Capital Access

Bank-Plus-Bond-Plus-Guarantees: Building a Resilient Caribbean Capital Source Mix

May 8, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Caymas Holdings Limited — the name is composite, the structure is real and recognisable across the regional conglomerate landscape — is a Caribbean integrated consumer-goods enterprise that has been my advisory work intermittently over a number of years. The group sits at approximately US$280 million in consolidated revenue and operates across three principal business lines....

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Maturity Mismatch: The Silent Killer of Caribbean Balance Sheets — and the Discipline of Walking the Wall Before It Arrives

May 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

There is a Caribbean hospitality group I will call Cascade Resorts — a composite drawn from advisory engagements with regional hotel operators, with all identifying details changed but every operational and balance sheet fact preserved. Cascade operates four properties across two Caribbean territories, employs approximately 920 staff, generates annual revenue of US$78 million, and earns...

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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...

Boards, Fiduciaries, and the Tokenized Balance Sheet: Governance and Board Oversight in the Caribbean

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the fourth article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework. Articles 1 through 3 established the inflection-point argument, mapped the foreign regulatory regimes, and set out the architecture of DAGAF™ itself. This article opens the pillar deep-dives, treating Pillar 1 — Governance...

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The DAGAF™ Architecture: A Caribbean Lens on Digital Asset Governance

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the third article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework — the Caribbean’s first integrated framework for the governance, assurance, tax, and risk management of tokenized real-world assets. Article 1 set out the inflection-point argument and the case for Caribbean engagement. Article...

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Tokenization in the Caribbean: Why Boards, Regulators, and Enterprises Must Engage Now

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the first article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework — the Caribbean’s first integrated framework for the governance, assurance, tax, and risk management of tokenized real-world assets. Each article in the series will engage one dimension of the tokenization question facing...

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Capital Is the Oxygen of Your Restructuring. You Are Running Low and the Clock Is Running.

March 27, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Caribbean boards that fail to develop a structured capital strategy during restructuring do not just miss opportunities — they allow their options to narrow until there are no good ones left. Capital scarcity during restructuring is not just a financial problem — it is a governance emergency. Every week without a funded restructuring...

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Business Valuation in Jamaica and the Caribbean: What Is Your Business Really Worth?

March 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Understanding independent valuation methodology — and why the number matters more than you think At some point in the lifecycle of every successful Caribbean business, the question of value moves from abstract to commercially central. What is this enterprise actually worth? The answer to that question determines the price in a sale to a...

AI-Powered Cash Forecasting : The P-Layer Technology Stack Revealed

February 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Machine That Learns How Your Customers Pay In Article 3 of this series, we introduced the P-Layer of the WC-PULSE Framework™ and described how it transforms the traditional 13-week cash-flow forecast from a static spreadsheet into a dynamic, scenario-driven prediction engine. We explained the four pillars – rolling architecture, behavioural modelling, scenario...

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Supplier Risk Is Working-Capital Risk

February 16, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

How to Stress-Test Your Ecosystem Before It Stress-Tests You The Invisible Chain On a Tuesday morning in March 2024, the Chief Financial Officer of a Caribbean food-and-beverage manufacturer opened his inbox to find a message from his procurement director. The company’s second-largest packaging supplier – a firm that provided the specialised labelling and...

Bank-Plus-Bond-Plus-Guarantees: Building a Resilient Caribbean Capital Source Mix

Maturity Mismatch: The Silent Killer of Caribbean Balance Sheets — and the Discipline of Walking the Wall Before It Arrives

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

The DAGAF™ Architecture: A Caribbean Lens on Digital Asset Governance

Tokenization in the Caribbean: Why Boards, Regulators, and Enterprises Must Engage Now

Capital Is the Oxygen of Your Restructuring. You Are Running Low and the Clock Is Running.

Business Valuation in Jamaica and the Caribbean: What Is Your Business Really Worth?

AI-Powered Cash Forecasting : The P-Layer Technology Stack Revealed

Supplier Risk Is Working-Capital Risk

May 10, 2026The 12-Point Caribbean Resilience Playbook: A Synthesis for Entrepreneurs and Boards

May 10, 2026Anchored Expectations: How Caribbean Entrepreneurs Should Read the New Monetary Landscape

May 10, 2026Higher for Longer: Refinancing, Maturity Management, and the New Mathematics of Caribbean Debt

May 10, 2026When Global Risk Turns: Stress-Testing the Caribbean Balance Sheet

May 10, 2026Critical Minerals, Critical Choices: What Caribbean Boards Must Decide Now

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