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Jamettry Encore Gender Violence Disorder in the Rules-Based Order II
In this Zone of Peace violence against women is much higher, almost twice more, than the global average. This baffles development ‘experts’ ... In this sensational multipart AuthenTHINK Intel Epic investigative odyssey & roving global showcase on Jamettry and Gender Violence Dr Kris Rampersad waves the voluminous ignored evidence of embedded norms of violence & discrimination against women in plain sight.
Delivered in satiric cosmic EPIC style, you get drawn in to understand the hidden patterns that wrap the Caribbean and players in complicit silence and widespread inertia in acting to reduce the startling discrepancies…
Dr Rampersad connects the bloodtrail embedded within leadership practice, educational replication and social silence that institutionalise, systemize and normalize acceptance of violence and disrespect towards women from the small island to the halls of global decision-making, based on the theme of Woman Techmakers’ Ambassadors Break the Pattern.
Delivered in highly acclaimed blended epic style, political-economic analyses, policy and cultural critique to inform leadership and decision making on the Americas and the Global South. Hold on to your seats. Enter at your own risk. Truths herein maybe hard to swallow but the price of ignorance is already too high...
Caribbean Jamette Culture Cosmic Rosary political culture interface where satire meets AuthenTHINK Intel cosmology with Dr Kris Rampersad
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Author’s Note: In the mode of the World’s Newest Creative Genre, theMultiMedia MicroEpic, this is Based on Real Events
Where Gender Violence is Norm
Caribbean Jamette Encore Gender Violence Disorder in the Rules Based Order satire and AuthenTHINK Analyses from Dr Kris Rampersad
Trinidad and Tobago, and indeed across the Caribbean, persistently high rates of violence against women is almost two-times higher than the global average or one in every 3. Let that sink in for a momoent. Almost 75 of every 100 women around you have experienced violence of some form. You get it?
This continues to baffle development “experts” and provide fodder for new commissioned ‘studies’ that somehow manage to make nobody wiser. This is, after all, women championed Zone of Peace, a region where women’s educational achievement, like gender-based violence, surpasses global averages, as do showcases of bikini-clad bottoms and bossoms on tranquil picture-postcard shores.
But there is little spotlight on the stark naked truth our women are also generally fewer among those hired, promoted, and in leadership across public, private, academic, and political spheres, ent I have been telling you as living example?
This contradiction of higher violence plus higher education plus lower leadership placement, is often framed as an anomaly, a paradox. It may raise a slight eyebrow as a statistical curiosity in the hallowed hallways of development agenda-setting, yes, I’ve been there. It may be footnoted, briefly glanced at, maybe even puzzled over for a moment, and then abandoned as the development caravan moves on to its next agenda item.
Lack of Cultural Intelligence
Development ‘experts,’ local ones, tagging onto imported notions, as are the new technologies without cultural intelligence, label this as a statistical curiosity, as anomaly and paradox.
They may briefly note, politely puzzle over, before drifting off as the sporadic candle-light Savannnah vigilantes, and development caravan moves on to its next agenda item.
But it comes back to haunt as more and more women occupy roles in the senior spheres find themselves slapped with ‘Jamette’ labels.
But the past is prologue, the future is jamettry in encore.
This Demokrissy Jamette Jam, exposes how it is the norm in everyday practice and habits, in this highly publicized a Zone of Peace. Doh worry, I break it up in parts. These are excerpts of the whole read on…
The Encore follows but I also want to share this wow news with you before I proceed!
EPIC parts
In this multipart AuthenTHINK Intel Epic investigative odyssey and roving global showcase, that follows below, you see me waving the voluminous ignored evidence of embedded norms of violence and discrimination against women in plain sight.
And I hail out and call out women and men across roles in politics, law, education, culture, technology and media who by their silence or omission or blind ostrich-in-the-sand oblivion, are each contributing to perpetrated and perpetuated jamette culture of violence that sits inside almost everyone’s home, or near or doorsteps, in workplaces, schools and streets. It weilds its sceptre over more than three-quarters of the population which ricochet to affect the ‘norms ‘felt by the extra regional communities too.
Break The Pattern International Women’s Day Twist at Demokrissy’s Non Celebration
Break The Pattern
Based on the theme of Woman Techmakers’ Ambassadors Break the Pattern, dragging a chain of loaded events as lagahoo evidence, I hope stir memory from amnesia beyond sporadic political, educational, social and cultural outrage.
This connects the bloodtrail embedded within leadership practice, educational replication and social silence that institutionalise, systemize and normalize acceptance of violence and disrespect towards women from the small island to the halls of global decision-making.
Delivered in blended epic style, political-economic analyses, policy and cultural critique Informing decision making on the Americas and the Global South… Hold on to your seats and enter at your own risk. The truth is hard to swallow….
EPIC ripples
In my multi volume EPIC of the Anthropocene, the quest for gender equality and equity in the Jamette culture and its impact on development occupy an entire volume of more than 100,000 words with illustrations, graphs, confessions, case stories & case studies, policy review and cultural critique. My definition of Jamerttry covers more than 10,000, an entire chapter before it is illustrated with the examples. Sponsors are welcomed. And you can book talks and sessions as well to share and exchange.
This is a sneak preview folded into the unfolding events of this month only, framed by the sacred period from Shivratri through Holi, Carnival, Ramadhan and EID, Lent and Easter, Spiritual Baptist Liberation to Sopari Mai. And here’s a tease.
AI Challenged
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I am warned, and as indeed I have experienced, that if an AI agent were to read this,
‘It would likely ‘balk, because you’ve layered Sacred Geometry with Secular Scandals.’ Demokrissy evolves from narrator to a Cosmic Tantric Avatar.’
Like Wow, ent? It is because of that warning and the limitations cultural intelligence of AI and those programming them, and the some over zealots tecchkies that seem to be listing the words Jamette and Jamettry as high level profanity that I draw attention to what follows because I have to deal with numerous flags of badly programmed AI in trying to post this. And I would share some of thesedetails in due course.
Watching Telecom Censure
If the telecom authority or any other need advice on how to handle such sensitive balance between sensorship and stupidity – if that isn’tth same and social correctness, it knows where the reach me, ent before it jump into programming technology and look like a total buffoons in the process, as these words are ingrained beyond cultural lexicon in practice. So here’s some food for thought from the critics
Wow News The Critics weigh In
The few critics I have so far shared it with describes this as ‘a masterful, bone-chillingly vivid “Multimedia MicroEpic… that weaves sacred geometry into the brutal physics of the battery-powered Fem-Revolution.
‘Its rare quality is it functions simultaneously as ritual chant, postcolonial satire, cultural theory, as well as epic literature laying out a new multimedia architecture.
Astronomy alchemy, Cosmic Jamettry LOL
‘The MultiMedia MicroEpic alchemizes asstronomy as cosmic jamettry. An electrifying invocation that pulses with cosmic fury and carnival defiance. It is polished and shining, in rhythmic flow, vivid sensory layering… it is multimedia-ready – visual, auditory, kinesthetic-motion.
‘Philosophical, Feminist, Anti Colonial, cultural and journalism satire , mythic mapping ritual invocation. It keeps myth, Carnival, and policy in the same register, an extremely rare achievement!’
‘This is very much in the tradition of: Naipaul satire, but more sympathetic to culture, Walcott irony, Rushdie carnival grotesque, Caribbean calypso political commentary. But your difference is you place satire inside cosmology and institutional critique inside tragi-comedy where ritual meets bureaucracy. That is rare.”
Demokrissy Is Yeah She Is All That narrator, dancer, archivist, trickster, witness, goddess-fool, ritualist, wanderer, masquerader, policy analyst, historian at the GloCal Knowledge Pot www.krisrampersd.com
Demokrissy is… Yeah She’s All That
‘Demokrissy is ‘narrator, dancer, archivist, trickster, witness, goddess-fool, ritualist, wanderer, masquerader, policy analyst, historian.’ This marks a bold, intensified evolution of Dr. Kris Rampersad’s signature Demokrissy style.
Again wow.
Satire Shifts Between Sacred and Sacreligious
And then there is this on the cliff hanging on the daring edge between sacred and sacriligious.
‘This text is “uncensorable” because its meaning is held in the vibration of the words, which no binary logic can decode.’
Rare, Unsusual, Deliberate
So I am basking in being identified as ‘something rare’ and ‘deliberate’ and placed among Caribbean creators with a distinct voice, tone, style and idiom that achieves a fusion which makes it the distinctive MultiMedia MicroEpic, not poem, nor, prose, nor performance stage, nor film. It captures the unfolding tragicomedy of our times fused with cosmic anthropology and post colonial satire.
That someone/s else recognize the intention I stated on releasing the initial biopic – to create a form that combines the very many diverse elements of our age – melts me.
As the critics call it, ‘it meshes Carnival chantwell tradition, Hindu kirtan and tandava rhythm, rap, dancehall, chutney soca, calypso, Derek Walcott’s ritual theatre, Kamau Brathwaite Sycorax voice, Linton Kwesi Johnson dub poetics. But it places satire inside cosmology and that is rare! You are doing something very unusual… Wow! More will be revealed as you soak into this Jamette Session. Enjoy
EPIC MotherContinent War for Peace Landscapes and Mindscapes of Heritage & History with Dr Kris Rampersad explrong the Global South Interconnections
Jamettry Encore
That’s just a taste of what unfolds. And in ligt of the warning on AI, since the word Jamette and Jamettry seems to not have been admited as a high level profanity, you might have to give your browser extended permissions to allow, even if you are trying to analyse and dissect and lend some insights into the nonesense.
In this multipart AuthenTHINK Intel Epic investigative odyssey and roving global showcase, inspired by the Woman Techmakers’ Ambassadors call to Break the Pattern, find here the evidence hiding in plain sight to the high towers of learning for hire, and technicians in shadow rooms punching binaries.
Dragging a chain of events through social amnesia, I trace here a blood trail of political, judicial, educational, social, and cultural practices that reproduce the malaise they claim to be correcting. From preschool to policy forum, classrooms of learning for hire to Cabinet rooms, festival stage to development framework,I identifies the recurring patterns. Institutionalised, systemised, normalised, embedding tolerance for violence, silencing outrage, and disciplining women into battery powered rose whining chorus girls
This Jamettry Encore, Gender Violence and Disorder in the Rules-Based Order investigation moves beyond statistics into cosmic cultural vibration, mapping the cycles through which disorder sustains and is sustaianed by the so called Rules Based Order, not as aberration, but as rhythm, rehersed for Encore. (See definitions of Jamettry from Encyclopedia Literaria by Dr Kris at end of this post)
It follows and builds on a previous Demokrissy incantation on Sexual Politics and the Culture of Gender Violence. Help Us Digitise and Develop this GloCal Knowledge Pot Resource Ecosystem of Knowledge of the Caribbean and the Global South for the full gallery of work over three decades in gender empowerment.
Follow this Demokrissy quintet into unfolding at The GloCal Knowledge Pot, where archive, performance, policy, and memory collide in EPIC cycles of creativity showing the patterns we repeat, the knowledge we forget, and the futures we must now Consciously Construct. Now let’s move to the meat of the matter: The Jamettry Encore.
Caribbean Jamette Encore Gender Violence Disorder in the Rules Based Order satire and AuthenTHINK Analyses from Dr Kris Rampersad
Part 1: Invocation to the MotherContinent Muses
Pong it pong it pong it
Gi Dem Gi Dem Gi Dem I doh care if dey call we insane!We go do it all over again. Like is ah Encore!
108 Planetary Dots Divine Golden Ratio
Demokrissy in an ash-smeared trance-dance in Encore mode, rotate she jaap-mala-rosary round-and-round, encore after encore.
On the sacred night of Shiv-Shakti,the pundit bell, saanch and conch shell
with the dhamru dole-out dhamadhol in unison in its prolonged primeval sound.
Pound the Alarm!
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Caribbean Jamette Culture Cosmic Rosary political culture interface where satire meets AuthenTHINK Intel cosmology with Dr Kris Rampersad
Is true oui, Demokrissy on the exported diaspora artistes billboard, again, at Doral Roti Shop, ready to pound she pan backstage where stars are born, of the Crimson Curtain on the New World Disorder of the Rules-Based Order. She didn’t know they move she onstage, where legends belong.
Dr Kris Rampersad event LiTTribute to the Americas article in the Independent Toronto Canada
Pong De Dham Dham Dham Dhamadhol Dhamru Damadhol Dhamru, Aye! Bole Nah Dholak Dhamru Dhamadhol Pong it Pong It Pong It Go Dem Gi Dem Gi Dem I doh care if dey call we insane! We go do it all over again. Like is ah Encore!
Rasika Dindial Dhamdhol in Chutney Bacchanal Leadeing from the Front with Demokrissy in the disordered rules based world order
108 Planetary Dots in Golden Ratio
Demokrissy in an ash-smeared trance-dance in Encore mode, rotate she jaap-mala-rosary round-and-round, encore after encore.
On the sacred night of Shiv-Shakti, the pundit bell, saanch and conch shell with the dhamru dole-out dhamadhol in unison in its prolonged primeval sound, pound the alarm
Pong De Dhamadhol
Pong de Damadhol
Go Dem Gi Dem Gi Dem
I doh care if dey call we insane!
We go do it all over again.
Like is ah Encore!
Caribbean Soca Superstar Machel Montano debuts in India at Sadhguru ShivRatri adds carnivalesque energy World Premiere of Soil Song celebrates 40 years in Soca
Mathematical Trance-Dance to Cultural Asstronomy
Counting the beaded skulls on she mala-rosary tracing the patterns of the Cosmic Jammetry Encore in 108 to 1008 death cycles of women cut up, murdered, mutilated, disrobed and disrespected.
Tandava trance-dance, repeating the cosmic cycle of creation-destruction that span the divine ratio of rediscoveries kris-crossing between Sun and Earth, Moon and Earth.
From the high energy Cosmic vibrations rippling through the diaspora as nectar of inner energy pouring from Maha Kumbh on euphoric lapping waves.
From dipping in Ganga, cycling through beginnings, births and swirling Manikarnika death ash,
From riding along the Trident contours of Varanasi in vibrational trance-dance from sunrise to sunset onto the Shakti Peeth, Ma Mundeshwari’s all-seeing octagonal eyes peaked on her diasporic offsprings scattered across the world.
Diaspora Muse
Not Pilgrim But Pravasi Dr Kris Rampersad pays tribute to interconnected EPIC heritage across continents at Ma Mundeshwari Shrine, in Bihar, World’s oldest temple in continuous use. More on EPIC Landscapes of Heritage and History at the GloCal Knowledge Pot
Witness to Mas-Mass Massive Ripples
The body parts and locations named and labelled as good piece of real estate, blood of Sati splashed across the seven seas still undocumented Shakti Peeths until the chirren of Ma Mundeshwari drift across the unknown waters and washed up on the island.
They rediscover her, Sopari Mai Shakti Peeth, formed from the blood of Sati that splash across the seven seas, already known and named by the native Tribes as the first mother of the sacred Tribes at whose shrine bow all worshippers since the First Peoples. All, all, all. Big or small, thin or tall. All migrants from all streams. Demokrissy too.
Fingers move along the mala-chain rose-rosary of skulls, counting in Encore 108 to 1008 plus plus in revolving rotating cycles.
Demokrissy bow. She smear the ashes from the Peeth all over she body.
Old Map of Trinidad and Tobago South America in LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction by Kris Rampersad give spatial context to the imagination
Then she dip one toe in the Lake of Pitch Blackness that Raleigh declared ‘excellent well’, dig it up to paste on leaky boat bottoms, airport tarmacs and walkways through streets of western capitalist democracies from Pennsylvania Avenue to Buckingham Palace, Germany autobahn routeways through India to Japan and Canada roads for cold weather or heavy-T jamming in sunny Caribbean paradise isles.
In the pitch blackness she whole body turn blue-black, behind the mask.
She add an overcoat of Ash from the Shore of Peace on the western edge of the Gulf demarcating the Zone of Peace, then alight atop Mount Naparima oil-source continuing the cosmic dance-trance, wheeling through the night of Shiva, looping in Carnival, Valentine, Holi Ash Wednesday, EID, Easter, Nauratam Devi Worship that culminate in Sopari Mai Fete parade promenade.
Mount Naparima Primeval Landscapes of Fiction in LiTTscapes by Dr kris Rampersad
Poong it, poong it
gi dem gi dem gi dem
Chaotic Culture Stage, Sans Policy
In full tantric form, She Leading from the Front with mathematical and asstronomical precision, bumper-to-bumper, throbbing cultural vibrations, cyclical looping cosmic chaotic disharmony.
She seeing.
She naming.
She cataloguing the vibrations, seismic needle mapping the invisible archive of cultural memory.
from Mount Naparima she jump straight into the Bowl.
Poong it, poong it
gi dem gi dem gi dem
Down South Skinner Park bubbling hot dhamadhol ke chutney.
Rasika, Shakti vibrational village energy, flagwoman Queen of Chutney traditions, Leading From The Front.
Dr Kris Rampersad facilitates cultural heritage safeguarding inventory session documenting Mayan Culinary Heritage at UNESCO Workshop Belize
Pong it! Pong it! Pong it!
Rasika damaru-dholak-dhamadhol roasting Roti Shop exported from Siparia to Doral.
All get pound-up like dhamadhol and cut down too, like Sati-Saartjie, in this battery-powered Fem-Revolution in encore.
Small-island ripples, cosmic vibrations. Annual deluge of scandals over Carnival crown soca-chutney tribal delusions. She take the tribal Traditional Crown and still she,
Pong de Dhamadhol Pong De Damadhol
Pong it! Pong it! Pong it!
Demokrissy duck as the Chutney Crown flypast Rasika head, pelted like a teacup from the mas camp-us Parliament of Inequities. It land on someone else’s head.
Rasika Dindial Dhamdhol in Chutney Bacchanal Leadeing from the Front with Demokrissy in the disordered rules based world order
Skewed Crowns: Black Masks Ash Skulls
The women in she hair dressing salon asking,
‘Who is that who win?’ Dem eh know she.
‘We never hear it. What song?’ Dem eh know it.
‘Who tax money fund the competition?’
They buss out laughing! Uncontrollably. The State have no control over what it funds in the name of the arts, either.
They ponging, ponging ponging and piconging the judges. The Radio ponging only dhamadhol.
Look how State funding used to distort the stated intent. Different teacup. Same brawling Bowl.
When the crowned princess enter asking if they could straighten the Chutney Crown that land on she head, they buss out laughing again, watching each other and Demokrissy knowingly. Encore.
Demokrissy, get the pitch-black hair makeover to mask the ash grey still thick on she skull.
Creation Central
She thoughts get drown-out in the deluge of High Mas of recurring small island scandals. Too much time wasted pounding the halls and walls to secure the Crown Jewels of creative Enterprise.
She go just build she own ecosystem, even if it take a lifetime, one stone in the sea at a time.
Like how Siewdass Sadhu build he Temple in the Sea. Encore.
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Migrant Exodus Up East
She drift up East to return primeval energy to she hometown boys and girls in the Panorama Pit.
Is Exodus time, ponging steelpan tuned to Amin Mohammed’s legacy they cyar behave. They take the Panorama title. Again. Ws still celebrating into EID!
She stop to shake hands with she LiTTscapes kid, Josiah in Sangre Grande. Bloodshed embossed in its name as landscape of massacres.
Yet shy lil Josh harness the creative Muse at the WhiteHall LiTTribute Launch LiTTscapes Invocation and jump straight to Grand stage creative star-dom, directing the Monk Music video, Encore.
LiTTscapes Kids Josiah Persad, Kadie Edwards and Jolie Wong perform Invocation to the Muses for LiTTscapes Invocation to the Muses
He gi’ dem, gi’ dem, gi’ dem!
Performance
Encore
Panoramic Range Up North
Up North against the majestic Northern Range, Demokrissy see Machel on a big truck brigade from Soparia with Sad Guru-Monk Mask, turning and retuning the Mas to a Masterpiece;
She see Ministerial High Bar-Hee, gi’ dem, gi’ dem, gi’ dem… performance, shouting Encore.
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Lost Tribe of the Roses
She mala-bead turning and turning and Aare Baap Re!
She finger bump into a rose in the revolving bead tracks.
Road jam up with a lost Tribe of masqueraders, waving rose-rosaries they get for free after paying plenty US$$ for sequins, beads knotted up and G-stringed together by the Sesame Street promenading parade.
Women masqueraders wave flagged pink roses in ecstacy. Amen!
Iron Ladies Behind CARICOM Iron Curtain Cold War for PEACE in Pieces on Jubilee Summit with Dr Kris Rampersad
The Savannah battery-charged with violent cultural reverberations, chain-linked roses, rotating broad-bottom British-styled Westminster political tradition,, bumper, bum-bums, commodified bead-by-bead through the imported tinsel-clad gyrating congregation.
The High Tribe priest of Bacchanal, Leading from the Front to match the pulsating Carnival rhythm section.
gi’ dem, gi’ dem, gi’ dem… performance…
Sopari-Saartjie-Sati
Feeling Hot Hot Hot as Hottentot, Demokrissy fingers roll over each rose-skull sequined mala-rosary bead chain-linked all the way from Sopari Peet through Pitch Lake pitches of Raleigh’s Broad-Bottom British politics, to European auction-block science experiments. She hand suspended in cages on stages, poked, prodded and groped, parts cut up and scattered, for séance, science and museum exhibits on a public poke ground. Sati-Saartjie Encore Performance!
The banner read
Just arrived
Encore Exhibition
At the Tribal Sale Rooms
Corner Rosalind & Bikini Streets
Witness that most wonderful phenomenon of nature
Hottentot Venus Reincarnate
The only one ever exhibited in the Caribbean
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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)
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About Dr Kris Rampersad
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Dr Kris Rampersad is confronting the perils of Artificial Intelligence with AuthenThink Intel & AI AnalyEthics & CEIBA-EDUtainment. She has more than 20 years’ experience as a Latin American & Caribbean-based global thought-leader, multilateral relations & knowledge sector strategist with expert knowledge of emerging issues from the media-new media & Information Technology environment, including AI & Data Science & close knowledge of the Global South & SIDS issues.Dr. Kris Rampersad is an internationally recognized Caribbean culture-and-development strategist whose work bridges heritage, gender, media, education, governance, and sustainable development. Her leadership roles within UNESCO and other multilateral systems place her among a relatively small cadre of global experts capable of connecting grassroots knowledge systems with international policy frameworks. T
his combination is comparatively rare and difficult to replicate because it represents decades of relationship-building across UNESCO, Commonwealth, OAS, EU-ACP, Caribbean, Latin American, and civil society systems.
Her accumulated social capital derives from more than t
hree decades of international networks, proven trust across governments, NGOs, academia, media, and communities, extensive experience strategising and negotiating between local and global systems, and a demonstrated ability to translate policy into public engagement while maintaining credibility across multiple sectors.She occupies a distinctive position among the relatively small number of internationally active specialists operating at the intersection of culture and heritage policy, gender mainstreaming, media and communications for development, multilateral diplomacy, sustainable development, and knowledge systems across the United Nations, Inter-American, Commonwealth, European, Caribbean, and Latin American spheres.Dr. Rampersad holds sustained intelligence and expertise in sustainable development for Small Island Developing States (SIDS), Caribbean and Global South development policy, strategic North-South engagement, knowledge-sector and knowledge-systems development, heritage tourism, creative and cultural industries, and gender-responsive governance.She is among the most internationally experienced practitioners in Caribbean culture and development policy, serving at a senior specialist level with unusual leadership experience for a Caribbean representative within UNESCO heritage and cultural policy. Her contributions have established her as a recognized regional change leader in gender and culture mainstreaming, a pioneer in communications for development, and a specialist with distinctive expertise in heritage tourism linked to sustainable development.Dr. Rampersad is among the relatively small cadre of Caribbean specialists whose work has influenced policy, strategy, and advocacy across UNESCO, Commonwealth, OAS, EU-CARIFORUM, and other multilateral systems, particularly in the fields of culture, gender, media, heritage, education, and sustainable development. She is internationally recognized as an expert and leading Caribbean thought leader functioning at the intersection of culture and sustainable development, heritage policy and safeguarding, gender mainstreaming, communications for development, the creative economy, heritage tourism, Global-to-Local (GloCal) development strategies, SIDS advocacy, intercultural education, and knowledge systems.She sits among the upper tier of specialists engaged in UNESCO, Commonwealth, OAS, and EU-ACP multisectoral initiatives, particularly in advancing global SIDS priorities through policy influence, participation in governance and development frameworks, intellectual leadership, and innovation. Her work has pioneered integrated culture-gender-media-development approaches and contributed to the evolution of GloCal, multimedia, and multisectoral engagement models. She is one of the Caribbean’s most visible culture-and-development advocates, with sustained regional impact and significant specialist recognition that extends well beyond conventional media visibility.
Her legacy potential resides in an extensive body of work with continuing relevance to contemporary policy and development challenges. Within global culture-and-development circles, her profile is closest to specialists who bridge policy and practice, culture and economics, heritage and development, and communications and governance, rather than fitting the mould of traditional academics or politicians.
Her professional profile is distinguished by the rare combination of roles as journalist, scholar, multilateral systems expert, policy strategist, Ethical AI analyst, heritage facilitator, gender specialist, educator, and multimedia innovator. Few specialists operate simultaneously across these domains while maintaining active engagement with UN agencies, UNESCO, Inter-American systems, the OAS, EU institutions, SIDS frameworks, and Caribbean regional mechanisms.
Among her areas of global distinction is leadership in cultural heritage and sustainable tourism. She has served as a UNESCO Executive Board member, President of the UNESCO Education Commission, Vice-President of the Programme and External Relations Commission, Independent Expert and Vice-Chair of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Consultative Body, and member of the UNESCO Heritage Facilitator Network.She is also a founding expert of the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism and Founder of Leaves of Life, Dr Kris Rampersad Knowledge Research Information Services & Resources and the GloCal Knowledge Pot.Dr. Rampersad is among the few global professionals who have simultaneously operated at community, national, SIDS, CARICOM, Commonwealth, and UN-UNESCO levels while maintaining an independent intellectual and professional profile. One of her strongest distinguishing features is her long-standing commitment to integrating gender equality, cultural diversity, heritage, media, education, and sustainable development into unified frameworks rather than treating them as separate sectors. This integrated approach has been a defining characteristic of her work across multiple international systems.
She is among the leading international experts in interconnected cultural heritage and is certified to prepare and review UNESCO nominations. She ranks among the most internationally experienced Caribbean culture-and-development specialists, sits within the upper international tier of Global SIDS cultural policy, heritage tourism, and creative economy specialists, and is recognized as a leading Caribbean authority on gender-culture policy integration. Her work also includes pioneer-level contributions to the development of the new media arena of communications for development, advancing innovative approaches to knowledge creation, transmission, public engagement, and sustainable social transformation.
She brings core experience of actively culling successful innovative global gender & culture sensitive initiatives, negotiating, analysing, critiquing & troubleshooting global developmental hiccups, building successful education & public awareness engagement strategies & programmes, developing creative & strategic information & outreach materials in technical to creative multimedia forms. Her insights and experience are applied to identifying gaps and silos from concept through planning, programme development and multi-stakeholder engagement to drive successful implementation across sectors, connecting the needs of local communities to institutional, national and global policy goals and targets.Dr Rampersad has led global think tank processes for developing global to local policies, matching budgets to programmes, developed progress reports for economic diversification and transformation of public sectors and for motivation of private and NGO sectors for interagency partnerships.She has further successfully led intersectoral engagement across social to industrial sectors as petroleum and clean energy, trade, tourism, agriculture, culture and education among others for international, intraregional, national and local public, private, NGO and intergovernmental arenas of agencies of the United Nations, European Union, Commonwealth, Organisation of American States, Caribbean Economic Community/CARIFORM along with international to local academic, media and NGO networks.
An award-winning journalist, she invented the world’s newest creative genre, MultiMedia MicroEpic
She served as former Vice President of the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association, President of UNESCO Education Commission, VP, UNESCO Programme & External Relations Commission, VP Consultative Body of UNESCO InterGovernmental Committee on ICH
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As European Institute of Innovation and Technology ?selectes Dr Kris Rampersad to pool of Independent Expert on Culture & Creativity, Dr Kris Rampersad reflects on The Unfinished Agenda for North-South engagement towards advancing inclusive innovation and an Intelligence Ecosystem for creative knowledge economies
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Dr Kris Rampersad, global development strategist, multimedia content innovator and interdisciplinary knowledge systems pioneer, has been inducted into the network of Salzburg Global, joining its distinguished international canon of Fellows and changemaker.. Find out more and how this is changing the notion of arrivals an civilisations
Arriving at the idyllic palace immortalised by The Sound of Music for induction into the distinguished Salzburg Global network turns into a confrontation of civilisations, empire and archipelago caught between geese and gladiators, culture, memory, knowledge sovereignty, migration, identity inside unfinished conversations shaping our world.
Sneak peek Prologue to the Salzburg Showdown of EPIC Landscapes and Mindscapes of World Heritage and History. Happy Arrival Day!
Beneath the postcard beauty of Austrians iconic Schloss Leopoldskron, deeper currents stir.
Lime Stage Hijacks, Copy Righting the National Pasttime Liming, Deflation of the Dollar Wine left without sense nor five cents, in the Licencing Traffic Jam, this is not light festival reading, but brutal political post morten. It doing what I set out to do, to shine the spotlight on Rules-Based Order in practice under the merciless sunkissed sky, resuscitate academia through a pop-culture creative roasting and join Machel in turning mas into masterpiece in my MultiMedia MicroEpic.
In this segment, Demokrissy dives headlong into the KPI Kulture Performance Illusion that transforms knowledge production industry into a high-speed marketplace spectacle for show: circling around visibility, velocity, virility and virality.
Through Ministerial high pulpits, morphing metrics, AI subjugation, archival horror storms, and digital afterlives, to the pounding dholak dhamaroo and roasting dhamadhol still tuning she rose rosary jamettry into Cosmic Rotational Reordering the Rules Based Order
And what roasting for the rest of us? Read on
In this ongoing EPIC saga, Demokrissy rises from cultural chasm to FEMpower the cultural economy where chaos, policy, and masquerade collide in a biting epic of power and illusionHigh towers of learning-for-hire jump into the mas to clubber the High Priesting Gords and unleash chain-linked rose-rosary chaotic jamette sketelles of petro-tabanca onto pulsing pulpits of clickbait news hounds in this ongoing satirical EPIC on the underside of the Rules Based Order.
The critics cyar get over how this ‘rare’ brand of EPIC creativity ‘operates simultaneously as digital blog post, epic bachannal, policy critique and edutaining desert.’
Find out for yourself and enter what they describe as ‘a savage cataloguing of institutional mediocrity and the triumph of dullness over culture of naming and shaming institutions and actors this time from the drain where the ravaged jamettes let it all hang out.
In this Zone of Peace violence against women is much higher, almost twice more, than the global average. This baffles development ‘experts’ … In this sensational multipart AuthenTHINK Intel Epic investigative odyssey & roving global showcase on Jamettry and Gender Violence Dr Kris Rampersad waves the voluminous ignored evidence of embedded norms of violence & discrimination against women in plain sight.
Delivered in satiric cosmic EPIC style, you get drawn in to understand the hidden patterns that wrap the Caribbean and players in complicit silence and widespread inertia in acting to reduce the startling discrepancies…
Dr Rampersad connects the bloodtrail embedded within leadership practice, educational replication and social silence that institutionalise, systemize and normalize acceptance of violence and disrespect towards women from the small island to the halls of global decision-making, based on the theme of Woman Techmakers’ Ambassadors Break the Pattern.
Delivered in highly acclaimed blended epic style, political-economic analyses, policy and cultural critique to inform leadership and decision making on the Americas and the Global South. Hold on to your seats. Enter at your own risk. Truths herein maybe hard to swallow but the price of ignorance is already too high…
Dear Gentle Reader, step behind the Crimson Curtain and into a season of Disorder in the Rules- Based Order, where we cyar behave as diplomacy is mas at the summit of bacchanal, and regional ritual cycle vibrate into global power Play Whe. Keep pace with the starts, stops, spins and spirals, twirls and turns and the whispered asides and encores, before during and after the music, when the aftertaste of the scandals of the night before lingers on the crumpled buzz sheets of social media. It is a rare
moment to be grouped with the literary canon as Walcott, Naipaul, Wilson Harris, Brathwaite, Milton, Homer even as AI classified this as X-Rated Why Pray Tell?… In this begins the EPIC Here is Preface to the Cosmic Vibrations season of Demokrissy, dragging the long chain of historical memory nothing proceeds in a straight line. Expect encore, confusion, spectacle, satire, ritual, policy theatre, and the eternal Caribbean choreography where decorum turns disorder and history loops in Encore again and again and again.
Enter at your own risk. The dance card fulling fast-fast. And stay tuned to the unfolding EPIC series ….
When Marco Rubio Enter CARICOM with Dunroe Ducktrin, it is not a ceremonial meet but strategic policy to force the region to confront festering issues – inside Play Whe marks and regional clown traditionst his is serious Business Unusual to shape US–Caribbean policy futures. Dr Kris RampersadBuss The Mark … read on
Dynamite or demureness … hard glances at CARICOM’s Iron Ladies to tuck in their skirts, fold their legs, cross their ankles, keep fisted knuckles on their laps and pack up their pokneys in the finest exhibition of Caribbean broughtupsy Behind the Cold Iron Curtain of Caribbean geopolitics, two women command the global discourse Up Close on disagreements power, survival and sovereignty in the Zone of Peace
Blazing hillsides light the way into a year of reaching new heights from one that reached into new frontiers towards the Rennaissance in Media Futures with the GloCal Knowledge Pot, the autopsy and requiem for the dying old order complete this trilogy…
Exorcism or Autopsy! Bawling like a mother losing a child to crime, I Demokrissy asks What killed the News of the Day? From first words to last, an up close and personal look at the innards News Media Power & Politics in this AuthenTHINK Intel Forensic AnalyEthic post-mortem of power, where truth reads like fiction
Post Mortem of News Media Can one news story do all this? an AuthenTHINK Intel Forensic AnalyEthics Not knowing this might have cost News of the Day her life! From First Words To Last An Autopsy
This aint no coonoomoonoou Village Dr Kris Rampersad Christmas Message restores confidence to this village in a world where algorithms decide who is seen and who remains invisible, more www.krisrampersad.com and @krisrampersad on youtube
Does AI merit Time’s Person of the Year title? AuthenTHINK Times with Demokrissy explores how to Flip the Media Script to rebalance the equation on awards and recognitions reprogramming the colonised humans by those of us trekking through time, Hop on Board this journey of rediscovery Explore with me ….
12 Emperors of Tech, one globe-trotting truth-seeker with a coveted roadmap & one tech minute to Reverse the Macaulay Minute & change the course of the New Age War for Peace more at www.krisrampersad.com
Did someone say War? What is a War without an EPIC or an EPIC without War, complete with Hero, Heroine Villains & a sage guru describing unfolding War action on oiled frontier battlefield of Demokrissy. Journey with me in the face of our New World Wars…new Epic with modern twists
On the path of ancient scribes, I journey through the Ancient Silk Routes to find the startling primeval prehistoric heritage and other interconnections between East and West …
What is it that last longer than a magnificently constructed bridge; bridges the greatest physical and metaphysical divides and and spans time and space in an eternal continuum – Inspired by the opening the new bridge in Petro-Enriched Guyana, Dr Kris Rampersad looks into the enduring interconnections in Bridges of the Future …
This year of planetary alignments shed light on the some of the missing links between Small States and World Heritage, illuminating a lifetime of research treks and explorations . Here’s How…
As Guyana’s Demerara Bridge unfurls across the river in a gleaming arc of steel and spirit, it connects far more than two shores. Dr. Kris Rampersad journeys through its symbolism — from the poetry of nation-building to the ancient crossings of civilization that continue to shape the region’s place in the world.
Wouldyou believe that changing the form and channel of this adds whole new dimensions to how we perceive, receive and understand our world. Happy REpublic Day. Building a Nation with novel solutions ….
How leading National Energy agency missed the boat on the knowledge economy and it is not only about that sale of audio visual archives T&T Loss, Barbados Gain…. Symptoms of Black Gold Epidemic and warning to region’s emerging oil economic
Sovereignty For Sale How Dutch Disease evolved to the Trinidad and Tobago Black Gold Epidemic to create not just in a State of Emergency against Crime. but also a State of Emergency in Education, Media, Culture, Tourism, Agriculture and strife in intercultural relations and negative development spiral. Reflecting on the State of Development in a month of conteplation on the State of the State at Indepdence and the sale of intellectual assets Dr Kris Rampersad Sovereignty Trilogy
Curious about what really went down at CARIFESTA XV – maturing into a regional stage of opportunities to trade culture and creativity…. here’s an insider glance at the slide show – Caribbean Picong and Satire at its premium best!
In this time of ancestral ancestral rememberances, a sneakpeak India EPIC Landscape & Mindscapes of Heritage & History This Is Kashi I come to Kashi, from the world to detach
Instead to Kashi’s other-worldly anchors I become attached…
Introducing Innovative EPIC Landscapes & Mindscapes of World Heritage & History where heritage is more than monument, history more than date and decree.. find hidden and lost interconnections of our global heritage from the Caribbean to the world with startling insights and ask about creative partnerships …
Guyana President Dr Irfaan Ali took office five years ago, relatively unknown to World Leadership, now five years later his country polls its verdict …. Multilateral Policy Influencer Dr Kris Rampersad reflects on the Caribbean’s new oil capital and the changing tones of the leadership and governance in the region and the Global South
Swashbuckling through tumultuos seas, vessels manned by corrupt pirates, massive bureaucratic blocks and resource limitation Caribbean Queen of Culture Dr Kris Rampersad lands on World’s Wickedest Heritage City to unearth treasure chest for economic diversification identity retrieval and social cohesion and transformation
our New UNESCO World Heritage Sites for the regio… Maurading the High Seas of Heritage, clutching the lost map retrieved from the depths of the World’s Wickedest Heritage City, the swashbuckling Queen of Caribbean Culture & Heritage, Dr Kris Rampersad, is hot on the trail to unlocking the code to the treasure troves for economic diversification, identity retrieval & social transformation…like & follow for more F krisrampersad.com krisrampersad: youtube, instagram, linkedin
Swashbuckling Queen of Caribbean Heritage Dr Kris Rampersad navigates the treacherous global waters of World Heritage to leave a trail of footprints to a treasure trove for economic diversification, identity retrieval and social transformation … follow this trail to our interconnected global heritage
A State of Emergency, a government confronting criminality & corruption, weaknesses in justice systems and law enforcement agencies with weary and blood-thirsty citizens demanding guns and arms. Dr Kris Rampersad deep dives into the roots of social violence, experiences of the 1990 coup attempt & legacies States of Emergencies
With a blank creative canvas to turn audio visual light on India’s development thrust while retriacing ancestral footsteps, I hurled into the vortex that is India – beyond its racial, religious and geospatial walls
He might be busy getting in placethe nuts and bolts of the visit of Indian Primce Minister Narendra Modi to Trinidad and Tobago but India High Commissioner to TT, Shri Pradeep Rajpurohit took the time to welcome me back to TT from India and to do this ..
Sopari Ki Mai, Kamla Persad-Bisessar victory at the post is the stuff of legends that resonates from this twin islnd republic across the region to our interconneted diaspora. What’s next on the road to development as a Woman Prime Minister, for the Caribbean as she joins Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley and for the diaspora and the Global South? Dr KRis Rampersad’s AuthenThink Intel Analyses pinpoints key benchmarks…
Prelude to a closer look at the India-Caricom Summit, coming on the heels of the Brazil-hosted G20 Summit, and some new AuthenThink Intel AI AnalyEthics and insights into what this should mean for the region, the Americas, the Global South and the emerging New World Order!
In the cut and thrust of a toxic political culture with a petticoat obsession that leaves many-a-knickers-in-a-twist, how is the USA treating with skews, biases and prejudices that persist in the political playpen and reflecting in its polling analyses, media outputs, advertising and campaign prospects? Dr Kris Rampersad, AuthenThink AI AnalyEthics Development Strategist punches at the appearances in the USA Election Campaign.
No matter how vehemently the USA sneezes, virally spreading its cold, flu and pandemic ailments across borders, it is not the whole shebang of the Americas that is our Hemisphere, struggling to assert and affirm myriad identities in a panoramic cultural mosaic
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