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Even as the political
world grapples with the inadequacies of its democratic systems (Guyana,
UK-Europe/Brexit; USA, and Trinidad and Tobago go into election mode - the list
is long); as systems crash from the pressures of not just reconciling diverse
interests and imbalances in access to resources, but greed, corruption
and mismanagement; as the conventional media world crumble with some
notable icons of era of the reign of the printing press laid to rest; as
conventional institutional systems cling to decaying walls and structures made
irrelevant by growing vitality of virtualism; augmenting the fervor for fake
news, alternative facts and half-truths against reality, there are still core
strengths, values and relationships that we can hold true.
This incredible year - one which could have been most static, but with the
love, strength, support and encouragement of valued friends and well-wishers, turned
into one most eventful for our global interconnections in this roadmap of
actions to end poverty, promote quality education and lifelong learning, thrive
for gender equity, enhance cultural and social inclusion, environmental
conservation that will allow for healthy lifestyles, clean air, water, oceans,
sanitation, inclusive cities, partnerships. It takes one plus many other ones
as the globe tap into our local actions, for indeed all global actions are
first local.Our LiTTributes moved
into North America - USA and Canada - proving relevance and adaptability in our
drive to bridge cultural divides. Reaching out into the diaspora, to touch communities
also grappling with issues of belonging and adaptation. Resource permitting, we
will maintain our face to face, while we consolidate and expand our virtual
interactions into a go to portal that promotes global understanding and
communication about our interconnected connections. 
The year began with a January pre-Carnival farewell to former
President
Professor George Maxwell Richards (https://goo.gl/ZHo31y) who, with his wife,
Dr Jean Ramjohn Richards kept their doors and hearts open to lend
unstinting endorsement and support for our literary, education and outreach
endeavours. Professor Richards was but a remote figure as Principal in my under
graduate years at UWI, but became a ready patron as President to my literary
campaign which also received the unstinting support of Nobel Laureate Derek
Walcott and our drive to encourage literacy and develop a literary sensibility
with the offer of literary prizes and a Year of Derek Walcott in 2005.The
Presidency
might be a rubber stamp institution and the President just a figurehead in the
political process, but with creative guidance and direction, it can be a
conscientious social force.
InterCultural
Understanding and Local to Global Partnerships
LiTTributes continue
to spread its wings as it evolves into a framework for connecting strands of
journalism, oral and literary culture and community outreach for a pioneering initiative
in journalism-in-action. Now established
is their adaptability and relevance to migrant communities grappling with
issues of belonging, settlement, adaptation, inclusion, respect, appreciation
of diversity, bridging and intergenerational divide as we engage with youth and
empower communities towards achieving sustainable human development targets in
the global goals.
There were beautiful surprises, too, in the appearance of my
infant teacher, Miss Olive, who had since migrated, to declare how proud she was
of my work and achievements as I was speaking at the Mother’s Day function on
Mothers, Motherland and Mother Cultures and lessons from the migrant
experiences of the colonial streams across Europe for the post-colonial
voluntary migrations from the Caribbean to North America. There is nothing as warming as the pride of a
teacher in a student and it is a moment that will fire my drive onwards. As
LiTTributes continue to awakening and deepening the consciousness of our
intrinsic connections to North America, they bring into sharp focus, also, how
our losses, are the gains of others and what we are losing for national development
when we push our best mentors and trainers out to other societies. 
More of this as we
explore new cross-cultural continental connections in the year ahead.
Additionally, the encounter with Catholic Reverend
Father Terry Gallagher, one of the few remaining priests of the aging Toronto
Scarboro Missions revealed the appeal of our initiatives to
communities everywhere, and not just the diaspora or those marginalised. As with our stumble upon the tomb-raiders of
Mayaro in our inaugural LiTTour in Trinidad and Tobago, there was another
surprise encounter at an impromptu LiTTour through the sacred ground of Canada's
First Peoples, still one of Toronto's best kept secret followed by
intimate insights into the crumbling world of a centuries-old
missionary endeavour in the face of evolving multiculturalism and appreciation
of diversity. We will launch our production on that this year. With little resources,
but our connections through the diaspora, we hope to expand this thrust in international
cooperation in cross boundary collaborations for intercultural understanding in
the new and coming years.
Empowering Women in Leadership
It is these
experiences and the decade of dedicated action for increasing the spaces in
leadership for women that informed my representation of the value of the office
of the President in welcoming the first Woman President of Trinidad and Tobago
and the drive to ‘Change the
Conversation’
about Gender and Leadership (https://goo.gl/GM4XpY) as in the national
televised interview on the morning of her inauguration in March. It was a year
to celebrate the increasing occupation of women in leadership and there was
more reason to celebrate when Mia Mottley was elected as the first female
Prime Minister of Barbados (https://goo.gl/xL3DEd), following on the
election of Portia Simpson in Jamaica and Kamla Persad-Bissessar in Trinidad
and Tobago.
Even as we celebrated
women’s achievements, it was tempered by the brutal slaying of fellow gender
activist, a tragic end to the remarkable work of a national award holder,
Haseena Ali, at her home signaling the pernicious presence of gender brutality.
It recalled previous high profile unsolved murders of Claire Broadbridge (http//goo.gl/FHs3Fr), and Senior Counsel
Dana Seetahal, both still stuck in the judicial system.
It is all the more
meaningful that these activities also speak to the interconnected global goals and targets towards respect,
inclusion, equity and empowerment, quality lifelong education.
Stephen Hawking, with whom I had my
own collision, of sorts while at
Cambridge University, even before I knew we shared a common defiance of mortal
odds, passed in March. He fuels efforts in the New Year to maintain quality healthy
lives and promote well-being, and our focus beyond material and physical
limitations to securing confidence and self-development.
From Stephen Hawking who passed never receiving his a Nobel, to Sir Vidia Naipaul who did, the world is sadder. In the case of the latter, this is more-so in its inability to face his incisive truths about the ways of the world and one of the finest minds that has spanned the 20th and 21st centuries, makes it easy prey to the creeping culture of fakeness. The insights offered into appreciating his work from the context of his social upbringing, placed Demokrissy’s “Funeral Scores” among the trending news of the global think tanks, hungering for refreshing interpretations of our realities in the face of the reign of obtuse, biased and fake-newsdom. In his honour and for the previous passing of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, we launched an initial Year of LiTTributes to the Laureates as a means of securing our legacies of learning and as key to developing inclusive communities and international cooperation. To build on the successes of LiTTributes, we are inviting further global partnerships and sponsors interested in exploring the impact of these on strengthening cultural connections as achieved with this initial odyssey through the Americas that also advance a range of sustainable goals (https://goo.gl/XjtMNs; https://goo.gl/o3xVTU)
Natural Disaster Preparedness
Demokrissy
kept focus on and became a platform for a healthy information flow in this
natural disasters, especially drawing from the thirty years in championing the
environment and our natural heritage. The passing of the calypsonian in the
wake of the devastating October floods and the heroism of the local people
helping each other, spirited my calypso, a Symphony of Snakes, on indiscriminate
housing, construction, pollution and state mismanagement. Our portal became a
cchannel for information on disaster risk reduction and flood relief. (https://goo.gl/4LkUMy)
Icing the Celebrations
I would meet President Weekes briefly in September as she
pinned on the National Medal (Gold) for Development of Women/Journalism and
some light banter during the photo-op on 'shoes that should not be hidden by
our gowns’. Under the media spotlight that night, I took the opportunity to
point out the ongoing inequalities represented in the deficient number of women
Awardees. It is to bridge this invisibility and recognizing what a spoonful of
encouragement can do that I have supported several award schemes for not just
women, but media, literature, the arts and culture, having been so awarded
myself. I hope to deepen this with relevant partnerships in the coming
year. It is that responsibility to create a better space for others that all
the women we have promoted to high office owe to our society as I capture in my
account, The
Walk of Excellence: a life in 60 seconds to receive the National Gold Medal: https://goo.gl/wk4pBx.
A crowning achievement. Cultural
Heritage Success: It is not often that we can assign tangible proof of results
from work in education and outreach. More than a decade after laying the
groundwork through initiatives of the Commonwealth Foundation and its partners
and four years after interfaces with cultural communities, including the Reggae
Movement and the last of Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bunny Wailer, on the value of the Intangible Cultural
Heritage of Jamaica, Reggae was inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural
Register. The vision for promoting the seamlessness on a cross cultural
platform that bridge religious divides, and intergenerational gaps, fostering
elderly appreciation, uniting diverse groups through culture, where
diversity sparks curiosity and interest and inquiry and understanding, rather
than tear apart, could not have been better exemplified in these literary
odysseys and we look forward to the new connections to be forged.
Discovering New Talent! Fiction & Music
While trying to create and broaden opportunities in the creative sector and advancing creative synergies for young and old, I also stepped up efforts to release some of my own work, including fiction and others in a mixture of genres and exploring adaptations into new media forms and formats, more of which will be released this coming year. It was a short story, I wrote for my nephew who was the first person to receive a perfect score in the Secondary Assessment Examination and became the toast of the town when the results were released in August, a little over a month after I was informed that the short story I wrote for him was also adjudged a winner in the writing context.
The shape shifting
media environment
Following the insights offered on the
role of gender and leadership in social change; as Newsday, one of the media
institutions in whose founding I was involved, celebrated its 25th anniversary,
I was invited to share some reflections. I chose the opportunity to offer
insights on the role of media in social change and transformation at a time
when the efforts at truth, solid and proactive journalism for social change is
needed more than ever, even in the face of evolving roles of conventional media
with the spirit of new media. Its on-going shape-shifting will continue to
excite and challenge us into building bridges and reaching out to our human
family.
We look forward
to further inroads in our developmental paths which promise to deepen
connections with Europe, Asia - India, China - these coming months, while at
home we still pound at the doors to open up our education and other systems to
the vast vistas of appreciation of our multicultural streams.
These are but the
highlights - and this was all in a very slow year!
Those experiences would have made my year, but there was so much more.
It was preceeded by the LiTTribute to the Americas towards awakening and deepening the consciousness of our intrinsic connections in the American diaspora on the vast potential of cultural heritage encounters to education and the creative industries.
Here was the healing touch of another primary school teacher, Miss Marion whose incredible drive and optimism is the kind of surfaced to link to the LiTTribute to the Americas with the Trinidad and Tobago diaspora where Kamal Abdool, Anglican Father Winston Joseph and from the series that continues its journeying and will explore new cross cultural continental connections in the year ahead. sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) Peace Justice & Strong Institutions (SDG 16) and Global Partnerships (SDG 17)...It brings into sharp focus how our losses are the gains of others and what we are losing for national develoment when we push our best mentors and trainers out.
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Here are some of the highlights of 2018 from Demokrissy:
International Women's Day: Believe in Yourself:
Can women make a difference to the development landscape and if so how? How can she serve the needs of youth, reducing crime, creating avenues of access for women and girls... #PressforProgress #WealthOfWomen
A Celebration of Arrivals:
literary genius through song music dance soca/calypso tassa and steelpan... See more: https://goo.gl/ENz3GG
Extracts from my upcoming AutoBiography LIFE! HoleHeartedly!
StephenHawking straddled science & fiction reflecting on our colliding cosmos, thought and an actual collision RIP
...You might say I was, as he is, motor-challenged myself;
I become aware that someone is looking at us. I turn. My attention is drawn to the twinkle in his eyes, ...The frail man nods again
... see more: https://goo.gl/ihvZv7
Women Power Leadership Inauguration of Trinidad and Tobago's
First Female President Paula Mae Weekes
For developmental policy policy analyses email see more: https://goo.gl/9qRByT
Its World Heritage Day.
Come join us and hear about the unique creative potential of the Caribbean cultural connections with the Americas through cultural heritage
More: https://goo.gl/PR8ijA
Hear about the food culture, heritage routes, the silk routes, the spice roots and under explored connections with the Americas.
Sunday April 22, 2018 from pm at Lallo's Restaurant in Lauderhill
Saturday April 21 at South County Civic Centre, Delray Beach, Miami
Book Now
Book You Copies of LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction: Limited Edition
Limited Copies Heirloom publication of our disappearing landscapes and cultures.
click on you tube video links
Its World Heritage Day.
Come join us and hear about the unique creative potential of the Caribbean cultural connections with the Americas through cultural heritage
Come join us and hear about the unique creative potential of the Caribbean cultural connections with the Americas through cultural heritage
More: https://goo.gl/PR8ijA
Hear about the food culture, heritage routes, the silk routes, the spice roots and under explored connections with the Americas.
Sunday April 22, 2018 from pm at Lallo's Restaurant in Lauderhill
Saturday April 21 at South County Civic Centre, Delray Beach, Miami
Book Now
Book You Copies of LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction: Limited Edition
Limited Copies Heirloom publication of our disappearing landscapes and cultures.
click on you tube video links
Saturday April 21 at South County Civic Centre, Delray Beach, Miami
Book Now
Book You Copies of LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction: Limited Edition
Limited Copies Heirloom publication of our disappearing landscapes and cultures.
click on you tube video links
Global education statistics suggest that boys lag behind in reading in a campaign #Don'tForgetTheBoys.
The experience of our boys are different.
Our efforts look beyond the statistics and engage boys and girls of all ages to appreciate reading in novel ways through culture-specific forms as we promote inclusive societies.
We are redefining multiculturalism to bridge the gaps between generations, between cultures, between genders and scaling walls that create inequity and discrimination through literacy and literary elderly and intergenerational appreciation. For See more: https://goo.gl/mhm4p2. Enquirie?s email lolleaves@gmail.com
The experience of our boys are different.
Our efforts look beyond the statistics and engage boys and girls of all ages to appreciate reading in novel ways through culture-specific forms as we promote inclusive societies.
We are redefining multiculturalism to bridge the gaps between generations, between cultures, between genders and scaling walls that create inequity and discrimination through literacy and literary elderly and intergenerational appreciation. For See more: https://goo.gl/mhm4p2. Enquirie?s email lolleaves@gmail.com
My Musical Debut: on the steelpan, the national instrument, with tutor Randolph Karamath.
The steelpan and calypsonian along with other national and homegrown village festivals and festivities are featured in the section FesTTscapes in LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction.
https://goo.gl/TaFYnc
My Musical Debut: on the steelpan, the national instrument, with tutor Randolph Karamath.
The steelpan and calypsonian along with other national and homegrown village festivals and festivities are featured in the section FesTTscapes in LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction.
The steelpan and calypsonian along with other national and homegrown village festivals and festivities are featured in the section FesTTscapes in LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction.
https://goo.gl/TaFYnc
Our Creative Conversation - synergies between the literary and performing arts in the spirit of Exploration, Entertainment Education and Empowerment through Novel lenses with music, song, dance, and recitation. Engaging generations. All ages. All interests. Tailor made to your events and special occasions. By Request Only.
Learn more. Next stop Toronto. #LiTTributeToToronto https://goo.gl/TaFYnc
Join our LiTTours or Request Your Own email loleaves@gmail.com
Our Creative Conversation - synergies between the literary and performing arts in the spirit of Exploration, Entertainment Education and Empowerment through Novel lenses with music, song, dance, and recitation. Engaging generations. All ages. All interests. Tailor made to your events and special occasions. By Request Only.
Learn more. Next stop Toronto. #LiTTributeToToronto https://goo.gl/TaFYnc
Join our LiTTours or Request Your Own email loleaves@gmail.com
Learn more. Next stop Toronto. #LiTTributeToToronto https://goo.gl/TaFYnc
Join our LiTTours or Request Your Own email loleaves@gmail.com
Dr Kris Rampersad, author, heritage educator and journalist, has urged the diverse populations of the Americas to build bridges through walls.
Rampersad is on a literary tour dubbed LiTTribute to the Americas 2018 across North America and Canada aimed to promote intercultural dialogue showcase the connections with literary heritage and other experiences of peoples of the Americas inspired by her commemorative book LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction. LiTTscapes has been hailed for its efforts at bridging the gaps among the diverse cultures of the Caribbean.
Dr Kris Rampersad, author, heritage educator and journalist, has urged the diverse populations of the Americas to build bridges through walls.Rampersad is on a literary tour dubbed LiTTribute to the Americas 2018 across North America and Canada aimed to promote intercultural dialogue showcase the connections with literary heritage and other experiences of peoples of the Americas inspired by her commemorative book LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction. LiTTscapes has been hailed for its efforts at bridging the gaps among the diverse cultures of the Caribbean.
The Canadian appearances begin as guest of the Zoomers’ Association annual Mothers’ Day celebrations at the Erin View Residence Hall, Mississauga, Ontario ...for your own event requests email lolleaves@gmail.com
Dr Kris Rampersad, author, heritage educator and journalist, has urged the diverse populations of the Americas to build bridges through walls.Rampersad is on a literary tour dubbed LiTTribute to the Americas 2018 across North America and Canada aimed to promote intercultural dialogue showcase the connections with literary heritage and other experiences of peoples of the Americas inspired by her commemorative book LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction. LiTTscapes has been hailed for its efforts at bridging the gaps among the diverse cultures of the Caribbean.
The Canadian appearances begin as guest of the Zoomers’ Association annual Mothers’ Day celebrations at the Erin View Residence Hall, Mississauga, Ontario ...for your own event requests email lolleaves@gmail.com
Speaking at A Celebration of Arrivals in South Florida USA last week accompanied by steelpan music, calypso, and dances, Dr Rampersad told of how these cultural forms were the bedrock of the literary culture. Creating linkages between the two can encourage appreciation of literature and encourage reading that can foster greater appreciation of other peoples and cultures, she said. se more:
It's our royal wedding of island and continental culture.
Spicing up appetites with creative conversation our LiTTribute to the Americas Canada Section continue LiTTributes to ToronTTO with our global journeys through the Landscapes of Fiction at @Windies Restaurant, Scarborough Toronto this Sunday....
Want to book your own email lolleaves@gmail.com
What is the role of the Royal Ontario Museum and like arts, film, music, performance and culture institutions in advancing post colonial societies?
How can the media in both mainstream and ethnic communities better represent the multicultural spectrum of Canadian diversity?
How can we better utilise the vast numbers of cultural arenas and mechanisms to bridge cultural
divides and create the connected world touted by the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau with his multisectrum Cabinet?
How can they better serve the array of cultural communities through the multicultural policy directions of Canada and our ...see more:https://goo.gl/oXEyqu
It's our royal wedding of island and continental culture.
Spicing up appetites with creative conversation our LiTTribute to the Americas Canada Section continue LiTTributes to ToronTTO with our global journeys through the Landscapes of Fiction at @Windies Restaurant, Scarborough Toronto this Sunday....
Spicing up appetites with creative conversation our LiTTribute to the Americas Canada Section continue LiTTributes to ToronTTO with our global journeys through the Landscapes of Fiction at @Windies Restaurant, Scarborough Toronto this Sunday....
Want to book your own email lolleaves@gmail.com
What is the role of the Royal Ontario Museum and like arts, film, music, performance and culture institutions in advancing post colonial societies?
How can the media in both mainstream and ethnic communities better represent the multicultural spectrum of Canadian diversity?
How can we better utilise the vast numbers of cultural arenas and mechanisms to bridge cultural
divides and create the connected world touted by the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau with his multisectrum Cabinet?
How can they better serve the array of cultural communities through the multicultural policy directions of Canada and our ...see more:https://goo.gl/oXEyqu
What is the role of the Royal Ontario Museum and like arts, film, music, performance and culture institutions in advancing post colonial societies?
How can the media in both mainstream and ethnic communities better represent the multicultural spectrum of Canadian diversity?
How can we better utilise the vast numbers of cultural arenas and mechanisms to bridge cultural
divides and create the connected world touted by the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau with his multisectrum Cabinet?
How can they better serve the array of cultural communities through the multicultural policy directions of Canada and our ...see more:https://goo.gl/oXEyqu
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| Dr Kris Rampersad receives a surprise visti from her ABC teacher Miss Olive during LiTTribue to Toronto |
Cover Girls edge Meghan-Prince Harry off the front page!
Centuries into the women's liberation movement, it may still be everygirl's dream to marry, and to a Prince, but who would think that the Royal Wedding mania that has gripped Canada through Toronto could be upstaged by a revolution!
Toronto is gripped with pride as the city that intiated the romance ...see more https://goo.gl/SFDsV2
Who was your first teacher? Who taught you ABCs and encouraged your love of books? Tag him or her.
My first teacher, the woman who taught me to read, Miss Olive, now 80 years old, showed up at my LiTTribute to ToronTTo tribute to mothers Motherlands and Mothercultures jogged my memory of my earliest encounters with reading in my infant class and triggered memories that helped me connect early beginnings to my efforts at creating culture-friendly reading and learning materials....
Contact us if you want to become an associate, partner or sponsor. Find out more through our social media channels.
Let us tweak your special event into a LiTTribute or develop a LiTTour that reflects your value to our world. Email lolleaves@gmail.com
Contact us if you want to become an associate, partner or sponsor. Find out more through our social media channels.
Let us tweak your special event into a LiTTribute or develop a LiTTour that reflects your value to our world. Email lolleaves@gmail.com
See more: see more: https://goo.gl/9pMKgJ:
Who says the Monarchy is not media friendly eh?
A picture, they say, tells a thousand words ... so what would they say of this one, eh, of encounters across the Commonwealth and winning the Prince's trust.
I pause for HRH Prince Charles to finish his walk of pride with the Star-Spangled bride of Hollywood Meghan Markle on his arms to be wedded to my charming jahai bhai, Prince Harry. Looking forward to ... Our LiTTribute to ToronTTo is dedicated to our Commonwealth family through novel lenses of Commonwealth fiction. See you, in spirits of our Commonwealth at our Reading and a Roti at Windies Restaurant, Toronto this Sunday at 3 pm for more of these Commonwealth Conversations, beyond the days of Rum, Curry and Cricket. Oh Canada!
I pause for HRH Prince Charles to finish his walk of pride with the Star-Spangled bride of Hollywood Meghan Markle on his arms to be wedded to my charming jahai bhai, Prince Harry. Looking forward to ... Our LiTTribute to ToronTTo is dedicated to our Commonwealth family through novel lenses of Commonwealth fiction. See you, in spirits of our Commonwealth at our Reading and a Roti at Windies Restaurant, Toronto this Sunday at 3 pm for more of these Commonwealth Conversations, beyond the days of Rum, Curry and Cricket. Oh Canada!
Congratulations to Mia Mottley, another Caribbean woman to break through the political glass
ceiling!
Let's change the conversation on gender, leadership and development. What does her clean sweep of the polls, leaving no opposition in Parliament mean for governance in a traditional two party political system? What lessons can she learn from her sisters in the Caribbean, Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Portia Simpson?
Would her policy and decision maing agenda make a difference to the entrenched culture of politics, culture of business, culture of corruption, culture of crime and criminality, culture of discrimination, marginalisation, opportunism, nepotism and entitlem
ceiling!
Let's change the conversation on gender, leadership and development. What does her clean sweep of the polls, leaving no opposition in Parliament mean for governance in a traditional two party political system? What lessons can she learn from her sisters in the Caribbean, Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Portia Simpson?
Would her policy and decision maing agenda make a difference to the entrenched culture of politics, culture of business, culture of corruption, culture of crime and criminality, culture of discrimination, marginalisation, opportunism, nepotism and entitlem
The increasing incident of violence and extremism in schools emerged as a core concern of educators, parents, religious, community and cultural heads identified the sense of alienation by migrant and first generations and challenges with adapting to their adopted societies.
The concerns were raised during the LiTTributes to ToronTTo...see link: https://goo.gl/K7zxry
June: Expanding the literary presentations: The world of Fiction
June - July: My Short Story, Munie's Multicultural Musical Masquerade wins international contest for its pioneering experimentation in mixture of modern literary genres including audio/visuality/music contained in short story literary frame.
August: Saying Farewell to Sir Vidia Naipaul: Launch of LiTTributes to thhe LaureaTTes A Global initiative to celebrate the literary and oral heritage tradtions and achievements of the Caribbean, its diaspora and Trinidad and Tobago and the socio-cultural milieu that produced the Caribbean's two Nobel Laureates Sir Vidia Naipaul and Derek Walcott - this folowing initiatives on The Year of Derek Walcott and Tribute to VS Naipaul. As we move into this in full swing this year. We embark on our internatinal actions even as wecontinue to try to raise awareness and sensitivity for reform of the education system and approaches through LiTTscapes, LiTTributes and LiTTours. Send your invitations for partnerships, sponsorships, and let us craft your events and activities on cross cultural connections, intergenerational understanding, elderly appreciation, and inclusion and respect. Email lolleaves@gmail.com 
September:
In Celebration of Newsday's 25th Anniversary: Featuring the Newspaper's first lead story which I wrote on the note of 'good news' on which the paper was launched as one of its pioneers, I recalled the trials and triumphs of starting the new publication.
Receving the National Award for Development of Women (Gold) and recap of the The Walk of Excellence in the 'unforgiving minute' of 60 seconds worth of distance run durng the Annual Republic Day Celebrations
In Celebration of Newsday's 25th Anniversary: Featuring the Newspaper's first lead story which I wrote on the note of 'good news' on which the paper was launched as one of its pioneers, I recalled the trials and triumphs of starting the new publication.
Receving the National Award for Development of Women (Gold) and recap of the The Walk of Excellence in the 'unforgiving minute' of 60 seconds worth of distance run durng the Annual Republic Day Celebrations
October
An impromptu epic and prophetic 'extempo' of the life and works of the Mighty Shadow, written and released two days following his death aligned to the diaster and citizen response to the October 2018 floods in Dr Shadow’s Snakess Symphony: https://goo.gl/tB6WhE
November:
Reading as sedition:
I Read Therefore I Crime: Reading, Crime Censorship Cultural Conditioning and The Sedition Act
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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,would rather expend their energies to seek to criminalise attempts like this to raise consciousness about the oversight and plagarise rather than do active research and work to get meaningful revisions. 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.
December: Woman of the Year
I have always been home for Christmas, no matter how far away I roam.
I have always been home for Christmas, no matter how far away I roam.
The pieces represented here tell those tales,...
In a year that began and ended in sighs and for many a sense of despair...
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One moment in time: story of a storyteller extraordinaire: https://goo.gl/xn1XfC
What My Mother told me: https://goo.gl/CxBJrr
Pat Bishop: The Killings, the curfew… https://goo.gl/DgFk9E
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I Read therefore I crime: https://goo.gl/GpbKWX
Musical and Poetic Biography Tributes
Dr Shadow’s Snakes’ Symphony Tribute to Heroism in the Flood those asking if I really wrote this
Carnivalising the Constitution: People Power and the Pursuit of Happiness Congratulations to Dr Machel Montano: https://goo.gl/Phk7HN
Jus Call Me Cooligan Bois and Bacchanal in Meh Blood: https://goo.gl/MJwgML
Ode to JurisPurdence: https://goo.gl/qm3m3J
Letters to Lizzie: Nikki Minaj/Maharaj Pound the Alarm: https://goo.gl/JXZ442
Like coochoor? The Funeral Scores musical and otherwise: For Sir Vidia Naipaul https://goo.gl/XjtMNs
Reflections Death of Sir Vidia S Naipaul https://goo.gl/o3xVTU
Nobel Tears: Nobel Bard: Derek Walcott Sower in the Sky: https://goo.gl/aKR5pD
Prophesy A.Bourdain and Aboud. Port of Spain and Lebanon : https://goo.gl/zwtyWq
Yo Ho Ho Piracy and Heritage: https://goo.gl/TvXOHU
Disaster Risk Reduction & Management 101 Flood Relief here to Go How to Help https://goo.gl/4LkUMy
Flood Disaster Trinidad: Plan your evacuation warnings issued https://goo.gl/PRpXhb
Rio Claro Through the Kristal Bowl
One moment in time: story of a storyteller extraordinaire: https://goo.gl/xn1XfC
The Walk of Excellence: a life in 60 seconds to receive the National Award for the Development of Women: https://goo.gl/wk4pBx ;
What My Mother told me: https://goo.gl/CxBJrr
Changing the Conversation on Gender and Leadership https://goo.gl/GM4XpY
Nobel Blogging: Demokrissy trends with global think tanks https://goo.gl/8cVB8g
The Funeral Scores. Sir Vidia Naipaul final farewell in a fanfare of Naipaulian fictive irony https://goo.gl/NQibgR
Year of LiTTributes to Laureattes https://goo.gl/oW81Nm
Demokrissy trends with worlds leading think tanks https://goo.gl/ua3rXm
My Collision with Stephen Hawkins: https://goo.gl/Fx47Ak
Reflections on the Death of Nobel Laureate Sir Vidia Naipaul see link https://goo.gl/7eBP5a
Authors Tete-aTete Dr Kris Rampersad and Sir VS Naipaul https://goo.gl/gU11Jv
Noble Tears of a Nobel Bard Death of Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott https://goo.gl/WXbMpv
Sportscapes Cricket Games We Play LiTTours: https://goo.gl/ENum7X
TheMagic and Realism of gabrial Garcia Marquez RIP https://goo.gl/s7y2oc
Pat Bishop: The Killings, the curfew… https://goo.gl/DgFk9E
Lagahoo tribute to the independent spirits: https://goo.gl/C7kND1
Earth Quake Earthquake
Youtube video: https://youtu.be/A8TgWZPuEkE
LiTTscapes: Facebook: https://goo.gl/HBJsmM
Five Year Old Child Stars at LiTTribute: https://goo.gl/fn3oTR
One LiTTle bookshop: LiTTscapes and the Nobel Laureate https://goo.gl/cpvr2T
Launch LiTTribute: https://goo.gl/g1mmED
Through Novel lenses Youtube https://youtu.be/_zWHPEQCqHA
LiTTscapes Child Star Tops SEA: https://goo.gl/iNqt32
Prophesy A.Bourdain and Aboud. Port of Spain and Lebanon : https://goo.gl/zwtyWq
Devil’s WoodYard, Earthquake Aug 2018 https://goo.gl/myXCAQ
Migrants Motherlands Mothercultures https://goo.gl/MGrnPQ
Heritage a vehicle of understanding against extremism violence https://goo.gl/gpfGPp
Gender Bender Mia Mottley takes political helm in Barbados https://goo.gl/xL3DEd
In the News LiTTributes attract award winning newspaper https://goo.gl/n2GsG9
Bridging Cultural Gaps LiTTribute to ToronTTO. See link https://goo.gl/jLHTBE
Yo Ho Ho Piracy and Heritage: https://goo.gl/TvXOHU
A Diaspora Celebrates: LiTTribute to the Americas See link https://goo.gl/brUkjH
Join us or commission your own Creative Conversations: https://goo.gl/qPBzef
Arresting the Tears Hayti I’m Sorry https://goo.gl/6sy3y6
Towards State of the Art Museum: https://goo.gl/FfHfJL
Murder and the Museum: http//goo.gl/FHs3Fr
Celebrating Nationhood But Can new Save the Nation https://goo.gl/qSqJtT
my-discoverie-columbus-lost-and-found https://goo.gl/ixGu7y
Pat-bishops-last-struggle-killings https://goo.gl/tQUySt
Them-red-house-bones
A-tale-of-two-skeletonsJurisprudence An Ode https://goo.gl/Gmn7l0
Ah Drinking Babash https://goo.gl/GhMncz
Lagahoo-tribute-to-independent-spirits https://goo.gl/P6gP2Q
Murder and the Museum http//goo.gl/FHs3Fr
Woman in the mirror https://goo.gl/pvnX9d
The Triumph of Gollum in the Land of Shut Up Suicide of the Fellowship of Partnerships Book 11. A Sequel Futuring the Agenda Forward https://goo.gl/HU3rp3
Celebrating Jamettry The Sacred and the Sacriligious
Demokrissy https://goo.gl/FHs3Fr
The Human face of constitutional reform https://goo.gl/6escjj
Yo Ho ho and a bottle of rumhttps://goo.gl/TvXOHU
Demokrissy https://goo.gl/FHs3Fr
Changing the World with Ideas goo.gl/Pa6jAk
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/2017/08/creating-revolution-through-knowledge.html
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/2015/08/a-world-inspired-littscapes-turns-3.html https://goo.gl/J1EFn5
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com /from-beirut-to-port-of-spain-how-west.html
The-price-of-passion-awards-and-rewards
Power Failure Media Blackout Brets Muffled Threats and Ransoming Father: https://goo.gl/YjbBgx
@BJP4India #BJP @Priyankachopra #PriyankaChopra#merkel @EmmanuelMacron #EmmanuelMcrona #JohnTrudeau @travelchannel @usatoday @BBCWorld @BBCWorldHaveYourSay @TEDtalks @TEDNews +britishcouncil@engageats.co.uk @britishmuseum, @britishcouncil, @britishlibrary, @Royal_Gov_UK, @justintrudeau, @helenclarkeUNDP, +Google for Nonprofits @googleartsandculture, @econculture, @commonculture, @writersdigest, @nytimes, +PBS NewsHour +Breaking News +BBC News +news@news.ideastap.com +info@takingitglobal.org +Open Society Foundations @richardbranson, @billgates, @melaniegates, @gatesfoundation, +G Singh, @clintonfdn, @WJClibrary, @clintonglobal, @librarycongress @google, @googleresearch @yahoo, @yahoonews, @yahoomovies, @ABC, @CNN, @REUTERS, @ABC, +Kamla Persad-Bissessar , +Prakash Ramadhar, +John van Tiggelen,
2018 in Review:
May:
The Prince and I Royal Rendevouz Across the Commonwealth: https://goo.gl/9pMKgJ
Heritage a Vehicle for Understanding Violent Extremism: https://goo.gl/K7zxry
The increasing incident of violence and extremism in schools emerged as a core concern of educators, parents, religious, community and cultural heads identified the sense of alienation by migrant and first generations and challenges with adapting to their adopted societies.
The concerns were raised during the LiTTributes to ToronTTo...see link: https://goo.gl/K7zxry
Our Knowledge Revolution Thank a Teacher: https://goo.gl/Hg23sK
Royal Wedding in Toronto Upstaged
Journey of Creative spices and music: https://goo.gl/sFW8iL
From Village to Global Village: https://goo.gl/C3ofos
Literary Odyssey in the news: https://goo.gl/oXEyqu
Our Cultural connections: https://goo.gl/nb9pe3
Steelpan Debut: Creative Conversations: https://goo.gl/TaFYnc
Bridging Gaps: Don’t Forget the Boys: Equity n Education: https://goo.gl/mhm4p2
LiTTribute to the Americas: https://goo.gl/ADJQEs
Women Leadership and Power: Empowering the Presidency: https://goo.gl/9qRByT
My Collission with Stephen Hawkings. View from the Cosmos: https://goo.gl/ihvZv7
Changing the Conversation Gender Leadership: https://goo.gl/KTu858
Dr Shadow’s Snakess Symphony: https://goo.gl/tB6WhE
Power Failure Media Blackout Brets Muffled Threats and Ransoming Father: https://goo.gl/YjbBgx
my-date-with-narendra-modi-dat-merkel affair
Things-that-make-me-go-steups-stars http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/2016/12/things-that-make-me-go-steups-stars.html
Focus-resources on real crime
The-ghost-of journalism past
Ask About LiTTscapes,
Ask about LiTTours and LiTTributes
@BJP4India #BJP @Priyankachopra #PriyankaChopra#merkel @EmmanuelMacron #EmmanuelMcrona #JohnTrudeau @travelchannel @usatoday @BBCWorld @BBCWorldHaveYourSay @TEDtalks @TEDNews +britishcouncil@engageats.co.uk @britishmuseum, @britishcouncil, @britishlibrary, @Royal_Gov_UK, @justintrudeau, @helenclarkeUNDP, +Google for Nonprofits @googleartsandculture, @econculture, @commonculture, @writersdigest, @nytimes, +PBS NewsHour +Breaking News +BBC News +news@news.ideastap.com +info@takingitglobal.org +Open Society Foundations @richardbranson, @billgates, @melaniegates, @gatesfoundation, +G Singh, @clintonfdn, @WJClibrary, @clintonglobal, @librarycongress @google, @googleresearch @yahoo, @yahoonews, @yahoomovies, @ABC, @CNN, @REUTERS, @ABC, +Kamla Persad-Bissessar , +Prakash Ramadhar, +John van Tiggelen,
@FoxNews, @UKinCaribbean, @WBCaribbean, @TheEconomist, @wef, @economictimes, @business, @businessinsider, @wsjbusiness, @wsj womenshealth, @wsjmag, @people, @fortunemagazine, @ellemagazine, @oprah, @O_magazine, @OWNTV, @oprahbooklist, @voguemagazine, @twitterwomen, @womenintheworld, @UN_Women, @womenatforbes, @womensmediacentre @womensenews,
2018 in Review:
May:
Another Woman Takes the Helm Caribbean Politics: https://goo.gl/wU2mvU
The Prince and I Royal Rendevouz Across the Commonwealth: https://goo.gl/9pMKgJ
Heritage a Vehicle for Understanding Violent Extremism: https://goo.gl/K7zxry
The increasing incident of violence and extremism in schools emerged as a core concern of educators, parents, religious, community and cultural heads identified the sense of alienation by migrant and first generations and challenges with adapting to their adopted societies.
The concerns were raised during the LiTTributes to ToronTTo...see link: https://goo.gl/K7zxry
Our Knowledge Revolution Thank a Teacher: https://goo.gl/Hg23sK
Royal Wedding in Toronto Upstaged
Journey of Creative spices and music: https://goo.gl/sFW8iL
From Village to Global Village: https://goo.gl/C3ofos
Literary Odyssey in the news: https://goo.gl/oXEyqu
Our Cultural connections: https://goo.gl/nb9pe3
Steelpan Debut: Creative Conversations: https://goo.gl/TaFYnc
Bridging Gaps: Don’t Forget the Boys: Equity n Education: https://goo.gl/mhm4p2
Happy World Heritage Day: https://goo.gl/PR8ijA
Culinary Journey Of Silks and Spices: https://goo.gl/r9oedQ
LiTTribute to the Americas: https://goo.gl/ADJQEs
March:
Women Leadership and Power: Empowering the Presidency: https://goo.gl/9qRByT
My Collission with Stephen Hawkings. View from the Cosmos: https://goo.gl/ihvZv7
Changing the Conversation Gender Leadership: https://goo.gl/KTu858
30 Christmases https://goo.gl/JNxBVp
Dr Shadow’s Snakess Symphony: https://goo.gl/tB6WhE
