Governance & Compliance

The Conformance Deadline Has Passed: Is Your Internal Audit Function Compliant?

July 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

There is a comfortable belief circulating in boardrooms across the Caribbean, and it deserves to be retired: the belief that the Global Internal Audit Standards are still “bedding in,” that everyone is in the same boat, and that conformance is a project for next year. None of that is true. The Standards took effect on...

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How to Build Governance into a Family-Owned Business

July 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The trust that built your family business is real. But trust without structure is not governance — it is luck, and luck runs out at the worst possible moments. The Problem, Lived Consider “the Grants,” whose building-supplies business has fed three households for twenty-two years. The founder still signs every cheque. His daughter runs operations...

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Stress-Testing the Future: Building Resilience Before the Shock

June 27, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A business plan is a single confident line into an uncertain future. Stress-testing fills the silence around it — answering not what we expect, but what would happen if we are wrong, and how wrong we can afford to be. Every business plan is a single confident line drawn into an uncertain future. It...

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Apprenticeship Without the Pyramid: How to Build Experts When the Base Is Gone

June 9, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The broken rung is not a dead end. The pyramid produced experts as a by-product; the diamond must produce them by design. This article is the answer — a deliberate apprenticeship to replace the accidental one we are losing. PART III · THE HARD IMPLICATIONS From problem to design The previous article named the...

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Enter the Diamond: What a Mid-Heavy Organization Actually Looks Like

June 8, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Part I diagnosed why the pyramid is failing. Part II begins with the alternative — and a clear, practical picture of the shape now replacing it. PART II · THE NEW SHAPE From diagnosis to design Part I of this series was a diagnosis. We saw that the staffing pyramid was never merely an...

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Provisions Are Predictions: Why Caribbean Boards Must Govern Reserves Before the Audit

May 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

This is the third of four papers in The Caribbean Actuarial Imperative, an editorial series from Dawgen Global — an independent, integrated, multidisciplinary professional services firm spanning eleven service disciplines across more than fifteen Caribbean territories. The first paper introduced the Long‑Horizon Test for identifying the board decisions whose financial consequences extend beyond the quarterly...

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Group Audits and Cross-Border Engagements: What Caribbean Holding Companies Must Know About ISA 600 Revised

May 24, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The modern Caribbean economy is, in significant measure, a network of conglomerates. A holding company headquartered in Kingston operates subsidiaries in Trinidad and the Eastern Caribbean. A Bahamian financial group runs operations through entities in Cayman and Barbados. A regional retail group consolidates results from operating subsidiaries across a dozen territories. Tourism groups, financial groups,...

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What’s in a .com? Choosing Between Global TLDs and Caribbean Country-Code Domains

May 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A domain name is not, as is often supposed, a neutral string of characters. It is a positioning statement. The choice between a .com, a .jm, a .tt, a .bb and the new generic extensions tells the market who the firm believes itself to be, and which market it believes it is competing in. For...

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From Start-Up to Scale-Up: What the Future of Venture Capital Means for the Caribbean

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary The global venture capital industry is undergoing a structural reset. Venture-backed companies are staying private for longer, exits are slowing, liquidity is becoming harder to achieve, secondary markets are emerging as an important private-market tool, and artificial intelligence is reshaping how companies are built, valued, funded, and scaled. For the Caribbean, the lesson...

The Legislative Reform Package: What the Twin Peaks Statutes Must Deliver

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The legislative architecture decision The first and most consequential drafting choice is the legislative architecture itself. Article 6 of this series identified the South African Financial Sector Regulation Act of 2017 as a model — a single comprehensive statute that sets out the entire Twin Peaks framework, both peaks, the coordination mechanisms, the...

The Conformance Deadline Has Passed: Is Your Internal Audit Function Compliant?

How to Build Governance into a Family-Owned Business

Stress-Testing the Future: Building Resilience Before the Shock

Apprenticeship Without the Pyramid: How to Build Experts When the Base Is Gone

Enter the Diamond: What a Mid-Heavy Organization Actually Looks Like

Provisions Are Predictions: Why Caribbean Boards Must Govern Reserves Before the Audit

What’s in a .com? Choosing Between Global TLDs and Caribbean Country-Code Domains

From Start-Up to Scale-Up: What the Future of Venture Capital Means for the Caribbean

The Legislative Reform Package: What the Twin Peaks Statutes Must Deliver

July 20, 2026Internal Audit in Public Bodies: Accountability, Compliance, and the Public Purse

July 20, 2026Does Your SME Need an Internal Audit Function? The Case for Co-Sourcing in the Caribbean

July 20, 2026Continuous Auditing and Data Analytics: Moving Beyond the Annual Audit Plan

July 19, 2026Auditing the Algorithms: GenAI Governance, ISO/IEC 42001, and the New Audit Universe

July 19, 2026Cybersecurity as an Audit Mandate: The Topical Requirement Caribbean Firms Can’t Ignore

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