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I Read Therefore I Crime: Reading, Crime Punishment and The Sedition Act
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I think, therefore I am!
I Read therefore I crime!
It is so traceable, so many of our cultural attitudes and behaviour, nurtured and conditioned by hand me down colonial intelligence and practiced by the new massas.
We do not have far to go to see the roots of criminalising of intelligence, the quest for knowledge, and critical thinking, even by the institutions charged with protecting them. So one doesnt have to go far to understand that all talk about building a knowledge economy is all hot air! It feeds a national climate of insecurity that extends way beyond crimes of violence.
I have over time pointed to the self-negation and self-hatred internalised in attitudes to culture and heritage conservation, safeguarding and preservation that leaves most of it crumbling to dust, much that should be off our law books and in these Demokrissy pages have lamented the intellectual Jamettry (see link) of the attitudes to reading and books and indeed censorship of my own writings to varying degrees of officialdom or just sheer ignorance or prejudice.
And heaven forbid we ask for less kicksing and some independent thinking from the Parliament to redress entrenched prejudices and get with a change agenda rather than the ongoing manipulation of a legislative agenda to reinforce streotyping and the hand-me-down status quo and promote divisiveness – whether by accident or by design (the seeming lack of awareness of how this is so makes it more prenicious!) It is like baying at the moon to ask for meaningful redress to cyber criminality and the misuse of social media by the Parliament and the lawmakers themselves, rather than knee jerk reactions. But I guess that too might be considered seditious.
Makes me want to lament repeat my Ode To Jurisprudence!
Now further evidence of the rootedness of our antipathy to books and reading. Take a look at the Sedition Act, extracts are posted on this page see images below, still on our law books and even being evoked in all its macabre stature from 1920 and on the statutes to this day…. reproduced here, and now added to my list of Banned Books.
the law also gives the President powers to ban importation of what may be considered ‘seditions material’. The law list of reading material deemed seditious include published on workers rights, women’s rights and youth rights I could have a lot more to say on that from the international human rights perspective! Apart from what may be considered to be Marxist or communist literature, material from Cuba, parts of Europe, and publications of Casas De Las Americas, banned are See more …. See list
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Black Beauty Anna Sewell.1877
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane 1895
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum 1900
The Call of the Wild, Jack London 1903
Ulysses James Joyce 1922
Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler 1925
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence 1928
The Well Of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall 1928
All’s Quiet In The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque1928
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque 1929
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 1932
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller 1934
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939
For Whom the Bell Tolls; A Farewell to Arms
Across the River and Into the Trees Ernest Hemingway, 1940s
The Famous Five (and others), Enid Blyton 1942-
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The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank 1947
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger, 1951
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison, 1952
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, 1953
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding 1954
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960
Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss 1960
Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961
Another Country, James Baldwin 1962
An Area of Darkness; India – A Million Mutinies Now;
Among The Believers – V. S. Naipaul
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley 1965
The Stud & The World Is Full of Married Men, Jackie Collins 1969/68
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Letters From Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi 1977-
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Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
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toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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Perform or None of the Above cross …
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Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
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Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
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Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
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Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all inclusive’
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Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully
wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional
stagnation but brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
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the rounds of consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we
have a sense of direction that will drive …
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The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013
Valuing Carnival The
Emperor’s New Tools#2.
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Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
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direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
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Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
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Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
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That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
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Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor’s New Troops. The dilemma
of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to
reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Demokrissy – Blogger
Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 –
Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
See Also:
Demokrissy: Winds
of Political Change – Dawn of T&T’s Arab Spring
Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in
Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 8:20 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare
to Facebook …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Related:
Demokrissy: To vote, just how we
party … Towards culturally …
Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all inclusive’
fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian David
Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of
things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully
wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional
stagnation but brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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The Emperor’s New Tools#1 …
Apr 07, 2013
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the rounds of consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we
have a sense of direction that will drive …
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Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013
Valuing Carnival The
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Demokrissy: Futuring the Post-2015
UNESCO Agenda
Apr 22, 2014
It is placing
increasing pressure for erasure of barriers of geography, age, ethnicity,
gender, cultures and other sectoral interests, and in utilising the tools
placed at our disposal to access our accumulate knowledge and technologies
towards eroding these superficial barriers. In this context, we believe that
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Dr Shadow’s Snakes’ Symphony. A Crapeaux Melody of the Great Flood: Where the Ganges Meet the Nile Tribute to Native Swamp Heroism (In Memoriam Dr Winston Bailey, The Mighty Shadow. Oct 4 1941 –Oct 23 2018)
Last night aShadow on my ceiling creep
There only to
disturb my sleep
disturb my sleep
From thin air
It appear
Just so, just
so
so
Out meh room
the warmth did flow!
the warmth did flow!
It mumbling: Bong ga nak, ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Shift yuh
carcass shift yuh carcass
carcass shift yuh carcass
Drink if
yuh drinking, dance if yuh dancing
yuh drinking, dance if yuh dancing
Let me do
my thing, Let me do meh thing
my thing, Let me do meh thing
I close meh eye
to shut it out
to shut it out
Trying hard not
to shout, Get Out
to shout, Get Out
In cape and
gown
gown
So unlike a
clown
clown
Behind meh closed
eye, it hanging, Oh bother!
eye, it hanging, Oh bother!
In big brimming
hat like a Midnight Robber!
hat like a Midnight Robber!
Bong ga nak, ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
I am not a bad
boy, but I cannot help it
boy, but I cannot help it
I am not a bad
boy, but I cannot help it
boy, but I cannot help it
It quips
Once black,
with mud, now filthy brown
with mud, now filthy brown
Dripping slimefrom toe to crown
‘Where you
from? The swamp? You goon!’
from? The swamp? You goon!’
‘Yeah’ it
rejoin, ‘from Caroni lagoon!’
rejoin, ‘from Caroni lagoon!’
I say,
You looking like
a booboo but yet the people love you
a booboo but yet the people love you
Admit it is
Obeah, yuh woking Obeah
Obeah, yuh woking Obeah
Bong ga nak, ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
Startled I ask:
‘Marn, you have no decorum?
‘Marn, you have no decorum?
To come without
invite into a woman’s bedroom?
invite into a woman’s bedroom?
It crowing!
Why? I don’t know!
Why? I don’t know!
It adds, eyes
glazed, false teeth falling out he gum!
glazed, false teeth falling out he gum!
Bong ga nak, ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
Cook Curry okroo,
Cook curry okroo
Cook curry okroo
And bring me some babash in this fo-rum
It croons
I say to the
fog
fog
You have a lot
of cheek
of cheek
’Tis not yuh
style this doublespeak
style this doublespeak
‘Now I too
start to feel the feeling
start to feel the feeling
Pom pom peedee
pom, pom, pom pom peedee pom,
pom, pom, pom pom peedee pom,
Pom pom peedee
pom, pom, pom pom pom, pom pom pom
pom, pom, pom pom pom, pom pom pom
The Shadow saysto me in glee, Demkorissy
Welcome me to
yuh literarti!
yuh literarti!
Bong ga nak, ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
Am I ugly or
what? Bad lucky or what?
what? Bad lucky or what?
It asks, rhetorically.
‘So what wrong
with you?’ annoyed, I ask.
with you?’ annoyed, I ask.
‘You think is
Carnival Dimanche Gras at the Queen’s Park?
Carnival Dimanche Gras at the Queen’s Park?
When they say rag wave yuh rag,
When they say flag, wave yuh flag
Marn, you have
it all wrong —
it all wrong —
Wait! What’s
dat? Is it ah ‘mergency horn?’
dat? Is it ah ‘mergency horn?’
Somebody would
horn you, you better believe it
horn you, you better believe it
Somebody go horn
you, I hope you could take it partner
you, I hope you could take it partner
Bong ga nak, ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
They still
sleeping sound, and will be till late morn
sleeping sound, and will be till late morn
From ODPM will
sound no disaster horn, Get On!’
sound no disaster horn, Get On!’
‘On with yuhstory,’ then I say. ‘Why you really here?
Out the window, watching the flood, he mutter
If ah cudda this/ And if yuh shudda, that
You wudda
this/And yuh wudda that
this/And yuh wudda that
No commonsense in this nonsense if yuh ask me,
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
The garden want water, the garden want water
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
‘Doc the last time we meet, you so nicely me greet
Now instead of biography
You goin have to write meh obituary
And we have to change the chorus from Pom Pom Peedee Pom’
I ask, ‘What change the chorus, you say?
‘Dingolay, yea, write how I Make Music sweet
In honeyed tones that bees hum and birds tweet
Tuned to the calls of cicadas cocricos and kiskadees
The breezes, trees, seas, and the crapeaux melodies
Bong ga nak,ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Music fills the
world with happiness
world with happiness
Plenty
sweetness and togetherness
sweetness and togetherness
Music have no
friends or enemies.
friends or enemies.
Everybody,
Could Dingolay
Could Dingolay
‘So why you come by me for Shadow
Me and you eh no real pardner you know’
He say ‘Doc, I hear you, too, was planning to forget the media
To plant bhajee in Hard Bargain an’ rewrite the encyclopedia
Just like how I was going to leave Calypso
To go and plant peas in Tobago’
’Cause every night I lie down in meh bed
Ah hearing a Bassman in meh head
And Bong ga nak, ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
I say, ‘Yea boy, too much bobol, I couldn’t make the grade
I put on meh garden boots, bury the doctorate in shade!
Try as I might
It was a great fight
To get the lagoon bush outta meh head
But as you well know promises doh butter bread
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
I’ve got One
Life to Live
Life to Live
The most that I
can do Is the best that I can do
can do Is the best that I can do
The rest is upto you I am only passing through
‘I come in peace,’ the Shadow softly whispers
‘On meh way to get me Doctor of Letters
Imagine that! A Doc, me, this Les Coteaux Jumbie
I trusting this message to you, give to UWI dem fuh me.
Doctor K, you have a Doc too, give me some advice
What troubling me? I’ll be more precise!
I wonder what
they know ‘bout human rights
they know ‘bout human rights
A human have a
right to live like a human
right to live like a human
A wo/man have
right to work well
right to work well
A wo/man have
right to be paid well
right to be paid well
Remind them what I said, about When I am gorn
All who condemning, I speaking to you,
Keep on
condemning till your time come too
condemning till your time come too
Be careful
don’t come down to hell
don’t come down to hell
I go rip offyour gizzard, put it in a coconut shell
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Hard head, like
yuh have stone in yuh brain
yuh have stone in yuh brain
Or a bone in
yuh brain, hard head
yuh brain, hard head
‘Mr Shadow, you think I doh know you dead!
Run! ah warning
you, Tan Tan
you, Tan Tan
Take yuh own
advice, Run!
advice, Run!
What use to you now really is this Doctorate?
Since you gone now to a much higher state!’
Sing boy sing, I remind him,
them was lyrics too
them was lyrics too
When you dead
the Government will bury you
the Government will bury you
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
He say, ‘Is dat self I asking mehself, gyul!
In this flood deluge I had plenty time to mull
Now the joy riders with donkey coming to meh funeral
Doc, is this higher purpose that bring me to your gate
With so much
love and devotion we follow they direction
love and devotion we follow they direction
Go round so,and come round so
And round the
bend and near the end
bend and near the end
Then Turn Right
And Turn Left
And Turn Left
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
‘What matters you state?’ I ask Shadow without guile,
And I could swear fuh true, you know, the thing smile
She say you would ask, that old lady, with who a mile I walk,
In flood, through cesspits, sewers, snakes slime, grime, the bilious
ole talk
ole talk
We all end up same, whether you born in luxury, or poverty
See two fishes fighting
for survival
for survival
The big one
swallow the small
swallow the small
Then up comes a
big shark from no where
big shark from no where
He make a grab
and swallow the pair
and swallow the pair
Then up comes
this fisherman with his hook
this fisherman with his hook
He grabs the
shark and make a cook
shark and make a cook
Next he end up
in the cemetery
in the cemetery
And worms start
eating he
eating he
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Curiosity now get the better of me, so I say
‘Shadow boy, so how yuh get outta the swamp dey?’
Gyul, there appear two Kalpoo boys, they pull off they coat,
And tell me to jump quick, on they sanctuary soca boat
That is what keep me afloat.
I don’t want to gloat
I don’t want to
sink dat soca boat
sink dat soca boat
Just don’t want
to sink dat soca boat
to sink dat soca boat
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
‘Down way?’ I ask, somewhat skeptically.
‘What you see? How you come? By which tributary?
From Kelly, Penal, Grande or Caroni; or down from Diego Valley?
And why you standing there, dripping swamp goo and so muddy!’
Says he, ‘Is a message I have from the great flood and beyond
That I come to give you, so you could pass it on’
Pirates in the Country/Pirates in the City
Pirates in the
basement/Pirates on the Pavement
basement/Pirates on the Pavement
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
The truth is gyul, them things not on my plate
But it must be because ah this new Doctorate
That I am now sent to tell, as you know too well,
‘Oh, don’t set up by La Horquetta, by Caroni no partition,’
Suddenly, humble, pleading, says the apparition
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
I come out to
play, I come out to play
play, I come out to play
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
‘What matters of State troubling you so?
Is this about the Sundar Popo-Stalin fiasco?
’Bout admin-police boots and bullets at UWI protest that morn
Or the bandits that take over tong, more killings each dawn
Or is it something about them Petrotrin files?
Man they worst
than mappipire
than mappipire
When they
making they racket
making they racket
They does dress
up in fine jacket
up in fine jacket
Some big fat
macajuel
macajuel
Drink out the
oil well
oil well
I doh know how
they find the key
they find the key
But they empty
the treasury
the treasury
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Snakes in the Balisier And they biting hard
Snake in the
Balisier Destroying Trinidad
Balisier Destroying Trinidad
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Says he: The time come now, watch the naked hills say
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
‘Yuh vex, that though forged from the love of liberty and
plenty, plenty
plenty, plenty
When they use to hug up tight tight tight
Oh what a nation oh what a sight!
One love, red and
ready, falling and rising dying and birthing
ready, falling and rising dying and birthing
Like the Galleon in the Bocas now with the sharks afloating
I would like to
see the day when love would come to stay
see the day when love would come to stay
One Love, One
Love
Love
It would be
happiness to see, such a unity
happiness to see, such a unity
One Love, One
Love
Love
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
‘Oh boy, Shadow, doh haunt meh nah, let me go back to rest
You know I want no part of that commess
Like you, I planning to leave the fight for fairness and justice
And go back to planting peas in Boug Mulatresse
Leave meh nah to retire quietly, pen meh legacy
Of days of yore and other fantasy.
The Shadow point to the rivers, filled
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Oh Les Coteau Jumbie Like yuh goin insane
Is the flood water or what? Are you right in yuh brain?
You working Obeah
Disturbing meh nirvana
‘Gyul, I am not a bad boy, but I cannot help it
Now Mother Nature say is time to Pay
the Devil
the Devil
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
You already sing how they building new flyover, then was Uriah,
now by Kay Donna
now by Kay Donna
You sing, they building super highway straight to Maracas, now is
to Toco Bay
to Toco Bay
Boy, I expose plenty corruption, plenty politricks
I talk ahready about the parliament kicks
When they win
the election the poor man eh stand a chance
the election the poor man eh stand a chance
You say it before, same
amount ah corruption, is de Same Khaki Pants
amount ah corruption, is de Same Khaki Pants
The sugar and the oil belts say, tell
them,
them,
Now is time to Pay the Devil
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Is you tell me promises
cyar butter me bread
cyar butter me bread
When I add meh own chorus, is then, just so, the Shadow
disappear
disappear
And yet I know that he still standing there, near
Hanging in the air
Signaling ‘all clear’
Yuh know he bring he own chorus, this Shadow on the wall.
The Spoiler, returned, with Walcott, Sundar, VS Nightfall and
departed souls all!
departed souls all!
The Nobel Refrain,
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
To my surprise
‘Twas not a disguise
The choir take over
Filling the atmosphere
To listen, I crossed my legs and sat
Under the brimming singing shadowy hat
Brass band strike up from nowhere
Horns, trumpets, rhythm section and grater
Drums and cymbal, shac shac and bells
And the air ring out: ‘Poverty is Hell’
Poverty is hell and the angels are in Paradise
Driving in their limousine where everything is nice
and clean
and clean
A poor man living in a teeny-weeny hut
The children hungry, nothing in the pot
He gone by the neighbour to beg for some rice
The neighbour under pressure, “Boy, things ent
nice.”
nice.”
He gone in the big shot area to beg
A police put a bullet in his teeny-weeny leg
He gone in the courts and he lost the case
The prosecutor say he have a bandit face
Poverty is hell! Poverty is hell!
Bong ga nak, ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
You sing that ah ready, I want to interrupt
But like they couldn’t hear, or they just wouldn’t stop:
Wake up in the morning and the baby cry
The sugar pan empty, the milk bottle dry
The little boy child on the mango tree
The mango green, hurting up his belly
The young girl bawling, she wouldn’t settle
She wipe she bumsie with stinging nettle
Toilet paper they never had
They used to tootoo in the gully by the old backyard
They rub she down and they put she to sleep
The rain come down and the house does leak
Poverty is hell! Poverty is hell!
Bong ga nak, ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
bon ga nak ahhh
Why you singing that now, the flood in yuh blood? I ask again,
But they already on to the next refrain:
A poor man always dream a lot of dream
He happy like a puppy when he dream another dream
He dream that he have a new roof on the hut
He dream that he have some good food in the pot
He dream that he have a rich friend name Frank
He dream that he have a lot of cash in the bank
He dream that he pay all his bills for the month
He dream that he have a new car in the front
He dream that he have to go to a fete
He dream that his pocket have a big, fat wallet
He wake up in the night and he rush for his pants
All he found in the pocket was a whole lot of ants
Poverty is hell! Poverty is hell!
I try one more time, ‘like (Sonny) Ladoo, the lagoon invade
allyuh brain?
allyuh brain?
With coral snake, scorpion, caiman, anaconda we try the swamp to
drain, in vain,
drain, in vain,
But the music my protest drown out
And they finish he calypso, almost in a shout!
Ten little children, four dumplings
Mummy got to slice them thin, thin, thin
A piece for a boy and a piece for a girl
A piece for the neighbour daughter Merle
The cat in the corner looking to beg
Little Jack Horner kick him in the leg
Go in the room and look for a rat
The rat in the roof, he know about cat
Now the cat see a chickichong (yeh-yeh!)
He rush for the chickichong
But the poor little chickichong
Flew away like a chickichong
Then cockroach gone in the condensed milk
Mama get vex for she condensed milk
Who leave the condensed milk open?
“Come here you picky head, good for nothing!”
Mama get vex and she blood get hot
She buss some lash in they you-know-what
Poverty is Hell! Poverty is Hell
So much pain in they voice, I sit up with respect
You shudda long time with Doctorate marn, be decked
Now what it is you want me to know?
You have my attention, Mighty Dr Shadow!
You looking like a boo boo and yet everybody love you
Tell me, what it is you want me to do?
The chorus gone quiet, listening, hexed?
All eager to know, what coming next!
Gyul, I come from the flood lagoon by Kelly
Dripping with filth and muddy
To let you pass on meh story
Of the pain and the glory
Of what I see when I went under the water
Of what wonders in this filth like Columbus, I discover
So what you see? Shadow. What you see, tell we, the Chorus
chants
chants
With one voice and as if in a ganja trance!
I see plenty people crying and asking why?
Holding they head, bawling, looking up to the sky
We know God is a Trini
But like God abandon we
And now is ketch tail for we
In this the land of milk and honey.
The horror is there plain for all to see
And more so how much damage division causing all ah we
The chorus nod, we have to agree
Tension in we body
Tension in meh belly
They controlling we energy
So Mother Nature take charge and start singing with we
So it is Nature’s Plan, cause we get chupidee
Angry, greedy, too much thievery, no broughtupsy
To ease the Tension. Whapp Cocoyea, flood in Grande
Ease the Tension. Whaddap Cocoyea more flood in Caroni
The bickering didn’t stop so Whapp-Wadapp by UWI, the Croissee,
in Diego Valley
in Diego Valley
For all them running off with we oil money
For all them plastics and more polluting we country
For killing we wildlife and we forestry
And splitting we up culturally
The criminals, the banditry and the jammetry
Ease the
Tension. Whapp Cocoyea, Pay de Devil, One Pong ah flood
Tension. Whapp Cocoyea, Pay de Devil, One Pong ah flood
Ease the
Tension. Whaddap Cocoyea Pay de Devil, 100 million Pong ah flood
Tension. Whaddap Cocoyea Pay de Devil, 100 million Pong ah flood
Shadow sings: ‘So are we feeling the feelings baby?’
The Chorus join in: Yea we feeling the feelings
Shadow sings: ‘Are we getting the symptoms? ‘
The Chorus join in: ‘Yea, getting the symptoms’
‘Swing the thing, Whap Cocoyea
Swing the thing, Wadapp Cocoyea.
Ease the
Tension. Whapp Cocoyea, Pay de Devil, One Pong ah flood
Tension. Whapp Cocoyea, Pay de Devil, One Pong ah flood
Ease theTension. Whaddap Cocoyea Pay de Devil, more billions in flood
I face off with Shadow: ‘So Is Mother Nature telling we
To live in peace, love and harmony
That’s what you come back to tell we?
That is what why you disrupt meh sleepy?’
‘Is something else I want to leave with you,’ to appease me, he
say,
say,
Of what I see and why; it was in the flood down they.
He wave he finger and I see more shadows coming
Creeping like janjee, mapepire, and coral snakes crawling
I begin to shiver, like Plummer I quiver, What is thees?
Are these the horsemen of the apocalypse?
A swamp full of skeletons, shadows emerging
Like this is it, now, the eruption, the crescendo ending!
All those
lofty bards treated with disdain
lofty bards treated with disdain
All who
voices been croaking in vain
voices been croaking in vain
The dingolay
band stretch from From Mayaro through Toco
band stretch from From Mayaro through Toco
Across to No
Man’s Land through Charlottville and Scarborough in Tobago
Man’s Land through Charlottville and Scarborough in Tobago
Old
people, young people, everybody
people, young people, everybody
Since First
Trini wo/man, the dearly departed Banwari
Trini wo/man, the dearly departed Banwari
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Whapp CocoyeaWadapp Cocoyea!
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Ah see in
there some ah meh pardners too
there some ah meh pardners too
Some who
was just collateral damage, Asami,
and Irmes, is
you?
was just collateral damage, Asami,
and Irmes, is
you?
The Anthony’s:
Sabga,
ABoudain, with a pot
of pelau and the ArchBishop
too
Sabga,
ABoudain, with a pot
of pelau and the ArchBishop
too
The civil
rights fighters like Sheila
and Dana,
who tried to keep
alive hope
rights fighters like Sheila
and Dana,
who tried to keep
alive hope
All the lagahoo
spirits turn up
spirits turn up
And meh
own shadow self, drowned and resurrected from the lagoons of Chup
own shadow self, drowned and resurrected from the lagoons of Chup
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Poets,
priests and prophets like Meh
Colligan Pa, Anson,
priests and prophets like Meh
Colligan Pa, Anson,
Walcott,
now a sower in the sky, carrying JurisPrudence,
ransomed,
now a sower in the sky, carrying JurisPrudence,
ransomed,
Sir Vidia pelting picong at all the coochoor stored
in a Nightwatchman’s backpack
in a Nightwatchman’s backpack
Meh
Colligan Pa, with he market gang, Mother Cornhusk, Papa Nisa a bois he
crack.
Colligan Pa, with he market gang, Mother Cornhusk, Papa Nisa a bois he
crack.
Skeletons
and bones from overgrown tombstones
neglected and vandalized
and bones from overgrown tombstones
neglected and vandalized
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Poor Peter,
still trying to save he drowning legacy, Banwari,
still trying to save he drowning legacy, Banwari,
Murdered like
clear Claire,
buried in the cemetery for the dreamy
clear Claire,
buried in the cemetery for the dreamy
Though
they try to build a broad bridge, it sink
they try to build a broad bridge, it sink
With The
Other Magnificent Seven all left on the brink
Other Magnificent Seven all left on the brink
Tears and
more tears for the hate-tees
aflowing from pains
more tears for the hate-tees
aflowing from pains
The Noble Naparima
raped and scarred and drained of the oil in she veins
raped and scarred and drained of the oil in she veins
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Pac Pac Pac PacPac Pac Pac Pay De Devil!
Whapp Cocoyea
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Wadapp Cocoyea!
Bong ga nak,
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
ahhh bon ga nak ahhh
Is this
whole lagoon tribe take up position with he
whole lagoon tribe take up position with he
In this
grand concert, the crapeaux and snakes symphony
grand concert, the crapeaux and snakes symphony
Pac Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac
Pac Pac Pac
Bong ga nak, bon
ga nak ahhh
ga nak ahhh
Take this and tell them, is the message from the swamp
What I see down there with meh costume all damp,
What Mother Nature say, why she send the flood,
Not to damage and destroy all, not to add to the flowing blood
You doing that yuhself, aheady; Is to remind you of what youcould be
If you stop being chupidee; To remind you that all ah we, ‘bago
too is Trini
too is Trini
Take that message for me to UWI
Shout it out from the Croisee to Caroni
Rio to Mayaro all the way to Toco and into Tobago
Across Grande, San Juan, dong Diego, the Creek and in the Bamboo
This is what Mother Nature send me back to say
Then just so, not shadow, but light fill up the air.
I look at the note
Surprise at what Shadow wrote
’Twas not a song of the Bassman
’Twas another’s anthem.
Of people reaching a hand to help one another
Realising they each other’s keeper
The Shadow
gone, is then like Selvon I hear thunder
gone, is then like Selvon I hear thunder
As the great
big chorus retreat too back up yonder
big chorus retreat too back up yonder
I watch the note in meh hand from the Shadow
And the grand concert for relief to save Trinbago
In the note the chant Nature choose for all to render
To honour the people, little people, who became great big
saviours
saviours
Once
upon a time there was a magic island
upon a time there was a magic island
Full of
magic people.
magic people.
Let me
tell you a story
tell you a story
‘Bout
their pain and their glory, oh yeah.
their pain and their glory, oh yeah.
Many
rivers flowed to this naked isle
rivers flowed to this naked isle
Bringing
fear and pain
fear and pain
But
also a brand new style.
also a brand new style.
And of
all these rivers that shaped this land
all these rivers that shaped this land
Two
mighty ones move like a sculptors hand.
mighty ones move like a sculptors hand.
And
today those hands, across the land, man, they’re still landscaping.
today those hands, across the land, man, they’re still landscaping.
And
there’s no doubt we go work it out, there is no escaping.
there’s no doubt we go work it out, there is no escaping.
As theriver flows there are those who would change its passage.
But
every common man got to under-stand up and send a message.
every common man got to under-stand up and send a message.
So put
up your hand if you understand now.
up your hand if you understand now.
Come.
See how
we moving, watch how we grooving
we moving, watch how we grooving
See how
we step in style.
we step in style.
One
lovely nation, under a groove
lovely nation, under a groove
The
Ganges come meet the Nile.
Ganges come meet the Nile.
Them
boys with the hidden agendas, and the mind-benders,
boys with the hidden agendas, and the mind-benders,
People
done take in front.
done take in front.
Various
smart men, and politicians can come along if they want.
smart men, and politicians can come along if they want.
Cus the
people got the power, and the glory.
people got the power, and the glory.
See how
we float in style.
we float in style.
See how
we moving, watch how we grooving.
we moving, watch how we grooving.
The
Ganges has met the Nile
Ganges has met the Nile
Differences,
there will always be.
there will always be.
So let
you be you, and I’ll be me.
you be you, and I’ll be me.
That’s
the damn ting self that makes it sweet.
the damn ting self that makes it sweet.
Brotherbring your drum, leh we start to beat.
Don’t
mind them politcky politicky politicky politicky politicians.
mind them politcky politicky politicky politicky politicians.
And
with their politricky politricky politricky politricky situations.
with their politricky politricky politricky politricky situations.
We done
jamming and we jamming and we jamming and jam cus we know the story.
jamming and we jamming and we jamming and jam cus we know the story.
Let
them fight if they want in this land of a different glory. (i might have this
line wrong)
them fight if they want in this land of a different glory. (i might have this
line wrong)
So put
up your hand if you understand now
up your hand if you understand now
Come.
See how
we moving, watch how we grooving
we moving, watch how we grooving
See how
we step in style.
we step in style.
One
lovely nation, under a groove
lovely nation, under a groove
The
Ganges has met the Nile.
Ganges has met the Nile.
Them
boys with the hidden agendas, and the mind-benders,
boys with the hidden agendas, and the mind-benders,
They
will always do their do.
will always do their do.
Various
smart men, and politicians, dem could come along too.
smart men, and politicians, dem could come along too.
Cus we
moving with the power, and the glory.
moving with the power, and the glory.
See how
we float in style.
we float in style.
See how
we moving, watch how we grooving.
we moving, watch how we grooving.
See how
we moving, watch how we grooving
we moving, watch how we grooving
See how
we float in style.
we float in style.
One
lovely nation, under a groove
lovely nation, under a groove
The
Ganges come meet the Nile.
Ganges come meet the Nile.
I look
into the water and see the Shadow, at peace at last
into the water and see the Shadow, at peace at last
‘You
understand, now, why I had to by you pass?’
understand, now, why I had to by you pass?’
I look
at the Shadow, ‘But that is not your calypso!’
at the Shadow, ‘But that is not your calypso!’
Smilingly,
he big brim hat bow, ‘yeah, that I know, I know
he big brim hat bow, ‘yeah, that I know, I know
But ah passing the baton over
To we prophet bard David Rudder
‘From all o’ we creators and back, as you well know,
Nature, rivers, sun, seas, wind, all energies, as one, flow.
In tribute and memorium Winston Bailey, The
Mighty Shadow. Oct 4 1941 –Oct 23 2018
Mighty Shadow. Oct 4 1941 –Oct 23 2018
With Excerpts from his calypsoes and lyrics of
David Rudder’s Ganges and the Nile
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of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to
reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Demokrissy – Blogger
Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 –
Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
See Also:
Demokrissy: Winds
of Political Change – Dawn of T&T’s Arab Spring
Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in
Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 8:20 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare
to Facebook …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Related:
Demokrissy: To vote, just how we
party … Towards culturally …
Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all
inclusive’ fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian
David Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of
things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully wrinkled,
deeply over with concerns about political and institutional stagnation but
brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor’s New Troops. The dilemma
of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to
reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Demokrissy – Blogger
Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 –
Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
See Also:
Demokrissy: Winds
of Political Change – Dawn of T&T’s Arab Spring
Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in
Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 8:20 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare
to Facebook …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Related:
Demokrissy: To vote, just how we
party … Towards culturally …
Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all
inclusive’ fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian
David Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of
things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully
wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional
stagnation but brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Others: Demokrissy: Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 …
Apr 07, 2013
Old Casked Rum: The
Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had
the rounds of consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we
have a sense of direction that will drive …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013
Valuing Carnival The
Emperor’s New Tools#2.
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Wave a flag for a party
rag…Choosing the Emperor’s New …
Oct 20, 2013
Choosing the Emperor’s
New Troops. The dilemma of choice. Voting is supposed to be an … Old Casked
Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 10:36 AM …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Carnivalising the
Constitution People Power …
Feb 26, 2014
This Demokrissy
series, The Emperor’s New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of
evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Envisioning
outside-the-island-box … – Demokrissy – Blogger
Feb 10, 2014
This Demokrissy
series, The Emperor’s New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of
evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Futuring the Post-2015
UNESCO Agenda
Apr 22, 2014
It is placing
increasing pressure for erasure of barriers of geography, age, ethnicity,
gender, cultures and other sectoral interests, and in utilising the tools
placed at our disposal to access our accumulate knowledge and technologies
towards eroding these superficial barriers. In this context, we believe that
the work of UNESCO remains significant and relevant and that UNESCO is indeed
the institution best positioned to consolidate the ….. The Emperor’s New
Tools …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Cutting edge journalism
Jun 15, 2010
The Emperor’s New
Tools. Loading… AddThis. Bookmark and Share. Loading… Follow by Email.
About Me. My Photo · Kris Rampersad. Media, Cultural and Literary Consultant,
Facilitator, Educator and Practitioner. View my …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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Demokrissy: Wave a flag for a party
rag…Choosing the Emperor’s …
Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor’s New Troops. The dilemma
of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to
reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Demokrissy – Blogger
Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 –
Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
See Also:
Demokrissy: Winds
of Political Change – Dawn of T&T’s Arab Spring
Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in
Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 8:20 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare
to Facebook …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Related:
Demokrissy: To vote, just how we
party … Towards culturally …
Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all
inclusive’ fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian
David Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of
things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully wrinkled,
deeply over with concerns about political and institutional stagnation but
brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor’s New Troops. The dilemma
of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to
reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Demokrissy – Blogger
Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 –
Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
See Also:
Demokrissy: Winds
of Political Change – Dawn of T&T’s Arab Spring
Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in
Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 8:20 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare
to Facebook …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Related:
Demokrissy: To vote, just how we
party … Towards culturally …
Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all
inclusive’ fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian
David Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of
things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully
wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional
stagnation but brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Others: Demokrissy: Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 …
Apr 07, 2013
Old Casked Rum: The
Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had
the rounds of consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we
have a sense of direction that will drive …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013
Valuing Carnival The
Emperor’s New Tools#2.
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Wave a flag for a party
rag…Choosing the Emperor’s New …
Oct 20, 2013
Choosing the Emperor’s
New Troops. The dilemma of choice. Voting is supposed to be an … Old Casked
Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 10:36 AM …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Carnivalising the
Constitution People Power …
Feb 26, 2014
This Demokrissy
series, The Emperor’s New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of
evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Envisioning
outside-the-island-box … – Demokrissy – Blogger
Feb 10, 2014
This Demokrissy
series, The Emperor’s New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of
evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Futuring the Post-2015
UNESCO Agenda
Apr 22, 2014
It is placing
increasing pressure for erasure of barriers of geography, age, ethnicity,
gender, cultures and other sectoral interests, and in utilising the tools
placed at our disposal to access our accumulate knowledge and technologies
towards eroding these superficial barriers. In this context, we believe that
the work of UNESCO remains significant and relevant and that UNESCO is indeed
the institution best positioned to consolidate the ….. The Emperor’s New
Tools …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Cutting edge journalism
Jun 15, 2010
The Emperor’s New
Tools. Loading… AddThis. Bookmark and Share. Loading… Follow by Email.
About Me. My Photo · Kris Rampersad. Media, Cultural and Literary Consultant,
Facilitator, Educator and Practitioner. View my …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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Disaster Reduction and Risk Management 101 A Information Flood Relief Where to Go How to Help Shelters Food Clothing Grants Vehicle and Household Repair Donations Hospitals Heatlh Care
We have all been heartened by the spirit of community and concern from neighbours, friends and strangers that emerged from the rescue and response to the flooding of the last two days.
Why don’t we build on that spirit and harness it to strengthen our national resolve and to take us forward. Key lesson from my classroom on Disaster Risk reduction and management is: We need to manage the risks, not just the disaster!!
It’s not over, and the clean up has begun and with continuation of the weather conditions that produced it forecasted to continue into the early week. Already with the ongoing rains the flood zones have expanded to north and west Trinidad, while the Friday-Saturday East-Central-Souh zones still remain in emergency mode.
The North-Central-South highway has become partially operational and there is still limited traffic flow there and on the Southern Main Road and other roadways.
The North-Central-South highway has become partially operational and there is still limited traffic flow there and on the Southern Main Road and other roadways.
There are many persons and organisations who have been helping in the relief efforts.
to Keep Hope Alive, Leaves of Life with DEMOKRISSY will communicate pertinent information here and its other public social media channels. Keep checking as there will be updates. We do not hold copyrights to these images but sharing as a public service.The immediate need in relation to various relief efforts, help centres and facilities for those in need.
Feel free to add your initiative in the comments section.
Leaves of Life/Demokrissy will try to post as many as possible and encourage you to post your relief efforts here in the comments or its allied social links. See photos this page too for details of releif efforts.
Here is a preliminary list.
SHELTERS & Relief Centres
Shelters are as follows to date:
Munroe Road Hindu School
La Horquetta South Government school has requested the following supplies (contact 290-8298) for more information:
Toothbrushes and toothpasteSlippersToiletriesUnderwear and socksAntibiotic creamFirst aid kitsPanadolCoffee/TeaCornflakes and milkOther initiatives and collection points
Toothbrushes and toothpasteSlippersToiletriesUnderwear and socksAntibiotic creamFirst aid kitsPanadolCoffee/TeaCornflakes and milkOther initiatives and collection points
Transport and Boats
RAVI AND NAVIN KALPOO: Supplied Tour Boats to rescue persons
Pump Servcies:
ISaac Holdings in St Helena is offering pumps to assist wth water Call (868) 787-8350 Email
isaacholdingsltd@gmail.com
Transport Rescue Services
Boat
FIRST Responders in the striken district of Kelly Village, St Helena were the Kalpoo Brothers who rescued more that 500 people marooned by floods.
Navin Kalpoo and brother Ravi are now distributing food and supplies after they rescued many on several trips through the floods ferrying. residents, many who spent the night on their roofs to escape the rising waters.
Navin and his brother run Ibis tours in the Caroni Bird Sanctuary.
Roger Ganesh of Kallco made trucks available: Larry Lalla and team provided supplies and helped transport at risk individuals giving food and water
Nalini Akal (758-1110) has a boat and willing to help with transportation to access persons in affected homes in Kelly Village
Devindra Maharaj provided and used his kayaks to access areas in St Helena/El Carmen which proved too treacherous for the trucks.
Health & Medical Relief Services
Public Health Centres will be open 24/7: La Horquetta, Arouca, Couva, Princes Town, Siparia, Toco, Valencia, Mayaro, Reio Claro
Extended Hours at Gran Riviere and Brothers road Heatlh Facilities.
Disabled Assistance:
Trinidad & Tobago Association of the Hairing Impaired: Deaf or hearing impaired persons in distress can contact Qushiba La Fleur of the Association via text and WhatsApp at 787-4271.
Pet Rescue and Care:
Food and Supplies:
The Mustapha Project
DON’T LEAVE THEM BEHIND
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| Pet Rescue and Care |
DON’T CHAIN OR LOCK IN KENNELS
Shelters and Help and Info on affected Pets: Dogs, Cats and others
Anyone would like to donate chow, towels or any essentials for
displaced and abandoned animals please contact The Mustapha Prokect, Animal Welfare Network at 627-3449 or
Pet-Point Vet-Clinic.
displaced and abandoned animals please contact The Mustapha Prokect, Animal Welfare Network at 627-3449 or
Pet-Point Vet-Clinic.
Flooding is not only terrifying to us but to them as well. The
difference is we as humans have the ability to seek refugee or safeguard
ourselves – they don’t, they solely depend on us for their well-being.
difference is we as humans have the ability to seek refugee or safeguard
ourselves – they don’t, they solely depend on us for their well-being.
With this in mind please if you are evacuating or securing yourself due
to the inclement weather please do not leave them behind. Don’t chain them or
lock them in kennels as due to the rising waters this can deal to their death.
to the inclement weather please do not leave them behind. Don’t chain them or
lock them in kennels as due to the rising waters this can deal to their death.
Even if it isn’t your dog or cat or pet and you see these animals in
distress please make an effort to save them – at least offer temporary shelter.
distress please make an effort to save them – at least offer temporary shelter.
AWN (Animal Welfare Network) is collecting chow and other items to
distribute to those in need,
distribute to those in need,
vets and vet clinics such as Golden Pride and Dr.
Sookdeo are offering assistance to those in need.
Sookdeo are offering assistance to those in need.
Wildlife Orphanage and Rehabilitation Centre 637-3842
El Soccorro Centre for Wildlife Conservation 673-5753
Food and Supplies:
Flood Relief Collection Drives:
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| Flood Drive St Josephs Convent San Fernando wednesday Oct 24 |
St Joseph Convent’s, San Fernando, flood relief drive on Wednesday October 24 at the school.
Flood relief efforts at Cafe Elyon on Independence Avenue , San Fernando.
The following are some who supplied food
The Paladee/Pennywise Family and Pasea Sai Center team, Devesh Maharaj and POS Sai Centre team
Royal Castle, KFC, Kiss Baking Company
Staff at MassyStores Trincity prepared meals to be distributed.
The Persad Group of Companies.
Clubs: Collating Relief Supply Efforts
Rotary Clubs: St Helena, Arima, St Augustine: The Rotary Club of St Augustine: contact Maria at 678-4447, Rani: 684
Clothes, blankets, toiletries etc. Contact: Email admin@lwctt.org or call 625-6730 for more.
Members of Parliament in flooded areas collecting relief supplies
The owners of the PDFK Group – D Food King Express, Persad’s D Food King , Bright Ideas and Viaaa and faithful colleagues who always put community first . Kevon Fletcher , Shanti , Tricia , Uncle , Avellene, Lorna, Geeta, Sherryann,Manaday, Michelle, Rani and Lal. Kevon Fletcher on a seconds notice mobilized his D Food Express team – Rio Claro ,as we partnered with Shanti Singh , Thick Chick And the MRC Regional Corporation And DMU as well as their catering Teams to distribute Hot Meals and a Drink . Well done and God’s
Hard working Chairman ,Councillors, Police , Firemen , Disaster Management Unit , Health Care Providers And Social workers, Members of Parliament
Members of Parliament in flooded areas collecting relief supplies
The owners of the PDFK Group – D Food King Express, Persad’s D Food King , Bright Ideas and Viaaa and faithful colleagues who always put community first . Kevon Fletcher , Shanti , Tricia , Uncle , Avellene, Lorna, Geeta, Sherryann,Manaday, Michelle, Rani and Lal. Kevon Fletcher on a seconds notice mobilized his D Food Express team – Rio Claro ,as we partnered with Shanti Singh , Thick Chick And the MRC Regional Corporation And DMU as well as their catering Teams to distribute Hot Meals and a Drink . Well done and God’s
Hard working Chairman ,Councillors, Police , Firemen , Disaster Management Unit , Health Care Providers And Social workers, Members of Parliament
Sails Restaurant Chaguaramas assisting by collecting Tinned Food Stuff, Bottled Water, Cleaning Supplies, Clothes , Hygienic Products , Blankets, Sheets, Cots etc to distributeto staff in flooded districts Wesley @ 726-8992, Kavita@ 768-0238, Cindy@ 783-3774
Pundit Sunil Seetahal Maharaj and members of the Ganesh Utsav Foundation for reaching out to assist. They prepared over 1,000 meals , hampers and hygiene packages for flood victims. This is Dharma in Action.
Car Repairs
Free flood relief service
Mechanic Anil Hosein to diagnose and repair for four days. Persons must supply parts. call 273- 3536
Appliance Repairs Volunteer
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Home Repairs
Habitat for Humanity
All donations received at this time will be dedicated to disaster relief. Please contact Jennifer at 742-4663
Habitat Trinidad and Tobago is working with the national community to help families affected by the October Floods.
HABITAT HOMEOWNERS: Contact 489-4663 by WhatsApp and email construction@habitat-tt.org for assistance with your Habitat house
CORPORATE DONORS: Contact 782-4663 or 742-4663 and email donate@habitat-tt.org
VOLUNTEERS: Contact 702-4663 by WhatsApp or email volunteer@habitat-tt.org or contactus@habitat-tt.org
For online donations, please go to https://www.habitat-tt.org/product/donation/
Public Assistance Government Grants
- Housing Assistance/Repairs Grants to a maximum of $20,000.00 for persons who may require housing repairs due to destruction to their homes following a natural disaster.
- A Household Grant to a maximum of up to $10,000.00 to assist with the replacement of household items lost as a result a natural disaster. These items include:
Refrigerator
Stove
Living Room/Dining Room Sets
Washing Machines
Bed and Mattress
Chest of Drawers
Wardrobe
Kitchen Cupboards
- Temporary Food Support valued at $550.00 is provided where food items were lost/destroyed.
- School Supplies Grant which is valued at $700.00 for Primary Schoolers and $1,000.00 for Secondary Schoolers respectively, to replace school supplies which are lost as a result of a natural disaster.
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- Counselling and psycho-social support are available to families and individuals in distress as a result of a natural disaster, from the National Family Services Division (NFSD), which is located at 95 -97 Frederick Street, Port of Spain (at the Law Association Bldg. opposite Elections and Boundaries Commission). Contact the NFSD at 794-7483 or 784-5583.
- Household Items Grant.
- Clothing Grant.
- Housing Repair Grant.
- Medical Equipment Grant.
- Home Help Grant.
- Dietary Grant.
- Pharmaceutical Grant.
- Education Grant.
- School Textbooks Grant.
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- Special Child Grant.
- Uniform Grant.
- Burial Order or Funeral Grant.
- A victim of disaster such as hurricane, fire or flood.
- A client of the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services or other needy person who is in dire need of assistance.
Cleaning Up, Sanitation, Hygiene and Safe Food Preparation After the Floods
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| Hygiene and food security and preparation after floods |
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| Presentation College San Fernando Relief Drive |
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| Flod Relief Supply Collction |
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| Sand bags collectin and fillng |
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| Regional Corporation Hotlines |
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| Cafe Elyon collection point |
The Corrporate Relief Efforts:
T&T Chamber, AMCHAM T&T, Energy Chamber, TTCSI, and TTMA: See image this page
The Joint Chambers are working together on disaster relief, and donations can dropped off at the following points:
Web Source Company Ltd, 16 Trincity Business Park, TrincityThe Trinidad & Tobago Manufacturers’ Association, 42 Tenth St, San JuanUnicomer (Courts), Calcutta Settlement Road #1, Freeport (security will collect)If you need assistance transporting goods, you can contact Adrian at Websource (adrian@shipwebsource.com).
Suggested donations include (packed and labeled): bottled waternon-perishable food itemstowelscleaning supplies (brooms, mops, latex gloves, floor squeegees, garbage bags, soap powder)diapers (adult and baby)sanitary napkinstoiletriessmall mattresses and sheets/blanketssand bags
T&T Chamber, AMCHAM T&T, Energy Chamber, TTCSI, and TTMA: See image this pageThe Joint Chambers are working together on disaster relief, and donations can dropped off at the following points:
Web Source Company Ltd, 16 Trincity Business Park, TrincityThe Trinidad & Tobago Manufacturers’ Association, 42 Tenth St, San JuanUnicomer (Courts), Calcutta Settlement Road #1, Freeport (security will collect)If you need assistance transporting goods, you can contact Adrian at Websource (adrian@shipwebsource.com).
Suggested donations include (packed and labeled): bottled waternon-perishable food itemstowelscleaning supplies (brooms, mops, latex gloves, floor squeegees, garbage bags, soap powder)diapers (adult and baby)sanitary napkinstoiletriessmall mattresses and sheets/blanketssand bags
Donors must fill in and online form when making donations.
Scribbles and Quills Bookstore with Eniath’s Montessori & Prep School collecting non-perishable food items in Chaguanas. 780-3763
Trinidad & Tobago Red Cross Society: drop-off at La Horquetta Primary School. Items collecting: diapers, shoes, towels, home-cooked meals, dry food items, baby milk, kettles, and water. Contact Akeisha (355-7661) or Ayana (469-6455).
Donate money to the Red Cross Fund: RBL bank account #180482517101.
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The Living Water Community, 109 Frederick St, Port of Spain:
Accepting donations of sandwiches, individually wrapped (no beef or pork); Cooked rice and peas, with chicken if possible, and boxed if at all possible
Closet Red Plus Size Boutique (Mt Lambert branch) accepting donations for ITNAC – Is There Not a Cause. Contact: Sonja Pollonais https://m.facebook.com/ClosetRed/D’real McCoy Grill House (Piarco) 228-7334
Food donations can be made here:
Port of Spain The Atelier Makeup & Beauty Lounge(Long Circular Road, Maraval): call 328-2603
The Canvas Restaurant (St James) is preparing meals for flood victims. Contact Chrissie Amar at 776-8708
The Movement (Circular Road, San Fernando): contact 302-4050, 337-5170, 780-5009, or 715-6972
Barataria Regional Complex: contact Noble Kissoon (Chairman) at 788-3431 or Kirtia Arthur (Manager) at 389-8676
Port of Spain City Corporation: donations can be made to City Hall (Knox St, opposite Woodford Square. Contact Councillor Akil Durham at 704-2710
ScoutsTT is asking the public to assist in the collection of food and toiletries for individuals affected by the flooding by donating to Scouts stationed at the following supermarkets across Trinidad and Tobago: JTA – all branches, Massy Stores – West Moorings, St. Ann’s, Maraval, Gulf View. Or contact 322-9697 to make alternative arrangements
Scouts are supporting relief efforts at La Horquetta South Primary School
Eventualize Concepts (Champs Fleurs): eventualizeconcepts@gmail.com, 492-6096 ,or 495-3604 to donate hot meals, canned foods, water, clothing, toiletries, etc
Fan Zone (Centre City Mall in Chaguanas) is a collection point for relief items. Contact Shivani at 672-6766
FariLife Movement: Crystal Granado at 497-6390
Fantasy Carnival, MBAR, Woodford Café, and Buzz Bar: contact Jase at 368-4868 for details
Glimmer of Hope Foundation: Zahir Ali via WhatsApp at 756-9846
Hillview College (El Dorado Road, Tunapuna): accepting donations, contact Stephen Bedase 746-3147
Joy of Giving is accepting water, food, and mattresses at 20 Abercromby Street, Port of Spain. Contact: Kandace at 276-4422 or Nicola at 678-1427
Collection Donation Points in San Fernando
Nisha Mangroo at the San Fernando Disaster Management Unit is collecting.
San Fernando open bibble church
San Fernando City Corporation
San Fernando yacht club
Please contact 385-8060 for drop off at the Sum Sum Hill mandir.
Operation #FOOD (Farmers Opting to Overcome Disaster)
Notwithstanding their own loss of hundreds of acres of food production, a partnership between farmers and concerned citizens served meals and relief supplies to flood affected families in Kelly Village, Piarco, St Helena, Las Lomas and environs last weekend and next to South Trinidad!
Couva Mandir and Sum Sum Hill Mandir are coordinating efforts to assist in relief to flood victims. They will be acting as centres for collection and transmission. Presently items required:
Cooked food
Canned, ready to eat food
Cleaning chemicals, bleach etc
Brooms, mops, sponges
Mattresses
Shoes, socks
Underwear
Sanitary supplies
Citizens who are willing to assist in efforts. Please call or message Jason from Sum Sum Hill Mandir at 385-8060 for directions.
Persons in South Trinidad who would like to donate the following items can drop off at the Marabella ASJA Masjid ( Maraj Lands Marabella, nextdoor T.O.S.L)
– Bottled Water
– Cleaning Supplies
– Canned Foods
Call 748 2288, 714-7767 and 730 7595.
Vehicle Flood Repair, Service, Insurance and Tips:
Car Repairs Serves:
Beacon insurance is inviting customers who have suffered losses due to the recent floods. to contact their office to begin assisting with claims:
Nicholas 387 8493, Andrea 299 2291, Sean 382 1818, Carlene 752 8306, Sunita 299 4515, Junior 757 7411
Some quick tips as well that may help minimize damage to your flooded vehicles:
1. Do not start your vehicle after it has been flooded
2. Call a wrecker and take it to a trusted garage/repair shop when it is safe to do so
3. Change oil
4. Check integrity of electrical systems
5. Only then should you try to start your vehicle
More flood advice:
– Do not throw out your damaged appliances and furniture. Min of Social Dev representatives need to visit and see them in order to approve your flood grant.
– Also leave water level marks on your walls, do not clean them off. Some of the reps do not believe the water levels when you tell them
– Follow up your applications in the Soc Development office yourself.
Offers of Private Health Care too from individuals who may share their information here.
Appliance Repairs:
Technician Ephraim James offers to fix flood damaged appliance for free. Call 704-1094
Relief Grants
Ministry of Social Development: grants are available via the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services for those affected. Call the hotline for assistance: 800-1MSD (1673).
October 24, 2017: The Ministry of Social Development and Family Services wishes to advise and remind the general public that grant funding is available to persons who are affected by flooding and other natural disasters, as well as man-made disasters like fire. These grants are outlined below:
The public is also reminded that the procedure for flood relief funding includes needs assessments which will be conducted by the Regional Corporations and this information will be communicated to the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services, where verification will quickly take place to provide the necessary relief.
Persons may also contact the Ministry of Social Development and Family Services’ Hotline at 800-1MSD or any of our Social Welfare District offices and via the Ministry’s Facebook Page for further information and clarification.
While the Ministry is unable to replace all that has been lost at this time, it remains committed to assisting in restoring some level of normalcy to flood victims and their families.
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The Government’s is working on grant assistance for affected families and individuals to restore household appliances, school books and supplies schools. The Ministry is also offering psychosocial support and counselling, immediate food support, clothing grant, as well as assistance towards replacing damaged household items like refrigerators, washing machines, bed and mattresses and more, in an effort to bring relief to affected individuals and households.
Persons can look at potential grants through this link:
The grants administered under the Emergency Cases Fund are:
To qualify for these grants you must be:
Apply through the Social Welfare Division office in your district. Forms and further information available in this link
Corporate Relief Funds Established See images this page
The ANSA McAl Groups, including Guardian Media has launched a One million dollar Flood of Relief fund with its contribution groups: The Agostini Group of Companies, The Prestige Group of Companies, Sagicor, Dairy Dairy, Colin Sabga (Iceland), FireOne Fireworks and Fineline
Distributors., Hadco, Massy, Blue Waters, Global Brands (Pizza Boys). for information persons can email floodrelief@guardian.co.tt
Office of Disaster Management Advisory Sunday Oct 21, 10.30pm
PUBLIC ADVISORY #13 – ADVERSE WEATHER UPDATE
website:
Sunday 21st October, 2018 10:30 P.M.
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President of Trinidad and Tobago Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes pins the 2018 National Medal for the Development of Women Gold on Author/Educator/Advocate Dr Kris Rampersad at the National Awards Ceremony on Republic Day. See more One moment in time: story of a storyteller extraordinaire:https://goo.gl/xn1XfC
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Women in Red or Ladies in Red? Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes with recipient of the 2018 National Medal for the Development of Women Gold at the Awards ceremony National Performing Arts Academy on Republic Day see the event recap linked here The Walk of Excellence: a life in 60 seconds to receive the National Award for the Development of Women: https://goo.gl/wk4pBx
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The Walk of Excellence: Women in Red with Sixty Seconds Worth of distance run at the National Awards
‘Excellent!’ That is the first direct word to me in my first enncouter with the first woman President of Trinidad andTobago, Her Excellency Paula-Mae Weekes, ORTT.
It is the night of the National Awards on the occasion of
the 42nd Anniversary of our Republic status.
the 42nd Anniversary of our Republic status.
The citation is being read, ‘the MEDAL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF
WOMEN (GOLD) is awarded For Outstanding Contribution to the Development of
Women’s Rights and Issues in Trinidad and Tobago…. She repeats, ‘the Medal For
Outstanding Contribution to Journalism/the Development of Women, and then adds my title Dr, then pronounces my full birth
name, Krishendaye Rampersad, which has been abbreviated for most of my career
as Kris Rampersad
WOMEN (GOLD) is awarded For Outstanding Contribution to the Development of
Women’s Rights and Issues in Trinidad and Tobago…. She repeats, ‘the Medal For
Outstanding Contribution to Journalism/the Development of Women, and then adds my title Dr, then pronounces my full birth
name, Krishendaye Rampersad, which has been abbreviated for most of my career
as Kris Rampersad
The announcers begin reading a brief of my life’s work. Good
luck with that, I think, trying to condense a life that has filled many ungiving minutes with its full sixty seconds of distance run into the sixty-odd seconds it would take to collect the medal, shake hands, collect scroll and walk across the stage of the National Performing Arts Centre.
luck with that, I think, trying to condense a life that has filled many ungiving minutes with its full sixty seconds of distance run into the sixty-odd seconds it would take to collect the medal, shake hands, collect scroll and walk across the stage of the National Performing Arts Centre.
I am not too worried about what selections would be madefrom my CV. The announcers are Sharon Pitt and Errol Fabien, two of my most
respected colleagues in media and whom I have known through my career. Sharon, in fact was one of the first journalists I met when I entered the field as a
freelancer in San Fernando. She worked for radio. I was only at the South
office for about a month before I am called for a staff position at the
headquarters of the Guardian in Port of Spain. The south journalists, and Richard Lord,
in particular, say at almost every encounter that it’s the fastest promotion
they had ever witnessed. There’s more to that story, but at another time.
Sharon called me a few years ago. I had been out of the formal newsroom for almost a decade expanded my journalism to accomodate new media and internationa outreach development, advocacy and revising agenda setting instruments and institutions at all levels. She has followed my
career, she says, inviting me to speak at her daughter’s school. Out of the
formal newsroom, but not out of journalism, my focus was on institutional
strengthening, legislative reform, education, and awareness building. These were weaknesses
I had identified and experienced across fields and spheres in many angements through studies and otherwise with various societies, the path to our development and
our place in the world, at the insection where local meets global; this while continuing to write copiously, film scripts, books, research papers, commentaries and blogs, books, some publshed, still many to be released.
career, she says, inviting me to speak at her daughter’s school. Out of the
formal newsroom, but not out of journalism, my focus was on institutional
strengthening, legislative reform, education, and awareness building. These were weaknesses
I had identified and experienced across fields and spheres in many angements through studies and otherwise with various societies, the path to our development and
our place in the world, at the insection where local meets global; this while continuing to write copiously, film scripts, books, research papers, commentaries and blogs, books, some publshed, still many to be released.
“As one of the few women who have tried to make a living andcareer from writing and as a role model for young women like her (daughter),” Sharon
says, explaining her request. I was touched. She was one of the few who had identified my work not just as journalism but in the broader sphere of ‘writer’. I would have loved to; indeed it
was no mean feat, trying to make ends meet, maintain one’s independence, and
function in a sphere that was nebulous to many. Navigating the incredulous
looks on bankers and other officials who would ask, ‘what is your real job,’
when I say ‘writer’ for instance, and then insist on tangible proof that that
is something people do for a living. But my travel schedule, international
engagements could not accommodate the date of the graduation as I would regrettably
be out of the country.
Tonight, I am comforted in the confidence I had in the readers of the bio profiles, Sharon and Errol; their delivery on the fifty other awardees who preceded me, impeccable, aticulate and flawless. Yet, their voices fade out as I turn the bend to come face to face with Her
Excellency. She is stately, elegant, immaculate in red lace, the same shade as my red
chiffon, and the curtains drawn on each side of the stage at the National
Academy for the Performing Arts!
Her voice is a concise balance of effusion, commendation and
warmth. She is handed my medal by Secretary to the President Gregory Serrette, who had walked me through the process a few days earlier. But the experience was altogether novel.
warmth. She is handed my medal by Secretary to the President Gregory Serrette, who had walked me through the process a few days earlier. But the experience was altogether novel.
As she leans forward to hang it on the pin, the Order of Trinidad and Tobago, the country’s highest award, with which Her Excellency was presented by the Chief Justice last month, dangles around her neck. It had replaced the Trinity Cross a decade ago on recommendation for equity in consideration of the country’s. Change comes from challenges to the status quo!
“Excellent,” Her Excellency says to me.
Excellent is a word that has resonated through my career.
With some of my classmates with whom I formed an editorial committee, I had
resurrected my high school magazine that had gone defunct for a decade,
rebranded it, and gave it a new lease on life to chronicle the students the
rites of passage of students of St Stephen’s College. Dedicated to Excellence,
we called it. My school friend Kamla who would not follow us into A-Levels
would do a profile article on me for the Junior Express. The headline was Dedicated to Excellence.
With some of my classmates with whom I formed an editorial committee, I had
resurrected my high school magazine that had gone defunct for a decade,
rebranded it, and gave it a new lease on life to chronicle the students the
rites of passage of students of St Stephen’s College. Dedicated to Excellence,
we called it. My school friend Kamla who would not follow us into A-Levels
would do a profile article on me for the Junior Express. The headline was Dedicated to Excellence.
Warned of the unfriendly state of the economy to new graduands, even before graduation I wrote applications to as many as Icould; I had forgotten to whom. When Ma handed me the small envelope that came
weeks later by snail mail with the logo of the red and white angel on the right
hand corner that appears on the daily newspapers, I felt it would be another that reads, ‘Sorry, we have no
vacancies at the moment. We would keep your application on file…’.
I was thrilled to see that it was an invitation to an
interview, in Port of Spain, signed by the then editor in chief, Lenn Chong
Sing. My father took a market day off to bring me to Port of Spain (Francis
Joseph has a legendary colourful version of that!) Pa waited in the Guardian
lobby as I am escorted up the stairs and past the desks with people half
hidden.
interview, in Port of Spain, signed by the then editor in chief, Lenn Chong
Sing. My father took a market day off to bring me to Port of Spain (Francis
Joseph has a legendary colourful version of that!) Pa waited in the Guardian
lobby as I am escorted up the stairs and past the desks with people half
hidden.
Clutching my O’ and A’ Level Certificates, references, and acopy of my school magazine in an envelope, I am whisked into an office and is
greeted by a kindly matronly woman. Mrs Sombrano, she introduces herself, asks
if I would like something to drink which I declined. Soon she opened an
adjourning door and ushered me into what we would come to know as ‘the cold
room’. It is cold. Behind the desk is a Chinese man, head down, reading
something it seems. Bent, his head looks something like Pa’s.
I realise he is reading my application letter, scanning it
with his pen. You have any sample writings? You brought this school magazine? I
hand Dedicated
to Excellence to him. He flips the pages. Inscrutable.
with his pen. You have any sample writings? You brought this school magazine? I
hand Dedicated
to Excellence to him. He flips the pages. Inscrutable.
“Okay, can you start at the South office, as a freelancer,”
he says. “We will see how that goes, until something opens up on staff.”
he says. “We will see how that goes, until something opens up on staff.”
My first interview, my first writing job!
Mrs Sombrano comes in to escort me out. It is only after Iwould realise that Mr Chong Sing had brought me into journalism without making
eye contact. His shyness, I would learn, would never inhibit the dreaded
memos to the newsroom, from ‘the cold room’ for after a month in the ‘South’ –
the vast land mass of so dubbed by the north – covering all spheres from the
courts, local government, schools, I am summoned to the North, much to the displeasure of the South office’s manager, Mr Phillip, and editors, Goerge Alleyne and Mikey Mahabir. Journalism was in danger of losing me as it was clear that I would have to redirect energies as my first paycheck of $120.00 for more than a month of traversing and covering the entire south, through floods (it was hurricane season); covering schools (it was graduatin season), farmers, local government councils, sports, and the first formal interview with Giselle La Ronde, just crowned in the national contest and about to go off to become Miss World.
Carl Jacobs, the then editor, would receive and introduce me the staff, then deliver me to the hands of John Babb. Sharon Pitt, Richard
Lord, Phoolo Danny and other journalists in various media houses with whom I
was developing fast friendships in South would next hear from me from Port of
Spain. it really all happened in a blink, and the beginning of events that swept me up like those Shakespearean tides in the affairs of men and women.
Lord, Phoolo Danny and other journalists in various media houses with whom I
was developing fast friendships in South would next hear from me from Port of
Spain. it really all happened in a blink, and the beginning of events that swept me up like those Shakespearean tides in the affairs of men and women.
The transition from rural to urban life would bring its own insights. I would learn that while friendships were seamless in the
south; in the north, it would be overshadowed and demarcated somewhat by
institutional affiliation in the competitive sphere of breaking news and
journalism. Its demarcations, I believe, I managed to avoid, maintaining my
friendships, with Kamla, Pitt and building others. North-South dichotomies and
the implications on development would become one of my areas of scrutiny,
through into international relationships and development as well.
south; in the north, it would be overshadowed and demarcated somewhat by
institutional affiliation in the competitive sphere of breaking news and
journalism. Its demarcations, I believe, I managed to avoid, maintaining my
friendships, with Kamla, Pitt and building others. North-South dichotomies and
the implications on development would become one of my areas of scrutiny,
through into international relationships and development as well.
Under the guidance of our news editor, John Babb, I covered every sphere ofnews that the seasoned reporters were too busy to give attention – community
centres and organisations, health, education, city council, the scarvengers and
vagrants. In fact, I was so familiar with the city’s destitutes, that inside
the newsroom, I was referred to as ‘the vagrant reporter’ as I knew many of
them and their stories of misfortune, alienation from family and friends,
mental illness, or just sheer rejection of the society. I began, too, to write
the news behind the news as well,
profiles, columns, on every theme, topic, beat, the piles of clippings that spill
out of my home office and into every room, that my family and friends often
threaten to throw out, is testimony to the range. Two of the earliest columns
were Discover Trinidad and Tobago and
Teenlife. At that year’s media
awards, the chief judge, retired Chief Justice Sir Isaaac Hyatali, would make mention of a young
reporter who was breathing fresh air into our understanding of Trinidad and
Tobago. I had not submitted any of my writings as the submission deadline was months before I even entered journalism. By the time of the next awards, Therese Mills, the Sunday Guardian
Editor whose office, if not shoes, I would one day occupy, asked me for some of
my articles to submit to the upcoming media awards. I complied and forgot about
it.
I realised that one from the Discover Trinidad and Tobago series, ‘War of the Sexes Now Goes to
the Calypso Stage,’ was being named the winner of a BWIA Media Award for Excellence
in Journalism in the category for
social and economic commentary in which Therese herself was a nominee, when
Hazel Ward Redman, ‘Aunty Hazel’, sitting in front of me at the media awards
ceremony, jumped off her seat, turned around, beaming at me, applauding and
shouting, “Bravo, Bravo!” Stil la teenager, I felt as if I was on her teen talent show as such was her mode of commending the performances of nervous youngsters.
the Calypso Stage,’ was being named the winner of a BWIA Media Award for Excellence
in Journalism in the category for
social and economic commentary in which Therese herself was a nominee, when
Hazel Ward Redman, ‘Aunty Hazel’, sitting in front of me at the media awards
ceremony, jumped off her seat, turned around, beaming at me, applauding and
shouting, “Bravo, Bravo!” Stil la teenager, I felt as if I was on her teen talent show as such was her mode of commending the performances of nervous youngsters.
When I transitioned to AVM television shortly thereafter to
script the Cross Country series, which Dale Kolasingh, charmed by my Discover
series, wanted to replicate for television, and lured me on the notion of
expanding my media skills, much to Mr Chong Sing’s displeasure, I would learn. AVM
was indeed an incubator and many in the audio-visual sector today has had some
early exposure there. Cross Country became the first local programme ever to
hold the number one spot on local prime time television. Dale confessed one day
when we were celebrating some media awards for Excellence, won for Cross
Country and our current affairs investigations, that Lenn Chong Sing, the
editor in chief, had ‘called and cussed’ him for poaching on his staff when I
resigned from the Guardian. I could never reconcile his cheeky recount with the
Chong Sing I knew, the man who had never made eye contact with me. Though, in
the not too distant future, Lenn Chong Singh, then retired from the Guardian
and taken on as a consultant to recruit new staff for the television station in
formation -TV6 – would seek his revenge and attempt to recruit me for the
station. Still never making eye contact, after he had called and we agreed to
meet where I was attending a workshop at UWI. As tempting as it was to get into the action in the formation of the new television station, brought about by government policy for opening up the airwaves with issue of sevral TV licences, I politely declined. I had just began university that I had delayed for not one, as initially intended, but four years to explore print and elevision ournalism. I needed flexible time that starting up a television station would not have
allowed then. When I completed myfirst degree at UWI, John Babb and Therese Mills would ask me to join them in a new daily newspaper in the making, to be launched as a ‘good news’ paper, Newsday, which just celebrated its 25th year. I would have its first cover story, 5000 Lives Saved, win a Media Award for Excellence in Heath Reporting from the Pan American Health Organisation, and help it carve its space in the national landscape in coverage of a range of beats, culture, health, education, trade unions, politics… as well as profiles of many in the society, individuals and institutions, and initiate and populate its satirical column, Between the Lines, one of many subsequent satirical columns, that have occuied the editorial columns since, including commentaries on issuses of the Parliament of the day, I Beg To Move; In Gabilan, The Week That Was, The C Monologues, and others.
script the Cross Country series, which Dale Kolasingh, charmed by my Discover
series, wanted to replicate for television, and lured me on the notion of
expanding my media skills, much to Mr Chong Sing’s displeasure, I would learn. AVM
was indeed an incubator and many in the audio-visual sector today has had some
early exposure there. Cross Country became the first local programme ever to
hold the number one spot on local prime time television. Dale confessed one day
when we were celebrating some media awards for Excellence, won for Cross
Country and our current affairs investigations, that Lenn Chong Sing, the
editor in chief, had ‘called and cussed’ him for poaching on his staff when I
resigned from the Guardian. I could never reconcile his cheeky recount with the
Chong Sing I knew, the man who had never made eye contact with me. Though, in
the not too distant future, Lenn Chong Singh, then retired from the Guardian
and taken on as a consultant to recruit new staff for the television station in
formation -TV6 – would seek his revenge and attempt to recruit me for the
station. Still never making eye contact, after he had called and we agreed to
meet where I was attending a workshop at UWI. As tempting as it was to get into the action in the formation of the new television station, brought about by government policy for opening up the airwaves with issue of sevral TV licences, I politely declined. I had just began university that I had delayed for not one, as initially intended, but four years to explore print and elevision ournalism. I needed flexible time that starting up a television station would not have
allowed then. When I completed myfirst degree at UWI, John Babb and Therese Mills would ask me to join them in a new daily newspaper in the making, to be launched as a ‘good news’ paper, Newsday, which just celebrated its 25th year. I would have its first cover story, 5000 Lives Saved, win a Media Award for Excellence in Heath Reporting from the Pan American Health Organisation, and help it carve its space in the national landscape in coverage of a range of beats, culture, health, education, trade unions, politics… as well as profiles of many in the society, individuals and institutions, and initiate and populate its satirical column, Between the Lines, one of many subsequent satirical columns, that have occuied the editorial columns since, including commentaries on issuses of the Parliament of the day, I Beg To Move; In Gabilan, The Week That Was, The C Monologues, and others.
Those were my earliest years in media in what I regard as not a career, but a vocation, propelled by forces I sometimes over which I have felt I have had little real control, and impulses larger than life. The dimensions of I have little would have many
compartments, as a freelancer, investigative reporter, columnist, editor,
scriptwriter, From the newsrooms of the Trinidad Guardian to AVM Television to founding of Newsday, to editorship director, producer, publisher, advocate, educator, trainer, agenda setter, and policymaker. To embrace new media as another form for communication and dissemination of information, start a blog in the embryonic days of blogging in T&T, that has won a readership of international think tanks and was named a winner in a policy blogging initiative for new media of the BBC and Communications Initiative. But even so, media as it is generally defined, remained only a form an medium of expression that is part of a larger cultural milieu of expressions in the written and spoken word, but also through art, music, dance, signs and symbols; forms that are natural to the human impulse to connect and communicate and share life experiences and interpretations with each other. A vocation, it is, that covers many spheres and disciplines and gender equity and women’s issues
being one dimension of trying to encourage a level playing field and create
opportunities and carve paths for development for equity and inclusion in our
social, cultural, economic and political interactions. Journalism and media to me have been only tools, companion tools to other forms of communication articulated through various cultural expressions. The skills and understanding of media, communication, the use of
information, their forms and functions and inner and outer mechanics, social
and political contexts are only the frames towards moving our world closer to those goals now being called Sustainable
Development. Most, conditioned in silos cannot see the links and I have often felt the disconnect and sometimes a tug of war and even command to choose one. To me, in all their variable dimensions, they are
seamless and indivisible. It was never about filling the unforgivng minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run; it was about how could I stretch and stretch some more the unforgiving minute to accomodate all the runs that must be made. So much to do and so little time to do it in, my friends would often hear me say. Little did I know how little.
compartments, as a freelancer, investigative reporter, columnist, editor,
scriptwriter, From the newsrooms of the Trinidad Guardian to AVM Television to founding of Newsday, to editorship director, producer, publisher, advocate, educator, trainer, agenda setter, and policymaker. To embrace new media as another form for communication and dissemination of information, start a blog in the embryonic days of blogging in T&T, that has won a readership of international think tanks and was named a winner in a policy blogging initiative for new media of the BBC and Communications Initiative. But even so, media as it is generally defined, remained only a form an medium of expression that is part of a larger cultural milieu of expressions in the written and spoken word, but also through art, music, dance, signs and symbols; forms that are natural to the human impulse to connect and communicate and share life experiences and interpretations with each other. A vocation, it is, that covers many spheres and disciplines and gender equity and women’s issues
being one dimension of trying to encourage a level playing field and create
opportunities and carve paths for development for equity and inclusion in our
social, cultural, economic and political interactions. Journalism and media to me have been only tools, companion tools to other forms of communication articulated through various cultural expressions. The skills and understanding of media, communication, the use of
information, their forms and functions and inner and outer mechanics, social
and political contexts are only the frames towards moving our world closer to those goals now being called Sustainable
Development. Most, conditioned in silos cannot see the links and I have often felt the disconnect and sometimes a tug of war and even command to choose one. To me, in all their variable dimensions, they are
seamless and indivisible. It was never about filling the unforgivng minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run; it was about how could I stretch and stretch some more the unforgiving minute to accomodate all the runs that must be made. So much to do and so little time to do it in, my friends would often hear me say. Little did I know how little.
“Excellent! Congratulations! Well done! Well deserved! Long
Overdue!” Her Excellency is emphasizing the sylable of each word as she pins on the medal.
Overdue!” Her Excellency is emphasizing the sylable of each word as she pins on the medal.
It is her first word to me, ‘Excellent’, that resonates against
the applause coming from the auditorium hall as I turn to shake hands and
receive congratulations from first the Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley; then
the Chief Justice, Ivor Archie and to greet Mrs Archie, then to collect the
scroll and box in which would rest the Medal for the Development of Women,
Gold, for Journalism/ and Development of Women.
the applause coming from the auditorium hall as I turn to shake hands and
receive congratulations from first the Prime Minister, Dr Keith Rowley; then
the Chief Justice, Ivor Archie and to greet Mrs Archie, then to collect the
scroll and box in which would rest the Medal for the Development of Women,
Gold, for Journalism/ and Development of Women.
The word continues to echo independently
in the thousands of commendations and congratulations and hearty well-wishes
and thumbs up and likes, and hearts, and emotive emojis, that have since floated to me through public and private social media and calls and interactions tell me of the spheres that my work has
reached and touched: my family, relatives, siblings, nephews and nieces; villagers;
my early and later teachers, the educators and cultural and gender advocates
who were also awarded and guests that night who have followed my work; and to media
colleagues – many trapped in uncertainty of the current media climate; women
and men in many spheres.
in the thousands of commendations and congratulations and hearty well-wishes
and thumbs up and likes, and hearts, and emotive emojis, that have since floated to me through public and private social media and calls and interactions tell me of the spheres that my work has
reached and touched: my family, relatives, siblings, nephews and nieces; villagers;
my early and later teachers, the educators and cultural and gender advocates
who were also awarded and guests that night who have followed my work; and to media
colleagues – many trapped in uncertainty of the current media climate; women
and men in many spheres.
That it means so much to so many, has enhanced its value to me. Thank You!
Next: Behind the Red Curtain of the National Awards Ceremony
and the Medal for Development of Women
and the Medal for Development of Women
Career Highlights Journalism and Development of Women, Dr Kris Rampersad
Dr Kris Rampersad work has spanned the arenas of Education; Literature, the Arts and Culture; Media Communications and Information; and Gender Equity, Empowerment and Advancement for access to opportunities from grassroots to high level agenda setting international arenas. This has enhanced the impact and ability to envision and advocate for meaningful gender and culture-sensitive approaches to sustainable development in ways that bridge and span gaps between and among fields and disciplines from agriculture, culture, industry, education, governance and ICTs for all ages and across gender divides.
She functions as an Independent educator, researcher, author, advocate, activist, advisor, mentor, facilitator and consultant.
?feature=player_embeddedHighlights of Media/Journalism Career: Spans print, television, education and advocacy across spheres of conventional and new media prnt and production 1988-2018.
v Blog Demokrissy is a widely read by international think tanks, including the UN community. It won the BBC/UNESCO Communication Initiative policy development blogging for new media
v Coordinated international media for Summit of the Americas and Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings
v First sitting journalist to complete doctorate. Inspired many journalist to pursue higher education.
v Articles and columns have occupied and guided public opinion from editorial pages for some 30 years
v Doctorate on process of literary development and influences of journalism on award winning writings considered seminal and ground breaking in its depth and scope that spans 100 years of socio-cultural-political evolution of Trinidad and Tobago. Published as Finding A Place
v Wrote first book on the first female Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Through the Political Glass Ceiling, released on the eve of election of 2010 with prophetic insights into premiership of Kamla Persad Bissessar.
v Third book LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago represents almost everything written in fiction from Sir Walter Raleigh 1595 to the turn of the 21st century was commemorative publication of 50th Jubilee Anniversary of Independence;
Presented ground breaking research at first World Summit on Information Society in Tunisia on engendering ICT policy. Has helped develop media, information and communication policy as integrated into achievmeents of Millennium Development goals and Sustainable Development Goals at global levels of agenda setting and policy making of the UN Commonwealth and OAS agencies.
Pioneered research on gender sensitive policy making in areas of Freedom of Information, Access to Information, and other spheres for hemispheric, commonwealth and UN bodies
v Served as Editor of Sunday Guardian and presided over the transition from broadsheet to tabloid.
v Founding journalist of Newsday – wrote first lead story, ‘5000 Lives Saved, dubbed ‘the good news reporter’
v Youngest journalist to win BWIA media award for excellence in journalism. Won in social and economic commentary category for gender bender article, War of the Sexes Goes to the Calypso Stage from Discover Trinidad and Tobago series
v Won Pan American Health Organisation Award for Excellence in Health Reporting
v Top student of diploma course in international journalism , Rajasthan Patrika Award from Indian Institute of Mass Communication (Scholarship).
v Research and Writer of programmes of Cross Country for AVM Television (as well as AVM Special Report, Survival (food programme) Booktalk among others. Cross Country became rated as the number one local programme that held prime time television spot for its duration and won several BWIA Media Awards.
v Awarded Nuffield Foundation Fellowship to Wolfson College, Cambridge
v Awarded fellowship by Foreign Press Centre of Japan
v Commonwealth Professional Fellow
Highlights of Gender Actions
For almost three decades Dr Kris Rampersad has been devoted to leveling the playing field for women and girls in pursuit of:
•Gender equality in the work place
• The elimination of all forms of discrimination against women by the promotion of gender equity.
• Legislative and cultural reform to ensure gender equity.
• Institutional mechanisms for the advancements of women.
• Economic empowerment by: overcoming marginalization, oppressive social norms access and rights to resources;
• Incentive and awards based initiatives encouraging women to fulfill their potential and
• Education- based programs, initiatives or personal action that offer and afford women broader choices & enhanced opportunities
Highlights of Gender Actions & Achievements
Highlights of such achievements in pursuit of implementation of the CEDAW recommendations for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and promotion of gender equity include:
1. Research, preparation of the pioneering comprehensive national report and spearheaded follow up action in the InterAmerican system to encourage State bodies to implement the CEDAW convention provisions and recommendations that informed the Summit of the Americas, Commonwealth and UN processes.
2. Her work in awareness raising and building capacities to understand gender sensitive policy and legislation to strengthen the capacity of institutions in addressing gender inequalities as for reform to the child marriage act, gender sensitive budgeting and engendered political processes.
3. She coordinated the outreach and advocacy for the Commonwealth Foundation’s campaign for gender equality for Commonwealth Women Affairs Ministers Meetings. This fed into the Commonwealth Head of Government Meetings to build acceptance of the Commonwealth Campaign on the slogan, ‘Where’s the Money for Gender Equality.’ It spotlighted and propelled the movement of gender equity beyond rhetoric to actioning developmental programmes.
4. Her impact on gender equality in the workplace has been not just in pursuing the rights of colleagues in the workplace but for across-the-board equity in treatment, equity in promotions and remunerations; representation of women at higher levels of administration and decision making.
5. She has been a strong advocate to removal of discriminatory practices and revisiting entrenched notions of gender roles within social systems and cultural practices through her work with traditional and grass roots communities across the Caribbean.
6. She has herself blazed a trail for women in the media and has filled several senior level positions as well as being the first sitting editor to have completed a PhD while in the demanding and high-stressed environment of the newsroom, as well as in her actions in supporting women journalists.
7. From the inception of her career as a journalist Dr Rampersad supported the global mandate for equality of women that came out of the Beijing Platform for Women, and has a substantial portfolio of articles, columns as Woman to Woman, interviews, investigations, that tell women’s personal stories of trials and triumphs, revealing discrepancies and imbalances from data, highlighting the plight of the underprivileged, unearthing inequalities in national life, in the homes and in the work place, and the campaign against domestic violence.
8. She has also been actively involved in supporting and encouraging women’s development from community to international policy arenas.
9. Her writings, from profiles of achievements to policy critiques have encouraging women in public , civic and entrepreneurial arenas, utilizing all her roles to this end.
10. She has initiated and developed a number of awards for women.
i. As editor she partnered with the United Nations, corporate community, NGOs and others to spearhead the Woman of the Year Award. S
ii. She conceptualized and piloted to national and international acceptance the Commonwealth Caribbean ‘Women Agents of Change’ Award, which was the forerunner to introduction of the Medals for Women in Trinidad and Tobago.
iii. She identified women to be recognized among others for the Trinidad and Tobago Publishers’ and Broadcasting Association Awards for Media Excellence.
11. She created & produced television documentary as the series That is Woman that features leading women figures in national life to showcase women’s achievements and have them tell their stories in their own words, and researched and scripted many other stories of women for radio, television and print.
12. For the most part of the last fifteen years she has been the spokesperson on women’s issues and gender parity, shaping and supporting the work of local and international Networks for gender equity and the advancement of Women of Trinidad and Tobago.
13. As an educator, she also trained women in gender sensitive approaches to policy making, understanding and engaging with media.
14. Among organisations that have benefitted from her input are UN Women/UNIFEM; UNESCO dedicated programme actions on its priority focus on women, the Caribbean Institute for Women and the Commonwealth Women’s Organisation; CIVICUS – World Assembly for People’s Participation.
15. She was researcher and lead spokesperson for gender equality for the OAS Active Democracy Network in the build up to and through the Fifth Summit of the Americas and presented pioneering research on gender sensitive approaches to changing development policy agenda in areas of Freedom of Expression, Access to Information .
16. At national level, she articulated to build awareness as the Outreach and International
Relations Director of the Network of NGOs for Women and articulated the vision around the Put A Woman Campaign of the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women, which drew from the UN resolutions for gender parity in national decision making. It included the slogan, A Woman’s Place is in the House – Of Parliament, that saw the .drive for fulfilment of the quota of women in Parliament along with women in the positions of Speaker of the House and President of the Senate. The same campaign also supported the ascension into office of the First Female Prime Minister and first Female President of Trinidad and Tobago in one decade.
17. She wrote the pioneering book, Through the Political Glass Ceiling, that along with mapping the journey of the First Female Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago through her speeches also includes revisionary research, study and analysis of the national politics of the day through gender and cultural sensitive lenses that has become a text for gender studies and analyses. This has become an important global text in appreciating the challenges of women in ascension public office.
18. These contributions spilled over to her functions in other arenas. As the Co-Chair of the UNESCO Executive Board’s Public and External Relations Commission responsible for programme actions she drove and supported international actions and motions to strengthen UNESCO’s priority focus on women and gender equality as well as in championing rights of journalists and others and for injecting gender sensitive approaches to decision making in culture, education, information and other spheres.
19. She was herself acknowledged and featured in Hazel Ward Redman’s celebratory series as CentreStage and Woman of Substance and has been featured in articles as Express Woman, ‘Helping Dreamers Dream’ and Newsday Woman’s Weekly as Changing the World With Ideas.
20. She has mentored many at national and international levels
Pioneering Work
Dr Kris Rampersad’s work is pioneering in relation to her research and fearless and courageous and selfless advocacy and actions in the face of tremendous odds and challenges of a small island society. She has enhanced the image of Trinidad and Tobago and women both in the national arena and abroad as a flagbearer of national development interests through all her endeavours as journalist, editor, advocate, educator, development specialist.
Through her work and in networking with others she has actively created and improved the availability and accessibility of spaces for women in the public sphere and has helped spotlight challenges and streamline the focus on perceptions of their roles and functions in the private/domestic spheres.
Her groundbreaking research offer new insight into national phenomenon within local and international contexts to enlighten approaches to agenda setting, policy and decision making encompassing research, production, advocacy, institutional capacity building and enhancement through to face to face and hands on leadership and youth development initiatives in education and awareness and skills building for women and girls.
Her life and work putting service before self, often at little or no remuneration and at the expense of her health and a life threatening medical condition, she has given up many personal and professional comforts and security in her efforts at creating opportunities and advancement of women
Through her passion, energy, devotion, and commitment to actions for meaningful change, she has inspired women and girls of all ages and across national to international spectrums as an inspiration to women educators, women leaders, women in the media and in the sphere of arts and culture.
Awards/Recognitions & Service
Education
St Julien Presbyterian School New Grant Princes Town – Primary School:
St Stephen’s College, Princes Town – Secondary School:
PhD in Literatures in English University of the West Indies
BA Literatures in English, sociology, politics, University of the West Indies
Diploma in Mass Communication – Indian Institute of Mass Communication, India and its highest award Rajasthan Patrika Award;
Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge UK (globalisation);
Commonwealth Professional Fellowship
Participated and benefitted from numerous courses, lectures, workshops in multimedia, information technologies, leadership, management, computing, managing diversity, and conservation and safeguarding of cultural heritage.
Scholarships and Fellowships:
Wolfson (Journalism) College, University of Cambridge UK;
Foreign Press Centre of Japan (journalism fellowship);
Association of Commonwealth Universities, Professional Fellowship;
UWI Post Graduate Scholarship;
Awards & Commendations:
Ø Trinidad and Tobago Luminary Award 2015/2016
Ø Winner Development Policy Blogs on New Media (BBC Trust/UNESCO Communication Initiative); 2011
Ø Award for Excellence in Health Reporting 1994 (World Health Organisation/Pan American Health Organisation)
Ø Award for Excellence in Journalism (BWIA) 1987;
Ø Moms for Literacy Award for Literary Achievement
Ø International Who’s Who in Cultural Policy Research (ConnectCP)
Ø Award for Contribution to Literature and Culture; (Global Organisation of Peoples of Indian Origin)
Ø Rajasthan Patrika Most Outstanding Student Award (Indian Institute of Mass Communication)
Ø British High Commission Award for English Literature
Ø UWI Award Student Awards.
Organisation Affiliations – International/National
Ø Founding Adviser, International Institute for Gastronomy, Culture, Arts & Tourism
Ø Founding Member, U40 Coalition on Promotion of Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Ø Founding Member, Scientific Committee, International Culture University
Served on numerous committees and boards, including
Ø UNESCO General Assembly, Chair Education Commission
Ø UNESCO Executive Board, co-chair Programmes and External Relations Commission, member of Special Committee
Ø Chair, National Museum and Art Gallery;
Ø Chair, National Commission for UNESCO of Trinidad and Tobago
Ø Member Trinidad and Tobago Government Expert Panel on Arts and Culture Member, Trinidad and Tobago Registry of Cultural Workers Committee
Ø Member, Trinidad and Tobago Heritage Tourism Committee
Ø Founder,/Coordinator Awards for Agricultural Journalism
Ø Founding member, Friends of Mr Biswas – St James House for Mr Biswas
Ø Founder/Coordinator, Trinidad Theatre Workshop Fund for Literature, Drama, Film
Ø Outreach & International Relations Director, Network of NGOs of Trinidad and Tobago for the Advancement of Women
Other Career Highlights
International Development Educator, Lecturer, Facilitator, Consultant: 21 years
MultiMediaMedia/Journalism: 30 years: editor, manager, investigative reporter, script and storyboard writer, producer/publisher in print, electronic and new media
Author: Finding A Place (Ian Randle Publishers, 2001); Through the Political Glass Ceiling; LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago
AudioVisual Producer/Director/Writer/Researcher:20 years
Academia – lecturing at tertiary level formal, non-formal and informal sectors, course design, development and evaluation – 22 years
Some 30 years’ experience in developing formal and informal education sectors as a researcher, writer, educator, outreach and communication specialist and analyst of culture, migration, rural and urban development, diversity, multiculturalism and related areas of cross sectoral sustainable development;
Holds a PhD in Literatures in English. Doctoral theses examined issues of globalization, migration processes of adaptation and society-formation drawing from global-local knowledge and experiences of media and literary development of a small island state.
Have written and published extensively on themes of identity, migration, adaptation, urbanisation, and rural development in contexts of youth, gender, trade, crime, ecology, education and other topics;
Numerous peer reviewed articles and conference presentations, including three books that approach the issues of migration and social adaptations from various angles: journalism/information and communication (Finding a Place, Ian Randle Publications, 2002); gender appreciation (Through the Political Glass Ceiling – Race to Prime Ministership by Trinidad and Tobago’s First Female Kamla Persad Bissessar (2010) and popular culture (LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago (2012);
Educator/Train the Trainers & Capacity Building :
a: UNESCO: Training of Caribbean Stakeholders in diversity appreciation, activating Cultural Heritage and Creative Sectors: Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Grenada, St Kitts/Nevis. UNESCO..
b. Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI). Training of Caribbean Agriculturalists in Outreach, Education and Development of Academic Journals and Publications:
c. National Institute of Higher Education Research, Science and Technology (NIHERST): Development of Outreach Initiatives for Science Popularisation:
d. Caribbean Institute of Women in Leadership: Develop Course Materials and Train Caribbean Women Leaders in Gender Sensitivity, Diversity Appreciation, Engagement & Outreach: Guyana, Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada
e. The College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT): Development and Delivery of Journalism and Literature Courses
f. Part Time Lecturer: Literatures in English; Foundational Courses; Literature and Caribbean Society: University of the West Indies.
g. External Supervisor, MSc Thesis Cultural Diversity Management: Institutional Reform
h. External Thesis Editor/Publication Adviser
i. Guest Lecturer: Literature, Culture, Media, Civic Empowerment for Sustainable Development, University of Catalona, Barcelona, Spain
Career Highlights: Education & Culture:
Educational Policy Development: Formal and Informal Education, Literature, Media Outreach, Lifelong Learning and Global Citizenship Education:
a. Capacity development for cultural and civil society communities across the Americas Successful trained stakeholders of all three Caribbean Small Island Developing States which achieved World Heritage status over the last five years (Antigua and Barbuda, 2016; Jamaica, 2015, Barbados, 2011 prior to this last inscription was in 1998).
b. Pioneered several international level policies through UNESCO/other international agencies for relevant actions for integrated and transboundary approaches to positively impact the Sustainable Development Agenda and integrate culture in development, promote global citizenship, rationally explore issues of migration and adaptation.
c. Devised models for multisectoral media and cultural outreach including one adopted from a model developed for the Caribbean for ACP-EU Seminar on Media and Agriculture, Brussels;
d. Development of the blue print of the action plan being used English speaking Caribbean countries for implementation of UNESCO Conventions; culling appreciation and development of incentive and award schemes; integrating developmental approaches across sectors and national boundaries and developing transboundary connections.
e. More than 15 years’ hands on experience in development and implementing policy programmes and actions in the global to local cultural heritage and creative industries spheres in UN agencies, UNESCO, OAS, ACP-EU, Commonwealth and civil society glocal organisations;
f. Keenly committed to working on realization of the sustainable development agenda, even beyond its stated goals to proactive engagement of culture-centred development for equity and fairness in all spheres and have participated in its development globally & locally;
g. Lifelong experiences of NGO work and community level experience in cultural development and have both culled international policy and worked on implementing such areas as Creative Cities, World Heritage, Intangible Heritage, Diversity of Cultural Expressions, Creative Industries, Copyrights, Trade and Development; Slave, Silk and Indentured Indian Immigrant Routes, Memory of the World, Rural and Urban cultural development, policy and legislative reform, civil society, youth and gender participation, empowerment and equity
Career Highlights: Journalism, Media, Information and Communication
j. More than 30 years as a communicator and journalist and about a decade as producer and publisher in multimedia forms exploring comparative cross-cultural and issues;
k. Extensive experience in research, writing for multimedia forms and presentation of messages on migration, diversity, inclusion for sustainable development, with intimate knowledge of most of international policy instruments in these regards and devising, developing, implementing and evaluating policies and strategies, advice and technical support, managing the process and content, transactions and operations in these areas and combined experiences in Management, having been a staff manager of a major media house before an independent career in cultural project management and policy development in the cultural and allied spheres of education and communications
l. Extensive experience in networking and collaborations both internally and externally, across boundaries, sectors, stakeholder interests, institutions and agencies with considerable successes in devising and developing networks around cultural matters, working with the diplomatic community, embassies, intergovernmental agencies, regional and international organizations, the European Commission and the European Council, Organisation of American States, Commonwealth Secretariat and commonwealth Foundation, InterAmerican Institutions and other organisations of the UN system, and Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Regions.
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KrisRampersad: LinkedIn/Instagram/YouTube/PInterest/
KrisRampersad1: Facebook; @krisramp – Twitter;
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peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
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Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian.
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Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all
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Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
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Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor’s New Troops. The dilemma
of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to
reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Demokrissy – Blogger
Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 –
Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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Demokrissy: Winds
of Political Change – Dawn of T&T’s Arab Spring
Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in
Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 8:20 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare
to Facebook …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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party … Towards culturally …
Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all
inclusive’ fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian
David Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of
things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully
wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional
stagnation but brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Others: Demokrissy: Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 …
Apr 07, 2013
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New Tools#1 – Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds
of consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense
of direction that will drive …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013
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Emperor’s New Tools#2.
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Wave a flag for a party
rag…Choosing the Emperor’s New …
Oct 20, 2013
Choosing the Emperor’s
New Troops. The dilemma of choice. Voting is supposed to be an … Old Casked
Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 10:36 AM …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Carnivalising the
Constitution People Power …
Feb 26, 2014
This Demokrissy
series, The Emperor’s New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of
evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Envisioning
outside-the-island-box … – Demokrissy – Blogger
Feb 10, 2014
This Demokrissy
series, The Emperor’s New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of
evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Futuring the Post-2015
UNESCO Agenda
Apr 22, 2014
It is placing
increasing pressure for erasure of barriers of geography, age, ethnicity,
gender, cultures and other sectoral interests, and in utilising the tools
placed at our disposal to access our accumulate knowledge and technologies
towards eroding these superficial barriers. In this context, we believe that
the work of UNESCO remains significant and relevant and that UNESCO is indeed
the institution best positioned to consolidate the ….. The Emperor’s New
Tools …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Cutting edge journalism
Jun 15, 2010
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Stone in Dana Seetahal Assassination
Creating Centres of Peace in
Trinidad and Tobago
The Price of Independence:#DanaSeetahalAssassination
Conceive. Achieve. Believe
Demokrissy: Wave a flag for a party
rag…Choosing the Emperor’s …
Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor’s New Troops. The dilemma
of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to
reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Demokrissy – Blogger
Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 –
Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
See Also:
Demokrissy: Winds
of Political Change – Dawn of T&T’s Arab Spring
Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in
Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 8:20 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare
to Facebook …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Related:
Demokrissy: To vote, just how we
party … Towards culturally …
Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all
inclusive’ fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian
David Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of
things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully
wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional
stagnation but brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor’s New Troops. The dilemma
of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to
reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Demokrissy – Blogger
Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 –
Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
See Also:
Demokrissy: Winds
of Political Change – Dawn of T&T’s Arab Spring
Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in
Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 8:20 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare
to Facebook …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Related:
Demokrissy: To vote, just how we
party … Towards culturally …
Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all
inclusive’ fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian
David Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of
things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully
wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional
stagnation but brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Others: Demokrissy: Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 …
Apr 07, 2013
Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s
New Tools#1 – Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds
of consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense
of direction that will drive …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013
Valuing Carnival The
Emperor’s New Tools#2.
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Wave a flag for a party
rag…Choosing the Emperor’s New …
Oct 20, 2013
Choosing the Emperor’s
New Troops. The dilemma of choice. Voting is supposed to be an … Old Casked
Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 10:36 AM …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Carnivalising the
Constitution People Power …
Feb 26, 2014
This Demokrissy
series, The Emperor’s New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of
evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Envisioning
outside-the-island-box … – Demokrissy – Blogger
Feb 10, 2014
This Demokrissy
series, The Emperor’s New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of
evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Futuring the Post-2015
UNESCO Agenda
Apr 22, 2014
It is placing
increasing pressure for erasure of barriers of geography, age, ethnicity,
gender, cultures and other sectoral interests, and in utilising the tools
placed at our disposal to access our accumulate knowledge and technologies
towards eroding these superficial barriers. In this context, we believe that
the work of UNESCO remains significant and relevant and that UNESCO is indeed
the institution best positioned to consolidate the ….. The Emperor’s New
Tools …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Cutting edge journalism
Jun 15, 2010
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Republic Day National Awards 2018 Ready to collect National Medal for Development of Women for Journalism Education Development of Women see my source of inspiration… What my mother told me https://goo.gl/CxBJrr
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What my mother told me Your Wealth Is Your Mind
The National Award for Development of Women/Journalism to me represents an acknowledgment of the sometimes nameless and voiceless women andothers I have tried to represent; whose stories I have written, and whose
views I have tried to articulate variously as a journalist, as an advocate and
activist, as an author, educator and media practitioner in the quest for equity
and inclusion, to open up spaces for women and advance a level playing field
for all.
We who are given opportunities have a responsibility to give back and
to leave our sphere better for those who come after. The wind beneath my wings
has always been my now octogenarian mother, Phulmatia Rampersad, who had little
such opportunity as what she tried to provide for my siblings and I, who
inspires with her humility and abundant love; who gives and asks for little in
return and who instilled in me that my wealth is my mind. It is to her courage
and resilience and quick wit that strengthens my resolve in substituting the pursuit of
material wealth for the pursuit of knowledge. It has energized me in the most
trying of times. I must thank all those who have believed in me and shared the
journey with me, because we are not an island in ourselves. The world in
return, has given back, particularly the close friends and relatives whose
prayers, with the endeavours of some very dedicated medics, unearthed a long buried dilemma and returned me to life
in the most miraculous way with a restructured heart to beat a few more beats
to enjoy this day.
to leave our sphere better for those who come after. The wind beneath my wings
has always been my now octogenarian mother, Phulmatia Rampersad, who had little
such opportunity as what she tried to provide for my siblings and I, who
inspires with her humility and abundant love; who gives and asks for little in
return and who instilled in me that my wealth is my mind. It is to her courage
and resilience and quick wit that strengthens my resolve in substituting the pursuit of
material wealth for the pursuit of knowledge. It has energized me in the most
trying of times. I must thank all those who have believed in me and shared the
journey with me, because we are not an island in ourselves. The world in
return, has given back, particularly the close friends and relatives whose
prayers, with the endeavours of some very dedicated medics, unearthed a long buried dilemma and returned me to life
in the most miraculous way with a restructured heart to beat a few more beats
to enjoy this day.
The engagement with learnings and knowledge and the impulse to share has been a vocation rather than a career.
Sharing some highlights below and some brief brief preview bits of Ma, from my upcoming autobiography, Life! HoleHeartedly!
Ma and me
Ma surprises me one day.
I thought the battle was won.
It is no mean feat to decondition centuries of tradition of
the notion that marriage is not the ultimate goal for a woman’s
self-fulfillment but I believe I had convinced Ma. I wasn’t in anyway averse to
the notion. But life gets in the way. So much to do and so little time to do it
in.
the notion that marriage is not the ultimate goal for a woman’s
self-fulfillment but I believe I had convinced Ma. I wasn’t in anyway averse to
the notion. But life gets in the way. So much to do and so little time to do it
in.
The hints and suggestions of appropriate life partners were
becoming less frequent. It was a long
time since I heard her speak of it. Perhaps she has resigned herself, I think.
becoming less frequent. It was a long
time since I heard her speak of it. Perhaps she has resigned herself, I think.
Then Ma surprises me. We are talking now about my career. Itis difficult to explain. I do not have a career. I do not really have what
people consider a real job. The demands of the NGOs had escalated. It left
little time to visit, to talk. The schedule was getting hectic, one
international NGO meeting after the other
I was beginning to feel the strain. There was little time to earn a living
and there were bills to pay. One December, I was invited to a meeting to design
international policy for Information and Communication Technology in Geneva – a
follow-up meeting to the first WSIS meeting held in Tunisia some years earlier,
to assess the distance travelled in ICTs and the way forward. I had presented
on the need for gender-sensitive ICT policy, with a critique of gender
blindness in ICT policy. Rewind! FastForward, it was entitled.
Fastforward was the name of the national
ICT policy.
My friend Gail turns up to take me to the airport. I was
growing weary of the number of trips she, my friend Yma and Yasmin and Ganesh
made to the airport. I could take a cab, but they wanted to give me a sense of homecoming,
and warm send offs. But it was taking its toll on all of us. Suitcases stepped
over from previous trips to get on the other one. The world thought it was
glamorous, this jetting. I never thought that the air travel was impacting my
yet unknown condition.
growing weary of the number of trips she, my friend Yma and Yasmin and Ganesh
made to the airport. I could take a cab, but they wanted to give me a sense of homecoming,
and warm send offs. But it was taking its toll on all of us. Suitcases stepped
over from previous trips to get on the other one. The world thought it was
glamorous, this jetting. I never thought that the air travel was impacting my
yet unknown condition.
Gail finds me sitting, half-dressed, my winter booths next to
me, pensive.
me, pensive.
“Come on. You are going to be late!” She bristles, as I
slowly pull on my clothes. She sits me down and pull my boots on.
slowly pull on my clothes. She sits me down and pull my boots on.
“I don’t think I should go,” I tell her. “Ma’s not feeling
well.” Ma had just turned 80. I told Gail of my visit with Ma the day before. The
tears in Ma’s eyes when I was leaving, tears that would never flow because she
would not let them. She celebrated the paths of all her children but she wasn’t
feeling well. She was weak. I could tell
that she was beginning to feel that every meeting and departure would be the
last we would see each other. But her tears never flowed, nor mine. I left to
get ready for my trip, but my thoughts were on Ma’s uncomplaining farewell.
well.” Ma had just turned 80. I told Gail of my visit with Ma the day before. The
tears in Ma’s eyes when I was leaving, tears that would never flow because she
would not let them. She celebrated the paths of all her children but she wasn’t
feeling well. She was weak. I could tell
that she was beginning to feel that every meeting and departure would be the
last we would see each other. But her tears never flowed, nor mine. I left to
get ready for my trip, but my thoughts were on Ma’s uncomplaining farewell.
“It’s only for a few days. You will be back soon. She will
be okay,” Gail reassures me. She pulls the boots on and zips my luggage. “Come
on, you are going to be late.”
be okay,” Gail reassures me. She pulls the boots on and zips my luggage. “Come
on, you are going to be late.”
The meeting saw me get locked into the Geneva headquarters
of the United Nations as long after the meeting ended and everyone had left, I
as dealing with emails and responses to things everyone thought was urgent,
losing track of time. As with many of
these meetings, it was one where I hardly saw outdoors. In the winter month of
December, I left the hotel in darkness and returned in darkness, not seeing
much of the outdoors or the place. If I wanted to do that I had to book in extra
time.
of the United Nations as long after the meeting ended and everyone had left, I
as dealing with emails and responses to things everyone thought was urgent,
losing track of time. As with many of
these meetings, it was one where I hardly saw outdoors. In the winter month of
December, I left the hotel in darkness and returned in darkness, not seeing
much of the outdoors or the place. If I wanted to do that I had to book in extra
time.
There were many family occasions missed too. I felt that mynephews and nieces knew of me from what they read of and by me. For many years my birthday went uncelebrated or in other lands. In Uganda, coordinatng the outreach for the Women’s Affairs Minister’s Meeting, the women came together because Hazel Brown insisted that my birthday be noiced with a cake.
In the weeks that I tried to pull together my second book, Through
the Political Glass Ceiling so it could be out before the general
elections. I felt a launch before the elections was crucial, because for me
there were prophetic elements in the introduction, The Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in a Small Island with its inside into intangibles of political ideology that has often been overlooked in political and sociocultural analysesthat generally focus primarily on overt factors with which I wrapped the
chronology of speeches by the woman who was in line to shatter the political
glass ceiling as the first woman Prime Minister. When my family gathered for
Mother’s Day, I had to beg leave. The book had to get to the press; the launch
was in a few days. And a few days after that the elections. Ma understood. She
encouraged me to get it done. I took comfort that she would be at the launch.
How much we take our mothers for granted.
the Political Glass Ceiling so it could be out before the general
elections. I felt a launch before the elections was crucial, because for me
there were prophetic elements in the introduction, The Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in a Small Island with its inside into intangibles of political ideology that has often been overlooked in political and sociocultural analysesthat generally focus primarily on overt factors with which I wrapped the
chronology of speeches by the woman who was in line to shatter the political
glass ceiling as the first woman Prime Minister. When my family gathered for
Mother’s Day, I had to beg leave. The book had to get to the press; the launch
was in a few days. And a few days after that the elections. Ma understood. She
encouraged me to get it done. I took comfort that she would be at the launch.
How much we take our mothers for granted.
It was after the launch of Through the Political Glass
Ceiling that we are sitting. I had just finished giving her a massage,
with coconut oil, as she liked.
Ceiling that we are sitting. I had just finished giving her a massage,
with coconut oil, as she liked.
“When you going
settle down, girl?”
settle down, girl?”
Oh dear. The conversation again, I think:
“But I am settled Ma.”
“But who you going to leave your wealth to?”
“What wealth Ma? I asked. Startled. I explained to her that
I generally worked for just stipends to cover daily allowances, and when time
permits, a few contracts that would have to cover the expenses of the months
not formerly working.
I generally worked for just stipends to cover daily allowances, and when time
permits, a few contracts that would have to cover the expenses of the months
not formerly working.
“I am doing what I am called to do,” I tell her.
That’s when Ma surprised me.
“Your wealth is your mind. Who you going to pass that onto?” Ma says.
At the grinding stone
‘Everytime I passing
gyul you peesaying masala….’
gyul you peesaying masala….’
I discover the world in Ma’s kitchen: the crossroads of new
and ancient Asian, Arabian, African, American European culinary delights. The
scents in Ma’s kitchen are like the convergence of global force winds and
waters at the crosscurrents of the world.
and ancient Asian, Arabian, African, American European culinary delights. The
scents in Ma’s kitchen are like the convergence of global force winds and
waters at the crosscurrents of the world.
Ma is humming, ‘EverytimeI passing gyul you peesaying masala’ as she presses out ancient family
culinary secrets from the mystical Orient beyond the Middle Passage through
Pacific-Atlantic Spice Routes, rerouted and rerooted. Like tantalising tall
tales of the Arabian Nights they tease my senses out of my comfort zones of
fairytales through Tunisia and Turkey, Venice and Manhattan to discoveries that
will overturn histories and empires and turn pages, heads and square, oval and
round tables of global diplomacy.
Everytime I passing
gyul you peesaying masala, Ma hums.
gyul you peesaying masala, Ma hums.
From the bowls of spices surrounding her, ancient unrecorded
lore transfers an exotic and erotic past from the perfumed gardens of the
ancient new world. Silken curtains swish against each other sinuously and in
sensual whispers seduces me to board closely guarded camel-drawn caravans laden
with dhania, pippali, nutmeg, cloves, maithi, nigella, cinnamon, cardamom,
mace, turmeric, across the deserts from Dravidian civilisations; aboard Persian
carpets of Iran and Iraq; pausing for refueling at the intersection of shipping
ports via the Arabian Sea into the Egypt’s Nile and the courts of Ramses; then
onward through to Mediterranean parts, Turkey, swashbuckling with the Ottomans
to enter Greece, to join Marco Polo through Rome, Venice; and Vasco De Gama
then Magellan in Portugal, and onto Spanish, French, Dutch Europe, and to the
British Empire.
lore transfers an exotic and erotic past from the perfumed gardens of the
ancient new world. Silken curtains swish against each other sinuously and in
sensual whispers seduces me to board closely guarded camel-drawn caravans laden
with dhania, pippali, nutmeg, cloves, maithi, nigella, cinnamon, cardamom,
mace, turmeric, across the deserts from Dravidian civilisations; aboard Persian
carpets of Iran and Iraq; pausing for refueling at the intersection of shipping
ports via the Arabian Sea into the Egypt’s Nile and the courts of Ramses; then
onward through to Mediterranean parts, Turkey, swashbuckling with the Ottomans
to enter Greece, to join Marco Polo through Rome, Venice; and Vasco De Gama
then Magellan in Portugal, and onto Spanish, French, Dutch Europe, and to the
British Empire.
Everytime
I passing gyul you peesaying masala….
I passing gyul you peesaying masala….
Ma’s humming is
casual, in three notes, the Holy Trinity, a Trident of notes; the beginning,
middle and end as the keys of AUM evoked on a harmonium. Ma’s peesaying is a
havan to the deities of spices and aromas.
casual, in three notes, the Holy Trinity, a Trident of notes; the beginning,
middle and end as the keys of AUM evoked on a harmonium. Ma’s peesaying is a
havan to the deities of spices and aromas.
Everytime I passing gyul you peesaying
masala….
masala….
Ma is a musical
being. I would see that more clearly much later. When we are grown and she as
not as busy tending the house, tending the crops, tending the animals and
tending to us, her love for music is drummed out in dholak-speak. As most of us
have left home spread across the diaspora in the Americas, she entertains
herself recording old Bhojpuri songs of her days of yore, spiced with lyrics
composed of the chutney of her own experiences.
being. I would see that more clearly much later. When we are grown and she as
not as busy tending the house, tending the crops, tending the animals and
tending to us, her love for music is drummed out in dholak-speak. As most of us
have left home spread across the diaspora in the Americas, she entertains
herself recording old Bhojpuri songs of her days of yore, spiced with lyrics
composed of the chutney of her own experiences.
The years shed away.
‘Everytime I passing
gyul you peesaying masala,’ Ma hums.
gyul you peesaying masala,’ Ma hums.
Like the refrain, it’s an image indelibly impressed on my
mind – Ma’s pressing on spices and herbs. Ma is sitting on her peerhah – a low
bench just about one foot off the floor. She bends over a somewhat flat slab of
stone that sits on the ground to a height of about half a foot, a sill, or
seel, she calls it.
mind – Ma’s pressing on spices and herbs. Ma is sitting on her peerhah – a low
bench just about one foot off the floor. She bends over a somewhat flat slab of
stone that sits on the ground to a height of about half a foot, a sill, or
seel, she calls it.
Self-sacrifice and surrender, Ma’s posture inspires
metaphor: at the grinding stone – routine, the daily grind – toil; grind it
out/stick to the grind – persistence, are all in Ma’s body bent over her sill
and lorha, cradling me in her womb, protecting me, murmuring to me the secrets
cures in her spices.
metaphor: at the grinding stone – routine, the daily grind – toil; grind it
out/stick to the grind – persistence, are all in Ma’s body bent over her sill
and lorha, cradling me in her womb, protecting me, murmuring to me the secrets
cures in her spices.
Ma is making her own masala. Ma is the Queen of
masala-making. In one hand, Ma holds the lorha, which, when not in use, sits as
a constant companion on the sill. It is a smooth, somewhat round stone.
masala-making. In one hand, Ma holds the lorha, which, when not in use, sits as
a constant companion on the sill. It is a smooth, somewhat round stone.
The sill and lorha do only Ma’s bidding. Like Sita’s bow
destined only to be broken by her Lord Rama, the sill will not budge later when
I try to move it to sweep away dust and cobweb with my cocoyea broom.
destined only to be broken by her Lord Rama, the sill will not budge later when
I try to move it to sweep away dust and cobweb with my cocoyea broom.
The sill is glossy, as is its lorha, reflecting the stains
of its years of service to spice routes.
of its years of service to spice routes.
Ma is surrounded with portions of her potions of parched
pippali, dania, maithi/fenugreek, geera, dalchini/cinnamon, mace, nutmeg,
cardamon, nigella, ginger, kolonji, turmeric, mustard …
pippali, dania, maithi/fenugreek, geera, dalchini/cinnamon, mace, nutmeg,
cardamon, nigella, ginger, kolonji, turmeric, mustard …
‘Everytime I passing
gyul you peesaying masala,’ Ma hums with her lorha.
gyul you peesaying masala,’ Ma hums with her lorha.
The singing invade the twisted veins of my heart and they relax in confort, to hide their secrets for many years to come. Comforted in her womb, I am enveloped in scents sublime.
Like the wafts from the havan pyre as the pundit performs puja, Ma performs her
culinary ritual for harmony of the domestic spheres with a heart full of melody
and a spirit overflowing with song. Household harmony is the Holy Trinity of
three notes pressed out with a sill and lorha for world peace.
Like the wafts from the havan pyre as the pundit performs puja, Ma performs her
culinary ritual for harmony of the domestic spheres with a heart full of melody
and a spirit overflowing with song. Household harmony is the Holy Trinity of
three notes pressed out with a sill and lorha for world peace.
Ma’s lorha hums in harmony with the sill:
Peesaying masala, peesaying masala
Everytime I passing gyul you peesaying
masala.
masala.
Ma hums, a musical mixture of mystical melodies spiced with
the rhythm of the lorha sliding over the sill. Holding the lorha with one hand,
she scoops up some more grains. The seeds surrender their scents to Ma’s lorha,
like Ma’s posture over the sill, cradling me in her womb. I feel the muscles of
her stomach move around me as she grinds, and I sing with her lorha
the rhythm of the lorha sliding over the sill. Holding the lorha with one hand,
she scoops up some more grains. The seeds surrender their scents to Ma’s lorha,
like Ma’s posture over the sill, cradling me in her womb. I feel the muscles of
her stomach move around me as she grinds, and I sing with her lorha
Everytime I passing
gyul you peesaying masala
gyul you peesaying masala
She deftly moves her hand closely up and down the sill,applying pressure so the bits that are finely ground moves to the upper edge of
the sill, and the coarse bits move back down the end closest to Ma, get a
second roll of her lorha.
Everytime I passing gyul
you peesaying masala, Ma hums, with her lorha.
you peesaying masala, Ma hums, with her lorha.
The emerging strains linger on the senses from the scents,
secrets of spirits escaping from Ma’s spice bowls onto the sill in rhythm to
the lorha, humming, with Ma, this whimsical refrain:
secrets of spirits escaping from Ma’s spice bowls onto the sill in rhythm to
the lorha, humming, with Ma, this whimsical refrain:
‘Everytime I passing gyul you peesaying
masala.’
masala.’
‘Everytime I passing gyul you peesaying
masala,’
masala,’
Clan-destine
confessions
confessions
I am a
bastard. The name I carry is not the one I was born with. And I do not refer
only to the truncated byline that accompanies this article.
bastard. The name I carry is not the one I was born with. And I do not refer
only to the truncated byline that accompanies this article.
(That wasthe Guardian’s doing. Days into what
would turn out to be a career, not many moons ago, a dashing sub-editor faced
me with the ultimatum of truncating my name or run the risk of not being
credited for my articles. My given name would take up an entire paragraph, and
space was a valuable newspaper asset, he argued, rather convincingly. I
acquiesced. It reincarnated into Kris, his option over Krissy – that one had
come in the late years of primary school, so christened by a teacher from
“town,” fresh out of Training
College.)
For years
I harboured clandestine thoughts that I was a bastard. In times when I wanted
to disown my family, I convinced myself I was orphaned; on better days I
savoured my secret – that I was a love child!
I harboured clandestine thoughts that I was a bastard. In times when I wanted
to disown my family, I convinced myself I was orphaned; on better days I
savoured my secret – that I was a love child!
While I
combed her hair, made wavy from decades of plaiting, or massaged her back, I
would smilingly indulge in this little secret I shared with my Ma. She groaned
approvingly every time I massaged an ache out. I dread to think what her real
reaction would have been had I voiced my thoughts…
combed her hair, made wavy from decades of plaiting, or massaged her back, I
would smilingly indulge in this little secret I shared with my Ma. She groaned
approvingly every time I massaged an ache out. I dread to think what her real
reaction would have been had I voiced my thoughts…
But it
was not just my imagination running wild. My bastardisation was the doing of
the State.
was not just my imagination running wild. My bastardisation was the doing of
the State.
It began
when I discovered my birth certificate a few weeks before sitting the Common
Entrance examination.
when I discovered my birth certificate a few weeks before sitting the Common
Entrance examination.
Under the
column “Father’s name” there was a dash. Nothing else. A dash, then blank.
Everyone assumed I was Rampersad because my many, many brothers and sisters
carried one of my father’s names, and when you’re number 10 on the list you
can’t really choose your name, or so they thought. I’d disprove it! Trice!
column “Father’s name” there was a dash. Nothing else. A dash, then blank.
Everyone assumed I was Rampersad because my many, many brothers and sisters
carried one of my father’s names, and when you’re number 10 on the list you
can’t really choose your name, or so they thought. I’d disprove it! Trice!
Though
all my official records made me his, his name was not on the birth certificate.
Instead, that carefully rolled, still crisp but yellowing piece of paper Ma
kept in her secret place stated I was a Sookraj.
all my official records made me his, his name was not on the birth certificate.
Instead, that carefully rolled, still crisp but yellowing piece of paper Ma
kept in her secret place stated I was a Sookraj.
Even when
Rampersad went to the Red House in Port-of-Spain to swear I was his, I reserved
the option of being Sookraj when I wanted. Really, I should be Kris (blank) or
Kris — (dash).
Rampersad went to the Red House in Port-of-Spain to swear I was his, I reserved
the option of being Sookraj when I wanted. Really, I should be Kris (blank) or
Kris — (dash).
Threeyears ago, I again saw Sookraj’s named on paper. One then long-unknown cousin,
Nelson Ramdeen, was tracing his maternal ancestors and it led him to my mother.
He jotted down all our names, and the names of the children of my siblings, and
the names of ma’s siblings, and their children, and her mother’s name, and her
father’s name: Sookraj, a grandpa I had never known.
Her
unregistered Hindu marriage to my father not being recognised by law, not even
10 children later, I was stuck with her father’s name, her maiden name, hence
her love child, and my romanticised bastard status.
unregistered Hindu marriage to my father not being recognised by law, not even
10 children later, I was stuck with her father’s name, her maiden name, hence
her love child, and my romanticised bastard status.
So
Rampersad is the name that defines my place in a place that didn’t recognise my
parents’ cultural relationships – an oral culture – in a place where the
emphasis is on things written.
Rampersad is the name that defines my place in a place that didn’t recognise my
parents’ cultural relationships – an oral culture – in a place where the
emphasis is on things written.
Writing
made things real.
made things real.
In that
way too, Moneah became real.
way too, Moneah became real.
From
Ramdeen’s research, she popped to life. He traced my mother’s lineage to this
faceless woman, who, for whatever reason, at age 22, from a village in India,
packed her husband, Ramchurn, and her Jahaji bundle; boarded the Hougoumont on
October 13, 1870; braved four months of treacherous, unfamiliar kala pani, to
arrive in Trinidad on February 15, 1871, one day after what would come to be
known as Valentine’s Day.
Ramdeen’s research, she popped to life. He traced my mother’s lineage to this
faceless woman, who, for whatever reason, at age 22, from a village in India,
packed her husband, Ramchurn, and her Jahaji bundle; boarded the Hougoumont on
October 13, 1870; braved four months of treacherous, unfamiliar kala pani, to
arrive in Trinidad on February 15, 1871, one day after what would come to be
known as Valentine’s Day.
Thus
began her love affair with Trinidad, which would outlive two husbands, spawn 10
(known) children, some 50 grandchildren (and counting, some blanks still
exist); each of those had on average 40 grandchildren; each of those some 30
grands.
began her love affair with Trinidad, which would outlive two husbands, spawn 10
(known) children, some 50 grandchildren (and counting, some blanks still
exist); each of those had on average 40 grandchildren; each of those some 30
grands.
Five
generations later, I need a better capacity for math than I now possess to
calculate Moneah’s contribution to Trinidad and Tobago’s voting and working
population and to the Trinidad diaspora in North America, Asia, Australia,
Europe and the Caribbean, which in a rough estimate is beyond 5,000 human souls
in various places, professions.
generations later, I need a better capacity for math than I now possess to
calculate Moneah’s contribution to Trinidad and Tobago’s voting and working
population and to the Trinidad diaspora in North America, Asia, Australia,
Europe and the Caribbean, which in a rough estimate is beyond 5,000 human souls
in various places, professions.
(All
except politics, the family jokes, and on the agenda is a motion to disown from
Moneah’s lineage any who enters that profession at the next clan gathering –
the first was 130 years after Moneah’s arrival, so the next might not be until
another century or so.)
except politics, the family jokes, and on the agenda is a motion to disown from
Moneah’s lineage any who enters that profession at the next clan gathering –
the first was 130 years after Moneah’s arrival, so the next might not be until
another century or so.)
Moneah
now lives: In the faces and the mannerisms and quirks of character of the some
3,000 women who can trace a bloodline to her.
now lives: In the faces and the mannerisms and quirks of character of the some
3,000 women who can trace a bloodline to her.
From what
I know of some of those women in her lineage, I could see her, on Ramchurn’s
death two and a half years after their landing, pulling her widowed orhini over
her head and shrugging off considerations of becoming Suti and being burned on
a pyre with her husband, a tradition that died in the New World with the dying
embers of the Suti practice. I could hear her saying, “Sati who? Mere nam,
Moneah” (Meh name’s Moneah!).
I know of some of those women in her lineage, I could see her, on Ramchurn’s
death two and a half years after their landing, pulling her widowed orhini over
her head and shrugging off considerations of becoming Suti and being burned on
a pyre with her husband, a tradition that died in the New World with the dying
embers of the Suti practice. I could hear her saying, “Sati who? Mere nam,
Moneah” (Meh name’s Moneah!).
She would
mourn him properly in the traditionally defined ways, and two years later
consort with our grandsire, Shewpersad, who said farewell to his cows and his
village, boarded the Brechin
Castle (ship) on December 26, 1874, to Trinidad and 25 years of Moneah.
mourn him properly in the traditionally defined ways, and two years later
consort with our grandsire, Shewpersad, who said farewell to his cows and his
village, boarded the Brechin
Castle (ship) on December 26, 1874, to Trinidad and 25 years of Moneah.
Those two
would seed Trinidad soil with cane and
cabbages, pumpkins and pawpaws, and offspring like peas.
would seed Trinidad soil with cane and
cabbages, pumpkins and pawpaws, and offspring like peas.
Though
only one of her sons, one great grandaughter, and two great, great grandsons
would demonstrably exceed her level of fertility, the average offspring of each
of the descendants over five generations stands around six.
only one of her sons, one great grandaughter, and two great, great grandsons
would demonstrably exceed her level of fertility, the average offspring of each
of the descendants over five generations stands around six.
Several
have inherited her genes of outliving husbands.
have inherited her genes of outliving husbands.
They
include beef-eating Hindus, pork-eating Muslims, bhajan-singing Christians;
through their veins have flowed T&T’s coconut water and Carib, French wine,
Scottish whisky, Japanese sake, India’s lassi, and whatever other beverages
rage in the places they have settled and spawned their own dynasties – in the
USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and India.
include beef-eating Hindus, pork-eating Muslims, bhajan-singing Christians;
through their veins have flowed T&T’s coconut water and Carib, French wine,
Scottish whisky, Japanese sake, India’s lassi, and whatever other beverages
rage in the places they have settled and spawned their own dynasties – in the
USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and India.
A solid bridge now stretches seven generations – each step boldly
labelled – towards. Because we know her name.
labelled – towards. Because we know her name.
(Adapted from article fist published, Trinidad Guardian,
June 1 2003. Elaborated in upcoming autobiography, Life! HoleHeartedly)
June 1 2003. Elaborated in upcoming autobiography, Life! HoleHeartedly)
Dr
Kris Rampersad work has spanned the arenas of Education; Literature, the Arts
and Culture; Media Communications and Information; and Gender Equity,
Empowerment and Advancement for access to opportunities from grassroots to high
level agenda setting international arenas. This has enhanced the impact and
ability to envision and advocate for meaningful gender and culture-sensitive
approaches to sustainable development in ways that bridge and span gaps between
and among fields and disciplines from agriculture, culture, industry,
education, governance and ICTs for all ages and across gender divides.
Kris Rampersad work has spanned the arenas of Education; Literature, the Arts
and Culture; Media Communications and Information; and Gender Equity,
Empowerment and Advancement for access to opportunities from grassroots to high
level agenda setting international arenas. This has enhanced the impact and
ability to envision and advocate for meaningful gender and culture-sensitive
approaches to sustainable development in ways that bridge and span gaps between
and among fields and disciplines from agriculture, culture, industry,
education, governance and ICTs for all ages and across gender divides.
She
functions as an Independent educator, researcher, author, advocate, activist,
advisor, mentor, facilitator and consultant.
functions as an Independent educator, researcher, author, advocate, activist,
advisor, mentor, facilitator and consultant.
Highlights
of Media/Journalism Career: Spans print, television, education and advocacy
across spheres of conventional and new media prnt and production 1988-2018.
of Media/Journalism Career: Spans print, television, education and advocacy
across spheres of conventional and new media prnt and production 1988-2018.
v Blog Demokrissy is a widely read by international
think tanks, including the UN community. It won the BBC/UNESCO Communication
Initiative policy development blogging for new media
think tanks, including the UN community. It won the BBC/UNESCO Communication
Initiative policy development blogging for new media
v Coordinated international media for Summit of the
Americas and Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings
Americas and Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings
v First sitting journalist to complete doctorate. Inspired
many journalist to pursue higher education.
many journalist to pursue higher education.
v Articles and columns have occupied and guided public
opinion from editorial pages for some 30 years
opinion from editorial pages for some 30 years
v Doctorate on process of literary development and
influences of journalism on award winning writings considered seminal and
ground breaking in its depth and scope that spans 100 years of socio-cultural-political
evolution of Trinidad and Tobago. Published as Finding A Place
influences of journalism on award winning writings considered seminal and
ground breaking in its depth and scope that spans 100 years of socio-cultural-political
evolution of Trinidad and Tobago. Published as Finding A Place
v Wrote first book on the first female Prime Minister
of Trinidad and Tobago, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling, released
on the eve of election of 2010 with prophetic insights into premiership of
Kamla Persad Bissessar.
of Trinidad and Tobago, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling, released
on the eve of election of 2010 with prophetic insights into premiership of
Kamla Persad Bissessar.
v Third book LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from
Trinidad and Tobago represents almost everything written in fiction
from Sir Walter Raleigh 1595 to the turn of the 21st century was commemorative
publication of 50th Jubilee Anniversary of Independence;
Trinidad and Tobago represents almost everything written in fiction
from Sir Walter Raleigh 1595 to the turn of the 21st century was commemorative
publication of 50th Jubilee Anniversary of Independence;
Presented ground breaking research at first World Summit on Information Society in Tunisia on engendering ICT policy. Has helped develop media, information and communication policy as integrated into achievmeents of Millennium Development goals and Sustainable Development Goals at global levels of agenda setting and policy making of the UN Commonwealth and OAS agencies.
Pioneered research on gender sensitive policy making in areas of Freedom of Information, Access to Information, and other spheres for hemispheric, commonwealth and UN bodies
v Served as Editor of Sunday Guardian and presided
over the transition from broadsheet to tabloid.
over the transition from broadsheet to tabloid.
v Founding journalist of Newsday – wrote first lead story, ‘5000 Lives Saved, dubbed ‘the
good news reporter’
good news reporter’
v Youngest journalist to win BWIA media award for
excellence in journalism. Won in social and economic commentary category for
gender bender article, War of the Sexes
Goes to the Calypso Stage from Discover Trinidad and Tobago series
excellence in journalism. Won in social and economic commentary category for
gender bender article, War of the Sexes
Goes to the Calypso Stage from Discover Trinidad and Tobago series
v Won Pan American Health Organisation Award for
Excellence in Health Reporting
Excellence in Health Reporting
v Top student of diploma course in international journalism
, Rajasthan Patrika Award from Indian Institute of Mass Communication (Scholarship).
, Rajasthan Patrika Award from Indian Institute of Mass Communication (Scholarship).
v Research and Writer of programmes of Cross Country
for AVM Television (as well as AVM Special Report, Survival (food programme)
Booktalk among others. Cross Country became rated as the number one local
programme that held prime time television spot for its duration and won several
BWIA Media Awards.
for AVM Television (as well as AVM Special Report, Survival (food programme)
Booktalk among others. Cross Country became rated as the number one local
programme that held prime time television spot for its duration and won several
BWIA Media Awards.
v Awarded Nuffield Foundation Fellowship to Wolfson
College, Cambridge
College, Cambridge
v Awarded fellowship by Foreign Press Centre of Japan
v Commonwealth Professional Fellow
Highlights
of Gender Actions
of Gender Actions
For almost three decades Dr
Kris Rampersad has been devoted to leveling the playing field for women and
girls in pursuit of:
Kris Rampersad has been devoted to leveling the playing field for women and
girls in pursuit of:
•Gender equality in the
work place
work place
• The elimination of all
forms of discrimination against women by the promotion of gender equity.
forms of discrimination against women by the promotion of gender equity.
• Legislative and cultural
reform to ensure gender equity.
reform to ensure gender equity.
• Institutional mechanisms
for the advancements of women.
for the advancements of women.
• Economic empowerment by:
overcoming marginalization, oppressive social norms access and rights to
resources;
overcoming marginalization, oppressive social norms access and rights to
resources;
• Incentive and awards
based initiatives encouraging women to fulfill their potential and
based initiatives encouraging women to fulfill their potential and
• Education- based
programs, initiatives or personal action that offer and afford women broader
choices & enhanced opportunities
programs, initiatives or personal action that offer and afford women broader
choices & enhanced opportunities
Highlights
of Gender Actions & Achievements
of Gender Actions & Achievements
Highlights of such
achievements in pursuit of implementation of the CEDAW recommendations for the elimination of all forms of
discrimination against women and promotion of gender equity include:
achievements in pursuit of implementation of the CEDAW recommendations for the elimination of all forms of
discrimination against women and promotion of gender equity include:
1. Research, preparation of the pioneering
comprehensive national report and spearheaded follow up action in the
InterAmerican system to encourage State bodies to implement the CEDAW
convention provisions and recommendations that informed the Summit of the
Americas, Commonwealth and UN processes.
comprehensive national report and spearheaded follow up action in the
InterAmerican system to encourage State bodies to implement the CEDAW
convention provisions and recommendations that informed the Summit of the
Americas, Commonwealth and UN processes.
2. Her work in awareness raising and
building capacities to understand gender sensitive policy and legislation to strengthen
the capacity of institutions in addressing gender inequalities as for reform to
the child marriage act, gender sensitive budgeting and engendered political
processes.
building capacities to understand gender sensitive policy and legislation to strengthen
the capacity of institutions in addressing gender inequalities as for reform to
the child marriage act, gender sensitive budgeting and engendered political
processes.
3. She coordinated the outreach and advocacy for
the Commonwealth Foundation’s campaign for gender equality for Commonwealth
Women Affairs Ministers Meetings. This fed into the Commonwealth Head of
Government Meetings to build acceptance of the Commonwealth Campaign on the
slogan, ‘Where’s the Money for Gender Equality.’ It spotlighted and propelled
the movement of gender equity beyond rhetoric to actioning developmental
programmes.
the Commonwealth Foundation’s campaign for gender equality for Commonwealth
Women Affairs Ministers Meetings. This fed into the Commonwealth Head of
Government Meetings to build acceptance of the Commonwealth Campaign on the
slogan, ‘Where’s the Money for Gender Equality.’ It spotlighted and propelled
the movement of gender equity beyond rhetoric to actioning developmental
programmes.
4. Her impact on gender equality in the
workplace has been not just in pursuing the rights of colleagues in the
workplace but for across-the-board equity in treatment, equity in promotions
and remunerations; representation of women at higher levels of administration
and decision making.
workplace has been not just in pursuing the rights of colleagues in the
workplace but for across-the-board equity in treatment, equity in promotions
and remunerations; representation of women at higher levels of administration
and decision making.
5. She
has been a strong advocate to removal of discriminatory practices and
revisiting entrenched notions of gender roles within social systems and
cultural practices through her work with traditional and grass roots
communities across the Caribbean.
has been a strong advocate to removal of discriminatory practices and
revisiting entrenched notions of gender roles within social systems and
cultural practices through her work with traditional and grass roots
communities across the Caribbean.
6. She has herself blazed a trail for women
in the media and has filled several senior level positions as well as being the
first sitting editor to have completed a PhD while in the demanding and
high-stressed environment of the newsroom, as well as in her actions in
supporting women journalists.
in the media and has filled several senior level positions as well as being the
first sitting editor to have completed a PhD while in the demanding and
high-stressed environment of the newsroom, as well as in her actions in
supporting women journalists.
7. From the inception of her career as a
journalist Dr Rampersad supported the global mandate for equality of women that
came out of the Beijing Platform for Women, and has a substantial portfolio of
articles, columns as Woman to Woman, interviews, investigations, that tell
women’s personal stories of trials and triumphs, revealing discrepancies and
imbalances from data, highlighting the plight of the underprivileged,
unearthing inequalities in national life, in the homes and in the work place,
and the campaign against domestic violence.
journalist Dr Rampersad supported the global mandate for equality of women that
came out of the Beijing Platform for Women, and has a substantial portfolio of
articles, columns as Woman to Woman, interviews, investigations, that tell
women’s personal stories of trials and triumphs, revealing discrepancies and
imbalances from data, highlighting the plight of the underprivileged,
unearthing inequalities in national life, in the homes and in the work place,
and the campaign against domestic violence.
8. She has also been actively involved in supporting
and encouraging women’s development from community to international policy
arenas.
and encouraging women’s development from community to international policy
arenas.
9. Her writings, from profiles of
achievements to policy critiques have encouraging women in public , civic and
entrepreneurial arenas, utilizing all her roles to this end.
achievements to policy critiques have encouraging women in public , civic and
entrepreneurial arenas, utilizing all her roles to this end.
10. She has initiated and developed a number
of awards for women.
of awards for women.
i.
As
editor she partnered with the United Nations, corporate community, NGOs and
others to spearhead the Woman of the Year Award. S
As
editor she partnered with the United Nations, corporate community, NGOs and
others to spearhead the Woman of the Year Award. S
ii.
She
conceptualized and piloted to national and international acceptance the
Commonwealth Caribbean ‘Women Agents of Change’ Award, which was the forerunner
to introduction of the Medals for Women in Trinidad and Tobago.
She
conceptualized and piloted to national and international acceptance the
Commonwealth Caribbean ‘Women Agents of Change’ Award, which was the forerunner
to introduction of the Medals for Women in Trinidad and Tobago.
iii.
She
identified women to be recognized among others for the Trinidad and Tobago
Publishers’ and Broadcasting Association Awards for Media Excellence.
She
identified women to be recognized among others for the Trinidad and Tobago
Publishers’ and Broadcasting Association Awards for Media Excellence.
11. She created & produced television
documentary as the series That is Woman that features leading
women figures in national life to showcase women’s achievements and have them
tell their stories in their own words, and researched and scripted many other
stories of women for radio, television and print.
documentary as the series That is Woman that features leading
women figures in national life to showcase women’s achievements and have them
tell their stories in their own words, and researched and scripted many other
stories of women for radio, television and print.
12. For the most part of the last fifteen
years she has been the spokesperson on women’s issues and gender parity,
shaping and supporting the work of local and international Networks for gender
equity and the advancement of Women of Trinidad and Tobago.
years she has been the spokesperson on women’s issues and gender parity,
shaping and supporting the work of local and international Networks for gender
equity and the advancement of Women of Trinidad and Tobago.
13. As an educator, she also trained women in
gender sensitive approaches to policy making, understanding and engaging with
media.
gender sensitive approaches to policy making, understanding and engaging with
media.
14. Among organisations that have benefitted
from her input are UN Women/UNIFEM; UNESCO dedicated programme actions on its
priority focus on women, the Caribbean
Institute for Women and the Commonwealth Women’s Organisation; CIVICUS – World
Assembly for People’s Participation.
from her input are UN Women/UNIFEM; UNESCO dedicated programme actions on its
priority focus on women, the Caribbean
Institute for Women and the Commonwealth Women’s Organisation; CIVICUS – World
Assembly for People’s Participation.
15. She was researcher and lead spokesperson
for gender equality for the OAS Active Democracy Network in the build up to and
through the Fifth Summit of the Americas and presented pioneering research on
gender sensitive approaches to changing development policy agenda in areas of
Freedom of Expression, Access to Information .
for gender equality for the OAS Active Democracy Network in the build up to and
through the Fifth Summit of the Americas and presented pioneering research on
gender sensitive approaches to changing development policy agenda in areas of
Freedom of Expression, Access to Information .
16. At national level, she articulated to
build awareness as the Outreach and International Relations Director of the
Network of NGOs for Women and articulated the vision around the Put A Woman
Campaign of the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women, which drew from
the UN resolutions for gender parity in national decision making. It included
the slogan, A Woman’s Place is in the House – Of Parliament, that saw the
.drive for fulfilment of the quota of women in Parliament along with women in
the positions of Speaker of the House and President of the Senate. The same
campaign also supported the ascension into office of the First Female Prime
Minister and first Female President of Trinidad and Tobago in one decade.
build awareness as the Outreach and International Relations Director of the
Network of NGOs for Women and articulated the vision around the Put A Woman
Campaign of the Network of NGOs for the Advancement of Women, which drew from
the UN resolutions for gender parity in national decision making. It included
the slogan, A Woman’s Place is in the House – Of Parliament, that saw the
.drive for fulfilment of the quota of women in Parliament along with women in
the positions of Speaker of the House and President of the Senate. The same
campaign also supported the ascension into office of the First Female Prime
Minister and first Female President of Trinidad and Tobago in one decade.
17. She wrote the pioneering book, Through
the Political Glass Ceiling, that along with mapping the journey of the First
Female Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago through her speeches also includes
revisionary research, study and analysis of the national politics of the day
through gender and cultural sensitive lenses that has become a text for gender
studies and analyses. This has become an important global text in appreciating
the challenges of women in ascension public office.
the Political Glass Ceiling, that along with mapping the journey of the First
Female Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago through her speeches also includes
revisionary research, study and analysis of the national politics of the day
through gender and cultural sensitive lenses that has become a text for gender
studies and analyses. This has become an important global text in appreciating
the challenges of women in ascension public office.
18. These contributions spilled over to her
functions in other arenas. As the Co-Chair of the UNESCO Executive Board’s
Public and External Relations Commission responsible for programme actions she
drove and supported international actions and motions to strengthen UNESCO’s
priority focus on women and gender equality as well as in championing rights of
journalists and others and for injecting gender sensitive approaches to
decision making in culture, education, information and other spheres.
functions in other arenas. As the Co-Chair of the UNESCO Executive Board’s
Public and External Relations Commission responsible for programme actions she
drove and supported international actions and motions to strengthen UNESCO’s
priority focus on women and gender equality as well as in championing rights of
journalists and others and for injecting gender sensitive approaches to
decision making in culture, education, information and other spheres.
19. She was herself acknowledged and featured in
Hazel Ward Redman’s celebratory series as CentreStage and Woman of Substance
and has been featured in articles as Express Woman, ‘Helping Dreamers Dream’
and Newsday Woman’s Weekly as Changing the World With Ideas.
Hazel Ward Redman’s celebratory series as CentreStage and Woman of Substance
and has been featured in articles as Express Woman, ‘Helping Dreamers Dream’
and Newsday Woman’s Weekly as Changing the World With Ideas.
20. She has mentored many at national and
international levels
international levels
Pioneering
Work
Work
Dr Kris Rampersad’s work is
pioneering in relation to her research and fearless and courageous and selfless
advocacy and actions in the face of tremendous odds and challenges of a small
island society. She has enhanced the image of Trinidad and Tobago and women
both in the national arena and abroad as a
flagbearer of national development interests through all her endeavours
as journalist, editor, advocate, educator, development specialist.
pioneering in relation to her research and fearless and courageous and selfless
advocacy and actions in the face of tremendous odds and challenges of a small
island society. She has enhanced the image of Trinidad and Tobago and women
both in the national arena and abroad as a
flagbearer of national development interests through all her endeavours
as journalist, editor, advocate, educator, development specialist.
Through her work and in
networking with others she has actively created and improved the availability
and accessibility of spaces for women in the public sphere and has helped
spotlight challenges and streamline the focus on perceptions of their roles and
functions in the private/domestic spheres.
networking with others she has actively created and improved the availability
and accessibility of spaces for women in the public sphere and has helped
spotlight challenges and streamline the focus on perceptions of their roles and
functions in the private/domestic spheres.
Her groundbreaking research
offer new insight into national phenomenon within local and international
contexts to enlighten approaches to agenda setting, policy and decision making
encompassing research, production, advocacy, institutional capacity building
and enhancement through to face to face and hands on leadership and youth
development initiatives in education and awareness and skills building for
women and girls.
offer new insight into national phenomenon within local and international
contexts to enlighten approaches to agenda setting, policy and decision making
encompassing research, production, advocacy, institutional capacity building
and enhancement through to face to face and hands on leadership and youth
development initiatives in education and awareness and skills building for
women and girls.
Her life and work putting
service before self, often at little or no remuneration and at the expense of
her health and a life threatening medical condition, she has given up many
personal and professional comforts and security in her efforts at creating
opportunities and advancement of women
service before self, often at little or no remuneration and at the expense of
her health and a life threatening medical condition, she has given up many
personal and professional comforts and security in her efforts at creating
opportunities and advancement of women
Through her passion,
energy, devotion, and commitment to actions for meaningful change, she has
inspired women and girls of all ages and across national to international
spectrums as an inspiration to women educators, women leaders, women in the
media and in the sphere of arts and culture.
energy, devotion, and commitment to actions for meaningful change, she has
inspired women and girls of all ages and across national to international
spectrums as an inspiration to women educators, women leaders, women in the
media and in the sphere of arts and culture.
Awards/Recognitions
& Service
& Service
Education
St Julien Presbyterian School New Grant Princes Town – Primary School:
St Stephen’s College, Princes Town – Secondary School:
PhD in Literatures in
English University of the West Indies
English University of the West Indies
BA Literatures in English,
sociology, politics, University of the
West Indies
sociology, politics, University of the
West Indies
Diploma in Mass
Communication – Indian Institute of Mass Communication, India and its highest
award Rajasthan Patrika Award;
Communication – Indian Institute of Mass Communication, India and its highest
award Rajasthan Patrika Award;
Fellow, Wolfson College,
University of Cambridge UK (globalisation);
University of Cambridge UK (globalisation);
Commonwealth Professional
Fellowship
Fellowship
Participated and benefitted
from numerous courses, lectures, workshops in
multimedia, information technologies, leadership, management, computing,
managing diversity, and conservation and safeguarding of cultural heritage.
from numerous courses, lectures, workshops in
multimedia, information technologies, leadership, management, computing,
managing diversity, and conservation and safeguarding of cultural heritage.
Scholarships and
Fellowships:
Fellowships:
Wolfson (Journalism)
College, University of Cambridge UK;
College, University of Cambridge UK;
Foreign Press Centre of
Japan (journalism fellowship);
Japan (journalism fellowship);
Association of Commonwealth
Universities, Professional Fellowship;
Universities, Professional Fellowship;
UWI Post Graduate
Scholarship;
Scholarship;
Awards &
Commendations:
Commendations:
Ø
Trinidad
and Tobago Luminary Award 2015/2016
Trinidad
and Tobago Luminary Award 2015/2016
Ø
Winner
Development Policy Blogs on New Media (BBC Trust/UNESCO Communication
Initiative); 2011
Winner
Development Policy Blogs on New Media (BBC Trust/UNESCO Communication
Initiative); 2011
Ø
Award for Excellence in Health Reporting 1994 (World Health
Organisation/Pan American Health Organisation)
Award for Excellence in Health Reporting 1994 (World Health
Organisation/Pan American Health Organisation)
Ø
Award for Excellence in Journalism (BWIA) 1987;
Award for Excellence in Journalism (BWIA) 1987;
Ø
Moms for Literacy Award for Literary Achievement
Moms for Literacy Award for Literary Achievement
Ø
International Who’s Who in Cultural Policy Research (ConnectCP)
International Who’s Who in Cultural Policy Research (ConnectCP)
Ø
Award for Contribution to Literature and Culture; (Global Organisation
of Peoples of Indian Origin)
Award for Contribution to Literature and Culture; (Global Organisation
of Peoples of Indian Origin)
Ø
Rajasthan Patrika Most Outstanding Student Award (Indian Institute of
Mass Communication)
Rajasthan Patrika Most Outstanding Student Award (Indian Institute of
Mass Communication)
Ø
British High Commission Award for English Literature
British High Commission Award for English Literature
Ø
UWI Award Student Awards.
UWI Award Student Awards.
Organisation Affiliations – International/National
Ø Founding Adviser,
International Institute for Gastronomy, Culture, Arts & Tourism
International Institute for Gastronomy, Culture, Arts & Tourism
Ø Founding Member, U40
Coalition on Promotion of Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Coalition on Promotion of Diversity of Cultural Expressions
Ø Founding Member,
Scientific Committee, International Culture University
Scientific Committee, International Culture University
Served on numerous committees and boards,
including
including
Ø UNESCO General Assembly,
Chair Education Commission
Chair Education Commission
Ø UNESCO Executive Board,
co-chair Programmes and External Relations Commission, member of Special
Committee
co-chair Programmes and External Relations Commission, member of Special
Committee
Ø Chair, National Museum and Art Gallery;
Ø Chair, National
Commission for UNESCO of Trinidad and Tobago
Commission for UNESCO of Trinidad and Tobago
Ø Member Trinidad and
Tobago Government Expert Panel on Arts and Culture Member, Trinidad and Tobago
Registry of Cultural Workers Committee
Tobago Government Expert Panel on Arts and Culture Member, Trinidad and Tobago
Registry of Cultural Workers Committee
Ø Member, Trinidad and
Tobago Heritage Tourism Committee
Tobago Heritage Tourism Committee
Ø Founder,/Coordinator
Awards for Agricultural Journalism
Awards for Agricultural Journalism
Ø Founding member, Friends of Mr Biswas – St
James House for Mr Biswas
James House for Mr Biswas
Ø Founder/Coordinator,
Trinidad Theatre Workshop Fund for Literature, Drama, Film
Trinidad Theatre Workshop Fund for Literature, Drama, Film
Ø Outreach & International
Relations Director, Network of NGOs of Trinidad and Tobago for the Advancement
of Women
Relations Director, Network of NGOs of Trinidad and Tobago for the Advancement
of Women
Other
Career Highlights
Career Highlights
International Development Educator, Lecturer, Facilitator, Consultant: 21
years
years
MultiMediaMedia/Journalism: 30 years: editor, manager, investigative
reporter, script and storyboard writer, producer/publisher in print, electronic
and new media
reporter, script and storyboard writer, producer/publisher in print, electronic
and new media
Author: Finding A Place (Ian Randle Publishers, 2001); Through the
Political Glass Ceiling; LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and
Tobago
Political Glass Ceiling; LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and
Tobago
AudioVisual Producer/Director/Writer/Researcher:20 years
Academia – lecturing at tertiary level formal, non-formal and informal
sectors, course design, development and evaluation – 22 years
sectors, course design, development and evaluation – 22 years
Some 30 years’ experience in developing formal and informal education
sectors as a researcher, writer, educator, outreach and communication
specialist and analyst of culture, migration, rural and urban development,
diversity, multiculturalism and related areas of cross sectoral sustainable
development;
sectors as a researcher, writer, educator, outreach and communication
specialist and analyst of culture, migration, rural and urban development,
diversity, multiculturalism and related areas of cross sectoral sustainable
development;
Holds a PhD in Literatures in English. Doctoral theses examined issues of
globalization, migration processes of adaptation and society-formation drawing
from global-local knowledge and experiences of media and literary development
of a small island state.
globalization, migration processes of adaptation and society-formation drawing
from global-local knowledge and experiences of media and literary development
of a small island state.
Have written and published extensively on themes of identity, migration,
adaptation, urbanisation, and rural development in contexts of youth, gender,
trade, crime, ecology, education and other topics;
adaptation, urbanisation, and rural development in contexts of youth, gender,
trade, crime, ecology, education and other topics;
Numerous peer reviewed articles
and conference presentations, including three books that approach the issues of
migration and social adaptations from various angles: journalism/information
and communication (Finding a Place, Ian Randle Publications, 2002); gender
appreciation (Through the Political Glass Ceiling – Race to Prime Ministership
by Trinidad and Tobago’s First Female Kamla Persad Bissessar (2010) and popular
culture (LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago (2012);
and conference presentations, including three books that approach the issues of
migration and social adaptations from various angles: journalism/information
and communication (Finding a Place, Ian Randle Publications, 2002); gender
appreciation (Through the Political Glass Ceiling – Race to Prime Ministership
by Trinidad and Tobago’s First Female Kamla Persad Bissessar (2010) and popular
culture (LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago (2012);
Educator/Train
the Trainers & Capacity Building :
the Trainers & Capacity Building :
a: UNESCO: Training of Caribbean Stakeholders in diversity appreciation,
activating Cultural Heritage and Creative Sectors: Belize, Trinidad and Tobago,
Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Grenada, St Kitts/Nevis. UNESCO..
activating Cultural Heritage and Creative Sectors: Belize, Trinidad and Tobago,
Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Guyana, Grenada, St Kitts/Nevis. UNESCO..
b. Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI).
Training of Caribbean Agriculturalists in Outreach, Education and Development
of Academic Journals and Publications:
Training of Caribbean Agriculturalists in Outreach, Education and Development
of Academic Journals and Publications:
c. National Institute of Higher Education Research, Science and
Technology (NIHERST): Development of Outreach Initiatives for Science
Popularisation:
Technology (NIHERST): Development of Outreach Initiatives for Science
Popularisation:
d. Caribbean Institute of Women in Leadership: Develop Course Materials
and Train Caribbean Women Leaders in Gender Sensitivity, Diversity
Appreciation, Engagement & Outreach:
Guyana, Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada
and Train Caribbean Women Leaders in Gender Sensitivity, Diversity
Appreciation, Engagement & Outreach:
Guyana, Antigua, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada
e. The College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and
Tobago (COSTAATT): Development and
Delivery of Journalism and Literature Courses
Tobago (COSTAATT): Development and
Delivery of Journalism and Literature Courses
f. Part Time Lecturer: Literatures in English; Foundational Courses;
Literature and Caribbean Society: University of the West Indies.
Literature and Caribbean Society: University of the West Indies.
g. External Supervisor, MSc Thesis Cultural Diversity Management:
Institutional Reform
Institutional Reform
h. External Thesis Editor/Publication Adviser
i. Guest Lecturer: Literature, Culture, Media, Civic Empowerment for
Sustainable Development, University of Catalona, Barcelona, Spain
Sustainable Development, University of Catalona, Barcelona, Spain
Career
Highlights: Education & Culture:
Highlights: Education & Culture:
Educational Policy Development: Formal and Informal Education,
Literature, Media Outreach, Lifelong Learning and Global Citizenship Education:
Literature, Media Outreach, Lifelong Learning and Global Citizenship Education:
a. Capacity development for cultural and civil society communities across
the Americas Successful trained stakeholders of all three Caribbean Small
Island Developing States which achieved World Heritage status over the last
five years (Antigua and Barbuda, 2016; Jamaica, 2015, Barbados, 2011 prior to
this last inscription was in 1998).
the Americas Successful trained stakeholders of all three Caribbean Small
Island Developing States which achieved World Heritage status over the last
five years (Antigua and Barbuda, 2016; Jamaica, 2015, Barbados, 2011 prior to
this last inscription was in 1998).
b. Pioneered several
international level policies through UNESCO/other international agencies for
relevant actions for integrated and transboundary approaches to positively
impact the Sustainable Development Agenda and integrate culture in development,
promote global citizenship, rationally explore issues of migration and
adaptation.
international level policies through UNESCO/other international agencies for
relevant actions for integrated and transboundary approaches to positively
impact the Sustainable Development Agenda and integrate culture in development,
promote global citizenship, rationally explore issues of migration and
adaptation.
c. Devised models for
multisectoral media and cultural outreach including one adopted from a model
developed for the Caribbean for ACP-EU Seminar on Media and Agriculture,
Brussels;
multisectoral media and cultural outreach including one adopted from a model
developed for the Caribbean for ACP-EU Seminar on Media and Agriculture,
Brussels;
d. Development of the blue print of the action plan being used English
speaking Caribbean countries for implementation of UNESCO Conventions; culling
appreciation and development of incentive and award schemes; integrating
developmental approaches across sectors and national boundaries and developing
transboundary connections.
speaking Caribbean countries for implementation of UNESCO Conventions; culling
appreciation and development of incentive and award schemes; integrating
developmental approaches across sectors and national boundaries and developing
transboundary connections.
e. More than 15 years’ hands
on experience in development and implementing policy programmes and actions in
the global to local cultural heritage and creative industries spheres in UN
agencies, UNESCO, OAS, ACP-EU, Commonwealth and civil society glocal
organisations;
on experience in development and implementing policy programmes and actions in
the global to local cultural heritage and creative industries spheres in UN
agencies, UNESCO, OAS, ACP-EU, Commonwealth and civil society glocal
organisations;
f. Keenly committed to
working on realization of the sustainable development agenda, even beyond its
stated goals to proactive engagement of culture-centred development for equity
and fairness in all spheres and have participated in its development globally
& locally;
working on realization of the sustainable development agenda, even beyond its
stated goals to proactive engagement of culture-centred development for equity
and fairness in all spheres and have participated in its development globally
& locally;
g. Lifelong experiences of
NGO work and community level experience in cultural development and have both
culled international policy and worked on implementing such areas as Creative
Cities, World Heritage, Intangible Heritage, Diversity of Cultural Expressions,
Creative Industries, Copyrights, Trade and Development; Slave, Silk and Indentured Indian Immigrant
Routes, Memory of the World, Rural and Urban cultural development, policy and
legislative reform, civil society, youth and gender participation, empowerment
and equity
NGO work and community level experience in cultural development and have both
culled international policy and worked on implementing such areas as Creative
Cities, World Heritage, Intangible Heritage, Diversity of Cultural Expressions,
Creative Industries, Copyrights, Trade and Development; Slave, Silk and Indentured Indian Immigrant
Routes, Memory of the World, Rural and Urban cultural development, policy and
legislative reform, civil society, youth and gender participation, empowerment
and equity
Career
Highlights: Journalism, Media, Information and Communication
Highlights: Journalism, Media, Information and Communication
j. More than 30 years as a
communicator and journalist and about a decade as producer and publisher in
multimedia forms exploring comparative cross-cultural and issues;
communicator and journalist and about a decade as producer and publisher in
multimedia forms exploring comparative cross-cultural and issues;
k. Extensive experience in
research, writing for multimedia forms
and presentation of messages on
migration, diversity, inclusion for sustainable development, with
intimate knowledge of most of international policy instruments in these regards
and devising, developing, implementing and evaluating policies and strategies,
advice and technical support, managing the process and content, transactions
and operations in these areas and combined experiences in Management, having
been a staff manager of a major media house before an independent career in
cultural project management and policy development in the cultural and allied
spheres of education and communications
research, writing for multimedia forms
and presentation of messages on
migration, diversity, inclusion for sustainable development, with
intimate knowledge of most of international policy instruments in these regards
and devising, developing, implementing and evaluating policies and strategies,
advice and technical support, managing the process and content, transactions
and operations in these areas and combined experiences in Management, having
been a staff manager of a major media house before an independent career in
cultural project management and policy development in the cultural and allied
spheres of education and communications
l. Extensive experience in
networking and collaborations both internally and externally, across
boundaries, sectors, stakeholder interests, institutions and agencies with
considerable successes in devising and developing networks around cultural
matters, working with the diplomatic community, embassies, intergovernmental
agencies, regional and international organizations, the European Commission and
the European Council, Organisation of American States, Commonwealth Secretariat
and commonwealth Foundation, InterAmerican Institutions and other organisations
of the UN system, and Africa, Caribbean
and Pacific Regions.
networking and collaborations both internally and externally, across
boundaries, sectors, stakeholder interests, institutions and agencies with
considerable successes in devising and developing networks around cultural
matters, working with the diplomatic community, embassies, intergovernmental
agencies, regional and international organizations, the European Commission and
the European Council, Organisation of American States, Commonwealth Secretariat
and commonwealth Foundation, InterAmerican Institutions and other organisations
of the UN system, and Africa, Caribbean
and Pacific Regions.
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Demokrissy: Wave a flag for a party
rag…Choosing the Emperor’s …
Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor’s New Troops. The dilemma
of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
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reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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Demokrissy: Winds
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Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
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Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
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Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all
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David Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of
things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully
wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional
stagnation but brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor’s New Troops. The dilemma
of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to
reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Demokrissy – Blogger
Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 –
Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
See Also:
Demokrissy: Winds
of Political Change – Dawn of T&T’s Arab Spring
Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in
Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
Trinidad Guardian · T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 8:20 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare
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Related:
Demokrissy: To vote, just how we
party … Towards culturally …
Apr 30, 2010 ‘How we vote is not how we party.’ At ‘all
inclusive’ fetes and other forums, we nod in inebriated wisdom to calypsonian
David Rudder’s elucidation of the paradoxical political vs. social realities of
Trinidad and Tobago. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: DEADLOCK: Sign of
things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully
wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional
stagnation but brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
That’s what make we Carnival d best street party in the world. Everyone are
winners because we all like …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
Jan 09, 2012 New Media, New Civil Society, and Politics in
a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. New Media, New Civil Society,
and Politics in a New Age | The Communication Initiative Network. Posted by
Kris Rampersad …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: T&T politics:
A new direction? – Caribbean360 Oct 01, 2010 http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Others: Demokrissy: Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 …
Apr 07, 2013
Old Casked Rum: The
Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had
the rounds of consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we
have a sense of direction that will drive …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013
Valuing Carnival The
Emperor’s New Tools#2.
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Wave a flag for a party
rag…Choosing the Emperor’s New …
Oct 20, 2013
Choosing the Emperor’s
New Troops. The dilemma of choice. Voting is supposed to be an … Old Casked
Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T.
Posted by Kris Rampersad at 10:36 AM …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Carnivalising the
Constitution People Power …
Feb 26, 2014
This Demokrissy
series, The Emperor’s New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of
evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political …
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Envisioning
outside-the-island-box … – Demokrissy – Blogger
Feb 10, 2014
This Demokrissy
series, The Emperor’s New Tools, continues and builds on the analysis of
evolution in our governance, begun in the introduction to my book, Through the
Political Glass Ceiling (2010): The Clash of Political …
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Futuring the Post-2015
UNESCO Agenda
Apr 22, 2014
It is placing
increasing pressure for erasure of barriers of geography, age, ethnicity,
gender, cultures and other sectoral interests, and in utilising the tools
placed at our disposal to access our accumulate knowledge and technologies
towards eroding these superficial barriers. In this context, we believe that
the work of UNESCO remains significant and relevant and that UNESCO is indeed
the institution best positioned to consolidate the ….. The Emperor’s New
Tools …
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Stone in Dana Seetahal Assassination
Creating Centres of Peace in
Trinidad and Tobago
The Price of Independence:#DanaSeetahalAssassination
Conceive. Achieve. Believe
Demokrissy: Wave a flag for a party
rag…Choosing the Emperor’s …
Oct 20, 2013 Choosing the Emperor’s New Troops. The dilemma
of choice. Voting is supposed to be an exercise in thoughtful, studied choice.
Local government is the foundation for good governance so even if one wants to
reform the … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Old Casked Rum:
The Emperor’s New Tools#1 – Demokrissy – Blogger
Apr 07, 2013 Old Casked Rum: The Emperor’s New Tools#1 –
Towards Constitutional Reform in T&T. So we’ve had the rounds of
consultations on Constitutional Reform? Are we any wiser? Do we have a sense of
direction that will drive …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival
The Emperor’s New Tools#2
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor’s New Tools#2….http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
See Also:
Demokrissy: Winds
of Political Change – Dawn of T&T’s Arab Spring
Jul 30, 2013 Wherever these breezes have passed, they have
left in their wake wide ranging social and political changes: one the one hand
toppling long time leaders with rising decibels from previously suppressed
peoples demanding a …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Reform, Conform,
Perform or None of the Above cross …
Oct 25, 2013 Some 50 percent did not vote. The local
government elections results lends further proof of the discussion began in
Clash of Political Cultures: Cultural Diversity and Minority Politics in
Trinidad and Tobago in Through The …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Sounds of a party –
a political party
Oct 14, 2013 They are announcing some political meeting or
the other; and begging for my vote, and meh road still aint fix though I hear
all parts getting box drains and thing, so I vex. So peeps, you know I am a
sceptic so help me decide. http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
T&T Constitution the culprit | The Trinidad Guardian
Jun 15, 2010 T&T Constitution the culprit | The
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things to come
Oct 29, 2013 An indication that unless we devise innovative
ways to address representation of our diversity, we will find ourselves in
various forms of deadlock at the polls that throw us into a spiral of political
tug of war albeit with not just …http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: The human face of
constitutional reform
Oct 16, 2013 Sheilah was clearly and sharply articulating
the deficiencies in governmesaw her: a tinymite elderly woman, gracefully
wrinkled, deeply over with concerns about political and institutional
stagnation but brimming over with … http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy:
Trini politics is d best
Oct 21, 2013 Ain’t Trini politics d BEST! Nobody fighting
because they lose. All parties claiming victory, all voting citizens won!
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and Politics in a New Age – Demokrissy
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