Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says he ex­pects the new e-pass­port sys­tem to be brought on­line with­in a mat­ter of months, as he put for­ward a ten­ta­tive time­line of ear­ly 2027 for the sys­tem to be rolled out.

An in­ter­na­tion­al telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and da­ta in­fra­struc­ture ex­ec­u­tive is ques­tion­ing whether Trinidad and To­ba­go is pre­pared for the scale of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) da­ta cen­tres out­lined in the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent­ly an­nounced mem­o­ran­dum of un­der­stand­ing (MOU), warn­ing that the coun­try could face sig­nif­i­cant tech­ni­cal, en­er­gy and eco­nom­ic chal­lenges if the projects pro­ceed with­out com­pre­hen­sive plan­ning.

A To­ba­go cop has been charged with wound­ing with in­tent to cause griev­ous bod­i­ly harm fol­low­ing a shoot­ing at Bloody Bay on June 8.

Two-time Ca­lyp­so Monarch Lin­da Mc­Cartha Sandy-Lewis, bet­ter known as Ca­lyp­so Rose, was ho­n­oured in New York as the Caribbean Cul­tur­al Cen­tre African Di­as­po­ra In­sti­tute (CC­CA­DI) cel­e­brat­ed its 50th an­niver­sary on Sat­ur­day.

Amal­ga­mat­ed Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices Ltd has chal­lenged the award of a se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices con­tract by the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny Ltd (EM­BD) to SWAT Es­tate Po­lice Com­pa­ny Ltd.

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has re­vealed it nev­er ruled on al­le­ga­tions that the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) breached pro­cure­ment law dur­ing its con­tro­ver­sial $3.4 bil­lion De­sign-Build-Fi­nance hous­ing pro­gramme be­cause the le­gal chal­lenge was filed out­side the dead­line set by law.

This was how Pas­tor Neil Parsan­lal of Faith As­sem­bly In­ter­na­tion­al chose to re­mem­ber mu­sic icon Os­car Ben­jamin, stage name Os­car B, whose many tal­ents were cel­e­brat­ed at his fu­ner­al yes­ter­day.

In­cum­bent pres­i­dent of the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO), Ains­ley King, has re­turned to of­fice fol­low­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions, se­cur­ing 241 votes from mem­bers.

Caribbean Air­lines will add more than 7,600 do­mes­tic seats be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go dur­ing the Ju­ly/Au­gust peak trav­el pe­ri­od.

A 33-year-old Pe­nal man was ar­rest­ed af­ter po­lice found a Glock-type pro­hib­it­ed firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise at a birth­day par­ty in Pe­nal.

Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has sought to dis­pel ques­tions over her de­ci­sion to trav­el to Japan with her son, Je­re­mi­ah, af­ter pho­tos she shared on so­cial me­dia showed the pair to­geth­er dur­ing her vis­it, prompt­ing spec­u­la­tion over whether pub­lic funds were used to fi­nance his trip.

Econ­o­mist Pro­fes­sor Roger Ho­sein says the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed AI da­ta cen­tre could pro­vide a wel­come boost to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s econ­o­my, but he warns the project is still in its ear­li­est stages.