security and wildlife control.
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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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Own-account workers rose to 19.2 per cent of Guyana's employed in the fourth quarter of 2025 from 16.7 per cent, and 43.2 per cent of workers were informal. A World Bank study argues the region's informal self-employed often choose the work.
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Brazil's defence industry association closed Africa Aerospace and Defence 2026 with delegations from Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Lesotho and Botswana at its state-backed stand. Guyana patrols its border with Brazil each year and buys its aircraft elsewhere.
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A booking app built in Guyana has taken its first live MMG+ payment inside its own checkout, a G$5,000 salon deposit in Georgetown. The money settles into the salon's own merchant account. Square and Stripe do not operate in Guyana.
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The Falkland Islands Government extended every offshore oil production licence by five years, with two further years at its discretion and the stated support of the United Kingdom, five days after an Argentine judge ordered the Sea Lion field halted.
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