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The Caribbean Is at the Foundation Stage of AI

October 18, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Count only the artificial intelligence (AI) that is live, the laws that are in force and the results that are published, and the Caribbean scores 32 out of 100. The region is at the foundation stage of AI value and governance. That is the headline of the inaugural Caribbean AI Value & Governance Index (CAVGI),...

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Taxed Like Europe? What the World’s Tax Rankings Really Say About the Caribbean

October 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The finding Jamaica collects tax equal to 25.6% of its GDP — more, as a share of its economy, than the United States (19.5%), Germany (23.0%), Japan (20.2%) or Switzerland (20.0%). Barbados, at 27.8%, collects more than Greece and sits on the global top-20 list beside the Nordic welfare states. That is the Caribbean story...

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What Digital Tax Means for Caribbean Retail and Manufacturing

October 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Retailers and manufacturers now buy software, advertising and cloud capacity from abroad and sell through websites, marketplaces and chat apps. Digital tax reaches both sides of that ledger, and the margin effect is larger than most finance teams expect. Executive summary Caribbean retailers and manufacturers are no longer simply buyers and sellers of goods. They...

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Can a Business Have Taxable Presence Without an Office?

October 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Yes, and in three different ways. A Caribbean software or services firm selling into neighbouring islands and Latin America can owe consumption tax, income tax or a special digital levy in a market where it has never signed a lease. Executive summary “We have no office there” is the commonest answer Caribbean businesses give on...

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VAT at the Customer’s Doorstep: How Digital Tax Follows the Customer Across the Caribbean

September 29, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Consumption tax on digital services follows the customer, not the supplier. For Caribbean firms selling across the islands, that principle turns on three practical questions: is the customer a business, where are they, and who collects? Executive summary Every Caribbean consumption tax regime for digital services rests on one idea: value added tax (VAT) or...

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Paying for the Qualification: What Happens When Reward Attaches to the Person Rather Than the Post

August 23, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A Guyanese public servant holding an ACCA qualification is paid an additional G$15,000 a month. A master’s degree attracts G$22,000; a doctorate G$32,000. The payment attaches to the person, not to the post — two officers doing identical work on the same grade may be paid differently according to what they have qualified in....

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Where the Data Is: What Caribbean Governments Publish About Pay, and What They Do Not

August 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Of the five Caribbean jurisdictions we have examined in detail, exactly one publishes a schedule mapping established posts to salary scales. Jamaica’s Estimates of Expenditure for 2026/27 run to 716 pages and contain no salary scale codes anywhere. The source that turned out to be genuinely universal was one we had not expected to rely...

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Total Reward: What Sits Outside Basic Pay, and Why We Changed Our Method

August 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Across the Cayman Islands civil service, total remuneration is 1.29 times salary. For its senior management the figure is 1.36. And of the reward that sits outside pay, employer health care costs four and a half times what the pension promise does — 18.6 per cent of total remuneration against 4.0 per cent. That inverts...

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Public Sector Pay in the Caribbean: Why It Cannot Currently Be Compared

August 21, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A widely used international salary website reports that the highest-paid civil servant in Barbados earns about BBD 19,060 a year. The lowest substantive grade in the Barbados public service — the cleaner, the general worker, the maid — is paid BBD 25,891. The site’s ceiling sits twenty-six per cent below the real floor. This is...

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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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