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Privacy by Design: Telco GenAI under Data Protection Laws

December 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

How Caribbean telecoms can harness GenAI without leaking customer trust Executive summary Telecom operators sit on some of the most sensitive data in the economy: identity, location, billing, usage patterns, device details, and often payment and communication metadata. At the same time, GenAI and agentic AI are moving rapidly into the telco stack—powering: customer service...

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From Blueprints to Cash Flows: Dawgen CARI-VAL RealEstate™ for Valuing Property and Development Projects

November 30, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Real estate and construction are central to economic development in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC). Office towers, logistics hubs, retail centres, industrial parks, residential communities, hotels, mixed-use developments and public infrastructure all sit on one fundamental question: “What is this property or development really worth — today and under...

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Managing the Tax Burden on Capital: Turning EATRs, EMTRs and Cost-of-Capital Analytics into Boardroom Tools

November 29, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Corporate tax is no longer just “25% on the slide in the board pack.” For capital-intensive and growing businesses in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and LAC, the real tax cost of investment is driven by how quickly you can depreciate assets, how inventories are valued, whether you benefit from allowances for corporate equity (ACE), and...

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The Caribbean and LAC in the Global Corporate Tax Landscape: Strategy Lessons from OECD Corporate Tax Statistics 2025

November 29, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

The OECD’s Corporate Tax Statistics 2025 is more than a technical publication. For businesses in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC), it’s effectively a global scoreboard: showing where our region sits on corporate tax rates, withholding taxes, treaty networks and BEPS implementation – and how that shapes investment and tax...

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Reading the CbCR Data: What Multinational Reporting Reveals About Profit Shifting and Tax Risk

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) has quietly become one of the most powerful transparency tools in international taxation. For large multinational enterprise (MNE) groups, it is no longer just a compliance obligation – it is a data set that tax authorities, policymakers and increasingly boards themselves use to assess where profits are booked, where activities happen, and...

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From BEPS to Pillar Two: How Anti-Avoidance Rules Are Reshaping Corporate Tax Planning

November 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

1. A New Era for Corporate Tax Strategy Over the past decade, the global tax landscape has shifted from rate competition to rule tightening. The OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project has rolled out a comprehensive set of anti-avoidance measures, and now Pillar Two’s global minimum tax is adding another powerful layer of...

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Branches, Head Offices, and Withholding Tax: Treating One Legal Person as Many for Tax Purposes

November 26, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

In company law, a branch and its head office are the same legal person. There is no separate share capital, no separate legal personality, no “other company” at the other end of the transaction. Yet, in the recent Bank of Nova Scotia v Comptroller of Inland Revenue (Saint Lucia) decision, the Caribbean Court of Justice...

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Branches Under the Microscope: What the CCJ’s BNS Ruling Means for Cross-Border Management Charges

November 26, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

The recent decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in The Bank of Nova Scotia v Comptroller of Inland Revenue (Saint Lucia) is not just another tax case for lawyers to debate. It is a clear signal that tax authorities and courts across the Caribbean are ready to scrutinise cross-border payment flows—especially management and...

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Unlocking the Grid: Why Transmission Is the Backbone of Latin America & Caribbean Energy Security

November 25, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are often celebrated for their exceptional renewable energy potential—hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, and increasingly green hydrogen. Yet a quiet reality sits behind the headlines: no matter how much renewable capacity is announced, financed, or even built, it cannot unlock its full value without one critical piece of infrastructure—the transmission...

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From Island Farms to Global Markets – Building Inclusive Value Chains with the Dawgen C-AGRI™ Framework

November 25, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Across the Caribbean, agriculture is full of paradoxes. Smallholder farmers, fishers, and rural entrepreneurs work hard every day, yet: Supermarket shelves are filled with imported food. Local products struggle to meet standards, volumes, or consistency. Post-harvest losses remain high while food import bills keep rising. Many youth see agriculture as a last resort, not a...

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From Blueprints to Cash Flows: Dawgen CARI-VAL RealEstate™ for Valuing Property and Development Projects

Managing the Tax Burden on Capital: Turning EATRs, EMTRs and Cost-of-Capital Analytics into Boardroom Tools

The Caribbean and LAC in the Global Corporate Tax Landscape: Strategy Lessons from OECD Corporate Tax Statistics 2025

From BEPS to Pillar Two: How Anti-Avoidance Rules Are Reshaping Corporate Tax Planning

Branches, Head Offices, and Withholding Tax: Treating One Legal Person as Many for Tax Purposes

Branches Under the Microscope: What the CCJ’s BNS Ruling Means for Cross-Border Management Charges

From Island Farms to Global Markets – Building Inclusive Value Chains with the Dawgen C-AGRI™ Framework

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