Brazil's civil aviation regulator created ConciliAnac by Portaria 20.185 of 13 October 2026 to settle airport concession disputes by negotiation. Article 6 excludes eight classes of matter, beginning with any change to the contract's risk matrix. A commission has 60 days.
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Guyana Power and Light says the L2 line tripped at 08:12 on an earth fault, that it was inspected clean the day before, and that teams found nothing afterwards, which it reads as deliberate interference. The release describes no evidence of interference.
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Guyana Power and Light reported an unplanned outage at 9.51am on 30 October 2026 across Regions 3, 4, 5 and 6, including Georgetown, with no restoration time. It is the second day of King Charles III's State visit, whose final engagement is a business reception.
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Bechtel says Chevron declined to continue funding engineering and design for Guyana's deepwater port after acquiring Hess, which had spent US$4 million on the early work. The two Guyana commitments it has continued were both signed by Hess. Chevron's 2025 net income was US$12,299 million.
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Bechtel says Chevron declined to continue funding engineering and design for Guyana's US$1 billion to US$2 billion Berbice deepwater port after acquiring Hess, which had funded the early work. The next stage costs about US$50 million and is backed by a US EXIM letter of interest, not financing.
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NH International (Caribbean) signed a US$243 million contract with the Saint Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority on 20 October 2026 to build a 274,000 square foot terminal at Hewanorra International Airport, completing by late 2029. Its executive chairman put the terminal at US$509 a square foot.
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Karpowership wrote to Guyana's Minister of Public Utilities on 25 May 2026 that aligning pricing across all its country operations was an essential requirement for continuing. Kaieteur News reported on 25 October, citing unnamed sources, that the renegotiated arrangement runs multi-year.
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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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Order No. 182 of 2026, published on 10 October, declares a road extension across the East Bank and East Coast of Demerara a public work and authorises the state to enter the land to survey it. The schedule says the parcels inside await a cadastral survey.
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The United States announced about US$340.5 million for the Caribbean basin on 15 October 2026, the largest line being US$175 million for undersea cables. A congressional notification reported in July set out a US$175.8 million cable programme naming four Central American countries and Haiti.
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Tourism, Industry and Commerce Minister Susan Rodrigues told a Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association panel on 13 October 2026 that oil and gas will not deliver prosperity alone, and said she is baffled that more private investment is not going to Lethem on the Brazilian border.
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Guyana turned the sod on a $1.03 billion New Amsterdam Market rebuild. The record holds 18 years of unmet appeals, and no public demand for a new market.
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