Caribbean culture. Global capital. Sovereign intelligence.
The Orange Intelligence is the brief on the Caribbean's creative and cultural economy. Every two months it tracks what Caribbean culture is worth, where the capital is moving, and who is building the infrastructure to own it: the policies, data, deals and people across music, sport, film, fashion, craft, heritage and the digital industries.
The world now treats creative economies as strategic assets. Creative services exports reached a record US$1.7 trillion in 2024, and ten economies hold almost three quarters of that trade (UNCTAD). Source: UNCTADstat · 2024 ↗ The Caribbean makes culture the world consumes. The infrastructure to measure, protect and finance what it earns is still being built. This brief follows that build, issue by issue.
Each issue starts from trade, capital or geopolitics and lands on culture as the answer. Every figure carries its source and a label for what kind of figure it is, and every issue carries The Ownership Ledger: who owns the assets, where capital is flowing, who controls the industries, and where value is created, captured or lost.
Written by Natasha Ferguson, The Orange Economy Lady: founder of N.F. Orange Economy Advisory, PRWeek 2025 Power Book inductee, featured in Bloomberg and Fortune, with research at the University of the West Indies and the University of Glasgow, and the architect of Jamaica's first national Orange Economy infrastructure, from academic thesis to on-the-ground implementation.
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The world is writing the creative economy's rulebook this month. Jakarta drafted it, London made the case for capital raised at home, and Lagos opens a creative deal room in November. The Caribbean needs a seat, and a data system to bring to it.
The brief on the Caribbean’s creative and cultural economy, every two months.
The Orange Intelligence is written and edited by Natasha Ferguson and published by N.F. Orange Economy Advisory.
Its analysis follows the evidence and the research wherever they lead, including when they concern the advisory's own work.
N.F. Orange Economy Advisory was founded to put the findings of the RJ Blueprint, Natasha's research at The University of the West Indies and the University of Glasgow, into practice. Its work includes five sector initiatives (the Sound System Initiative in music, Yard to the World in sport, Made in Jamaica: The Runway Ready Initiative in craft and fashion, Honouring the Legends in arts, film and cultural heritage, and The Complex in new creative industries) and TINC, its work on national communications. When an issue mentions any of this work, or an organisation the advisory works with, we say so in the line where it appears.
Partners who support The Orange Intelligence are named as partners. They do not choose, review or approve what we publish, and support never buys coverage.
Every figure carries its source and a label for what kind of figure it is. Where a claim rests on a single report, we say so. When we get something wrong, we correct it in the next issue and in the corrections log.
Questions and corrections: hello@nforangeeconomyadvisory.com
Disclosure note, updated 27 October 2026.
Corrections are listed here with their date.