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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An US$85.5m equity investment, with US$64.5m private co-investment, to acquire and expand the First Bauxite mine in Guyana and build calcination there. The ore is refractory grade, and America was already buying 78 per cent of it.
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Demerara Distillers broke ground on a US$14 million expansion in St Kitts on 6 August 2026, committing thirteen times that subsidiary's annual revenue. Only one other Guyanese company has established anywhere in CARICOM since 2023.
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Suriname pays SLM up to US$2.2 million a month. Its last approved accounts cover 2015/2016, and the transport minister said in June that money owed to the airport and the civil aviation authority had been booked as income.
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La Caribena News observed water running across the passenger deck of the MV Makouria at Bartica on 7 August 2026. The 67-year-old vessel was left out of Guyana's $440 million ferry repair programme.
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Mexico and Japan announced on 3 August that their development cooperation agencies will launch a joint sargassum programme to help mitigate the situation facing the Caribbean Sea. Neither government has said whether CARICOM states can use it.
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CARICOM and Colombia are deepening a 1994 trade agreement, with a final round scheduled for March 2026. The terms sit in tariff schedules written in customs codes. What that means for a Guyanese manufacturer, and for a Guyana Development Bank loan application.
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The Panama Canal Authority has cut the maximum loading depth four times since June, reaching 47.5 feet from 3 September with no end date attached. It calls the measures proactive and has not said its reservoirs are short.
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The negotiation is in its endgame. Trade ministers were asked for guidance in Georgetown in June. The schedules that decide which Guyanese products meet cheaper competition have not been published.
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