Digicel urges Caribbean businesses to protect against cyber crime before it is too late. Caribbean businesses have a tendency to treat cybersecurity in the same way as insurance. This year, In the first quarter alone, there were 29 million cyberattacks in the Caribbean region. Cybercrime is rampant throughout the world, says cybercrime expert Douglas Thomas. He said if cybercrime were a country, it would be the world’s third-largest economy after the US and China, after the U.S and China.