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Mark Lyndersay
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The social media government - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
The accusations levelled by Senator Anil Roberts against the family of St Vincent and the Grenadines PM Ralph Gonsalves were not part of any discussion in Parliament.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The social media government - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
The accusations levelled by Senator Anil Roberts against the family of St Vincent and the Grenadines PM Ralph Gonsalves were not part of any discussion in Parliament.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Free Affinity is clearly not a plan to make money, if only because it’s more evidently a plan to not make money, but that assessment discounts the potential value of synergy with Canva itself.
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An Affinity for Canva
Professionally oriented software that integrates seamlessly with a consumer grade design tool is next level gamesmanship.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Other side of stand your ground - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
The aftermath of the home invasion that left farmer Vijay Ragoonanan injured and vulnerable is that the trust he placed in his neighbourhood, living in a home without burglar-proofing, has been shatte...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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DNS records match the text name of a website address with the numbers of its actual digital address. Without it, websites and services cannot be found.
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When the cloud bursts
Hyperscalers typically operate networks of hundreds of data centers with millions of servers distributed globally.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Dealing with deepfakes - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
RESPONDING TO concerns by Independent Senator Anthony Vieira about the prevalence of deepfakes, Minister of Public Administration and AI Dominic Smith noted that the Caribbean Telecommunications Union...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Sobers' tortured dance - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
The Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs, Sean Sobers, may have the least enviable job in cabinet.
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November 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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While there is no functioning quantum computer available to the public, as recently as last week, Google announced that it had successfully run an algorithm on a quantum chip 13,000 times faster than on existing chipsets.

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Encryption, privacy and public safety
Without encryption, that data can be read, copied or changed in transit. Encryption makes that data unreadable to outsiders
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October 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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The US in the Caribbean - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
THE arrival of the USS Gravely at the port of Port of Spain on October 26 increases the potential for Trinidad and Tobago's involvement in the simmering conflict between the US and Venezuela as it qui...
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October 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Developed locally by the Innovative Centre and branded NOBIS, the e-KYC platform will allow citizens to verify their identity and open accounts entirely online.
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UTC, TSTT and National Payment Company sign agreement for national e-KYC platform
It’s scalable, secure, and meets international standards — a strong statement of what our local teams can accomplish
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October 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The Public Sector Investment Programme continues to be an extended promissory note that shamelessly recycles promised projects for years on end.
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Big budget for tech, unclear spending strategy
Critical digital transformation projects are mentioned in the vaguest possible terms...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Reopening the hotel school - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
THE announcement by the Finance Minister that the Chaguaramas Hotel School, properly the Trinidad and Tobago Hospitality and Tourism Institute (TTHTI), is to be reopened offers hope for greater suppor...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Provided photographs with captions for Jan Westmaas' three-part travel series in Newsday, which began here...
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Exploring the Southern Cone - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
PLANNING and executing a 12-day road trip inclusive of hotels anywhere in the world for a group of travellers of disparate ages, personalities and temperaments is not everyone’s idea of fun.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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The FATF has noted a tendency to over-compliance with its standards, particularly in developing countries, with “unintended consequences.”
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Caribbean cryptocurrency concerns
In a pause with a defined timeline, operators may move outside the jurisdiction or take government to court and hope it drags on.
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October 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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The No Man's Land challenge - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Along with the environmental challenges facing the reefs at Buccoo Marine Park and the long-running effort to preserve the ecological balance at No Man's Land, an incident on October 5 stands as a sta...
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October 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Illegal quarrying plague - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Strategic police action on October 9 claims to have ended a major million-dollar illegal quarrying operation in Manuel Congo in Guanapo.
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October 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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The deepening immersion of tech in civil society meant that there more facets to explore in its shaping of this country...
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Suddenly, 30 years later…
It’s really difficult to get excited over shiny and new when you’ve seen how quickly that gloss gets tarnished and eventually rots.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The code of gray - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander seems particularly keen to be seen as tough on crime, but his assessment of a police operation that left a father and son dead in Cunupia is worrisome.
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October 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The NIS challenge - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
The math does not favour the continued existence of the National Insurance Scheme. Warnings about the increasingly dire imbalance between contributors and claimants qualifying for pensions under NIS h...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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How did we get to a point at which a sitting Finance Minister decides to pull out the rug from anyone using cryptocurrency in their business, as an investment instrument or providing cryptocurrency exchange services?
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A blanket ban on cryptocurrency is a Luddite's strategy
The government has not made it clear to what extent the new bill is intended to deepen compliance requirements with the FATF.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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“Wherever I'm needed, that's where I'll be,.It's all God's work.”
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Felix Roach: Sweetness on his fingertips - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
THE pianist reeks of experience. Whip thin with long, slender age-weathered fingers, he sits behind the ivory hued grand piano with the elegant comfort of a king grown comfortable with this particular...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Importance of elite athletes - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
THE SUCCESS at the World Athletics Championships of Keshorn Walcott, who won gold in the men's javelin and Jereem Richards, who took silver in the men's 400-metre race, is a welcome reminder that the ...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Teachers puzzled over the order to integrate the rake into the curriculum. Literature did not generally address the rake in fiction.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Reassessing Couva Hospital - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
THE plan to bring the Couva Hospital fully into operation by the end of the year is an overdue initiative.
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September 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Strategic digital drive for education - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
EDUCATION Minister Dr Michael Dowlath announced on September 11 that the government will upgrade the wireless connectivity of 580 schools in TT.
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September 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM