Five days af­ter an ar­son at­tack razed the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vice of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (TSTT) scrap yard in Laven­tille, res­i­dents of Beetham Gar­dens have ac­cused the po­lice and sol­diers of “tor­ment­ing” them over the last sev­er­al days.

an­drea.perez-sobers@guardian.co.tt29Busi­ness­es must treat cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty as a board­room risk rather than an IT de­part­ment re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, as fail­ures in­volv­ing crit­i­cal sup­pli­ers, ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and es­sen­tial in­fra­struc­ture can dis­rupt op­er­a­tions, dam­age rep­u­ta­tions and ex­pose com­pa­nies to fi­nan­cial and reg­u­la­to­ry con­se­quences.

“The peo­ple who cast the votes de­cide noth­ing. The peo­ple who count the votes de­cide every­thing.” Joseph Stal­in

South­ern Trinidad’s for­got­ten his­to­ry is be­ing brought to light through ar­chae­o­log­i­cal re­search that is un­cov­er­ing ev­i­dence of the lives of In­dige­nous peo­ple, in­den­tured labour­ers and the com­mu­ni­ties they built, while train­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of lo­cal re­searchers to pre­serve the coun­try’s her­itage.

Re­cent­ly, I wrote about peo­ple strug­gling to sur­vive in an eco­nom­ic sys­tem that of­ten places prof­it above hu­man­i­ty. The poor and work­ing class help sus­tain that sys­tem, yet, are treat­ed as ex­pend­able by banks and fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions when they fall in­to fi­nan­cial dif­fi­cul­ty.