The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) played a crit­i­cal role in the seizure of over US$25 mil­lion in co­caine and the ar­rest of three for­eign na­tion­als dur­ing a mar­itime op­er­a­tion off the coast of Por­tu­gal ear­li­er this month, ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the U.S. Em­bassy in Port of Spain.

Scrap­ping the T&T Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty (TTRA) in sev­en weeks with­out deal­ing with the ma­jor is­sues with­in the pub­lic ser­vice was not the road to go down.

One of the high points last week at the OTP IJF 2025 World Ju­do Cham­pi­onships held in Bu­dapest, Hun­gary was meet­ing Ted­dy Riner con­sid­ered by many to be the great­est Ju­do­ka in his­to­ry. He was at one time un­de­feat­ed for ten straight years.

The St An­drews Sports and Cul­tur­al Group of Cou­va de­liv­ered an un­for­get­table In­di­an Clas­si­cal Singing Show­case on Sun­day, as a ca­pac­i­ty au­di­ence filled the Cou­va South Au­di­to­ri­um to wit­ness four of T&T’s finest vo­cal tal­ents.

The term “Lud­dite” is used to de­scribe per­sons op­posed to new tech­nol­o­gy. In 1800s Eng­land, the first Lud­dites op­posed new au­to­mat­ed ma­chin­ery be­ing in­tro­duced in­to tex­tile mills for fear of job loss­es and re­duced work­er pay. The last few hun­dred years of tech­no­log­i­cal de­vel­op­ment have been pos­i­tive, with eco­nom­ic growth lift­ing bil­lions out of pover­ty world­wide. How­ev­er, the ad­vent of AI pos­es eth­i­cal chal­lenges that may prove present-day Lud­dites part­ly cor­rect in their fears.