A Global legacy Pls sign, circulate and share Open Letter to PM Kamla and President Carmona Safeguarding the Other Magnificent Seven of #TTGlobalSouth the link between island and continental American South. They are a universal legacy pls sign the petition. Details of what’s at stake in the link   http://goo.gl/EEzSc6 and in the blog: Demokrissy The Deficit of Curious - the Other Magnificent Seven of the Global South Open Letter to President Anthony Carmona and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Let's discuss ways forward

 We all know about the Magnificent Seven, the seven European-styled buildings in various stages of disrepair around the Queen’s Park Savannah in our capital city, the seat of our administration, of power and of our influence and those who purport to have influence and power, and which has attracted attention and fame over the last near half a century. Mr President, Madame Prime Minister, as a child of the south,   I understand - indeed I do, how could I not - the ignominy, the sense of invisibility, the lack of investment, and the deficit of curiosity about South of the Caroni that seemed to drive those who possessed the seat of power in the far off capital city. I speak of the districts that hold your birthstrings, and mine, as it does the 7000 year old ancestor we have named Banwari found in the year I was conceived and largely since ignored into ignominy in a place that purports to be our highest seat of learning; and the even more ancient genetic matter of the Pitch Lake; the land that nurtured us with food from its soil, and milk from its mammals; that fed your imaginations to reach and to excel and to aspire and to achieve the highest offices of the land, that remain ignominous, unaccounted in recounts and recalls of national excellence.   What about the Other Magnificent Seven of ancient and modern Trinidad and Tobago, lie in quiet repose, undisturbed until now by the threat of bulldozers and an impetus that we want to call development.
They are right there, in the southern districts of Trinidad that nurtured us – you, Citizen President  Carmona, and you too, Citizen Kamla and me too. But we remain uncurious. They are waiting for us to identify them, claim them, sound their greatness to the world.