Revenue from petroleum products fell 72.7 per cent over the year to October 2026, in a month Haiti's customs administration calls its highest October on record at 11.5 billion gourdes. The adopted 2026-2027 budget targets 129 billion gourdes from non-oil customs, against 115.6 billion.
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A Banque de la Republique d'Haiti working paper of 30 March 2026 finds the exchange rate is the dominant channel through which an oil shock reaches Haiti's economy, depreciating the gourde persistently and eroding reserves. Haiti has no production capacity and no domestic refining.
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Royal Caribbean published a summer 2028 Caribbean deployment of eleven ships, four of them Icon-class, sailing April to October 2028. The named calls include Perfect Day CocoCay and Royal Beach Club Paradise Island, both of which the line owns. Labadee, suspended through April 2028, does not appear.
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Royal Caribbean has extended its suspension of calls at Labadee in Haiti to at least April 2028, the third extension, revising 44 itineraries across nine ships. The calls move to eight named ports, two in the Dominican Republic on the same island. Haiti publishes no figure for what it loses.
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CHOGM runs 1 to 4 November 2026 in St John's with 56 Commonwealth nations. The XXX Ibero-American Summit runs 4 and 5 November in Madrid with 22 member states. The two memberships do not intersect, and Haiti and Suriname belong to neither.
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Haiti's agriculture ministry launched the Port-au-Prince metropolitan component of PMSAN 2 on 9 October 2026, funded by the EU with 4,000,000 euros and a ministry agreement of 254,280 euros. Over three years it mainly targets the Palmes region, outside the capital, where the food is grown.
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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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