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VISIBILITY: Why Caribbean Private Companies Are Worth Less Than Their Owners Think — and How to Fix It

August 9, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the quality of those businesses. It is a comment on the difference between value that exists and value...

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Cybersecurity as an Audit Mandate: The Topical Requirement Caribbean Firms Can’t Ignore

July 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

For years, cybersecurity occupied a strange place on Caribbean audit plans: acknowledged as important, deferred as specialist, and scoped down to whatever the function felt qualified to look at — usually access forms and password policies. The Global Internal Audit Standards have ended that accommodation. Cybersecurity is the subject of the first Topical Requirement —...

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Why Internal Audit Is Now a Governance Function, Not a Back Office

July 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

For decades, internal audit occupied a peculiar position in Caribbean organizations: everyone agreed it was important, and almost no one treated it that way. It sat somewhere down the corridor from finance, reporting to the CFO whose numbers it was supposed to test, staffed thinly, consulted late, and remembered mainly when something had already...

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Captives, Cells and Coverage: How SACs Will Transform Caribbean Insurance Structuring

July 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Every technology returns, eventually, to the problem that created it. Article 3 of this series traced the cell company’s birth to the captive insurance boardrooms of the 1990s, where rent-a-captive platforms were selling a separation they could not legally guarantee. A quarter-century later, the segregated accounts company (SAC) arrives in Jamaica as a general-purpose vehicle...

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The Umbrella Fund Reimagined: SACs and the Future of Collective Investment Schemes in Jamaica

July 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

With the rules of the regime now fully mapped — the ring-fence, the gateway, the governing instrument, the directors’ discipline and the machinery of contained collapse — this series turns to application, and it begins where the impact will likely be felt first: the funds industry. Government commentary on Jamaica’s Segregated Accounts Companies Act, 2024...

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The Governing Instrument: Where SAC Protection Is Won or Lost

July 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Every corporate vehicle has a document at its heart. For a company it is the articles; for a trust, the deed; for a partnership, the agreement. For a segregated account inside a Jamaican segregated accounts company (SAC), it is the governing instrument — and this series has already flashed its warning light twice. Article 4...

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The Cell Company Comes Home: What Bermuda and The Bahamas Taught the Caribbean About Ring-Fencing Risk

July 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

New legal vehicles usually arrive as strangers. Jamaica’s segregated accounts company (SAC) arrives as family. The SAC that entered Jamaican law in 2024 is the newest member of a lineage that runs back a quarter-century through Nassau and Hamilton to the captive insurance boards of the mid-1990s — a lineage in which every major...

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From Contract to Statute: The Asset Protection Gap Jamaica Just Closed

July 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Every seasoned Jamaican transaction lawyer has drafted the clause. “The Lender’s recourse shall be limited to the assets of Project A and shall not extend to any other assets of the Borrower.” It is careful, it is customary, and — between the parties who signed it — it works. The uncomfortable truth the market...

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One Company, Many Fortresses: Why Jamaica’s Segregated Accounts Companies Act Changes Everything

July 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

For as long as most Jamaican business owners can remember, there has been exactly one reliable way to stop trouble in one venture from sinking another: incorporate a separate company for each. A developer with four projects formed four companies. A fund manager with six portfolios wrestled with structures that the law never quite supported....

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How to Out-Compete Bigger Rivals with Market Intelligence

July 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The chain will always out-spend you. It does not have to out-know you — and in a local market, knowing is the higher ground. The Problem, Lived “Rohan” has run a supermarket in Georgetown for sixteen years — two floors, forty staff, a name his parish trusts. Four months ago, a regional chain announced...

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Cybersecurity as an Audit Mandate: The Topical Requirement Caribbean Firms Can’t Ignore

Why Internal Audit Is Now a Governance Function, Not a Back Office

Captives, Cells and Coverage: How SACs Will Transform Caribbean Insurance Structuring

The Cell Company Comes Home: What Bermuda and The Bahamas Taught the Caribbean About Ring-Fencing Risk

From Contract to Statute: The Asset Protection Gap Jamaica Just Closed

One Company, Many Fortresses: Why Jamaica’s Segregated Accounts Companies Act Changes Everything

How to Out-Compete Bigger Rivals with Market Intelligence

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