Cari­com coun­tries are strength­en­ing their re­gion­al prepa­ra­tions ahead of the in­au­gur­al Con­fer­ence of the Par­ties (COP1) to the Agree­ment on Ma­rine Bi­o­log­i­cal Di­ver­si­ty of Ar­eas Be­yond Na­tion­al Ju­ris­dic­tion (BB­NJ Agree­ment), fol­low­ing a re­gion­al work­shop in The Ba­hamas.

Boards of di­rec­tors must move be­yond sim­ply ap­prov­ing Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) poli­cies to en­sure they un­der­stand how the tech­nol­o­gy is al­ready be­ing used across their or­gan­i­sa­tions, says Es­ther Cal­len­der, Pres­i­dent of the ISACA Trinidad and To­ba­go Chap­ter.

When an over­seas play­er ar­rives to rep­re­sent Trinidad and To­ba­go, we tend to ask the same ques­tions. Is he here yet? Will he train to­day? Is he avail­able for the match? Those are fair ques­tions, es­pe­cial­ly when Na­tions League points or a World Cup qual­i­fy­ing re­sult are at stake. But there is an­oth­er ques­tion that de­serves at­ten­tion. What in­for­ma­tion has ar­rived with him?

A child’s voice raised in song that can make an old tra­di­tion seem new again. At 11, Aaniya Vic­to­ria Carl­ton has found her place in that tra­di­tion, car­ry­ing a lit­tle of her child­hood world in­to the larg­er world of mu­sic with a song ded­i­cat­ed to Moth­er Lak­sh­mi.

“Ball of con­fu­sion, that’s what the world is to­day ... round and round we go, where the world’s head­ed no­body knows ... peo­ple all over the world are shout­ing end the war ... and the band plays on.” Temp­ta­tions...1970s...an his­toric pe­ri­od of re­volt and hope.