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Resilience Is Not Immunity: A Caribbean Boardroom Playbook for 2026

May 8, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Earlier this year, the Inter-American Development Bank published its 2026 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report under the title Resilience and Growth Prospects in a Shifting Global Economy. It is one of the most important documents Caribbean entrepreneurs will read this year. The headline finding is genuinely good news: the region has entered 2026 with...

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Recovery Velocity Score™: How Fast Can Your Capital Architecture Recover?

May 8, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The most consequential observation from our advisory work over the eighteen months since Hurricane Melissa is the one we did not expect to be making. We expected, going into the post-Melissa recovery period, that the Caribbean enterprises with the strongest pre-stress capital architectures would produce the strongest recoveries. We expected the diagnostics already established in...

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Six Months Without Revenue: The Liquidity Test Every Caribbean Board Should Run — and the Capital Resilience Index™ That Scores It

May 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Harbour Industries — the name is composite, the facts are real — is a Caribbean light-manufacturing group I have spent considerable time advising over the past decade. The group operates three production facilities across two territories, employs approximately 540 staff, generates annual revenue of US$94 million, and earns adjusted EBITDA of approximately US$11 million. Its...

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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...

The Single-Thread Borrower: Capital Structure Risk in Caribbean Enterprises

May 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

There is a Caribbean distribution business that I will call Meridian — a composite drawn from the actual files of multiple advisory engagements over the last decade, with all identifying details changed but every operational fact preserved. Meridian was started in 1989 by a husband-and-wife team. By 2024, it employed 187 people across two...

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After Melissa: Why Capital Structure is Now a Caribbean Resilience Question

May 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

On the morning of 28 October 2025, Hurricane Melissa made landfall over Jamaica with sustained winds of 185 miles per hour. Its central pressure was the lowest ever recorded for an Atlantic hurricane at the moment of landfall. It was the most powerful storm ever to strike the island. Roofs were torn off, ground floors...

Resilience Is Not Immunity: A Caribbean Boardroom Playbook for 2026

Recovery Velocity Score™: How Fast Can Your Capital Architecture Recover?

Six Months Without Revenue: The Liquidity Test Every Caribbean Board Should Run — and the Capital Resilience Index™ That Scores It

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

The Single-Thread Borrower: Capital Structure Risk in Caribbean Enterprises

After Melissa: Why Capital Structure is Now a Caribbean Resilience Question

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June 19, 2026The Hidden Cost of Poor Financial Management: What Weak Numbers Cost a Growing Business

June 19, 2026What Is a Virtual CFO — and Does Your Enterprise Need One?

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