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The first three articles in this series established why Jamaica’s Segregated Accounts Companies Act, 2024 matters: it converts asset segregation from a contractual promise into a property of the law, drawing on a quarter-century of Caribbean cell-company practice. This article — the first of the series’ second arc, on the rules themselves — moves...

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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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How to Turn Around a Business in Trouble

July 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Trouble is not what kills businesses. Untreated trouble is. Most firms do not die of their problems — they die of the year spent not facing them. A turnaround is a sequence, and it begins with a phone call most owners make twelve months too late. The Problem, Lived “Carlton” has run a manufacturing...

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How to Manage Risk and Insurance in a Volatile Region

July 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Caribbean concentrates more risk per square mile than almost anywhere on earth — and most businesses meet it with an unread policy and a hope. Risk is not weather. It is a portfolio, and portfolios can be engineered. The Problem, Lived “Desmond” owns a twenty-four-room boutique hotel and restaurant on the coast of...

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How to Protect Your Business from Cyber Threats — Without an IT Department

July 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Cybercrime does not skip small businesses. It prefers them — and its favorite tool is not code. It is your trust, your busyness, and a Friday afternoon. The Problem, Lived “Michelle” runs a customs brokerage in Kingston — fourteen staff, twenty years of reputation, and a business that lives in its inbox: shipping documents,...

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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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How to Market Powerfully on a Limited Budget

July 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Problem, Lived “Alicia” runs a catering and events company in St. John’s, Antigua, and her marketing history reads like a drawer of lottery tickets. A boosted post whenever bookings look thin — fifty dollars here, a hundred there, aimed at everyone. A radio spot last Christmas whose results she cannot name. A website...

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How to Plan Succession Before You Need It

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A business that cannot outlive its founder was never an asset. It was a salary with staff — and succession planning is the work that turns it into something that can be inherited, sold, or led into its second generation. The Problem, Lived “Winston” is sixty-four, and for thirty years his name has been the...

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How to Build a High-Performance Culture in a Small Team

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Culture is not the poster on the wall. It is what predictably happens when you are not watching — and in a small team, it is broadcast by the leader, whether or not anything is ever built. The Problem, Lived “Sherry-Ann” runs an eleven-person property-management company in St. George’s, Grenada, and on paper she has...

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How to Expand Across Caribbean Markets

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Caribbean is not one market. It is a chain of small ones — and regional expansion fails when it is treated as the same business at a new address The Problem, Lived “Danielle” makes natural skincare products in Kingston — a brand strong enough that a Trinidadian distributor sought her out at a regional...

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

How to Turn Around a Business in Trouble

How to Manage Risk and Insurance in a Volatile Region

How to Out-Compete Bigger Rivals with Market Intelligence

How to Plan Succession Before You Need It

How to Build a High-Performance Culture in a Small Team

How to Expand Across Caribbean Markets

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