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Beyond Energy: Leveraging Competition for Trinidad & Tobago’s Diversification

August 1, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Trinidad & Tobago has long relied on its energy sector as the backbone of its economy. While this resource wealth has brought prosperity, it has also created structural vulnerabilities, including heavy dependence on oil and gas revenues and limited economic diversification. As global energy markets fluctuate and climate action accelerates, T&T faces an urgent need...

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Transparent Price Increases – How to Communicate Without Losing Trust

July 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

No consumer enjoys a price increase—but how a company communicates that increase can make the difference between retention and rejection. As inflation, tariffs, and global instability continue to raise operating costs, many companies face a difficult but necessary decision to raise prices. However, even a justified increase can backfire if it’s not explained transparently, empathetically,...

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Sourcing Smarter: How the Caribbean Sustainable Supply Chain Framework Can Power Local Economies and Green Tourism

July 20, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Behind every hotel meal, spa treatment, or souvenir lies a complex supply chain. In the Caribbean, many of these chains are dominated by costly imports, carbon-intensive logistics, and missed local opportunities. The Caribbean Sustainable Supply Chain Framework (CSSCF) provides a roadmap for transforming this model—boosting local economies, cutting emissions, and enhancing destination authenticity. Introduction: Why...

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The Demographic Drag: How Ageing and Shrinking Populations Are Reshaping Economic Potential

July 14, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Invisible Brake on Growth Behind the charts and projections of slowing global growth lies a quiet but powerful force: demographic change. The world is aging. Fertility rates are falling. Labor forces are shrinking. These trends are not short-term blips—they are long-term structural shifts that threaten to erode global potential output. While often framed as...

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Smart Tax Structuring for Growth: Aligning Business Models with Tax Efficiency

July 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Growth Is Good—Unless It Triggers Tax Exposure Every successful business faces inflection points—scaling operations, entering new markets, restructuring ownership, or raising capital. But as operations grow more complex, tax obligations grow with them—unless the business structure is carefully planned. Tax structuring is not about avoiding taxes—it’s about aligning your business model with local and international...

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Transfer Pricing Compliance: Why Even SMEs Should Be Paying Attention

July 5, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Transfer Pricing Is No Longer Just a Big Business Issue Traditionally, transfer pricing (TP)—the rules governing the pricing of transactions between related parties—was seen as a concern only for large multinationals. But in today’s globally interconnected economy, even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly affected by TP rules, especially those operating across borders, within...

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The TAJ’s Transitional Tax Regime — Managing the IFRS 17 Impact Over Ten Years

July 4, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

The adoption of IFRS 17 Insurance Contracts has brought sweeping changes to how insurers measure and recognize revenue. While these changes improve transparency and comparability in financial reporting, they also introduce volatility in taxable income—especially in the year of transition. Recognizing this, Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) issued a Technical Advisory (#022924/01/IT) outlining a 10-year transitional...

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Strategic Discipline: Building Business Models That Maximize Economic Profit

July 2, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

How Leading Firms Like Apple Harness Pricing Power and Ecosystem Control to Create Real Value In today’s fiercely competitive global economy, growth alone is no longer enough. Businesses must grow intelligently, profitably, and with capital discipline. This is where strategic discipline becomes the cornerstone of value creation. It is not just about expanding operations or...

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Dividends and Buybacks: How Capital Allocation Skews TSR

July 1, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the pursuit of maximizing shareholder value, many companies lean heavily on tools like dividends and stock buybacks. These actions are often well-received by investors and can have a direct impact on Total Shareholder Return (TSR) — the popular metric that combines stock appreciation and dividends into one figure. But beneath the surface, these capital...

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Turning Risk into Resilience: Strengthening Business Assurance Across the Caribbean

June 28, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

In a region defined by economic volatility, climate exposure, and evolving regulatory demands, Caribbean organizations must do more than simply react to disruption—they must prepare for it, manage it, and thrive in spite of it. This calls for a proactive approach to risk management, anchored in strong internal controls, strategic oversight, and integrated business assurance....

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Beyond Energy: Leveraging Competition for Trinidad & Tobago’s Diversification

Transparent Price Increases – How to Communicate Without Losing Trust

Sourcing Smarter: How the Caribbean Sustainable Supply Chain Framework Can Power Local Economies and Green Tourism

The Demographic Drag: How Ageing and Shrinking Populations Are Reshaping Economic Potential

The TAJ’s Transitional Tax Regime — Managing the IFRS 17 Impact Over Ten Years

Strategic Discipline: Building Business Models That Maximize Economic Profit

Dividends and Buybacks: How Capital Allocation Skews TSR

Turning Risk into Resilience: Strengthening Business Assurance Across the Caribbean

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