Over the past few weeks, US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump has an­nounced a se­ries of tar­iffs on big economies, which has caused con­cern in this coun­try, and around the world, due to the trade agree­ments on goods and ve­hi­cles.

Af­ter 16 years, J&K Sig­na­ture Styles has moved from its orig­i­nal lo­ca­tion in Port-of-Spain from up­per Fred­er­ick Street to a small­er lo­ca­tion down­town Fred­er­ick St.

As pow­er­ful as gen­er­a­tive AI tools like Chat­G­PT are, they are not in­fal­li­ble. AI “hal­lu­ci­na­tions” can oc­cur when a type of AI, known as a large lan­guage mod­el, gen­er­ates false in­for­ma­tion. These hal­lu­ci­na­tions can range from sim­ple er­rors to dra­mat­ic in­ven­tions. They can pose re­al-world prob­lems, in­clud­ing in le­gal con­texts where stakes are high, and ac­cu­ra­cy is crit­i­cal. In this ar­ti­cle, we will look at a few sit­u­a­tions in which AI tools “hal­lu­ci­nat­ed” le­gal au­thor­i­ties that did not ac­tu­al­ly ex­ist, and how the Courts re­spond­ed.

In a news re­lease yes­ter­day, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Vish­nu Dhan­paul, said the pub­lic is re­mind­ed that the tax amnesty cov­ers penal­ties and in­ter­est about the fol­low­ing tax­es up to the year of in­come end­ing De­cem­ber 31, 2023. 

Dar­ryl White has re­signed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect as the chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer and re­gion­al vice pres­i­dent of cor­po­rate and in­vest­ment bank­ing of RBC Fi­nan­cial (Caribbean) Ltd. 

The Cen­tral Bank re­port­ed yes­ter­day that food prices rose by 3.9 per cent in Feb­ru­ary, but core in­fla­tion (which ex­cludes food prices) fell by 0.1 per cent.

BpTT an­nounced yes­ter­day that it made the fi­nal in­vest­ment de­ci­sion (FID) to pro­ceed with the Gin­ger gas de­vel­op­ment, while achiev­ing ex­plo­ration suc­cess at its Frangi­pani well.  

On April 20, Fron­tier Air­lines will op­er­ate its last flight out of T&T. The Den­ver-based ul­tra low-cost car­ri­er will end ser­vice be­tween Trinidad and its Puer­to Ri­co hub, nine months af­ter launch­ing the route.

The US Gov­ern­ment’s pro­pos­al to im­pose huge fees on Chi­nese-built or Chi­nese-flagged ves­sels dock­ing at US ports could in­crease the cost of freight to the Caribbean by be­tween 50 and 60 per cent, which could re­sult in high­er prices on im­port­ed goods of 15 to 20 per cent.

T&T is not the on­ly Caribbean coun­try where ob­tain­ing for­eign ex­change is a prob­lem, ac­cord­ing to ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor, Caribbean Ex­port De­vel­op­ment Agency, Dr Damie Sinanan.

Ma­jor­i­ty state-owned com­pa­ny Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) yes­ter­day de­clared af­ter-tax prof­it of $44.18 mil­lion for the year end­ed De­cem­ber 31, 2024, a 24.62 per cent in­crease over the $35.45 mil­lion it record­ed in 2023.

Some busi­ness groups be­lieve that they should be in­clud­ed at the ta­ble of for­eign ex­change talks as the short­age has been af­fect­ing their mem­ber­ship for sev­er­al years.