Resource Bridging for EPIC Treks through New World Heritage

In its ‘unveiling’ the spanking new Bharat Jagdeo Demerara Bridge is cast in a golden glow almost as wish fulfillment of the scores of pirates, privateers, marauders and murderers who scoured through its forested hinterland to find El Dorado, the city of gold, in an era past.

The pomp and hyperbole that accompanied it is not altogether unrealistic. It co-relates to how historic routeways have served the development of human civilisations.

The Demerara Bridge, flooded in golden light of sunset evokes Guyana’s legendary moorings around the colonial quest for El Dorado – the city of gold inspires my sharing this part of the EPIC Landscapes and Mindscapes of World Heritage and History – in which I reconnect primeval intersections that connect our  East-West paths with our routes and roots in the world’s ancient corridors through beyond the Middle Passage of Slave, Silk and Indentured Immigrant Routes.

Indeed when we think of it, though it might not receive the kind of focus and investments a bridge might, chronicling and interpreting unfolding phenomenon and developing EPIC is not unlike the processes of building a bridge. Here’s how.

EPIC Thought-Bridges     

Thought-engineering, leadership and adapting archival knowledge for ongoing relevance, might not attract the pomp, presence, support and investments for its preservation and perpetuation required as celebrating the immediacy of an event, but we press on. It continues the long traditions of knowledge gathering, barefooted and Brahminic or Buddhist begging-bowl in hand as the ancient scribes I invoked in recreating the journeys of the EPIC Landscapes and Mindscapes of Heritage and History – snippets below.

This EPIC, in the form of the world’s newest genre, the MultiMedia MicroEpic, which I created and am evolving, was inspired by pilgrimage through India earlier this year. As an offshoot of the acclaimed LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction in EPIC, fiction and myth dissolve before the antiquity of history and heritage it chronicles, reinterpreting and reshaping our understanding for future generations.

Bridges – of Story and Stone

To construct a tale of our ancient evolving heritage is to build a bridge that crosses not just the tides of mighty rivers as the Demerara is in our parts, or the Ganges, Yamuna and Sone as I traversed in India as which recounts unfolds below. I am constructing a bridge that crosses time itself. And that is more than the  gallows maker, church builder or even the gravemaker, as defined by Shakespeare – because my EPIC reach is across infinity to the end and re-beginnings of time.

Hilarious Grave Scene from Shakespeare’s Morbid Hamlet

First Gravedigger: What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
Second Gravedigger: The gallows-maker, for that frame outlives a thousand tenants.
First Gravedigger: I like thy wit well, in good faith. The gallows does well,
But how does it well? It does well to those that do ill.
Now, thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger than the church….
…First Gravedigger
Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass ….
… when you are asked this question next, say “a grave-maker.” The
houses he makes lasts till doomsday.”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5, Sc 1

Slow savouring of fine artistry

 My followers must be chuckling recognizing that I am not just trying your patience, you who are conditioned on social media short reels and quick bytes, bites and bits of a fast-food culture, rather than savour and relish the refined processes of fine dining as I try to developing your appreciation for the fine art of thinking, reflecting and reading.

EPIC as Constructing Bridges

So here’s why what I am doing, as Creator & Innovator, of the EPIC, similar to bridge construction.

I am building a bridge between Past and Present to have a clearer picture or vision of the future.

I am building a bridge to fill the gaps between our distorted knowledge system, drawing from the AuthenTHINK Intel of the past and contemporary lived experiences. This, to inform the future that will be driven to a large degree by Artificial Intelligence.

And so, I am building a bridge between this, the Age of the Anthropocene, nearing its end – yeah, as the human race self- annihilates, by crafting this EPIC guide to evolving into creative cyborgs who will strongly stride through the transition from that defective life form and stand the test of time. 

Strategic Visioning

As is required to build enduring bridges, it begins with vision, which Dr Ali whose background is in public works, and his team revisioning Guyana’s development from its windfall, seem to possess in copious amounts.

As with a bridge, constructing the creative and cultural sectors, require the same precision, expertise and attention to detail that is required to build a bridge, and the ability to harness all the relevant components to create the results. Would you go into building a bridge with inferior materials?

Throw in the Towel and Trowel

I was tempted to throw in the towel and trowel earlier this week when asked, at the 23 and a half hour, to join a strategy planning session for an element of the creative sector. But we press on.

Among the challenges of bridge building, as in construction of an EPIC, is adapting uses of technology and technical know how  in partnership with international entities without disrespecting traditional knowledge and know-how of the region.

As in bridge building, uses of technologies must each have local relevance to terrain, weather, wind patterns as is the case of building a bridge. It is a challenge that all regions across the globe reaching for alien technologies face when it does not engage cultural insights in adapting technologies, and to which our education system is oblivious, replicating and regurgitating being the common modus operandi.

Same Old, Same Old

Sitting in a room of local knowledge holders and experts in various capacities earlier this month, week succumbed to being-guided by imported, presumably paid consultants, brain-picking for constructing a national policy, and strategy for one of the creative subsectors. Resisting the urge to use ‘industrial language’ (LOL), I know in industry language, it is a dimension of crowd-sourcing and focus-group testing which are other terms for brain-picking, but this was not even at either of those stages. Rather, a few slides hastily thrown together informed by what seemed to be mainly internet searches of a subject which core knowledge is not online was a preschool prelude to disaster for strategic planning. The exercise smacked of old colonial modes of digging into our minds as resource-harvesting.

New Technologies on Old Processes

Because the Caribbean is a Zone of Peace and we are kindda nice people, most wanted to stay and help the process, justifying that the result will be a strategy for local benefit, some left early, recognizing in frustrating from the get-go how deficient, defective and ill-conceived its basic canvas was, evident from the first slide. Same old processes yield same old results, even if the technologies being imposed on the process are new.

It seems guaranteed to fall short on expectations without the necessary knowledge that is required to feed into this, nor sufficient ability to harness the same, as was evident to most in the room, many of whom have participated before in failed policy planning exercises like these in the past.

Conditions of Underdevelopment

The please-text-me-the-answer-to-the-philosophy-question kind of approach that I am familiar of even at the level of university students who are or would become teachers of other students – passing on this same stunted approach – so it is typical of the modus operandi that persists in highest corridors of agenda-setting decision-making and keeps us in our condition of underdevelopment. I am sharing this only to propel change, not score cheap points. The landscape is changing but we are not!

For instance, rather than honouring the studied and complex processes visioning entails, crafting the vision statement was left to the closing five minutes again like student texting requesting a oneliner on a complex subject. Visioning exercises require much more insight and knowledge than what was being presented to us. But that was only a few of the very many defective elements in the process that frustrated our efforts at open mindedly engaging with the process!

Ongoing Campaign

The exercises reaffirm my ongoing campaign that it there is absolutely no justification for using foreign consultants that only add and accumulate injury that are piled on our regional expertise. I hope the line authorities are taking note, and I am sure my followers will share and draw to their attention.

No wonder we cannot seem to get off from first base, while the rest of the region charges ahead, not holed into processes and bureaucratic practices that have failed, time and time again to the extent that all of our former Presidents, and that is knowledge that is not available online – to the foreigners and other head-pickers, busily googling or consulting Chat CPT to check what former Presidents have said about our failed and failing state, but from us on the ground who have been closely scrutinizing and interrogating leadership processes over the decades.

EPIC Bridge to Differences

My new world EPIC of Landscapes and Mindscapes of Heritage and History, bridges not just differences of space as the Demerara bridge does, but also time.

President Ali attempted to fill this gap by tagging it to the legacy element – of recognizing the contributions of time, effort, vision and strategy of former Vice President Bharat Jagdeo in appending his name to the bridge and recognize others who contributed to its development, including the foreign investments technologies and consultants by Chinese engineers and others.

That in itself is not in isolation and as my EPIC proves the engagement with eastern knowledge holders have been a crucial and critical element of historical exchanges in routes punctuated with bridges and like constructions. You have to read on and stay with the EPIC to see how this surfaces in the journeys I present.

New Holistic Knowledge Framework

The MultiMedia MicroEpic and its by product EPIC – Landscapes of World Heritage and History function as components of a holistic knowledge framework conceived and envisioned from a lifetime of scrutiny of  knowledge gaps in our processes that warp decision-making and contribute to the development gaps we face today. They drawn from the collective conscience of those who went before! Association with CEIBA-EDUtainment and AuthenTHINK along with this the advocacy dimension of DEMOKRISSY and the portal and platform of the GloCal Knowledge Pot – are all part of the satellites meant to bridge various existing gaps – all of which require resources, investments and support to be a steady and steadfast asset for development.     

Changing the Narrative

My EPIC endeavours also seek to bridge the gaps that exist in the manner in which the past is fed to us which diminishes our understanding of the future and is an important missing dimension in our resource stock. That means, they are working to correct the skews and fortify elements that bend and warp the structure and frameworks of our knowledge systems – that is misinterpretation, propaganda, pressure from perceived powers and the already distorted narrative and mental conditioning that choke off and inhibit new vibrant processes to prosper. They give mode and mechanism to President Ali and other regional leaders’ consistent lament on the need to change the local to global narrative.

I will develop this as a graphic too, as time and resources allow – aware the foreign consultants and better resourced others comb my outpourings and may already be doing so, to astound others with their fudged (ahem) I mean borrowed, wisdom.

Bridging Obstacles

My MultiMedia MicroEPIC – conceived and piloted without resources save imagination and intellect and access to minor technologies, at the height of the Pandemic Panic, when I withdrew from a power-crazed and ambition blinded public, to the bosom of ailing elderly Ma.

She is the Muse of my creative energies, even as I nursed her through her last days. The resource deficiency and lack of funds to acquire software and hardware necessary to compete and survive in the  predatory pseudo-intellectual culture, are part of the obstacles I must scale – and often they loom higher and greater than the Great Wall of China or Hadrian’s Wall or the perceived wall between the USA and Mexico that the current US President envisages and continues to dream about.

Delays and Roadblocks

These would be considerable roadblocks and lead to project delays, if one did not have the creative vision to summon energies that otherwise lay dormant – and that equates to political will to see any project in the region get completed with maximum efficiency!

Bridging Distortions

My EPIC bridges the gaps of distortion of our heritage and history.

On the one hand, the blurred lines of myth and legend have in the colonial processes been used to feed misinformation and establish superiority and inferiority about knowledge systems and their many tributaries.  There are many other demonic heads and hands of distortions I would not get into here, but which would unfold in the telling.

 Straddling the dual shores as the multi-laned bridge, to face the crosscurrents of our multicultural multireligious, multiethnic past and pathways, my core strengths are rootedness and grounding in knowledge, built on experience to help stabilize our understanding of the uncertain present, defined as crises by Barbadian Prime Minister, Mama Mia Mottley.

Foundation on Impulse, Imagination & Intuition

My foundational impulse is imagination and intuition working in tandem with knowledge, experience and research to lay the groundwork and construct a foundation strong enough to bear the weight of memory, meaning, change and transformation that would occur over time.

Yes, knowledge too must stand the test of time, not sit on the shaky ground on which much of our science  and unfolding media fads now stand, as every new piece of knowledge unearthed topples fast-held theories shoved upon us as new truths, all of which have contributed to warping our development path and entrenching inertia and underdevelopment. Wow! That’s true, ent?

Anchored Bedrock

Like the bridge builder, as chronicler and storyteller, my feet are on the ground, not in the air in high tower institutions that have lost sight and view of reality.

I have confidence and trust in the collective processes I have culled over the decades, and some maybe embedded in my DNA too, and the deep, often invisible foundations of the knowledge landscape.

These laser my abilities to penetrate beneath the surface, x-ray through layers of earth/dirt and lies decorated and coated from myths and lived experiences.

Call for Support, Investments

Like a soundly-constructed bridge, my EPIC is anchored in such bedrock. Its footings reach into the physical geological and metaphysical heart of culture, into truths that gives it Shakti-like indestructability. Hopefully, the tools it is developing through these processes for retrieval and reconstruction of memory can be matched by financial, technical and infrastructural resources will help it withstand erosion and rust that comes with forgetfulness and the deluge of new fads and fashion that threaten to bury our knowledge base into oblivion.

Adapting with Modern Tools & Materials

Designing my MultiMedia MicroEPIC, in the new form I am evolving involves adapting the long and winding epics of epochs past and condensing the long timespans of history into microseconds that our fast-food age demands, while maintaining the integrity – the curves of the storylines, the rhythm of the narrative to continue to pump with the pulse of our hearts. As in physical bridge building, it requires understanding and knowledge of balance and symmetry. Too much ornamentation would weaken the structure; yet if over-doused with austerity, it loses grace and appeal.

Engineering Ingenuity

Art, artistry and engineering ingenuity of bridge building on each format are essential and inseparable. It requires close appreciation of the value and language of tension and weight, of conflict and resolution. As as creator, creative architect, as chronicler, I must anticipate the stresses of time, the tremors of misinterpretation or reinterpretation that comes with the winds of change.

The materials for the bridge are stone and steel. For my craft, I have symbols, song, allegory embedded in and transforming the language I use. The choice of each element will speak to its resilience as much as to its ability to change the narrative to transform our futures from dependency to independence.

Cross Currents of Time

How the bridge swings and how its hinges sing when struck by wind, rain, floods, or even touched by vehicles or feet of commuters over centuries are all important considerations for its resonance, as an EPIC, into the cross currents of time.

As a bridge from blueprints, my EPIC bridge is crafted from the fingerprints, footprints and thought-prints of those who came before me, who thought first so we could create, developed and evolve not just theories but active mechanisms to shape and transform and as our time requires at this near end of the Anthropocene,  evolving AuthenTHINK Intel as a counterpoint to inform Artificial Intelligence as we redirect the clogged paths and bottlenecks of our civilisation and evolve into the hybridised beings demanded of future resilience and survival. Yes, CEIBA-Cyborgs graduated from the CEIBA-Cyborg School of Humanism – coming soon! LOL).  

Ultimately, my EPIC is a bridge between knowledge of our civilisations. In this first instance, I bridge instruments and mechanisms of Slave and Silk Routes with the added dimension we introducesdas the Indian Immigrant Routes, which can extend into Asian and other Migrant Groups – as the operative word is not just ethnic but the cross continental global migration phenomenon. (See related EPIC Treks)

Cemented with Experience

Those routes, converge the knowledge systems of ancient east and west, as I show in the social media snippet of my MultiMedia MicroEpic, leaving the longer folio and explanation for here, my blog, where I also stretched the form from just opinion and visual representation to the deeper thought process of comparison, analyses to inform and alter skewed policy, programme and other directions.

It will face the test of time. It will endure the rust of skeptics, the floods of temporal fads, the tremors of challengers; the gaps and distortions of translation, retelling, and adaptation.

 Made with integrity of authentic imagination and initiation, blended with sound research and cemented with experience from my lifetime of readings, net-surfing, wanderings and globe-trotting, it may bend and bow to the thoughts and ideas and roadblocks of others, but never never break, nor surrender to mistrusts and mistruths.

Its time might not yet have come when it was first conceived, in the midst of the Pandemic Panic when, as the academic, media and other communities were just wiping the yampy off its eyes – and in many respect still is – not seeing the rapid avalanche of convergence descending.

 I saw the imperative of evolving narrative form as essential to changing the narrative – to align and match and suit the encroaching age of multimedia and digitisation, as our ancestors adapted and adjusted over millennia and when they migrated to a new society – as Finding A Place, documents with excruciating closeness and clarity.

Audio-Visual Antiquity

In this year that opened on the canvas of India, I came face-to-face with the most primeval forms of audio visual creativity evolved from natural – perceived as primitive – sounds of nature, lines and scribbles of the natural order, represented in single dimension simplicity. They resonate EPIC proportions. Take a close look at the EPIC logo – the lines and curves that suggest the outlines of a face, a nose with nose-ring, painted lips and kohl-coloured eyes layered on the simplest and most primeval of sounds of wind and air and conch shells. These are labelled as primitive iconology, though they resonate infinity in ways our sophisticated systems of communication could only dream of – treated in the EPIC segment, This is Kashi City of Infinity.

 Such simplicity collectively and in-continuum define our age, epoch, civilisations, engage the living landscape that we traverse daily, as the Demerara Bridge, often going without notice, yet essential to our natural movement and evolution as people, ideas, and spirit.

They predate the perceived complex thoughts and ideas now engaging the sciences, embedded in the mysticism injected into the hallowed halls of String Theory in Physics, for instance – which are merely close observances of natural everyday processes visible and within reach of us all.

Such is the substance of my EPIC renderings, one element of which the EPIC – Landscapes and Mindscapes of World Heritage and History that encompasses physical and metaphysical ‘scapes’ – not separately and in isolation, but in collusion of co-creative synergies to evolve regenerative wholeness.   

The finest bridges may rust, decay, dissolve, disappear with time, so too, even the finest stories.

Epic Quest

To find a place where knowledge lives, even if we all ceased to be

That is the epic quest on which my biopic heroine embarked in the inaugural MultiMedia MicroEpic, One Night To Bloom. This became the inaugural piece introduced to the world at the Annual Commonwealth Scholars’ meet during the Pandemic lockdown. It was not the initial piece written for this EPIC, which was the Ode to the Anthropocene inspired by the Pandemic that continues to hold relevance even now the worst of the Pandemic may be behind us – That will be released, and unleashed too, soon.

Ultimately, these ramblings, and the pieces presented will cease to be separate works, eventually even losing individual identity of the creator, as they become absorbed by our creative, educational, culturation and knowledge producing and consumption systems and mechanisms and instrument, to be released into our collective consciousness embedded in the ground on which we thread.

Complex String Theory Simplified

For now I am only developing the seed, the kernel, the micro atom, defining the protons and neutrons and its preceding correlation of ‘strings’ that twang into promitive sounds that fade into absorb and are absorbed by infinity.  

Its finest achievement may be how it enables us to balance – how we swing between shores, how we balance our choices between routes and pathways, how we identify who we were, who we are, who we are becoming and who we want to become.

Bridge of EPIC Proportions

To build a bridge of such EPIC proportions – as defined by President Ali in his glowing interpretation of what the bridge is – is, as building this EPIC. It is at heart an act of affirmation, an exercise of faith, a representation of reverence – a promise from the past, a gift to the future and the forms our future selves may take.

Takeaways for Decision Makers & Donors

Ways My EPIC is like constructing a Bridge to Eternity

1. Building Thought Across Time and Terrain

Constructing a work as monumental as the Guyana Demerara Bridge demands not just steel, stone, and skill—but vision, endurance, and faith. Building this EPIC: a structure not of concrete and cable, but of thought, imagination, and collective memory as a bridge across time, cultures, and knowledge systems, to reshape understanding and guide humanity in an age increasingly defined by artificial intelligence.

2.Vision and Leadership

Every enduring bridge begins with a vision. So too the EPIC—born of foresight, guided by leadership, and grounded in the strategic integration of archival wisdom with contemporary insight. It is a design for relevance and resists obsolescence by continuously connecting what was, what is, and what might yet be.

3. Bridging Past, Present, and Future

This EPIC functions as a continuum of consciousness, spanning the heritage of the past, the living pulse of the present, and the evolving needs of the future. It mends the fractures in our collective story—filling knowledge gaps and correcting the distortions of history and heritage that have clouded our self-understanding.

4. Knowledge and Adaptation

Just as an architect studies the terrain before laying a bridge’s foundation, the EPIC adapts to the intellectual and cultural landscape it inhabits. It fuses ancestral wisdom with modern technologies, ensuring that the pursuit of innovation does not wash away the deep soil of tradition.

5. Obstacles and Resource Gaps

Like all monumental undertakings, the EPIC’s path is strewn with bureaucratic hurdles, resource scarcity, and institutional inertia. Yet it endures—propelled by imagination, perseverance, and the faith that even thought-bridges can rise from neglected ground.

6. Integrity and Endurance

The EPIC rests on a foundation of imagination, intuition, research, and lived experience—its pillars sunk deep in intellectual bedrock. Its purpose is to withstand the erosion of time, the corrosive tides of skepticism, and the floods of fleeting trends. It is designed to last, to hold weight, to carry forward.

7. InterConnected, Integrated, Intergenerational and Inclusive

Connected initiatives—AuthenTHINK, CEIBA-EDUtainment, DEMOKRISSY, and the GloCal Knowledge Pot, Finding A Place MultiMedia Edition, LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction MultiMedia Edition. These form the EPIC’s structural support base. Together, they create a holistic framework that bridges knowledge, policy, and intercultural understanding, reinforcing the entire span from foundation to farthest reach.

8. Changing the Narrative

At its heart, the EPIC challenges the inherited narratives that constrain growth. It offers a more authentic and inclusive account of civilization, enabling societies to see themselves not as footnotes in borrowed histories but as authors of their own evolving story.

9. Collaboration and Self-Reliance

This vision resists the easy lure of outsourcing transformation to foreign consultants. It insists that local and regional expertise—rooted in lived experience—holds the truest compass for charting sustainable change. The bridge must rise from its own soil.

10. Artistry and Engineering

Constructing the EPIC demands the same harmony of artistry and precision as any physical bridge: the balance of tension and release, symmetry and strength. Here, the materials are language, symbols, and narrative—shaped and interlocked to sustain the weight of meaning

11. Enduring Relevance

The EPIC aspires to permanence—not as a monument, but as a living structure, resistant to the rust of doubt and the passing storms of fashion. It stands ready for future generations to cross, exploring new territories of knowledge, identity, and transformation.

12. The Bridge of Mind and Meaning

Constructing this EPIC is an act of affirmation and of faith.
It is a promise from the past, a gift to the future, and a living bridge meant to endure—connecting the landscapes and mindscapes of heritage, history, and hope.
Just as the Demerara Bridge unites distant shores, this EPIC unites the divided geographies of thought—a bridge of consciousness built to carry humanity toward a more integrated, enlightened tomorrow.

Read with this:Part 1: Gold Dorado Bridge New Silk Route To East in West See Link: https://krisrampersad.com/golden-bridge-oils-new-silk-route-to-east-in-west/

See related Video Below:

You Tube Short: https://youtu.be/kTb–L2joOk

Youtube Short Guyana on Gateway to South America: https://youtu.be/xx9j4ZiNH7Y

You Tube Long: https://youtu.be/2VO9q_tkQAc

Read Also: Monumental Missing Links of Island to World Heritage: https://krisrampersad.com/monumental-missing-links-of-island-to-world-heritage/

Video Into the Heart of Light

This is Kashi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaxktMdsauI

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  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!
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  Toxic Politics Petticoat Obsession US Election Knickers A-Twist in Race To The Polls A Woman’s Place When America Sneezes
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  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.
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  High Stakes in US Elections Leadership Matters to Emerging New World Order – When America Sneezes
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  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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  Future AI SciTech Learnings Passport To A Brave New ImaginedNation
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Spread the love‘Oh brave new AI world that there’s so much data in’t!’ Missed me since the Data
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  What Is A Woman Power Shift in Musical Boardroom Sydnie Transcends Sinatra’s My Way the Hi-Way
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Spread the love Sydnie pitches Sinatra’s famed cocky melody onto a new path as the potential female anthem
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  The Lights that Spark Us! Between Birthdays & Death’s day Shine On! For Denise In Tribute
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  On Birthdays & Death’s Day: We have is this one instant to spark, to negate the ever-present darkness, to shine our pinpricks of light in the endless stream of sparks that connect our floodlight to the satellite of Cosmic Stars. more at www.krisrampersad.com
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  Bloody Hell! Toxic Power in King Charles’ Portrait of Planet … Confronting the Colonial Mindset
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  If Machiavelli and Lady Macbeth had a baby he would look something like the Portrait of King Charles III – a karmic depiction of human ugly, toxic power at its most macabre, noxious and nihilistic, the apocalyptic legacy of Empire inherited and claimed as he morphs into the role of Monarch on whose shoulder sits planetary doom, hands and faced stroked with blood. Art defies artistic intent, sitter’s expectations to define its own truths Dr Kris Rampersad explores art artist sitter and society..,
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  Pieces of Ma MotherContinent village inspires a global village Happy Mothers’ Day
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  You do not need millions of followers to Impact the World. How our mothers did it Message to Girls gripped by social media syndrome Happy Mothers Day!
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  What Really Happened On the Road to Guyana? Wanted! A New Journalism for A New Development Agenda – With BBC Gone#3
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Spread the loveSo if I have resisted jumping on the bandwagon of media shares and commendations, it is
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  Mayday! Mayday! Mutated Tech-Savvy Sharks Invade Roadways new Tonton Macoutes Open Letter To Minister of Transport et al
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  New Tech Savvy Mutant Shark Species Take over Roadways share kinship lineage withe Haiti’s Tonton Macoutes Open Letter to Minister of Transport & Commissioner Roots & Routes of Anarchy Satire & Allegory
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  Confronting The Colonial Mindset & Systemised Bias With BBC Gone Who Goin Tek Over Town II Happy Girls In ICT Day!
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  With escalating evidence of the persistent colonial mindset inhibiting the development agenda introducing a new Demokrissy Series to confront the Colonial Mindset, media bias and bias in tech Happy International Girls In ICT Day
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  Cover Story Dr Kris Changing The World With Ideas Impact the Future IWD Reflections
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Reflecting the Journey to Impact the Future called Wonder Woman Reflections on International Women’s Day Cover Story Changing the World With Ideas
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  Creating From Chaos Arresting the Tears for Us and the Haitian Earth
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Creating from Chaos insights into the Haitian democratic dilemma rooted in an atrocious Colonial past and what artistry may be needed healing and recovery Eye … Haiti …Cries…Everywhere
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  Dirty Lyrics CARICOM@50 Guyana President jams on opaque data culture-Impact the Future Women Techmakers Happy IWD!
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  This startling disclosure by Chair of CARICOM, Guyana President Dr Irfaan Ali has repercussions for culture of governance, Data Driven Development, cultural actions for change and gender empowerment Happy International Women’s Day from this Woman Techmakers’ Ambassador
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  In the News Digital Dilemma in Caribbean Education Culture New Directions Needed for ICT Planning
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  How internet and the technological advancements are causing us to loosen our grip on cultural traditions and heritage, critical to our national and cultural identities and what we can do about it!
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  A Carnival Memoire Jus call me Cooligan! Bois and Bacchanal in meh blood One Fine J’Ouvert Morn
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  A Carnival expose of the hidden gems of the multicultural mosaic of the Caribbean as we enter the bacchanalia of the season
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  Pokney From the Pyre PM Panday Patni/Wife Progeny Poke Patriarchy
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Presence of Panday’s Patni/wife and Progeny at Hindu pyre cremation implications for cultural practice, discrimination and violence against women and boys’ education
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  Prime Minister Panday’s Last Parlance – Final Fiery Journey Comes Full Circle to Reconnect with Ancestors
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday’s final journey to cremation pyre recalls other journeys to root and anticipated welcome on the other side – Dr Kris Rampersad reflects on his journeys
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  People’s Prime Minister Panday’s Parting Punch in prep for Tell-All Memoire – mutating orator into author In Remembrance
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Behind the scenes confessions on honing the authorial skills of the Silver Fox the orator Prime Minister Basdeo Panday
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  Silver Fox Who Dared Lions – former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday – Passes On
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Silver Fox who dared Lions Prime Minister Basdeo Panday passes on News Year’s Day farewell
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  When Your World View is the World’s View! Happy New Year!
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Spread the loveWhen You World View is the World’s View! Happy New Year! As we say goodbye to
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  Peace Talks to Change LAC Agenda – Region Poised For New Era of Development?
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Promise of change of course for development in Latin America and Caribbean as feuding leaders Guyana’s President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali and Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro meet for peace talks around border controversy more details on Boredr Wars www.krisrampersad.com
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  A New Agenda for Guyana-Venezuela Talks – Open Letter to Comrade Gonsalves & Peace Brokers from Limboing to Parranda-ing & Junkanooing on the Borderline
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  An open letter to Peace Broker Dr Gonsalves et al addressing talks between Venezuela and Guyana Border Wars III with a revised agenda and a unique perspective on the ongoing conflict and actionable steps to foster peace and understanding. More at www.KrisRampersad.com
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  Prompt Action Needed as UN Security Council, CARICOM hold Emergency Meet on Venezuela; Maduro’s Land Grab threat to Guyana may escalate 8m refugee crisis in LAC – the Border Wars II
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  Prompt Action needed from Region as Repercussions set in from threats by Venezuelan President Maduro to Guyana, defiance of the ICJ provisional order and growing repercussions for Venezuela Refugee and displacement crises, regional insecurity in Latin America and the Caribbean.
• ICJ to pronounce on provisional request by Guyana Dec 1 2023
  by Dr Kris Rampersad
  International Court of Justice