Guyana's commercial banks took in US$81.5 million of arriving remittances in the first quarter of 2026 against US$62.8 million through the agencies. The Dominican Republic shows the same movement. Jamaica's bank channel has lost ground every year since 2022.
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Sagicor Group Jamaica holds two meetings on 28 October 2026, a court-ordered Scheme of Arrangement Meeting and an extraordinary general meeting. The Scheme would exchange each SGJ share for one in Sagicor Group Caribbean, delist Sagicor Jamaica and convert it to a private company.
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An Opposition senator told Jamaica's Senate on 9 October that J$96.3 billion budgeted for capital projects over a decade went unspent. His figures match the Ministry of Finance's own documents. The Ministry reports 94.6 per cent execution for one of those years, against a budget already cut.
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The IMF's October 2026 World Economic Outlook projects Latin America and the Caribbean at 2.3 per cent. The fifteen Caribbean economies it covers are 3.9 per cent of that region's output, and their growth rates span 24 points, from Guyana at 22.3 per cent to Haiti at minus 1.7.
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Jamaica's Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett proposed a Caribbean Tourism Resilience Fund financed by visitor fees at the CTO Ministerial Council in Georgetown on 6 October 2026. He named Jamaica's Tourism Enhancement Fund as the model. That fee has gone to the Consolidated Fund since 2017.
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Jamaica signed a US$36 million CDB rural water loan on 16 September 2026. Guyana's US$76.2 million CDB water loan, approved in 2023 for five communities on untreated wells, opens its pipe bids on 6 October, while G$496.3 million has gone to a state bottling plant.
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Jamaica priced US$1 billion of 6.25 per cent notes due 2037 on 10 September. Holders tendered about US$476.6 million of three older bonds, and the final filing puts about US$590 million of proceeds into the budget.
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Dr R. Brian Langrin became Governor of the Bank of Jamaica on 19 August 2026. He left the Bank in 2017 for CARTAC, the IMF Caribbean centre in Barbados, returning after roles at the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank. Brian Wynter took the same route.
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