BRICS Diplomacy: The BRICS New Delhi Declaration 2026 was adopted unanimously at the 18th summit, urging maximum restraint in West Asia, backing peaceful dispute resolution, and pushing back against unilateral sanctions and coercive trade measures while calling for stronger Global South representation and cooperation in energy, health, and finance. Regional Integration (Venezuela–Suriname): In Paramaribo, Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and Suriname’s President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons signed 10 cooperation agreements covering hydrocarbons, energy, agriculture, fisheries, trade, transport, tourism, education, and food security, framed around sovereignty and non-interference. Tech & Industry in the Region: PBS Group completed its acquisition of Trinidad Systems Limited, taking full control while keeping TSL’s brand and appointing TSL CEO Stuart Franco to oversee PBS’s Eastern Caribbean cluster that includes Suriname. Digital Agriculture: Trinidad and Tobago’s Agriculture Ministry is rolling out FAO-backed EMA-i+ to let field staff report animal disease events in real time with location data, feeding into the EMPRES-i+ national platform for monitoring and analysis. Mining & Data for Exploration: Shearwater and SLB launched the Amapá 3D seismic survey offshore northern Brazil near the Morpho discovery, using high-density broadband acquisition to improve subsurface imaging in a frontier area linked to the wider Guyana–Suriname exploration corridor. Land Records Modernization: A new proposal highlights how digitizing historical land archives through collaboration between land registries and digital humanities could strengthen digital cadastres across the Global South.