The grow­ing role of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence and dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor was among the key is­sues dis­cussed dur­ing a meet­ing be­tween YTEPP Lim­it­ed and the Tourism In­dus­try As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TIATT) on Tues­day at The Chan­cel­lor Ho­tel in Port of Spain.

Re­gion­al bank­ing ex­ec­u­tives and share­hold­ers are view­ing the US$1.794 bil­lion agree­ment for But­ter­field Bank to ac­quire Cana­di­an Im­pe­r­i­al Bank of Com­merce’s 91.7 per cent stake in CIBC Caribbean Bank as a ma­jor shift in the Caribbean fi­nan­cial sec­tor.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies has un­veiled a 15-play­er squad for the 2026 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, set to take place across Eng­land and Wales from June 5 to Ju­ly 5, with a clear tac­ti­cal blue­print aimed at con­quer­ing Eng­lish con­di­tions. Hay­ley Matthews will cap­tain the side, with Chinelle Hen­ry serv­ing as her vice-cap­tain.

For 36 years, the Ajeet Praim­s­ingh Mere Desh cel­e­bra­tions have served as a vi­brant plat­form for pre­serv­ing and pro­mot­ing In­di­an cul­ture in Trinidad and To­ba­go, while in­creas­ing­ly plac­ing em­pha­sis on en­sur­ing younger gen­er­a­tions em­brace tra­di­tion­al art forms.

As T&T cel­e­brates 181 years since the ar­rival of the first group of In­di­an in­den­tured labour­ers, and giv­en that both our Prime Min­is­ter and Pres­i­dent are de­scen­dants of these labour­ers, I find it fit­ting to write about the women who came dur­ing In­di­an in­den­ture­ship. From 1845 to 1917, ap­prox­i­mate­ly 147,600 In­di­an labour­ers im­mi­grat­ed to Trinidad un­der the in­den­ture­ship sys­tem. Of this group, fe­male labour­ers com­prised 29 per cent, or rough­ly 42,800 women and girls. In 1917, when the In­di­an in­den­ture­ship sys­tem of­fi­cial­ly end­ed, on­ly about 25 per cent of fe­male labour­ers were repa­tri­at­ed to In­dia. The ma­jor­i­ty re­mained in the colony and made Trinidad their home.