Santiago Peña promulgated Ley 7745 on 4 November 2026, letting the Fondo de Garantía de Depósitos advance up to 40 minimum wages to ueno bank's depositors. The Cámara de Diputados impeached him 78-0 the next day. The full guarantee of 75 minimum wages still runs to its 17 November deadline.
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The Guyana Tourism Authority reported 47,726 visitor arrivals in October 2026, a record for the month and 12.8 per cent up on October 2025. The same month a year earlier grew 28.9 per cent. Ten months have run at 9.9 per cent, and reaching 500,000 asks November and December for 11.7.
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JetBlue raised checked bag fees for bookings made from 3 November 2026, its second increase this year. Guyana sits in the band covering the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada, where the first bag is now US$50 off-peak and the second US$70.
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Prime Minister Godwin Friday gave the House of Assembly a project-by-project breakdown on 22 October. EC$170.6 million of Saudi Fund for Development lending is unspent across three agreements, and two of them close on 31 December.
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The Banco Central del Paraguay dissolved ueno bank on 2 November after its solvency ratio fell below half the required minimum. Deposits are guaranteed to 75 times the monthly minimum wage, about US$38,600. Above that, the state pension fund is paid first.
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B&J Civil Works beat five other bidders to a G$118 million contract from the Guyana Football Federation to build Phase One of the Blue Water Shipping Stadium at D'Urban Park. Beverly Tapp has led the Guyanese firm for thirty years, co-leading it from its founding.
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La Caribena News has published five hundred articles about business. In this opinion piece its founder argues that Guyana's organised private sector can speak publicly inside forty-eight hours when it chooses to, and asks what must hold before that voice is available to its own members.
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