AfriCaricom54 is published by B. Douglas Simon.

He has spent twenty-six years auditing and building management systems for organisations across North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and Asia — more than five thousand audits, consultations and implementations to date. He holds formal regulatory compliance qualification in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, and is a Certified Professional Environmental Auditor with the Board of Environmental, Health & Safety Auditor Certifications. His Executive MBA in Environmental Management is from Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro. He and the practice are equipped to engage across the Americas, working in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

That background is the reason this site takes the form it does. Trade between regions rarely fails at the level of political will. It fails at the level of paperwork, permits, standards and schedules — the unglamorous machinery that determines whether an agreement produces anything at all. This site keeps a record of that machinery.

Disclosure

He is Principal and founder of The Mender-Haüs Corporation, a management systems consultancy, which is currently seeking registration in several markets in Western and sub-Saharan Africa. That commercial interest is stated here because this site covers the region, and a reader is entitled to weigh it.

This site receives no funding from the African Union, CARICOM, Afreximbank, or any other institution named on it, and no institution has any editorial involvement in what appears here.

What this site is

An independent, documentary record of what has been committed and what has been delivered. It is not affiliated with any of the institutions it covers, and holds no brief for either side of the partnership.

What this site is not

It is not an investment service. Nothing published here is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold anything, and nothing here should be read as personalised financial or legal advice. Where the site discusses commercial opportunity, it does so at the level of how mechanisms work and where friction lies.

Editorial independence

Entries are added and statuses changed on the evidence, without regard to whether the resulting picture is favourable to either party. Where a commitment has been met promptly the record says so — the joint reparations mechanism moved from announcement to first meeting in nine months, and that is as much a finding as the summit schedule is.

Corrections

If anything on this site is wrong, please say so. Corrections are made promptly and recorded rather than made silently. Get in touch.