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....
Barbados publishes a document listing every established post in its central government. We extracted it: 10,989 posts across 1,110 distinct job titles. One title — graduate teacher — accounts for a tenth of the entire establishment. Twenty titles account for forty-four per cent of it. And 493 titles, forty-four per cent of all of them,...
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...
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...
The lowest substantive grade in the Jamaican public service pays about US$6,200 a year. In Barbados the equivalent post pays about US$12,900. In the Cayman Islands it pays about US$43,200. Seven times the Jamaican figure, for work that is recognisably the same work — cleaning, portering, general duties — in three public services that share...
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...
Two Caribbean public services, a thousand miles apart, with no shared pay policy and no common consultant, have built the same salary band. Not a similar one. Thirteen incremental points, a step of two and a half per cent, and a spread of 1.3449 — identical to five decimal places. A third jurisdiction, Barbados,...
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...
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...
Jamaica is not regulating virtual assets in a vacuum. Here is how its proposed licensing regime measures up against four of the world’s most influential frameworks — and what that means for operators choosing where to build. In short: Jamaica’s proposed VASP regime is recognisably part of a global wave. Like the EU’s MiCA,...
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