Jam-ett-ree
Vulgar/Slang Trade of a -
Exploring a World Through MultiCultural Lenses
https://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/2017/07/dr-kris-rampersad-exploring-world.html
Alt
Jah-mee-tree – point from which the universe emanates; equity; golden ratio
Literarily by Dr Kris
Dear Lizzy,
You coming to meh jamettry party? Consider this
your invite eh. I going get a distinction in meh post graduate degree in
jamettry: the synergy of ying and yang, unification of the arts and sciences,
centrepoint of the golden mean and meanness.
Since plenty people asking about what is jamettry,
although I in hibernation trying to finish my Tale of Murder, Madness and the
Love of Words like that Professor who turn Madman – you might know him as the
Surgeon of Crowthorne, Liz. He give the Oxford Dictionary 10,000 words with
definitions and meanings, I writing a definition here so although my friend
didn’t reach out to me, the people go know and not keep bothering me with
emails and phone calls to do a Literarily by Dr Kris for the word jamettry.
This is only one percent of my 100,000 entries into Literarily. I know you have
some influence with your pardner, Britannica and have friends at Oxford who
make the English Dictionary so help me get it in there nah while I finish these
Letters. Ent we is Famalee and good friends too, gyul? Do me a lil favour, nah.
As you know, Liz, I have for long been an avid
student, even a proponent of the art and science, of jamettry, so you,
Britannica and the OED could say I am an expert in this jamettry art that is as
ancient as the oldest profession in the world.
It is not only today I studying jammetry so I am
well qualified to add Jamettry to Literarily, my compendium of words and
their meanings through classical to now times. Some was published in the Guardian
and in Demokrissy and as evidence of that Panama paper trail I sending
you some of these Literarily (See image this page). I gone for higher/hire now,
so talk to Britannica and the OED for me nah, you could tell them we is good
friends. I see they just admit the ‘c’ word Ma say she doh ever want to hear me
use so you go and find it in the OED along with c-tish, and c-ed endings. They
describe it as vulgar/slang for ‘a woman’s genitals or ‘an unpleasant or stupid
person’ so they wouldn’t have any problems adding jamettry - which is also a
vulgar slang word associated with a woman’s genitals and its functions.
And while you at it, I have a whole series of ‘C’
monologues (C because Ma say doh use THAT word!) They get banned from the
newspapers, because although I didn’t use that word, people say too much
jamettry in the the explanations and definitions of social actions that they
’fraid would enlighten the universe about golden ratio and ration, meanness and
mean, how to stay in divine balance and not get involved in thiefery and
thuggery and corruption and thing and to come out of they ignorance and
sycophancy (Sycofancee Entry # 5783 in Literarily). So the C Monologues get ban
by the powers that be when somebody call they pardner like how they ban all
them books across the world, like the Bible and the Quran, Grimm’s Fairy Tales,
Alice in Wonderland and Animal Farm - all them nice nice storybooks by
Hemmingway and Chaucer and Dr Seuss and like how my books ban in some place
that call themselves university.
I make a full list of them banned books I have in
meh library, Liz, so you be the judge or take it to the Privy Council and let’s
see if that is any reason for anybody to want to raid and censor meh library,
meh blog, meh Facebook; to be pawing and poaching through meh Instagram and
Twitter; hack meh website; make threatening phone calls, pelt stones, smash meh
face, shoot at meh car and house… You be the judge Liz. That is only the list
that get banned, eh, I have plenty more books they might as well ban as nobody
reading anyway. I sure you have some of them in Buckingham Palace too and check
the British Library, I put some there too. You might want to keep them under
lock and key before you little Lizzie granddaughter and Master George get their
hands on them. They say these books could corrupt the mind of children, just like
all this jamettry corrupt the mind of adults and public officials and make we
private sector so enterprising. (See definition of Enterprising in
Literarily by Dr Kris, entry #547).
So I sending you the list banned in different places (see below) and I sending you here the Literarily, on jammetry. Tell Britannica and OED that I already do all the research on cont-texts and everything right here, so they could cite as the source ‘Literarily by Dr Kris’ in Demokrissy.
So I sending you the list banned in different places (see below) and I sending you here the Literarily, on jammetry. Tell Britannica and OED that I already do all the research on cont-texts and everything right here, so they could cite as the source ‘Literarily by Dr Kris’ in Demokrissy.
Jamettry Meanings & Definitions from Literarily by Dr Kris
1. Noun. Vulgar/Slang. Pronunciation Jam-ett-ree. The
trade of a jamette. From Jamette: promiscuous (wo)man. - As illustrated in
Denise Belfon calypso, Jamette, 2002 (See below).
Origin: Jamettry is as ancient as the oldest profession in the world.
2.Jamettry/Geometry: Pronunciation
Jah-mee-tree. Corruption/colloquial pronunciation of geometry: Branch of
mathematics. Associated with the way parts of an object fit together involving
deduction of properties, measurement, relationships of points, lines, angles,
figures. Assessment of shape, size, relative position of figures, and the
properties of space.
The single point from which all lines, angles, relationships of the
universe emanate and can be measured to assess and assert balance, harmony,
unity in diversity, divine proportions, golden ratio.
3.Abusive term: Term of verbal violence, usually against women.
Judgmental of (wo)man’s character. Implies sexually immoral.
Connotative
Cont-ext: Used to assert
moral/sexual superiority. To cast aspersion on character.
(Denotes/suggests) insecurity/inferiority complex, bullying
mentality. Attitude towards opposite sex when insecure about sexual or other
competencies such as how to run a country or a government or how to respond to
media.
4.In Now Times:
Further additional meanings - Related to:
i. Jami-it: To grind on sensually. To wine on suggestively. ‘Jus hold
Dem & Wok Dem’!
ii.Jamming The art of mindless disassociation from social reality as in
‘We Jamming Still’;
iii. Hooliganism: See blog, ‘Jus’ Call Me Cooligan’ #Demokrissy.
5. Additional Applications
a. Loss of objective understanding of unity in diversity; of the way
the parts of an object fit together by manipulating properties, measurements,
distorting angles, points, lines, accentuating relationships with public
figures in exploitative relation to their community/society/country
b. Association of government, business and other sectors to plunder and
pilfer resources and properties of any shape, sizes generally utilizing relations
to figures in positions of authority in a manner deduced to be corrupt. (As
illustrated in David Rudder’s 1988 calypso, Panama, see below)
c. Illegal activity conducted in full view of the public, fully and
publicly sanctioned by the authorities and justifiable in law;
d. May invoke verbal or physical abuse, censorship, raids on offices
when exposed, against anyone attempting to investigate, explore or uncover
jamettry;
e. To maintain status quo of one percent versus the rest: ie. To keep
‘the remainder’ in state of impoverishment and dependence and dotish defence of
indefensible; golden mean vs meanness.
f. Discordance between payments and receipt of goods or income and
supply of goods ie distortion of angles, processes, principles of business,
manipulation and skewing of divine proportions; rationingof t he golden ratio.
g. A society so engrossed with jamming that it has forgotten how to
take stock of itself and demand accountability from those it assigns mandate to
serve.
h. Friendly associations between government and business that influence
and impact on the nature of business transactions between state agencies and
its suppliers.
i. Term used to stimulate jamming – ie mindless forgetfulness so as to
deflect from focus on issues of the day as ‘in a pappyshow land where nearly
everything is a pappyshow’ (See David Rudder, Panama below)
Jamettry: Attribution: KrisRampersad:
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So Liz gyul, you see why I too humming, the tune of
the day:
Bring out the Jamette inna
meh oh oh oh oh
Bring out the Jamette inna
meh oh oh oh oh
With Denise Belfon I adding the angles of the
kankalang in relation to the music of the spheres that tangential to the raging
winds and waves and uproar outdoors, the violence, the disrespect, the
slaughter of men, women and children and the rot and chaos all around so you,
me, we could sing along:
Bring out the Jamette inna
meh oh oh oh oh
Bring out the Jamette inna
meh oh oh oh oh
Jamettry
in meh school bag future
To give you some cont-exts, Liz, because I know
Britannica and the OED going ask, let me go back to the beginning, Liz, the
source and origin.
On the first day of high school, Ma remind me that
she put the jamettry in meh school bag.
“Use it well,” she say, putting me in the car with
a big sticker that say ‘Licensed for Five Passengers’ though the car cram with
ten and might pick up others heading to the Tong.
Ma exudes all the anxiety and expectation on what
may lie ahead for my future, as she stands, staring at the smoke trail of the
car long after it disappears around the corner and down the hill, trying to
find a whiff in the air if here is a dactar or a laayaa in the making. (See
definitions in Literarily. Entrees #265 and # 777, respectively).
I will disappoint her, Liz, in that respect because
in truth, it was not dactaring or laayaing I would study, as I would focus my
time on the study of jammetry. Since there is a lot of jammetry in storybooks,
Ma didn’t know that the first thing I plan to do is to join the Princes Town
library.
As soon as the school bell ring to say school
finish that first day, I walk up the hill, through the shortcut by Knolly’s
Recreation Grounds. It name for your Acting Governor, Sir Courtney Knollys, who
open a few things including the Knolly’s Tunnel in Tabaquite when the Governor
away and leave he to act, so they name these things after him like Hollywood
name things after actors. Later they will rename it Yolande Pompey Recreation
Ground after some fellah who was the first oxymoron light heavyweight boxer to
fight in an international ring. Although he never win a world title, we like to
let people here know we have fighters like all yuh, Liz. We is real badjohns
and we could knock out all yuh colonial signs with we boxing because if you
remember yuh ban we real badjohns, the stickfighters, who could buss plenty
heads. So down came the Knolly’s sign and name and up went the oxy-moron light
heavyweight into we Sports Hall of Fame! Just so too, we go knock down the
Queen Street sign you put up in Port of Spain and put we own Penny who is also
a Queen, not just of a Commonwealth, but of a Universe! Take that Liz. Jamettry
woking for we!
As soon as the school bell ring, I pelt out,
through the short cut and up the hill on meh way to the library, pass the
signboard for Knolly’s Rec. Scrawled at the bottom of the sign is a reminder
that the grounds governed by the Recreation Grounds and Pastures Act Chapter
41:01, Laws of Trinidad And Tobago, Act 10 of 1909.
I dodge a corkball from the guys playing cricket on
one end of the field, keeping meh eye on the football players, too, although I
think that law say ‘No person shall play cricket, football, rounders, or other
games dangerous to young children, in any recreation ground.’ But who care ’bout
laws here, eh – jamettry everywhere! We would have plenty football and cricket
match there, and then one day, irregardless (entry #4677 in Literarily) of the
law, they will name the pavilion there after a cricketer. Talk ’bout jamettry!
Liz, that make me wonder if there is a law against
reading story books as Ma and Pa had ban me from reading storybooks like Enid
Blyton with all them drawings and pictures. They say it just fill up meh head
with mumbo jumbo airy-fairy nonsense and I should be reading to become a dactar
or a laayar. It is okay to read literature books if they on the school book
list, and now I had a loophole if I say I borrow it from the library – always a
way to beat the system! I learning jamettry well! You would be proud like Ma,
Liz.
Shillingford – the district vagrant – is running
around the Knolly’s-soon-to-be renamed Yolande Pompey field, as we would see
him doing every evening when the schoolbell ring. The field shouldda really be
named after Shillingford because he so exemplify all we national ambitions. He
was the brightest boy in he years in the same school I just starting and
watching him I shouldda see how the future in my schoolbag with the jamettry.
Shillingford so bright that we place couldn’t findda place for him so he gone
mad, yes, and so he get enterprising begging for a shilling here and a shilling
there so he could live as he wish without working in a land flowing with oil
and he had plenty time to run round and round the field in celebration of his
emancipation and freedom as I too would one day. People say he mad, and a
vagrant – just like that Professor and a Madman who help write the OED – he too
bright. I find out ’bout him when I was researching the school history for the
school magazine, Dedicated to Excellence. I shouldda see the signs Liz, because
he was one of the school best example of Excellence, Par Excellence, but I
would lorn good, just how I lorn jamettry real good. It in meh future and in
meh schoolbag, as the Doc ruling the country say.
Is my first day, so I keep Shillingford in the
corner of my eye in case he pounce, as I labor up the hill and onto the
Naparima Mayaro Road, towards Princes Town. The library just outside the Town
named for you grandfather Liz. The taxi stand inside the Tong, so I tell meh brother
with the taxi that I will wait for him when he heading back home at the corner
by the library so the police wouldn’t stop him for overloading more than ten in
he ‘licenced for five passengers taxi’. Because it only had one or two taxis
going into the village he just pick-up everybody he see on the way who need a
ride, Liz. The village people didn’t mind, because all ah we is one. We live in
unity in diversity in the finest principles of universal harmony that jamettry
professes. No meanness. We share everything according to the golden ration in
divine proportions. He didn’t finish wok till late so it give me good time to
stay in the library until it close.
Liz girl, I start to lorn all about jammetry, from
the story books and poetry available. By the time I graduate I could see why Ma
and Pa think storybook full of jamettry, oui. Just look at meh list of banned
books and you go see how much jamettry in there: Fifty Shades of Jamettry and
more: The Scarlett Letter, Fanny Hill, Harry Potter, Beloved by Toni Morrison,
Gone With The Wind…
Jamette.
Jamettish. Jamettry of Poetry
Liz, I start to read poetry with gusto – the real
jamettry poetry, like Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (See Poem below)
that I read and I sure you read it too. I real spend time on that, eh,
analyzing the ‘stately pleasure domes’ and ‘cavern measureless to man’ and
‘deep romantic chasm’, ‘sinuous rills’ and then climaxing ‘in fast thick pants
were breathing/A mighty fountain momently was forced…’ That aint sound like
jamettry to you Liz? Coleridge write in Kubla Khan about,
‘Woman
wailing for her demon lover’.
It sound just like the chorus from that Denise
Belfon’s song, Jamette, ent?
Bring out the Jamette inna
meh oh oh oh oh
Bring out the Jamette inna
meh oh oh oh oh
Coleridge in Kubla Khan decree:
And from
this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this
earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty
fountain momently was forced.
Denise Belfon sing in Jamette:
I need a
man dat hard dat hard/To never treat meh bad real bad
When he go
I must feel sad real sad/When he come I must feel glad
In fact Belfon song sound no different from that
poem with its ‘stately pleasure domes’ and she too, like the Damsel, wailing:
I need a
man who's hype who's hype
to stand up
like a pipe a pipe
De banana
must be ripe be ripe
I will stop there for now, in case they want to buss meh mouth and
censor meh analyses for getting too jamettry, Liz. Inbox eh nah, and I will
send you the full comparative analysis of Denise Belfon Jamette and Samuel
Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan.
Jamettry,
Jamette, Jam-it and We Jamming Still culture cont-exts
There is a lot of other Jamette music filling the
spheres around that time, Sparrow, and Kitchener, and David Rudder and Super
Blue, plenty plenty singing all kindda Jamette woman, Bacchanal Woman, Mae Mae,
Ethel, Bethel and Skettel…
I lorn well about the Jamette culture that grow out of the barrack
yards from which all this comes, how it was frowned on by the snobby nose upper
classes as lewd and crude but celebrated in the protest literature of the
1930s. Jamettry was a way to rebel against oppression, exploitation and
violence. The proponents of what was being called the Literature of the Yard
were the likes of the early nationalists/writers like CLR James, and Alfred
Mendes, Albert Gomes and Seepersad Naipaul adding his own two-piece with his
Daisy chumkaying through The Gurudeva Tales – you have to read meh book Finding
A Place to find out more about that time. Rikki Jai will later tell the story
of his Sumintra exhibiting the same kind of jamettry as Belfon and she pardners
Destra and Allison, and Draupatie too coaxing Bissessar into she jamettry.
You know, Liz, by the time you had over to we to be
freeto practice we jamettry, jamettry was already an important part of the
lexicography in the intellectual construction of nationhood. Nation-language
defined by Edward Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados) developed in conjunction with
jamette folk culture in the barrack yards that came to be celebrated at
Carnival time. Liz, you start the barrack yard housing development style so I
don’t have to tell you that barrack yard people live close close together
folking up the place so of course everybody inside everybody business, and
everybody could spot jamettry in everybody else that now inside every housing
development scheme you could think of. It make for good bacchanal, Liz, and
political fork-tongue speech.
Carnival Jamette bands was jamettry Par Excellance
in protest of and in imitation of the massas of the French Creole plantocracy
and other classes. I would see for myself, covering J’Ouvert later, the
doh-kay-damn attitude and behaviour, pouring onto the Savannah Street and
stage.
Now that is freedom! I couldn’t wait to join! My
particular favourite is the Dame Lorraines sporting and wiggling gi-normous
jamette parts stuffed up butt, hips and breasts – there is hope for me yet Liz.
That’s where the likes of Nikki Maharaj Minaj get it from, in case anyone
wondering. She music is a prideful product of this jamettry, packaged for
exportation.
The unsuspecting celebrants maybe did not know that
when they think they laughing at the upper echelons one percent - who put on
masked balls wearing costumes like Dame Lorraines, in imitation of their maids
- they were really laughing at their massa laughing at themselves eh. Nobody
sure who the jokes on who, but everybody laughing and having a goodtime. Pure
jamettry. And we jamming still!
I became an aspirant, so by the time Belfon sing
that song, me too could chip along in full fervor, now deep into meh education
about the art of jamettry:
Bring out
the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh
Bring out
the Jamette inna meh oh oh oh oh
Although me aint no feminist, I applaud the
Jamettry long-celebrated by feminists too, as an indication of women taking
charge of their own destiny, they bodies, their sexuality, the independent
spirit and rebellion against oppressive patriarchy with the roots in the
complex colonial plantation system with its intertwining of race, class and
wealth stratifications: all that really mean mean men who like to abuse and
take the golden glow from women and make them blue black with hard slap and blue
by calling them jamette and thing….blue in every colour and pigment.
Though most of the intellectualising fall short of
telling anybody about the damage that all this causing, making people like
sycophants, lapping up and internalising and blindly replicating the massahood
culture of dominance, exploitation and oppression so they even calling
themselves and everybody else jamette because people tell them they is jamette
long time so they say let’s celebrate we jamettry.
I join in too, yes. In the struggle to end violence
against women, I talk to and interview plenty women, telling about how they man
call them jamette to put them dong, and about verbal and other abuse to degrade
them and make them feel small. Plenty women in high and low places tell me how,
when men feeling they not as bright as them and cannot respond on equal footing
to any argument, they man would call them jamette and other names so they go
shut up.
We join-up to get the government to sign the United
Nations Convention on the Discrimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women and in UNESCO trying to make sure them gender-sensitive things included
in other culture conventions too.
In all of this, I didn’t give up meh own jamettry.
I coming up to be an expert, for sure.
Monumental
Jamettry in heritage
In London and Paris there was plenty pus-pusuring
(Pus-pus refer Literarily entry #893) and whispering in drawing rooms about
jamettry. So I gone there to advance meh studies in jamettry and get some hard
slap for doing so, too, because they doh want
to lorn bout they own jamettr they think nobody else should – typical jamette-man.
In Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables,
With
all that, Paris is a good soul. It accepts everything right royally; it is not
too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; if it but laughs it
pardons, ugliness makes it merry….
A
Hottentot cannot be changed into a Roman outline
In Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, more whispering:
"Marry
that mulatto woman?" George said, pulling up his shirt-collars. "I
don't like the colour, sir. Ask the black that sweeps opposite Fleet Market,
sir. I'm not going to marry a Hottentot Venus."
I get curious about this Hottentot Venus who sound
like she is a jamettry hottie like Belfon Saucy Wow!
shake your body around, like
you's a blender
bend down and touch the
ground and mek dem holler
for de jammette, de
jammette, de jammette
I
study she a lil bit, and even follow the trail to the British Museum and the
Musee de l’Homme. While I suppose to be studying journalism in Cambridge I take
a weekend to study jamettry in London and Paris – and what better place to lorn
about jamettry than in Paris eh?
This Venus Hottentot was not no play act. She was
real woman. When she was living, she was paraded around London and Paris and
people pay to see she or to poke she big behind and other jamette parts. She
was dead at age 26 and even when she dead, she parts was put on display in the
museum. She was used in studies of the human anatomy to support stereotyping
and racial applications of Darwin’s theory of origin of the species and the
theory of natural selection.
I join my friends lobbying for the return of her parts for a respectful
burial in her homeplace in South Africa which was finally done in 2002, the
same year Saucy Wow and all ah we singing,
Bring out the Jamette inna
meh oh oh oh oh
Bring out the Jamette inna
meh oh oh oh oh
Saucy
Wow itself! This Venus Hottentot, aka Sarah Baartman, who endure the epitome of
the worst kinds of humiliations to which women have ever been subjected was the
image of images of the jamette women that the French planter class women use to
dress up like at their masked balls, the same kindda masked balls they had in
Port of Spain too – frowning upon jamettry and mocking it so they dress up like
that. In turn, to mock the uppity French massas, the maids dress up like their
mistress who dress like the jamette they call Hottentot. So the maids thinking
they mocking the massas when the massas were mocking the maids – really a whole
lot of jamettry all around.
In Trinidad, they call this Hottentot figure Dame
Lorraine, the quintessential jamettry character of Traditional Mas in the
Trinidad Carnival, and I hoping to be one and wave a jamette flag for me lovely
nation.
It is the most succinct example of how we have
internalized colonial stereotyping and replicate it without knowledge of
implications and meanings and symbolic representations that have resulted in
the entrenchment of racism and prejudicial attitudes and behaviour. Pure
jamettry!
I guess that’s why reading so painful because the
truth not nice an we just want to jump and wine and have a good time everybody
say the word, jamettry, and that’s why they threaten to buss yuh head and
damage yuh if you read too much because it okay to have no censure for your
jamettry, and censor you learning nah. Though all them long list of books that
all these governments ban people still reading them, ent?
While you think about that, I getting my Panama
Papers ready because like David Rudder I tell Mama I going to Panama, on the
trail of the golden ration of Paradise in El Dorado….
Jamettry:
Holy Dread! Drinking Honey/Mountain Dew to enter Paradise
Inspired by Kubla Khan, I get a brainwave that I
could make good use of me jamettry for distraction from that hard and naked truths
so I pull out the jamettry tool box Ma put in meh school bag.
The tin metal box is the same colour like my
freshly starched uniform - navy blue skirt and white shirt - Ma iron it good
after she sew it on she brand new sleek, sexy looking Singer sewing machine
that she save up and buy from she lil market gardening and sewing for people.
It is a second-hand jamettry set but this jamettry
really look like it pass through many many hands and might even be as old as
the oldest profession in the world - the rubber missing, the wooden tips
unsharpened, the nibs rusting, the face scratch-up…
You could still recognize even with the scratches,
the words in white against navy blue background, "Oxford Mathematical
Instruments complete and accurate Helix”. So now I had the tools to wok hard to
find the double helix to unlock the secret of this jamettry DNA.
It make me take meh head outta story book long
enough to look at the tools in the box. Inside the scratch-up goldy-silver tin
case is a compass with one long leg and one short leg with a screw hole. Next
to this had some transparent flat plastic with writings on them. I would learn
that I should call the two plastic triangles set squares though I can’t figure
out why because they look to all intents and purposes like triangles not
squares. But that is scientific logic against creative dreaming, I guess. There
is a straight ruler and one that look like a semi-circle with markings on it
that I would learn is a protractor, and there is a stencil with the alphabet in
capital and common letters.
I look at the set meh new friend Debbie, sitting
next to me, have. It brand new, no scratches, and it have a brand new
sharpener, eraser, and lead pencils too. I borrow Debbie sharpener to sharpen
my long pencil. I break it in two and put the jagged edge part in the compass
hole and screw it on. I save the other part with the eraser to come in handy.
Liz, in all the years of friendship although we
share plenty things, she never once give me a contract or me she, and we still
friends, eh. Debbie - who never let anybody know, except one day we talking and
she tell me she related to Sir Solomon Hochoy who you appoint as we last
Governor, Liz - had none of the airs of the any of the plantocracy. She is no
one percent, she part ah the majority. Is unity in diversity and all ah we
living as one.
I attach the pencil on the compass, stick the long
point on the page and by rotating the pencil was making a perfect circle. This
is quite an accomplishment for me whose every attempt at a straight line always
turn into squiggles and curls. I couldn’t even baylay roti round good so it
could fit on the chowki and the tawa, much less draw a circle (refer to
Literarily entries #7561-5). Most time it come out looking almost like a map of
Trinidad - the roti and the circle. Doh laugh nah gyul. The ruler and the
stencil would help my cause of writing my name and subject on the covers of my
book, too. Jamettry Par Excellence!
Liz, just as I was getting use to experimenting and
using meh jamettry, they stop me in meh track. They tell me that all I would do
now is dabble and to really use meh jamettry, I have to take Applied Maths and
Applied Physics.
I puzzled. Maybe the math I lorning all this time
is not to apply to anything? Maybe
that’s how people who graduate from this place don’t know how about applying
maths and using they jamettry to understand the associations and relationships
between angles, and sizes and shapes, to structure and form and how one thing
could affect other parts of the universe based on the tangential relationships
in the divine proportion of the golden ration, as you would know if you use you
whole jamettry Liz.
If they know how to use all the parts of the
jamettry they would know how to do sums better, as I tell meh pardner the
contracter son, who sit next to me the next year, because Debbie place in a next
seat. He inherit he father company but he never give me a contract, Liz, and we
is still friends.
Since he in the private sector and maybe know how
them does deal, I have a mind to ask him about divine proportion and golden
ration which as a business man he must know we in the same class together and
we could finish that Conversation on the question that nobody ask:
If a Kaiser Ball – that is the head huncho of balls
- is one dollar, how much Kaiser Balls you should get if you pay one hundred
million dollars, how much tanks that would fill, and how much you would have
left to bank in Panama after you get your Panama Papers and buy a DC-9 and
build two towers in Canada when you convert that to United States green bucks
dollars (see contexts, David Rudder calypso, Panama, below Liz, for easy
reference).
And we could even talk about what angle I should
take on this thing that puzzling all ah we: If all of we is one famalee and one
percent have ninety-nine percent of everything, how much that leave for the
other remainder of the ninety-nine percent; and if the one percent pay off the
one billion dollar debt of one State Enterprise how much it would leave to
free-up all ah we to develop we jamettry since as one famalee all ah we have
the same DNA and double Helix jamettry set. All these things puzzling me to ask
meh pardner in the public and not so public sectors.
Ah tempted eh, Liz, when they trying to bully me to
take this advanced maths and physics where I they say I could really use meh
jamettry. They ask me to choose, but TELL me to do Science because I bright, I
already gearing up to pursue professional jamettry so I exercise meh democratic
rights and choose the Arts so I could continue to read story books and full meh
head with mumbo jumbo airy fairy nonsense on the path to my own version of professional
jamettry.
All this time I find a loophole in the system. Because
jammetry is all about twists and turns and angles and measurements I figure I
would try to put me jammetry to use on Kubla Khan for good measure. I would
apply maths and physics anyway to meh jamettry poetry.
Jamettry
Flowers to Life
Is Jamettry that help me put the missing parts of
the world story, together, Liz. From the single point of where the compass
sticking on the paper, I make this multi-petalled flowers and then copy them on
to cloth to make embroidery and string art.
I later learn that you call it the Flower of Life.
That is the same flower Dan Brown write about in the Da Vinci Code, that get people
vex and some ah them ban it in some places too.
I already know this flower of life, Liz, not from
the Da Vinci Code and western literature and art and architecture and
monuments, with the triangle that there was identified as the Masonic symbol.
Not from Milton Paradise Lost which I could also compare with Kubla Khan
Paradise though one is a big thick book-poem and one is a couple pages.
As I learn to use my compass and the protractor and
ruler and the squares that look like triangles from meh jamettry set, not just
the Flower of Life taking shape. But triangles and pyramids and pentagons and
hexagons, and circles within circles and circles, all emanating from this
single static point of my compass.
Jamettry
Angles, Tangents, Twists & Turns of Seething Chasms
Liz, like a damsel with a dulcimer, I start to make
the music of the sphers, latitude and longitude and everything. I check the
angles of the ‘deep romantic chasm which slanted/Down the green, the
circumference of domes, towers; the heights of rills and Mount Abora; the
breadths of walls. For that I study plenty of your castles, Liz.
I project measurements for the ‘caverns measureless
to man,’ ‘five miles’ and the ‘twice five miles’ on the dimensions to stately
pleasure-domes’, ‘walls and towers.’
I calculate the movements and pace of the ‘earth
fast think pants’, ‘half-intermittedly’, ‘fragments vaulted’, ‘meandering mazy
motion’, ‘dancing rocks’...
I estimate the time factors in ‘ceaseless’,
‘forests ancient as the hills, ‘momently,’ ‘half-intermittedly’…
I look at the spatial physical cont-exts in the
natural environment and its elements water, air, earth: of the chasm, earth,
hill, Mount, dale, grove, moon, sea, ocean, river, garden, cave, mound; and the
built environment: fountain, dome, rill, tower, walls…
I circling Kubla Khan domes and gardens, and the one
in the UNESCO yard, the patterns in monuments and landmarks which form the
building blocks of everything around. It show how well constructed building
blend art and nature, how point and angle related to form and structure and
create order out of chaos. Jamettry on a solid foundation show how to make
proper calculations of how much of what could fit into what and in what
proportions. Jamettry aint nothing like corruption, Liz, that’s how, Coleridge
and the Masonic Master Milton find they Paradise and Copernicus read the stars,
and Da Vinci reconstruct the anatomy of Vesuvius Man and he abstract thing like
a Mona Lisa smile in immaterial painting and in material architecture; like I
find in Gaudi building he Templo de Sagrada Familia, and the Egyptians building
their pyramids of Giza and the Mexicans theirs, and in Belfon and Rudder music.
And all this time what I know about Fibonacci and Pythagoras and Phi/Pi and
thing, eh? I use meh jamettry to analyze Kubla Khan.
I find the divine proportions and a golden ratio to
synergise poetry analysis with Sciences and Arts Liz. Ma, and I hooe you too,
proud! Apply geometrical calculations and relationships that show Fibonacci
formula and Pythagoras theorum and Phi/Pi and all of them things I know nothing
about because Arts is only about dream, nah. In this fragment of a dream, I get
a whole new angle on analyzing poetry that I would apply to analyzing plenty
monuments and artefacts and lost civilisations too, Liz. A whole new world of
jamettry open up, oui!
From the sunless sea and lifeless ocean to Mount Arora
I sure we could find the secrets to global warming and climate change too, eh, Liz.
You think? This poetry full of imagery of all the heritage of sacred jamettry –
ask Tromp - not that Trump, the Donald; Tromp - the one all you beat to take
away Manhattan from the Dutch, then called New Amsterdam, and rename it New
York! Jamettry rules!
With a lil help of some mountain dew made in the
towers of your own sugar factory here, Liz, (For mountain Dew refer to entry
#4852 in Literarily) like Coleridge and Kubla Khan, I come up with the formula
of divine proportions for rationing honey dew, El Dorado, the Paradise
everybody looking for!
Jamettry,
the Sacred Geography
It is then I realise that even before Ma put the jamettry
made ‘complete and accurate’ by Helix Oxford Mathematical Instruments in meh
school bag, it already in meh DNA. You want to know how?
One day we having puja, I aint start school yet. Ma
ask me to help prepare the bedi. She running late for Sona Pundit – the same
Pundit who would use this jammetry which somehow connected to astronomy to read
meh Patra (but that is a next story for another time, Liz). I start with
putting Hibiscus flour – not flower - all round the edge of the bedi, like I
see him do once before. I was about to draw one big Aum and leave it there but
he stop me.
‘This just like Aum,’ he say. ‘Start here, from
this point, in the centre.’
Before even reading meh Patra, Sona Pundit show me
my beginning and end too. Guiding my hand Sona Pundit show me how to start from
the centre point and move outward. We draw a triangle with this point in the
middle, and then start to draw other triangles on both sides and build them up
like a pyramid, using the centre point he do one pyramid on his side and I do
one on my side and they join. He say one side is the upperworld and the other
is the underworld. I could see pentagons and hexagons jumping out at me. We add
circles and inside the circles we add semicircles with stately pleasure dome
peaks to look like lotus petals – the Flower of Life that my compass would
later make.
On the single point at the centre of the bedi sona
Pundit put the kalsa with a deeya and light it.
‘Bindu,’ he say. ‘That is the point from which all
of the universe emanate. Bindu.’
‘You mean bindi?’ I ask. I small but I already
questioning even big people like Sona Pundit. Is the jamette inna meh!
‘Bindu, yeah, like bindi,’ he say, looking at me
like if I just discover the New World, Liz!
“Bindi, like Ma wearing?’ Ma come to sit to do puja
and had put on she sindoor on the path in she hair and a bindi at the centre of
she forehead.
‘Exactly,’ he say. ‘That point is bindu/bindi. The foundation
of creation, mother, Ma, from which the whole universe, earth, emanates.’ I have
more questions but he start the puja.
He hand Ma some flowers, and begin he long Aum,
take out he bell and ring and blow long and hard on he conchshell to signify
the puja start. All the questions on my lips gone silent as the sound move from
the bedi out and out as far out in the world as anybody could hear.
I start lookin for bindi in everything: the point
at which all creation natural and manmade, hold the universe in balance when
everything has an equal share in divine proportions, the golden ratio, make for
harmony, unity in diversity. Is what you might call the sacred feminine, Liz.
Ma gave it a name when she give me the tools in meh school bag. Jamettry.
David Rudder: Panama
(Lyrics
by David Rudder, 1988)
Ay senor, you see any
Trikidadians pass here
You must know them
Big fat men with plenty
blue money in they pocket
You no see them senor?
No man
Ayee eeeeaye aye
Aye they thief the money
Ayee eeeeaye aye
I find El Dorado
It really was dong in
south
But it wasn’t Mexico
that them was talking about
Them rich Trinidadians
show me this whole El Dorado ting
They here living like
lords, but they gone they live there like kings
As they get a lil money
in they pocket
They hiding the kakada
And when you miss them
scamp and them
They somewhere in Panama
So I I IIIII going to
Panama
I got to go to Panama
mama
What it is they have
over there
Making Trini just gone
clear
Some say that they gone
with thousands
Some talking bout tens
of thousands
I here they mention
millions
And so they mention
billions
I doh like ole talk so I
talking a walk
Look I done buy duty
free rum
Pardner, stamp meh
passport
Panama here I come
Some say that they gone
with thousands
Some talking bout tens
of thousands
I here they mention
millions
And for they pension
millions…
Look, it had a big
Chinee gentleman who I doh know he name
They say he was a big
businessman and racing was he game
They even call him some
kindda ambassador I really doh know
But in this pappyshow
land nearly everything is a pappyshow
They say he had a riding
pardner they call this pardner the worst
I have to finish the
mauvais lang when I reach in the next verse
But meanwhile I I IIIII
going to Panama
I got to go to Panama
mama
What it is they have
over there
Making Trini just gone
clear
Some say that they gone
with thousands
Some say that
is tens of thousands
Them talking bout -
millions
I hear they mention
- billions
I doh like ole talk ah
taking ah walk
Allyuh doh spoil meh fun
Here’s the ticket Panama
here I come!
Thousands, thousands,
millions, millions…
First of all they used
to call him a hero
Now they say he is a son
of a gun
They say before they
coulda holla Johnny O
How de fellah run
How he life was wide
like Moon River
More money than chip
chip
But just so the young
man make a turnabout and make this Panama trip
How he set up a halfway
house in Miami and Canada
He look left and right
then left again and then buss it to Panama
So I I IIIIIII going to
Panama
I got to go to Panama
mama
What it is they have
over there
Making Trini just gone
clear
Some say that they gone
with thousands
Some say that is tens of
thousands
Them talking bout -
millions
Them talking bout what?
- billions
I doh like ole talk you
see ole talk jus chip up meh grey hair fine
So Lee Sing and all yuh
warm up that DC-9
Warm it up marn warm up
the DC-9
That is what I want to
fly on
I doh want no L10-11
I want the DC-9
Is we taxpayers money
buy that boy, we petro dollars
You hear meh? Warm it up!
This place they call
Panama gotta be the hardest hardest
This place they call
Panama harder than Trinidad
Them doh wine and march
‘round no Red House
Is molotov gun and thing
And they say the biggest
man over dey is the biggest corruption king
And just to prove that
Panama could beat we in bacchanal
Jimmy Carter went dey,
they watch him in he face
And they take back dey
damn Canal
So I I IIIII going to
Panama I got to go to Panama mama
What it is they have
over there
Making Trini just gone
clear
Some say that they gone
with thousands
Some say that is tens of
thousands
Some talking bout being
millions
Ah hear they mention
billions
I want a no smoke seat I doh eat meat
Now warm up the plane
breda
On the runway we going
by Noreiga
Some say that they gone
with thousands
Some say that is tens of
thousands
Some say that they
mention millions
And they mention
what…billions
Thief the money thief
the money
Thief the money thief
the money thief the money
They gone they gone
Thousands…millions….
By Denise Belfon
Yes... this
is for all the J-A-M-M-E-T-T-E out there, not just woman, man too!
I need a man to come
to come
No matter where yuh
from yuh from
Could ah be blind or
deaf and dumb and dumb
He need plenty not
just some
Bring out de
jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh
Bring out de
jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh
I need a man who's
hype who's hype
To stand up like a
pipe a pipe
De banana must be
ripe be ripe
And that's the only
time
Bring out de
jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh
Bring out de
jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna me oh oh oh oh
Make dem whine to
the ground and see you later
Twist and turn it
around ‘cause we don't cater
Shake your body
around, like you's a blender
Bend down and touch
the ground and mek dem holler
For de jammette, de
jammette, de jammette
sexy jammette, de
jammette de jammette
Hotttie jammette, de
jammette, de jammette
Saucy jammette, de
jammette, de jammette
I need a man in
shape in shape
Big and strong just
like ah ape ah ape
Who don't stand up
deh and gape and gape
Who eh ’fraid to go
on tape
Bring out de jammette
inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh
Bring out de
jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh
I need a man dat
hard dat hard
To never treat meh
bad real bad
When he go I must
feel sad real sad
When he come I must
feel glad
Bring out de
jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh
Bring out de
jammette inna meh, bring out de jammette inna meh oh oh oh oh
For de jammette, de
jammette, de jammette
Sexy jammette, de
jammette de jammette
Hottie jammette, de
jammette, de jammette
Saucy jammette, de
jammette, de jammette
Ha ha ha ha how yuh
like dat? I like it too
De kindda man I want
is de kindda man to bring out de
De Real me. Yuh get
it?
Bring out de
jammette inna meh
Bring out de
jammette inna meh
Bring out de
jammette inna meh
Bring out de
jammette inna meh
For de jammette, de
jammette, de jammette
Sexy jammette, de
jammette de jammette
Hottie jammette, de
jammette, de jammette
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Kubla Khan
Or, a vision
in a dream. A Fragment.
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
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List of Banned Books Among my Books
The Bible,
The Quran
Lysistrata
by Aristophanes 411 BC
Areopagitica,
John Milton 1644
Moll
Flanders, Daniel Defoe 1722
Candide, Volatire
1759
Rights of
Man, Thomas Paine 1791
Frankenstein,
Mary Shelley 1818
The
Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer 1300s-
The
Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire 1857
Fanny Hill
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, John Cleland 1748
Grimm’s
Fairy Tales, Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm 1812
The
Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850
Moby-Dick
or The Whale, Herman Melville 1851
Uncle
Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852
Leaves of
Grass, Walt Whitman 1855
Madame
Bovary, Gustave Flaubert 1856
Alice in
Wonderland, Lewis Carroll 1865
The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer &
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain 1884
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
Gone With
the Wind, Margaret Mitchell 1936
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-
Animal Farm & Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 1945/9
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
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov 1955
Peyton Place, Grace Metalious 1956
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
Forever, Judy Blume 1976
Letters From Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi 1977-
Burger's Daughter & July's People, Nadine Gordimer 1979/81
Sophie's Choice, William Styron 1979
The Color Purple, Alice Walker, 1982
The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood 1985
The Witches, Roald Dahl 1983
Not Without My Daughter, Betty Mahmoody 1987
Beloved, Toni Morrison, 1987
Midnight’s Children & The Satanic Verses &
Haroun and the Sea of Stores, Salman Rushdie 1975/88
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak 1988
Harry Potter(s) J K Rowling 1997-
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini 2003
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown 2003
My Father's Daughter, Hannah Pool 2005
Fifty Shades Trilogy, E L James 2011-12
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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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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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Apr 07, 2013
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http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
Demokrissy: Valuing Carnival The Emperor's New Tools#2
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Valuing Carnival The Emperor's New Tools#2.
http://kris-rampersad.blogspot.com/
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Oct 20, 2013
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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/
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Jun 15, 2010
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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/
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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/
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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