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What Is a Virtual Asset Service Provider Under Jamaican Law?

June 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A plain-English definition of a VASP under Jamaica’s proposed regime — the activities that bring you in scope, who is excluded, the decentralised-finance question, and how it all tracks the FATF standard. In short: a virtual asset service provider (VASP) is a business that, for or on behalf of others, provides virtual-asset services — operating...

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The Caribbean Capital Structure Problem: From Bank Debt to BEDROCK™

June 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why the region’s growth constraint is not a shortage of viable enterprises — but a shortage of appropriate capital structure Walk into any boardroom from Kingston to Port of Spain to Bridgetown and you will hear a version of the same conversation. The business is sound. The market opportunity is real. The asset — the...

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Auditing in a Digitised Caribbean Economy: Why Modern Audits Must Test Populations, Not Just Samples

May 24, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

For decades, the external audit has been a sampling exercise. The auditor would select a small subset of transactions — perhaps thirty journal entries, perhaps sixty invoices, perhaps a hundred customer accounts — and from that sample draw conclusions about the entire population. The methodology was sound when the audit was its only practical option....

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From Personal Inbox to Professional Brand: A Migration Playbook for Caribbean Family Businesses

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The first five articles in this series were largely diagnostic and prescriptive. This article — the final piece in the Foundations pillar — is neither. It is a migration playbook for the Caribbean family business that has been operating successfully for ten, twenty, or thirty years on a tangle of personal email, founder-controlled accounts, and...

The First 90 Minutes Online: A Caribbean Start-Up Digital Identity Checklist

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The first three articles in this series have asked Caribbean boards uncomfortable questions about digital infrastructure that has already been set up — usually badly. This article is for the entrepreneur, the family-business successor, or the partner of a newly-formed firm who has the rare opportunity to do it correctly from the first day. It...

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The Three-Bucket Doctrine: How Washington Just Re-Drew the Map of Digital Assets, and What It Means for the Caribbean Regulator’s Desk

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

If Article 1 of this series was the news, this article is the map. The CLARITY Act’s most consequential design choice is the explicit division of all digital assets into three regulatory buckets, each with a defined supervisor. The bucket a token falls into determines who regulates it, what disclosures attach to it, who can...

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Why Pricing Is the Most Undervalued Strategic Asset in Caribbean Business

March 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Introducing the Dawgen Strategic Pricing Operating Model™ (DSPOM™) — a proprietary framework for building pricing capability that drives sustainable profitability across Caribbean enterprises. The Conversation Every Caribbean Board Should Be Having There is a conversation that rarely happens in Caribbean boardrooms, and its absence is costing organisations millions of dollars every year. It is not...

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The Fiscal Reckoning: Tax, an Ageing Population, and the Digital Imperative

March 16, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

What the IDB’s 2026 data on taxation, social protection, and demographics means for Caribbean boards — and why digital transformation is the missing link The IDB’s 2026 Data Wall presents Caribbean governments and businesses with a compounding fiscal challenge: a structural tax revenue gap of 15 percentage points against OECD averages, a population ageing...

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Accounting and VAT/GCT Implications of Digital Service Taxes

March 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

How to record, classify, and report DST fees in Caribbean financial statements The Accounting Question Behind the Platform Notification When the Meta DST location fee notification arrived in March 2026, most Caribbean business owners and marketing managers read it as an advertising operations issue — a change to campaign costs that needed to be...

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Digital Service Taxes in the Caribbean: A Country-by-Country Landscape

March 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Where does each Caribbean jurisdiction stand — and what comes next? The Gap in the Schedule When Caribbean businesses reviewed the Meta DST location fee notification of March 2026, they noticed something that many found reassuring at first glance: no Caribbean jurisdiction appeared in the fee schedule. Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Türkiye, and...

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What Is a Virtual Asset Service Provider Under Jamaican Law?

The Caribbean Capital Structure Problem: From Bank Debt to BEDROCK™

From Personal Inbox to Professional Brand: A Migration Playbook for Caribbean Family Businesses

The First 90 Minutes Online: A Caribbean Start-Up Digital Identity Checklist

The Three-Bucket Doctrine: How Washington Just Re-Drew the Map of Digital Assets, and What It Means for the Caribbean Regulator’s Desk

Why Pricing Is the Most Undervalued Strategic Asset in Caribbean Business

The Fiscal Reckoning: Tax, an Ageing Population, and the Digital Imperative

Accounting and VAT/GCT Implications of Digital Service Taxes

Digital Service Taxes in the Caribbean: A Country-by-Country Landscape

July 1, 2026Substance Requirements: Building a Compliant Jamaican VASP Presence

July 1, 2026Writing a VASP Business Plan the FSC Will Accept

July 1, 2026Capital and Substance: Meeting the J$16 Million Requirement and Building a Real Jamaican Presence

June 29, 2026How Jamaica’s VASP Framework Compares to MiCA, the UK, Singapore and the Cayman Islands

June 29, 2026The FSC VASP Consultation Explained: Timeline, Instruments and What Happens Next

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