Showing posts with label Pitch Lake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pitch Lake. Show all posts

Thursday, May 22, 2014

#LiTTscapesatGreenpeace

Executive Director of Greenpeace, Dr +Kumi Naidoo receives a copy of LiTTscapes, Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago by Kris Rampersad at Greenpeace Headquarters in Amsterdam.

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Journeys through the Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago:
SouTTscapes; IndusTTry here

LiTTscapes celebrates the actual and imaginative spaces of Trinidad and Tobago including its green and industrial heritage and representation of the sector from the Pitchlake dating to antiquity to the contemporary petroleum sector and the labour movement as represented in the rich array of Trinidad and Tobago's fiction in some 100 works of fiction dating from 1595. Photo courtesy Kris Rampersad Archives (c)2014. All Rights Reserved.

DoTT Global Island isthe story of an over imaginative island that envisions itself as the seed of creation and at the centre of the world  - a tribute to Trinidad and Tobago's natural and industrial heritage and part of the heritage story of our hemiphere...more in this series

LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago celebrates its literary heritage including landscapes, festivals, lifestyles and evolution into the modern society it is today seen through the lenses of fiction.

Head of the Guyana Prize for Literature, Al Creighton reviews LiTTscapes.




Related Links: LiTTscapes at Greeenpeace: http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/2014/05/littscapes-at-greenpeace.html

Murder She Wrote: Death Written in Stone in Dana Seetahal Assassination

Creating UNESCO Centres of Peace in Trinidad and Tobago

The Price of Independence:#DanaSeetahalAssassination

Conceive. Achieve. Believe

Global Resolution for Peace via Caribbean unity

The Madiba conscience: RIP Mandela

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/
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/
Apr 30, 2013 Valuing Carnival The Emperor's New Tools#2....http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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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/
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/
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/
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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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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
 

 

Friday, May 16, 2014

Murder She Wrote Death written in stone in #DanaSeetahalAssassination

The assassination of Dana Seetahal was already being written indelibly into the landscape of Trinidad and Tobago in the days preceding her ambush and assault and brutal killing in early May 2014.
The death gong was already poised to toll her death even before the rain of bullets echoed off her vehicle and through her body in the dead of night.
Days before her murder, the bugle call of her demise was being sounded from the mountaintops of one of our most primeval landforms. More....
Her loves, Her Laughs, Her Life: FULL EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW RELEASE COMING SOON Please Respect Our Copyrights: To Request Permissions and Digital Memory Capture Services click here To Support Leaves of Life initiatives click to visit Caribbean Literary Salon  

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

On Anniversary of Raleigh's sailing to TT

Dear Lizzie,
My polished sword reflects the glint of glory my face will wear when I return from this discoverie for which I now depart with honour and glory for Queen and country.... 
The Grand unfolding of the great Ra-LIE-gh in LettertoLizzie....release soon.... 
https://sites.google.com/site/krisrampersadglobalLettersToLizzie


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