{"name":"Applied AI in Trinidad and Tobago — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Trinidad and Tobago, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/trinidad-and-tobago","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Trinidad and Tobago","slug":"trinidad-and-tobago","iso2":"TT","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":11,"deployments":7,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":2,"industries":6,"countries":1,"linked":11},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","role":"Secondary school teacher","org":"Ministry of Education","text":"Trinidad and Tobago's education ministry launched an AI learning platform for secondary students, centred on an interactive AI avatar that walks pupils through problems step by step. Spanish, ICT, integrated science, social sciences, English language arts and mathematics are covered, rolling out term by term, with laptops for Form Two teachers of those subjects. Education minister Michael Dowlath says one more explanation often separates a student who cannot do something from one who understands.","date":"2026-09-02","source":"https://www.ttt.live/education-ministry-launches-new-digital-learning-platform-to-support-secondary-school-students/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","org":"Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago","text":"Chief Justice Ronnie Boodoosingh has signed off on a Practice Direction on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Court Proceedings, giving Trinidad and Tobago's Judiciary a rulebook for AI use in courts. Staff may lean on the tool for drafting and admin only once outputs are checked by a person, fabricating evidence with it is banned outright, and its use must be flagged in any filing; reasoning through a case or writing a judgment stays strictly a human job for judicial officers, so generative AI in judicial proceedings stops there. Fabricated citations and confidentiality leaks were the risks driving the change.","date":"2026-07-07","source":"https://www.ttlawcourts.org/media-releases-and-statments/media-release-judiciary-issues-practice-direction-responsible-use"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","role":"Secondary school teacher","org":"Ministry of Education, Trinidad and Tobago","text":"Trinidad and Tobago's education ministry launched AI digital textbooks in English and mathematics for Form One students on 21 April, on laptops issued after the Secondary Entrance Assessment. Pupils can quiz an AI avatar about schoolwork during and after school, and education minister Michael Dowlath expects savings of TT$1,000 to TT$1,500 for Form One and Two parents next year.","date":"2026-04-21","source":"https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/dowlath-launches-ai-textbooks-for-form-1-students-to-help-cut-costs-for-parents-6.2.2567856.18fe38a59e"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","org":"Ministry of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence","text":"A new six-month pilot called the AI Academy gives roughly 100 government workers in Trinidad and Tobago structured AI training for public servants, starting 3 February 2026. A group of 10 will go further, prototyping two to three AI applications inside a protected testing sandbox. Behind the scheme sits the Ministry of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence, working alongside UNDP, UNICC and CAF to build AI skills development in government.","date":"2026-02-03","source":"https://caribbeannewsglobal.com/mpaai-launches-ai-academy-in-partnership-with-undp-caf-and-unicc/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","role":"Investor","org":"Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange (TTSE)","text":"TOBI (TTSE Online Bot Interface) covers trading activity, listings, corporate announcements, dividends and settlement procedures at the Trinidad and Tobago Stock Exchange, round-the-clock. This AI chatbot for investors, a digital investor assistant, serves newcomers, brokers and listed firms on the exchange's website. It backs a wider digitalisation drive for capital-market infrastructure.","date":"2025-12-04","source":"https://newsday.co.tt/2025/12/04/tt-stock-exchange-introduces-ai-chatbot/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","org":"Cabinet of Trinidad and Tobago","text":"A new Inter-Ministerial Steering Committee on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence gives Trinidad and Tobago's Cabinet a single body for AI policy coordination. It handles cyber-incident response and keeps laws on AI regulation aligned across government departments.","date":"2025-09-11","source":"https://www.ttt.live/cabinet-approves-committee-to-deal-with-cyber-security-issues/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"HR & People","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","role":"HR professional","org":"Ansa McAL Ltd","text":"Trinidad and Tobago's Ansa McAL claims a first for the English-speaking Caribbean: the earliest large-scale enterprise running AI in human resources throughout its business, joining a generative AI assistant to its human capital management setup via SAP and HRIZONS. Workers can pose HR questions conversationally and get tailored study and career pointers, backing a plan to renew infrastructure and boost how staff experience an AI-driven HR platform.","date":"2025-08-27","source":"https://newsday.co.tt/2025/08/28/ansa-mcal-installs-ai-in-hr-systems/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","role":"Logistics operator","org":"Ramps Logistics","text":"Three minutes flat: the time it now takes to quote, reserve and follow a cargo shipment moving from China, India, the US or Brazil, thanks to Ramps Logistics' new AI freight platform, CUBBY Cargo. Engineers built the system in Trinidad and Tobago, wiring it straight into WhatsApp so users chat their way through bookings instead of opening a separate website or app. That makes it, by the firm's account, the region's first AI-enabled cargo booking tool of its kind in the Caribbean.","date":"2025-08-27","source":"https://aircargoweek.com/ramps-logistics-launches-cubby-cargo-an-ai-powered-logistics-platform/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","role":"Public service agent","org":"iGovTT","text":"iGovTT and TT Connect built Anansi, an AI digital assistant for government services now fielding queries from citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. Type a plain-language question on any device and the tool searches a 7,000-strong bank of frequently asked questions spanning over 30 ministries; anything unresolved reaches a human TT Connect agent instead, so AI-driven public service queries always get answered.","date":"2025-08-05","source":"https://newsday.co.tt/2025/08/06/anansi-from-queues-to-queries/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","org":"Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS)","text":"The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Tobago Division trained 20 officers in a one-day pilot, 'AI For Law Enforcement', at Tobago Information Technology Limited, Signal Hill. This AI literacy training for police, run with GNC Labs and sponsored by Jade Monkey Bar and Casino, covered spotting deepfakes and applying AI tools. Policing AI upskilling sits within the division's operations plan.","date":"2025-06-12","source":"https://www.ttt.live/ai-training-for-tobago-police-officers/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Trinidad and Tobago","role":"Store manager","org":"Massy Holdings Ltd","text":"Massy Holdings runs an AI store management system on ChatGPT, letting Caribbean managers query stock, demand and sales trends instantly, cutting waste and lifting efficiency across 60-plus stores. Massy also counts over 100 self-checkout machines group-wide, part of the same AI-powered retail operations push, per its own unverified figures.","date":"2025-05-18","source":"https://newsday.co.tt/2025/05/18/massy-moving-forward-with-technology/"}]}