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When you came into the world, people laughed, and you cried.Go do something in life that when we die, the world weeps and we laugh.Sant Kabir Das, Basdeo Panday’s favoured Poet & Philosopher Panday’s Last Parlance, his final fiery journey comes full circle to reconnect with his ancestors with a State Procession of compatriots from the at the Southern Academy of the Performing Arts to the…

His inglorious gift of gab would take him to the pinnacles of his profession, but it is the pen that would prove mightier to the sword-sharp tongue of the Silver Fox, PM Panday more at www.krisrampersad.com

Winner of the Communications Initiative Partners (BBC/UNESCO et al) pioneering Development Policy Blogging for New Media, Dr Kris Rampersad Demokrissy Blogs now find a home at GLoCaL Knowledge Pot The People’s Prime Minister Basdeo Panday’s Parting Punch is neatly couched in a pep-talk to him to pen his memoires – a promised tell-all which will leave no one ‘unscathed’ as ‘a most colourful…

When Your World View is the World's View tuned in from every corner of the world. Look out for more creative stimulants in the New Year 2024!

When You World View is the World’s View! Happy New Year! As we say goodbye to 2023, thank you for tuning in! Look out for more creative stimulants in the New Year, even as we reflect on a year that has drawn you into the GloCaL Knowledge Pot where the world’s minds meet from virtually every corner of the world, as the map indicates. We have moved from being just an incubator to a fermenting…

Guyana-Venezuela controversy - ICJ to pronounce on Guyana provisional order at 10 am Dec 1 2023

Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) will pronounce on requests by Guyana for a provisional order to halt Venezuela’s threat to annex, occupy and issue Venezuelan passports and ID cards to citizens of Guyana’s Essequibo district at 10 am (T&T/Guyana time; 3 pm in The Hague, Netherlands) on Friday December 1, 2023. Guyana made the request to the…

A closer and deeper look at the tenuous political stability and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean and potential implications of the Guyana-Venezuela Territorial Dispute

Political stability and peace in Latin America and the Caribbean sit on a fine filigree of loosely-knotted territorial disputes. What are the implications to the wider region of the Venezuela threat to encroach on more than two thirds of territory of Guyana before the International Court of Justice? Let’s trace the threads …. Brokering Peace Border Wars Threaten Thinly Threaded Territorial…