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Trinidad & Tobago built one of the Caribbean’s most prosperous economies on hydrocarbons. That foundation is eroding. What boards and executives must understand about the risk landscape of the twin-island republic — and what it demands of every organisation operating within it. CARISK™ TRINIDAD & TOBAGO COUNTRY RISK INTELLIGENCE SCORECARD — 2026 Risk Domain CRI...

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Energy Transition and Net Zero: The Caribbean Pathway to a Low-Carbon, Energy-Independent Future

April 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Energy Transition Is the Caribbean’s Greatest ESG Opportunity The Caribbean has a relationship with energy that is simultaneously one of its greatest economic vulnerabilities and one of its most compelling strategic opportunities. For decades, Caribbean economies have been among the most fossil fuel-dependent in the world — importing petroleum products at prices that consume...

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Transfer Pricing and BEPS: What Every Caribbean Group Must Know About Cross-Border Tax

April 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The International Dimension of Caribbean Tax For Caribbean businesses with operations in a single domestic market — a Jamaican retailer selling to Jamaican customers, a Barbadian service provider with no overseas operations — transfer pricing and the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) framework may appear to be remote concerns. But for the...

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Energy-Rich, Reform-Poor? Dissecting T&T’s Business Readiness Deficit in a Post-Boom Era

March 31, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

B-READY 2025 CARIBBEAN SERIES TRINIDAD & TOBAGO The Paradox of Resource Wealth and Regulatory Lag Trinidad and Tobago occupies a singular position in the Caribbean economic landscape — an energy-exporting powerhouse whose per capita income substantially exceeds most of its regional neighbours, yet whose business environment data tells a story of institutional inertia and...

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The Efficiency Paradox: How Barbados Outperforms in Operations but Lags in Governance Delivery

March 31, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

B-READY 2025 CARIBBEAN SERIES BARBADOS The Small Island, Big Ambitions Challenge Barbados has long cultivated a reputation as one of the Caribbean’s most business-sophisticated economies — a hub for international financial services, a destination for high-value tourism and regional headquarters, and a nation with governance institutions that punch above their size. Against this backdrop,...

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Readiness Blueprint™: Knowing What You Don’t Know Before Your ERP Investment

March 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The ERPSURE Score™ and the Four Dimensions of ERP Readiness — A Framework for Honest Pre-Implementation Assessment In the summer of 2019, a well-regarded Jamaican financial services group completed an eighteen-month ERP selection process. The process was thorough by any reasonable standard. A committee was convened. Multiple vendors were evaluated. Demonstrations were conducted. References were...

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ERPSURE™ ERP Success Unified Roadmap for Enterprises

March 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A Proprietary Framework by Dawgen Global : Transforming ERP Projects Across the Caribbean and Beyond Executive Summary The ERPSURE™ Framework — ERP Success Unified Roadmap for Enterprises — is Dawgen Global’s proprietary methodology for guiding Caribbean organisations through the complex lifecycle of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system implementation. It represents the synthesis of decades of...

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The Operational Foundation: Why Standards-Driven Retail Outperforms Intuition-Driven Retail Every Time

March 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Operational excellence is not the most glamorous discipline in retail management — it lacks the drama of a major promotional campaign and the strategic weight of a market expansion decision. But it is the discipline that makes every other management investment perform at its full potential. Without it, the best marketing in the world...

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The Margin Hidden in Your Supply Chain: Unlocking Procurement Intelligence in Caribbean Retail

March 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The single largest cost in your business is managed with less analytical rigour than almost any other. Cost of goods — 55 to 70 cents of every revenue dollar — flows through supplier relationships that are governed by relationship history, negotiating intuition, and commercial habits formed years ago. PROCURERIGHT™ changes that — systematically, measurably, and...

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The Marketing Intelligence Gap: Why Caribbean Retailers Are Spending on Faith Rather Than Evidence

March 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Marketing is the one functional area in Caribbean retail where spending decisions are most consistently driven by habit, supplier influence, and competitive imitation rather than commercial evidence. BRANDPULSE™ replaces that pattern with the analytical discipline that every other major spend category in the business already receives — or should. Here is a question that I...

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Energy Transition and Net Zero: The Caribbean Pathway to a Low-Carbon, Energy-Independent Future

Energy-Rich, Reform-Poor? Dissecting T&T’s Business Readiness Deficit in a Post-Boom Era

The Efficiency Paradox: How Barbados Outperforms in Operations but Lags in Governance Delivery

ERPSURE™ ERP Success Unified Roadmap for Enterprises

The Operational Foundation: Why Standards-Driven Retail Outperforms Intuition-Driven Retail Every Time

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