The International Maritime Organization has set the vote on its Net-Zero Framework for 4 December 2026. Its own calendar marks that session subject to confirmation by MEPC 85, which sits from 30 November. The fund it would create names Small Island Developing States among what it pays for.
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The US Treasury designated five people and ten companies on 4 November over fraudulent ship registries that flagged Iranian shadow-fleet tankers, Guyana's flag among them. Guyana's register admits only wholly Guyanese or CARICOM-owned vessels, and MARAD publishes no list to check against.
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Guyana's Geology and Mines Commission found no material deviations in how extractive licences were awarded in 2023 and 2024, at the small, medium and large scales. The six documented processes behind the mineral finding are all medium- and large-scale properties.
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ueno bank's own investor releases carried a Fitch Core Capital of 10.3 per cent on 19 October 2026 and a total regulatory capital of 13.8 per cent on 29 October, for overlapping periods. Fitch moved the outlook to negative on 16 October. The central bank dissolved the bank on 2 November.
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Ten countries hold the smallest US raw cane sugar allocation, 7,258 tonnes each. Two are CARICOM members, Haiti and St Kitts and Nevis. When Washington distributed spare tonnage inside that quota on 23 September 2026, 28 countries got a 6.30 per cent uplift and the floor got none.
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Ten-year fly and cruise partnerships at La Romana with Central Romana Corporation were announced on 5 November 2026 for the AIDA Cruises and Costa Cruises brands. The same company's raw sugar has been under a US Withhold Release Order since November 2022, modified in March 2025.
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Senator Ron Wyden wrote to US Customs and Border Protection on 20 August 2026 asking why it let a Dominican sugar producer resume imports after a forced-labour ban. The passage his committee published sets that against the Section 301 tariffs. Guyana pays those at the higher band.
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The US allocated 1,117,195 tonnes of raw cane sugar quota for the fiscal year just ended. The Dominican Republic received almost three times what the seven CARICOM members with allocations received between them. Its largest producer's forced-labour import ban was lifted in March 2025.
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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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Belize's domestic exports rose 31.7 per cent in September 2026 and imports fell 3.8 per cent, narrowing the monthly merchandise gap by $21.1 million. In the same month the Consumer Confidence Index fell to 38.4, its lowest since April 2024, with durable goods sentiment down 26.5 per cent.
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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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