Taran Rampersad

Technology Reporting

The Global Lense – The one about data centers

Digital Transformation is not just about meeting a funding checklist, it’s about producing value for cost.

Opinion

Social permission and the data center

Generating equipment would have to be designed for the sea-salt laden air found even inland on an island.

Opinion

Laptops And Consequences

It’s easy to hypothesize that Waze has more information on traffic in Trinidad and Tobago than local ministries.

Opinion

Taran Rampersad: Are websites increasing cybersecurity vulnerabilities?

People thought they could just buy a website and it would simply be done and they could go about their business.

Opinion

Taran’s take: The Samsung S22 Ultra

It does everything much more quickly than my old phone, which is to be expected. The graphics of the screen are stunning.

Opinion

I had bought into a community that now decided some should bear the unsightly burden. Until today, you have never read the a sentence containing the phrase, “As beautiful as a cell tower.” There’s a reason.

News Briefs

WiPay launches epayment hardware, cashless payment system

Above: The new WiPay e-payment bracelet. Photo by Taran Rampersad. You're at Maracas Bay, trudging back and forth to your car to get your shark...

Opinion

Mostly unplugged in Tobago

Above: A view of Little Tobago. All photographs by Taran Rampersad. Click to enlarge. Having decided that I needed some time away to consider life...

Opinion

Breaking out of the economic tidal pool

Above: A tidal pool, photo by Chris Van Lennep/DepositPhotos Trinidad and Tobago is a tidal pool on the fringe of a global economy. We get...

Opinion

Local context isn’t all context in a networked world

Illustration by lightsource/DepositPhotos. With a background in software engineering and business analysis, I'm floored by things in Trinidad and Tobago at times - be it...

Opinion

New Gatekeepers: Microsoft buys Github

We all know by now, or should, about who owns our data – and we like to think it’s our own, where we can...

Opinion

“I just wanted to buy a car…”

Above: Press release photo for the 1969 American Motors Javelin SST. I started shopping for a vehicle last weekend, doing my research on the Internet...

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How should a newsroom of the (very near) future work?

BitDepth August 10, 2026 0

When generic content becomes easier to produce, the advantage that we have shifts to what is harder to replicate and that is original journalism.

FNP’s halting stumble to dubious relevance

BitDepth August 3, 2026 0

There are 282,000 fixed line subscribers in Trinidad and Tobago. That number has been dropping incrementally year over year declining 16.1 percent between 2024 and 2025.