Executive Summary Ask the leadership of almost any Caribbean organisation whether it takes cybersecurity seriously and the answer will be yes — supported by a list of investments: firewalls, endpoint protection, an IT provider, security policies, perhaps a certification. Then ask a different question: how do you know any of it works? The room usually...
Executive Summary For most of the past two decades, cybersecurity in the Caribbean has lived in the IT department: a budget line for firewalls and antivirus software, a technical specialist’s responsibility, a subject the board touched once a year, if at all. That arrangement no longer matches reality. Cyber risk has become one of the...
There is a paradox at the centre of Caribbean public-sector governance. No class of organization carries more explicit, legislated internal audit obligations than the region’s public bodies — the statutory agencies, government companies, and authorities through which a substantial share of national economic life flows. Accountability frameworks across the region presuppose audit committees, functioning internal...
Every week, somewhere in the region, a version of the same conversation happens. A business has grown — from a founder and a bookkeeper to a hundred staff, three locations, a bank facility, and perhaps a minority investor — and someone, often the banker or the external auditor, mentions internal audit. The owner’s response is...
The annual audit plan rests on a quiet assumption that no one states aloud: that risk moves at the speed of a planning cycle. Book the inventory audit for March, the payroll review for August, the revenue work for November — and trust that the risks will be waiting patiently when the team arrives....
Markets teach control lessons in two ways: privately, through the quiet findings of a well-functioning assurance system — or publicly, through announcements no board ever wants to draft. Over the past two years, the Jamaica Stock Exchange has delivered several of the second kind: a substantial inventory write-off at a listed company, a material...
There is a comfortable belief circulating in boardrooms across the Caribbean, and it deserves to be retired: the belief that the Global Internal Audit Standards are still “bedding in,” that everyone is in the same boat, and that conformance is a project for next year. None of that is true. The Standards took effect on...
For decades, internal audit occupied a peculiar position in Caribbean organizations: everyone agreed it was important, and almost no one treated it that way. It sat somewhere down the corridor from finance, reporting to the CFO whose numbers it was supposed to test, staffed thinly, consulted late, and remembered mainly when something had already...
Every technology returns, eventually, to the problem that created it. Article 3 of this series traced the cell company’s birth to the captive insurance boardrooms of the 1990s, where rent-a-captive platforms were selling a separation they could not legally guarantee. A quarter-century later, the segregated accounts company (SAC) arrives in Jamaica as a general-purpose vehicle...
With the rules of the regime now fully mapped — the ring-fence, the gateway, the governing instrument, the directors’ discipline and the machinery of contained collapse — this series turns to application, and it begins where the impact will likely be felt first: the funds industry. Government commentary on Jamaica’s Segregated Accounts Companies Act, 2024...
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