Author: Dayton Outar
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One Person, Many Identities: Jamaica’s Fragmented Identity Problem
In the previous article, The Growing Threat of Identity Fraud in Jamaica, we examined how identity fraud can occur when individuals manipulate documents to impersonate others within financial systems. While such cases often appear to be isolated crimes, they point to a deeper structural issue: Jamaica’s identity ecosystem is fragmented. Today, identity information is managed…
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The Growing Threat of Identity Fraud in Jamaica
Recent fraud cases in Jamaica have drawn attention to a growing problem that financial institutions around the world are increasingly confronting: identity manipulation. In January 2026, authorities charged a 30-year-old medical doctor in connection with what investigators described as an elaborate fraud scheme targeting several financial institutions. Reports indicate that the suspects allegedly used a…
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The Enterprise Backend Reality: Why .NET and Spring Boot Still Win
At Tiddle, we choose technology stacks that give us the flexibility to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable systems for our clients. Managing Director, Dayton Outar, has extensive experience working with a wide range of programming tools and frameworks used to deliver enterprise-grade software systems. By enterprise systems, we mean software platforms made up of several…
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Jam-Dex versus Bitcoin
Introduction Money has always existed in physical form — notes and coins issued by a central bank. Today, many countries are exploring ways to issue this same money digitally, creating what is known as a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). In Jamaica, this digital currency is called Jam-Dex. One technology developed for this purpose is…
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Why Isn’t JAM-DEX Taking Off?
Last week my attention was drawn to a news item concerning JAM-DEX, so I paid close attention to the details. In the article, Bank of Jamaica Governor Richard Byles blasts banks for not doing enough to drive adoption of JAM-DEX as a method for paying for goods and services across the Jamaican economy. The Jamaica…