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The Deficit of Curious - the Other Magnificent Seven of the Global South

Open Letter to President Anthony Carmona and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Honourable Leaders, Your Excellency Mr President and Dear Prime Minister,

I again interrupt my writing of Letters To Lizzie - tete-a-tete correspondences to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on explosive matters of our common interests, history and destiny based on 500 pieces of accumulated outstanding universally valuable pieces of evidence - to write to Your Excellency, Mr President and your honourable self, Madame Prime Minister, citizen to citizen: me as a citizen and a daughter of South Trinidad and to you also as a son, Mr President, and a daughter, Madame Prime Minister, of South Trinidad; to you both as our First Citizens and simultaneously as respective holders of the highest offices in our land and as our leaders to whom have been entrusted the fragility of - be it burden or boon, mantle or mission, yoke or instruments of liberation - the hopes and the dreams and the aspirations of our nation...
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‘T&T world heritage status at risk’

...fiddling while Rome burns, political imbroglio

leaves custodians mum

Published:

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Dr Kris Rampersad

The Banwari archeological site is not yet a world heritage site and its potential

to become one is in jeopardy with “unchecked and undermanaged development

initiatives.” Speaking from Paris where she is attending the meeting of the

biannual Unesco executive board, heritage educator Dr Kris Rampersad said

misinformation was being bandied about concerning T&T’s world heritage status.

“No one, on any side, has taken the time to check the information being presented,”

she said.

Rampersad, who is a Unesco-Commonwealth trained heritage facilitator and

the Unesco focal point for World Heritage in T&T, told the Sunday Guardian it was

unfortunate the issue is being politicised and has become something of the rope in the

tug of war between the State and the Highway Re-route Movement.

“That prevents the consensus building and nation building that occurs around a

country’s preparation for world heritage status. I remain flabbergasted that with the

significance and potential of heritage as a core growth sector as the alternative to

petroleum and our best bet for diversification, that these most valuable timeless assets

and heritage, in general, remain so low on the national action agenda,” she said.

Rampersad has been blogging about what she calls “The Other Magnificent Seven

of south Trinidad/South America and the Global South” and has written to President

Anthony Carmona and Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar (goo.gl/Um7YkU)

asking them to take the lead in securing these assets which hold enormous value for

T&T’s economic diversification, its knowledge economy, and its place in our global

civilisation (www.kris-rampersad-blogspot.com).

In her latest Demokrissy blog post, The Politics of Disempowerment, Rampersad noted

that while she has received encouragement and agreement by various sectors,

some key custodians and line agencies of heritage have gone mum because the

elements in focus are in the districts earmarked for the controversial highway extension, also the home districts of the President and the Prime Minister, and they do not want to get embroiled in what

may be interpreted as the hype around the highway.

“Trustee organisations and officials just don’t want to get embroiled, so it’s a case

of fiddling while Rome burns.” That has also been the fate of a change.org petition

(goo.gl/tNAwm6) in circulation on the issue, said the outspoken Rampersad, who is also an author and independent multimedia journalist.

“The fact is that neither the site, nor any of the several unique invaluable heritage elements of south Trinidad are secured in world heritage terms so as to facilitate them acquiring world heritage status as they are. “Banwari is not a world heritage site as is being claimed. It is on a tentative list which is a list that includes items states submit that they intend to prepare for such status.

“The concept being promoted of the site—the half-acre plot of where the skeleton

remains were found—is itself erroneous, as a heritage site involves broader

association of factors. We have not yet done the investigations nor groundwork

that will consolidate the scope and value, though my preliminary independent research

suggests that it is just the tip of the iceberg of more fundamental discoveries that could

substantially revise how this region’s evolution and migration among others have been

viewed.”

Rampersad said heritage was not a footnote in national development.

“It is likely to be the lifeline to which we would have to turn in the next two decades when the oil dries up.

Dr Kris Rampersad In The News: http://rg-59fcf77b2f6d0287cd0789d2810e8400.port2408.net/news/2014-10-19/%E2%80%98tt-world-heritage-status-risk%E2%80%99

to Preserve the other Magnificent Seven of T&T's Heritage Legacy of the Global South

C T started this petition to KrisTT

A Global legacy Pls sign, circulate and share Open Letter to PM Kamla and President Carmona Safeguarding the Other Magnificent Seven of #TTGlobalSouth the link between island and continental American South. They are a universal legacy pls sign the petition. Details of what’s at stake in the link http://goo.gl/EEzSc6 and in the blog: Demokrissy The Deficit of Curious - the Other Magnificent Seven of the Global South Open Letter to President Anthony Carmona and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Let's discuss ways forward

We all know about the Magnificent Seven, the seven European-styled buildings in various stages of disrepair around the Queen’s Park Savannah in our capital city, the seat of our administration, of power and of our influence and those who purport to have influence and power, and which has attracted attention and fame over the last near half a century. Mr President, Madame Prime Minister, as a child of the south, I understand - indeed I do, how could I not - the ignominy, the sense of invisibility, the lack of investment, and the deficit of curiosity about South of the Caroni that seemed to drive those who possessed the seat of power in the far off capital city. I speak of the districts that hold your birthstrings, and mine, as it does the 7000 year old ancestor we have named Banwari found in the year I was conceived and largely since ignored into ignominy in a place that purports to be our highest seat of learning; and the even more ancient genetic matter of the Pitch Lake; the land that nurtured us with food from its soil, and milk from its mammals; that fed your imaginations to reach and to excel and to aspire and to achieve the highest offices of the land, that remain ignominous, unaccounted in recounts and recalls of national excellence. What about the Other Magnificent Seven of ancient and modern Trinidad and Tobago, lie in quiet repose, undisturbed until now by the threat of bulldozers and an impetus that we want to call development.
They are right there, in the southern districts of Trinidad that nurtured us – you, Citizen President Carmona, and you too, Citizen Kamla and me too. But we remain uncurious. They are waiting for us to identify them, claim them, sound their greatness to the world.

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