Zero seats.
The OECS holds no votes on the body setting the global minimum tax. When the rules that price your economy are written elsewhere, the one thing still within your control is whether you arrive at the argument prepared.
One argument, twelve minutes, every figure sourced.
Read the full argument
The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States holds zero votes on the steering committee of the OECD Inclusive Framework.
Zero. It is on the published governance roster for anyone who wishes to check.
That body has overseen the implementation of a fifteen per cent global minimum corporate tax, now in force. Over the past five years, four Caribbean jurisdictions have appeared on active EU tax or anti-money-laundering lists. Correspondent banks have withdrawn from the region on their own commercial timetable, informing governments rather than consulting them.
Twenty-four seats on the committee. None of them ours.
Every figure in this piece can be checked before you give us a name.
- 01OECS votes on the OECD Inclusive Framework steering committee — 0, grade A. OECD Inclusive Framework governance roster, 2024.
- 02OECD Pillar Two global minimum corporate tax rate now in force — 15%, grade A. OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework, 2024 implementation.
- 03Caribbean jurisdictions on active EU tax or AML lists in the last five years — 4, grade B. EU Council tax and AML list revisions, 2019–2024.
Chamber 05 — The Narrative Chamber
Protect GDP by reaching a defensible national position inside a working day.
- Signal Desk, Context Dossiers, and a persistent Second Brain that never starts from a blank page.
- Doctorate-grade strategy statements with a message architecture that carries across every channel.
- Human-command doctrine: the chamber drafts, principals decide, nothing releases autonomously.
Adam Anderson is the founder of OPEN Interactive and the author of the GDPVision instrument. He writes for principals, not for procurement.
The region is being asked to replace half its revenue with the instruments of the last century.
Citizenship by Investment reaches half of government revenue in the upper band of five OECS states, and its phase-out has a date. The harder problem is that the region is being asked to engineer that transition using evidence that arrives eighteen months late.
Governing from a photograph.
Authoritative sector data reaches a Caribbean Cabinet roughly eighteen months after the period it describes. We ask governments to steer an economy using a picture of where it used to be — and then to defend the picture as though it were a window.
Ask a minister what their portfolio contributes.
In most governments that question starts a procurement. Weeks later a consultant returns a figure and the Ministry of Finance disputes it. Meanwhile one sector carries most of the economy and every other ministry is arguing blind.
Two hundred and twenty-six per cent, in a single night.
Hurricane Maria cost Dominica more than two years of national output in one evening. Every fiscal plan in this region is written inside a hurricane corridor. Almost none of them is rehearsed against one.
The date is set. The replacement is not.
Five OECS states built a revenue pillar that Brussels has now scheduled for demolition. The question is no longer whether to diversify. It is whether anyone has priced the hole.
What happened to the decision?
Minutes record what was said. They do not record what was decided, who carries it, or whether it landed. In economies where a quarter of revenue is spoken for before Cabinet sits, that gap is not untidiness. It is money.
We are exporting the people we need, and guessing at how to keep them.
Up to seventy per cent of tertiary-educated citizens have left the upper band of Caribbean states. Retention policy is written, announced, and only then discovered to have missed the people it was written for.
Someone will grade your manifesto. It should be you.
Every government publishes a programme and then loses track of it. The scorecard gets built regardless — by a journalist, an NGO, or the opposition. The only real choice is whose numbers the public sees first.