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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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Backup is Not Recovery: What Continuity Actually Costs the Caribbean SMB — and Why Most Firms Pay for the Wrong Thing

May 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Almost every Caribbean SMB will tell you it has backups. Very few have ever successfully restored one. This article is about the gap between those two states — which is where most Caribbean SMB exposure actually lives — and about the operational disciplines that close it. It is the fourth article of Pillar 2 of...

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Regulatory Fragmentation as a Scaling Tax: Why the Caribbean Needs a More Integrated Business Environment

May 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary The Caribbean has no shortage of entrepreneurial talent, business ambition, sector opportunities, or regional potential. Yet many companies that succeed in one Caribbean market struggle to expand efficiently across the wider region. The reason is not always lack of demand or lack of vision. Often, the challenge is structural: regulatory fragmentation. A...

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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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The Liquidity Problem in Private Markets: Why Caribbean Businesses Must Plan Earlier for Exits, Valuation and Investor Confidence

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Private companies are the backbone of Caribbean economies. They create employment, preserve family wealth, serve local communities, support regional trade, and often represent the largest source of enterprise value for founders and shareholders. Yet many of these companies face a major strategic challenge: illiquidity. A business may be profitable, growing, and valuable on...

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The 12-Point Caribbean Resilience Playbook: A Synthesis for Entrepreneurs and Boards

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A few days ago, this series opened with a single observation from the Inter-American Development Bank’s 2026 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: that resilience is not immunity. The Caribbean entered 2026 with the strongest external scoreboard in years — sovereign spreads at 209 basis points, inflation largely contained, unemployment near historic lows, currencies appreciating...

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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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Critical Minerals, Critical Choices: What Caribbean Boards Must Decide Now

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Article 3 of this series, I argued that the Caribbean firms that will compound earnings over the next decade are the ones rebuilding their workforce around AI fluency. This week, the series turns from the internal to the external — from talent and productivity to the most important structural opportunity now opening in front...

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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...

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

Backup is Not Recovery: What Continuity Actually Costs the Caribbean SMB — and Why Most Firms Pay for the Wrong Thing

Regulatory Fragmentation as a Scaling Tax: Why the Caribbean Needs a More Integrated Business Environment

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

The 12-Point Caribbean Resilience Playbook: A Synthesis for Entrepreneurs and Boards

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

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

June 7, 2026Treaty Access Under Scrutiny: Substance, Beneficial Ownership and Principal Purpose Risk

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

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