Ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence should help peo­ple make in­formed de­ci­sions, not re­place their abil­i­ty to think crit­i­cal­ly, ex­er­cise sound judge­ment and dis­tin­guish truth from mis­in­for­ma­tion.

The State has set­tled a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar con­sti­tu­tion­al claim brought by for­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire, but the Gov­ern­ment has not dis­closed how much the agree­ment will cost tax­pay­ers.

Yes­ter­day’s out-of-court set­tle­ment of for­mer Cen­tral Bank gov­er­nor Dr Alvin Hi­laire’s le­gal chal­lenge to the re­vo­ca­tion of his ap­point­ment has brought re­newed at­ten­tion to the tenure of the in­sti­tu­tion’s gov­er­nors, six of whom served few­er than five years.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar last night con­firmed that she was forced to pull out of at­tend­ing the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing (CHOGM) 2026 in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da this week af­ter con­tract­ing the flu.

A his­to­ri­an feels Trinidad and To­ba­go must con­sid­er with­draw­ing from the Com­mon­wealth and im­pos­ing eco­nom­ic pres­sure on coun­tries that refuse to pay repa­ra­tions for the trans-At­lantic slave trade.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic con­tin­ue to lament hav­ing to wait months for their pass­ports to be is­sued, as sources with­in the Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion claim that book­let stocks re­main crit­i­cal­ly low.

Few­er than 100 mi­grants turned up at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va yes­ter­day, as the dis­tri­b­u­tion of Mi­grant Reg­is­tra­tion Frame­work (MRF) cards be­gan. How­ev­er, some ap­pli­cants faced dif­fi­cul­ties find­ing au­tho­rised pay­ment lo­ca­tions, while oth­ers strug­gled to get time off from work to col­lect their doc­u­ments.

Pop­u­lar High Court judge Frank Seep­er­sad is among five judges ap­point­ed to the Court of Ap­peal, bring­ing the court’s com­ple­ment to full strength.

A moth­er’s grief be­came a source of strength on the in­ter­na­tion­al dance stage as Fazi­da Be­har­ry ded­i­cat­ed two in­ter­na­tion­al ti­tles in Italy to her late daugh­ter, whose pas­sion for dance con­tin­ues to in­spire her.

Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre (NATUC) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Michael An­nisette is call­ing on trade union lead­ers to set­tle their dif­fer­ences pri­vate­ly and present a unit­ed front in de­fence of work­ers, amid signs of di­vi­sion with­in the labour move­ment fol­low­ing Fri­day’s protest against the Gov­ern­ment.

Nu­trien work­ers are be­ing is­sued re­trench­ment let­ters as the Cana­di­an fer­tilis­er gi­ant moves ahead with plans to ter­mi­nate its re­main­ing work­force at Point Lisas, with af­fect­ed em­ploy­ees hav­ing un­til No­vem­ber 9 to ac­cept their sev­er­ance pack­ages.

Rel­a­tives of 41-year-old Tim­mi­an Fran­cois, who was fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice at his New Grant home on Sun­day, be­lieve his death was un­jus­ti­fied and are de­mand­ing jus­tice.