CTU ICT Week in French Guiana: St. Vincent and the Grenadines elected Minister Phillip Jackson’s colleague Jackson to serve as Vice-President of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union’s Council of Ministers, as the 32nd General Conference continues in Cayenne; the CTU leadership push is also reflected in the election of Konris Maynard as CTU President, with ministers stressing AI governance, cybersecurity, and coordinated digital policy across the Caribbean. Cross-border crime & intelligence sharing: At the INTERPOL Americas conference in Georgetown, leaders warned that delayed information lets organised criminals move people, money and contraband faster than investigators can connect cases; INTERPOL also highlighted how cocaine profits are increasingly routed into illegal gold mining, pointing to Operation Guyana Shield as a model for tracking both goods and money. Regional crackdown results: Operation ATLAS NEXUS wrapped up with more than 490 arrests and 156.9 tonnes of drugs and other seized assets across Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, targeting drug trafficking, human trafficking, document fraud, firearms and environmental crime. Transport disruption near French Guiana: Passengers were stranded after the Guyana–Suriname ferry M.V. Canawaima was halted over technical concerns, with travellers including those bound for Cayenne reporting weeks of disruption risk. Connectivity for French Guiana: EllaLink says branching units for future Brazilian Amazon cable links were laid from Cayenne’s Lum@link system, aiming to expand regional high-capacity fibre without extra deep-water intervention.