Canada enacted a digital services tax, reached back two years to collect it, then repealed it and refunded the money with interest. The episode is a lesson in legislative risk, and a signpost for Caribbean states choosing between the OECD, the United Nations and their own consumption taxes. Executive summary In June 2024 Canada enacted...
A Permanent Secretary in Jamaica sits on a thirteen-point band and can grow 34.5 per cent within it over twelve years. In the Cayman Islands the equivalent grade has five points and 10.4 per cent of headroom. In Barbados the Permanent Secretary is paid a single flat figure of BBD 164,782 with no progression whatever....
Jamaica’s public service runs three separate pay ladders. The core civil service has thirteen incremental points to a band; the disciplined services have nine; the health families have eight. All three are built from the same 2.5 per cent increment. And within that one service, the allowance paid to nurses holds constant at around 16...
In Jamaica the top of the career public service pays 23.6 times what the bottom pays. In the Cayman Islands the figure is 7.0. In Barbados it is 6.4. Three public services in one region, inheriting the same administrative tradition, built to shapes so different that they can barely be described as the same kind...
A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ — six pillars of private company value. This guide addresses Pillar 6. The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the quality...
A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ — six pillars of private company value. This guide addresses Pillar 5. The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on...
A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ — six pillars of private company value. This guide addresses Pillar 4. The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the quality...
A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ — six pillars of private company value. This guide addresses Pillar 2. The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the quality...
Every seasoned Jamaican transaction lawyer has drafted the clause. “The Lender’s recourse shall be limited to the assets of Project A and shall not extend to any other assets of the Borrower.” It is careful, it is customary, and — between the parties who signed it — it works. The uncomfortable truth the market...
You will never win a bidding war against the banks, the multinationals and the visa. Stop fighting on the salary line — and start winning on the deal. The Problem, Lived “Omar” runs a fourteen-person IT services firm in Kingston, and by any fair measure he is one of the best developers of young talent...
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