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The Caribbean Cyber Hygiene Scorecard: Twenty-Five Items, Five Dimensions, One Quarterly Review

May 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

This is the closing article of Pillar 2 of the Caribbean Digital Foundations Series. Articles 2.1 through 2.5 built five operational disciplines: posture, access, data, continuity, and the third-party perimeter. This article produces the instrument that converts those five disciplines into a single composite measure the Caribbean SMB can actually track. The Caribbean Cyber Hygiene...

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Boards, Risk and Resilience: Strengthening Governance for a More Uncertain Caribbean

May 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary The Caribbean is operating in a more uncertain business environment than at any point in recent memory. Economic volatility, inflationary pressure, geopolitical disruption, cybersecurity threats, climate-related shocks, foreign exchange pressure, supply chain fragility, talent shortages, and accelerating technological change are all reshaping the landscape in which businesses, investors, regulators, and boards must operate....

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Anchored Expectations: How Caribbean Entrepreneurs Should Read the New Monetary Landscape

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Article 6 of this series, I argued that the capital structure which worked in 2021 will not work in 2026 — and that the refinance, the hedge, and the equity raise belong on the next board agenda. This week, the series turns to a less visible but equally consequential question: what does it mean...

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When Global Risk Turns: Stress-Testing the Caribbean Balance Sheet

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Article 4 of this series, I argued that the critical-minerals window is the most consequential capital-allocation opportunity opening for our region. This week, the series turns to the dynamic that determines whether Caribbean firms can hold and compound the value they capture from such opportunities — or whether they lose it back, painfully and...

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The Productivity Imperative: Why Caribbean Firms Cannot Grow Through Headcount Anymore

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Last week, in the opening article of this series, I argued that the Caribbean has built genuine resilience but is operating with thinning buffers. Several readers wrote to me afterwards with a related question: where, exactly, will Caribbean growth come from in the next decade if the macro tailwinds keep fading? The answer is in...

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The Liquidity Stack: Why Cash Alone Is Not a Liquidity Strategy — and the Five-Tier Architecture That Replaces It

May 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Tidewater Maritime Group — composite name, real engagement — is a Caribbean integrated shipping and logistics enterprise we have advised through three iterations of its capital structure. The group operates a fleet of seven container and break-bulk vessels covering inter-island routes between Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados, and the Eastern Caribbean, plus terminal handling operations at three...

Covenants Were Not Designed for Hurricanes: How to Stress-Test Loan Covenants Before They Stress-Test the Enterprise — and the Heat-Map That Surfaces the Dangerous Ones

May 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Valley Green Agriproducts — the name is composite, the events are real — is a Caribbean integrated agribusiness group I have spent considerable time advising. The group operates approximately twelve thousand acres of fresh produce and tree-crop cultivation across two territories, runs three primary processing facilities, employs roughly six hundred and twenty staff at...

After Twin Peaks: A Caribbean Capital Market Worthy of International Capital

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Eleven articles have set out the case for Twin Peaks, the international evidence base, the legislative reform package, and the operational readiness work the next twelve months require. This closing article steps back and addresses the question that gives the transition its meaning: what is all of this for. The answer cannot be the cutover...

Boardroom Readiness for Twin Peaks: Twelve Months to Build What the New Regime Will Require

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The shape of the work The boardroom readiness work for Twin Peaks divides into five categories. Each category contains several sub-streams. The categories are governance, supervisory engagement, control functions, management information, and people. They are interlocking rather than sequential. A board that prioritises governance and defers supervisory engagement will discover during the first post-cutover supervisory...

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An SRO at a Crossroads: The Jamaica Stock Exchange Under Twin Peaks.

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The structural position the JSE actually occupies Most discussions of the Jamaica Stock Exchange focus on what it does — operates a stock market, lists companies, processes trades, publishes prices. Those operational descriptions are accurate, but they obscure the structural position the JSE actually occupies in the regulatory architecture. That structural position is what the...

Board & Audit Committee Insights

The Caribbean Cyber Hygiene Scorecard: Twenty-Five Items, Five Dimensions, One Quarterly Review

Boards, Risk and Resilience: Strengthening Governance for a More Uncertain Caribbean

Anchored Expectations: How Caribbean Entrepreneurs Should Read the New Monetary Landscape

When Global Risk Turns: Stress-Testing the Caribbean Balance Sheet

The Productivity Imperative: Why Caribbean Firms Cannot Grow Through Headcount Anymore

The Liquidity Stack: Why Cash Alone Is Not a Liquidity Strategy — and the Five-Tier Architecture That Replaces It

Covenants Were Not Designed for Hurricanes: How to Stress-Test Loan Covenants Before They Stress-Test the Enterprise — and the Heat-Map That Surfaces the Dangerous Ones

After Twin Peaks: A Caribbean Capital Market Worthy of International Capital

Boardroom Readiness for Twin Peaks: Twelve Months to Build What the New Regime Will Require

An SRO at a Crossroads: The Jamaica Stock Exchange Under Twin Peaks.

June 3, 2026Board Minutes and Tax Substance: Why Documentation Can Make or Break a Holding Company Structure

June 3, 2026When Is a Holding Company a Conduit? Understanding Beneficial Ownership and Anti-Avoidance Risk

June 3, 2026Substance Beats Formality: What the Milan Tax Court’s Luxembourg Holding Ruling Means for Cross-Border Tax Planning

June 1, 2026The Hidden Systems Challenge of IFRS 20: Why Data, Controls and Audit Readiness Matter

June 1, 2026IFRS 20 and EBITDA: Why Lenders, Investors and Boards Must Pay Attention

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