Dear Lizzie, RIP Letters To Lizzie Colonial Legacy

 

Stories from inside Commonwealth processes, as a witness to the tumultuous currents swirling at its centre threatening to burst its banks in the processes of empowering and tooling Commonwealth civil society to utilise the access afforded by new media to augment their voices while participating and provoking the Commonwealth’s interrogation of itself over the past two decades Letters to Lizzie morphs from lilbits Tweets in 120 characters to the MultiMedia MicroEpic.

From her birth with television and electronic media to the age of new media, the Legacy of Queen Elizabeth reaches beyond the colonial legacy of her ancestry,

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Race for Respect in the Era of Augmented Reality on Social Media New 'R's' in literacy Happy World Literacy Day

 An advertisement by a bank sparks a letter to an editor which is published in a newspaper, released on social media and stirs and sparks a virtual racial war.

The fingers point now to a cycle of blame: Who's at fault?

Is it that the advertising agency and the bank were insensitive to the deeply entrenched racism and other historical hurts festering in the society? Was the media fuelling racism to sell a few to a gullible public who is sure to jump at the ongoing race-baiting, consciously or subconsciously perpetrated on a society that cannot rise out of the scars of the past? Each may have very sound and solid justifications on its actions, but the reality is that media, culture and gender sensitive literacy have moved to the forefront of the challenge for social literacy, virtually replacing the traditional three R's with a new one - Respect!

And we are way past the time to begin to unravel and rethread the flaying and flawed social fabric.

It points to the challenge for social, cultural, gneder sensitive literacy and re-educating the education setor ...

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UNESCO supports Trinidad's challenge to World Bank classifications of island states - Caribbean Times News

UNESCO supports Trinidad’s challenge to World Bank classifications of island states

OCTOBER 21, 2015 BY EDITOR IN OECS & CARICOM, REGIONAL, WORLD

    

PARIS – UNESCO’s Finance Commission has unanimously supported the call to challenge the development categorisation of countries according to gross domestic product (GDP) tabled by Trinidad and Tobago’s representative to the UNESCO Executive Board, Dr Kris Rampersad.

Rampersad advocated revision of the GDP basis for economic categorisation of states into small, medium and large categories promoted by global financial organisations such as the World Bank, noting it does not reflect the tremendous disparities in income, levels of poverty and inequalities within countries. It is part of a draft resolution proposed by Caribbean representatives and global SIDS with support from others for UNESCO to develop a focussed strategy of programme implementation and means of financing and resourcing an action plan for SIDS.

It requests that UNESCO’s Institute of Statistics collate the relevant data for phased presentation to the Executive Board, “taking account of the vulnerabilities linked to limitations of size and resources economies of scale, indebtedness, external economic shocks and natural hazard occurrences and resources.” 

Support for the resolution came from not only small island developing states (SIDS) of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans but also ‘developed’ island states as the UK as well as countries like the United States, Sweden, and China who recognised the place of SIDS in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and to ‘the future of the planet.’

UNESCO’s Finance Commission (FA) is charged with examining budgetary provisions of the organisation. It is one of two commissions, with the Programme and External Relations Commission (PX), which is co-chaired by Dr Rampersad with the representative of Mexico. 

“This has implications for not only on SIDS but all of the developing world, Unless these misrepresentations are addressed we are likely to face the same pitfalls in meeting the United Nation’s new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),” said Rampersad, an independent development educator/consultant who has been promoting culture-centred approaches to development as the UNESCO-trained heritage facilitator for the Caribbean and Trinidad and Tobago’s Representative to the Executive Board, 2013-2017. 

She noted that persistent poverty and other glossed-over internal challenges have hampered achievement of the Millennium Goals. She observed that the GDP classifications have also restricted access to technical and other resources by civil society and others working to redress the imbalances at poverty, gender disparity and other inequalities at ground level.

Trinidad and Tobago became a member of the UNESCO Executive Board with the highest number of votes among the Group of Latin American and Developing Countries (GRULAC) at UNESCO elections of 2013. New members will be admitted to the 58-member Executive Board following elections carded for the upcoming UNESCO General Conference in November 2015, where all Executive Board resolutions will be finalised and adopted. (Caribbean News Now).UNESCO supports Trinidad's challenge to WB classifications of island states - Caribbean Times News

Happy International Girls in ICT Day What a turbulent journey it has been

 Happy International Girls in ICT Day What a turbulent journey it has been trying to straddle the spheres of media, culture and education for a gender sensitive world. 

The journey took me through the benchmark World Summits on Women and Development, Environment and Development and Infomation Society that shaped directions for the synergies needed for recovery and resuscitation into the Post Pandemic Planet 

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ABC teacher meets her author-student

By The Caribbean Camera Inc. on May 17, 2018

Olive Sinanan (right) meets Dr.Kris Rampersad, , journalist and author of LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction

An elderly woman stunned guests at the Annual Mothers’ Day and Arrival Day celebrations of the Zoomers’ Association of Trinidad and Tobago ( ZATTIC) in Mississauga on Sunday.

Dr Kris Rampersad, a Trinidad-based journalist and author was speaking about her efforts at ” developing literary and  heritage sectors  and creating global connections with Caribbean groups” when the elderly woman stood up and interrupted her.

“Excuse me. I taught at St Julien Presbyterian School. I taught you at St Julien,” the elderly woman said. She then walked up and embraced Dr Rampersad who exclaimed in surprise: “Miss Olive. It is so good to see you!”

“I cannot stay long. I left my family, my children and grandchildren to come here today to see you. I am so proud of you, my darling,” the  woman said to Dr Rampersad.

“This is the woman who taught me to read,” Dr Rampersad told  the audience which burst out in loud applause.

Olive Sinanan, now 80 years old. lives in Toronto.

In her address, Dr Rampersad explained how the early thirst for reading material which was scarce when she was growing up in rural Trinidad has motivated much of her actions even as a journalist, and later as a writer and as an educator.

Dr Rampersad will be at Windies Restaurant in Scarborough on Sunday to discuss ” cross cultural connections and opportunities for the creative sectors.

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 National Award Winner Oliver Chapman provided the sound track for my biopic, One Night To Bloom in the innovative new creative genre the MultiMedia MicroEpic.

As the themesong of the first television series I wrote, the award winning original Cross Country series. It was the first local programme to occupy top spot on prime time TV produced by Dale Kolasingh of AVM Television. Here's how the Cross Country themesong became the sound track of my life... read more Sound Track of My Life

Break The Bias International Women's Day 2022 Global Gender Specialist Dr Kris Rampersad on MultiCultural Television

Break The Bias and the prospects, challenges and opportunities for gender equality into the Post Pandemic Planet. How a small island can make a difference. International Gender Development Strategist and Multimedia Educator and Journalist, Dr Kris Rampersad discusses futuring gender equality into the Post Pandemic Planet, the role of Caribbean Women Leaders, the impact of Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, cultural change and transformations and the challenge onward towards effective sustainable development in changing the culture of politics, culture of business, commerce, trade and economics, culture of education... and so much more at the GloCal Knowledge Pot 

Tribute to Lata Mangeshwar reach across global diasporas

 The Nightingale, Lata Mangeshwar, flies off, released into new life at 92.

As I write, homes a cross the diaspora, not the least in the Caribbean too, are belting out the immortal voice of this iconic singer.  Can we assess her reach into the multicultural diaspora systems, iIndipop, Chutney Music, Indian music.

The Nightingale took our breaths away now Covid takes hers diaspora tribute to the evergreen Lata Mangeshwar and connections to Indipop and other revolutionary cross and cultural cultural currents

Read more at the GloCal Knowledge Pot Memorial to Lata Mangeshwar