T&T’s po­ten­tial re­bound in the oil and gas sec­tor in the near fu­ture, as well as con­tin­ued en­er­gy sec­tor de­vel­op­ment in Guyana and Suri­name, has led to split for­eign as­sess­ments of eco­nom­ic growth and re­cov­ery in the Caribbean for 2026 to 2027.

The pro­jec­tions, ac­cord­ing to re­ports from both the World Bank and Afrex­im­bank re­leased last week, note a sig­nif­i­cant dis­tinc­tion be­tween growth ex­pect­ed in coun­tries with ma­jor en­er­gy sec­tor in­vest­ments due to come on­stream in the next 12 to 18 months, and those with tra­di­tion­al tourism-de­pen­dent economies.

In the World Bank’s re­port en­ti­tled Latin Amer­i­ca & the Caribbean Eco­nom­ic Up­date, with the sub­head­ing Re­vis­it­ing In­dus­tri­al Pol­i­cy: Strate­gic Op­tions for To­day, which was re­leased on April 8, 2026, this di­choto­my was es­pe­cial­ly high­light­ed.