Go Lean…Caribbean

This book is a roadmap for the introduction and implementation of the Caribbean Union Trade Federation. Download the book … Now!!!

The Caribbean Union Trade Federation (CU) is a “super-national”, regional administration to provide solutions to elevate the economic, security and governing engines of the Caribbean region.

This book asserts that there is something wrong in the Caribbean. It is the greatest address in the world for its 4 language groups, but instead of the world “beating a path” to these doors, the people of the Caribbean have “beat down their doors” to get out. This scenario of human flight is a constant threat to prosperity for all the Caribbean; despite their colonial legacies, there is no one Caribbean language group that is spared from this affliction. Many people even measure success only by their exodus from their Caribbean homeland.

The people of the Caribbean love their homelands and yet still begrudgingly leave; this is due mainly to the lack of economic opportunities. Tourism, as the primary driver of the region’s economy, has created a mono-industrial trap. Yes, the CU wants to expand and optimize the tourism product, but also diversify for other economic opportunities. This book posits that the requisite investment of the resources (time, talent, treasuries) for this goal may be too big for any one Caribbean member-state, so rather, the main thrust of the roadmap is to shift the responsibility to a region-wide, professionally-managed, deputized technocracy, to garner greater production and accountability. This deputized agency is the Caribbean Union Trade Federation. This book advocates that all Caribbean member-states (independent & dependent) lean-in to this plan, this roadmap for confederacy, collaboration and convention.

The key phrase in this commission is “lean”; for this roadmap “lean” is a verb, a noun, and an adjective. This roadmap advocates that the Caribbean people lean on, lean in, lean over backwards, and then lean towards the goals of this federation. The CU also embraces agile or lean process management methodologies, allowing the technocracy to do more with less. All in all, the CU administration is lean, not a fat bureaucracy – an anomaly for a federal government.

This book is published by the SFE Foundation, a community development foundation chartered for the purpose of empowering and re-booting economic engines. The foundation does the heavy-lifting of working with individuals, families, communities and nation-states to turn-around financial viability. In this case, the motivation of the foundation is not profit, but rather brotherly love, as the foundation is comprised of individuals that stem from different Caribbean countries of all language groups.

The SFE Foundation is not a person; it is an apolitical, religiously-neutral, economic-focused movement, initiated at the grass-root level to bring change back to the Caribbean homeland – no one Caribbean member-state is favored over another. The SFE Foundation is not affiliated with the CariCom or any of its agencies or institutions. This movement is not an attempt to re-boot the CariCom, but rather a plan to re-boot the Caribbean. This movement was bred from the frustrations of the Diaspora, longing to go home, to lands of opportunities. But this is not a call for a revolt against the governments, agencies or institutions of the Caribbean region, but rather a petition for a peaceful transition and optimization of the economic, security and governing engines in the region.

The Caribbean does a number of things well – 80 million visitors a year. Yet, the purpose of this roadmap is simple: to make the Caribbean a better place to live, work and play.

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