Venezuela's Interim President Delcy Rodríguez signed ten documents with Suriname on 11 September after visiting Grenada and Barbados. Guyana's 2025 customs data show no crude exported to any CARICOM member, and its energy talks with Trinidad and Suriname have produced nothing signed.
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UK Export Finance told Guyanese businesses on 9 September that British fossil fuel policy bars it from oil and gas contracts, but that companies in the wider supply chain face no purity test. Its published appetite for Guyana is 2 to 3 billion pounds.
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The Panama Canal Authority cut daily booking slots to 34 from 4 September and 32 from 15 September under Advisory A-29-2026. The Caribbean Private Sector Organisation puts US$8 billion to US$10 billion of CARICOM's annual imports behind the restriction, a quarter to a third of the non-fuel bill.
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Avianca cancelled Gustavo Petro's tickets because he is on the OFAC SDN List, where he was placed on 24 October 2025 while sitting president of Colombia, a founding member of the United Nations. The US embassy never closed, Americans were never barred, and trade never stopped.
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President Irfaan Ali and First Lady Arya Ali attended the launch of UMAMI's product line in Qatar at Abu Sidra in Doha, at an embassy evening themed Building Guyana's Global Brand. Guyana's entire 2025 export trade with Qatar was US$36,205, with no food category.
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Argentina will file criminal charges against Navitas Petroleum and its directors over Sea Lion drilling in the Malvinas, the presidency said on Monday, two days after the three largest oil-services companies said they will not take part.
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SK Gas paid a record US$5.3 million on 25 August for one Panama Canal slot for the LPG carrier G. Spirit. Canal Authority advisories cut daily transits to 34 from 4 September and 32 from 15 September.
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President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on 26 August 2026 adding 300,000 tonnes of lean beef trimmings to a United States quota, for 90 days from 1 September. The volume goes to a category holding 65,005 tonnes, in which Brazil already takes more than nine tenths.
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The Court of Justice ended Malta’s passport scheme on 29 April 2025 and no European Union state now sells citizenship. Washington created a US$1 million cash-for-status route on 19 September, then restricted two Caribbean states in December for selling citizenship.
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Washington made its visa bond permanent on 3 August, covering Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada and Cuba. The Department of Homeland Security overstay table does not sort the region the way the designations do.
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US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau is in Guyana from 9 to 12 August to discuss energy and critical minerals, two days after the Department of War took equity in a Guyanese bauxite mine. The royalty on that mine is 1.5 per cent, and deductible.
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President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons opened a three-day summit in Paramaribo on 3 August 2026. Her oil minister warned that concentrating local content on oil and gas drains every other sector, the instrument Guyana has already written into law.
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