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The Six Governance Blind Spots Boards Must Monitor Between Audits

June 15, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Boards rarely fail through negligence. They fail through cadence — because certain risks simply are not visible between one audit and the next. Here are the six places that vision goes dark, and what it takes to keep the lights on. Across the first two articles in this series I made two arguments. First,...

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Why Annual Governance Is Now a Liability | Dawgen TRUST360™

June 15, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The audit calendar was built for a slower world. In an era of AI adoption, cloud vendors and near-weekly regulatory movement, governing your organisation once a year leaves an eleven-month blind spot — and boards are accountable for everything that happens inside it. Let me put a question to every board chair and chief executive...

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Every Valuation Is an Argument: Pension Valuation Governance for Caribbean Trustees

May 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

When a Caribbean trustee approves a pension valuation, they are not approving a fact. They are endorsing a chain of assumptions reached by someone else — and the governance question that matters is whether the board has seen the argument, or only the conclusion. This is the second of four papers in The...

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Numbers That Outlast the Quarter: Why Caribbean Boards Need Actuarial Insight

May 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The actuarial perspective on board decisions whose financial consequences will not show up in the next four management reports — and why every Caribbean institution holds more of them than it has measured. Caribbean boards routinely authorize decisions whose financial consequences will not appear in the next four management reports. This is the first of...

Covenants Were Not Designed for Hurricanes: How to Stress-Test Loan Covenants Before They Stress-Test the Enterprise — and the Heat-Map That Surfaces the Dangerous Ones

May 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Valley Green Agriproducts — the name is composite, the events are real — is a Caribbean integrated agribusiness group I have spent considerable time advising. The group operates approximately twelve thousand acres of fresh produce and tree-crop cultivation across two territories, runs three primary processing facilities, employs roughly six hundred and twenty staff at...

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The Practice Period: A Distinctive Caribbean Approach to Regulatory Transition

May 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Most countries that have adopted Twin Peaks waited for the legislation before changing how they supervise. Jamaica is doing it differently. Two years before the statutes arrive, the Bank of Jamaica and the Financial Services Commission are operating a structured Practice Period — joint examinations, jointly developed standards, capacity-building, cultural alignment — that builds the...

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The Diagnosis Behind the Reform: Why Jamaica Chose Twin Peaks, and What It Must Now Deliver

May 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

What actually happened at SSL On 17 January 2023, a Jamaican investor went public with allegations that her investment account at Stocks and Securities Limited — a securities dealer regulated by the Financial Services Commission for over four decades — had been systematically drained over a period of years. Within days, what began as one...

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From Sectoral Silos to Twin Peaks: Reading Jamaica’s 2026 Reform Correctly

May 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

When the Twin Peaks legislation is enacted in 2026, Jamaica will not be relabeling its regulators. It will be re-architecting how the entire financial system is supervised. Boards, securities dealers, insurers, pension trustees and listed issuers that read this reform as a name change will arrive at the cutover unprepared. Those that read it correctly...

Caribbean board governance

Numbers That Outlast the Quarter: Why Caribbean Boards Need Actuarial Insight

Covenants Were Not Designed for Hurricanes: How to Stress-Test Loan Covenants Before They Stress-Test the Enterprise — and the Heat-Map That Surfaces the Dangerous Ones

The Practice Period: A Distinctive Caribbean Approach to Regulatory Transition

The Diagnosis Behind the Reform: Why Jamaica Chose Twin Peaks, and What It Must Now Deliver

From Sectoral Silos to Twin Peaks: Reading Jamaica’s 2026 Reform Correctly

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