Best Oral Presentation Awards 

Theme I: Agri-Food Technology and Policy for Food and Nutrition Security 

Presented to Ronnie Ramsaran and Vidya de Gannes 

Production and Evaluation of Innovative Buttermilk Biscuits from Orange-Flesh Sweet Potato Flour Infused with Coconut for Food and Nutrition Security 

Theme II: Biodiversity, Climate Change and Disaster Management 

Presented toKerneese Tenille Ramjarrie, Oshaine Omar Blake, Kailas Sekhar Banerjee, Dexter Davis, Ryan Ramsook and Raffie Hosein 

A Multidisciplinary Approach into the Temporal Evolution of Near-Surface Structures and Morphology of the Piparo Mud Volcano 

Theme III: Health and Well-Being: Issues and Advances 

Presented to Gervonne Barran, J Michael Conlon and Milena Mechkarska 

From Rainforest to Laboratory Antimicrobial Peptides from Trinidadian Frog Skin Secretions as Leads against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria 

Theme IV: Engineering and Green Technologies for Sustainability 

Presented to Kimberly Weston, Richard A. Taylor, Kim Kisslinger and Shobha Mantripragada 

Tuning structure and function: metal-ion induced phase transformation in copper antimony sulphide nanostructures 

Theme V: Manufacturing, Trade, Tourism and FinancialWell-being 

Presented to Kester Thompson 

Border Carbon Adjustments: The Potential Impact on Trinidad and Tobago’s Growth and Trade 

Theme VI & VII: ICTs for Digital Islands & AI for Multidimensional Research and Development 

Presented to Vijayanandh Rajamanickam, Deepak Ramsubhag and Jayaraj Jayaraman 

A Machine Learning Approach to Multi-Crop Disease Identification Using XGBoost 

Theme VIII: Education, Culture, Sports, Equality, Law and Governance for a Better Life and Sustainable Environment 

Presented to Sunil Lalloo, Charisse Griffith-Charles and Leonel Frazer 

A fit-for-purpose land administration model to support indigenous land rights: the case of Maya communal lands in Belize 

Best Poster Presentation Awards 

Theme I: Agri-Food Technology and Policy For Food and Nutrition Security 

Presented to Naailah Ali, Darin Sukha, David Gopaulchan, Vickeisha Lall, Krystal Daniel, Lincoln McDonald, David Salt and Pathmanathan Umaharan 

Exploring Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) Flavour Diversity in Trinidad: A Study with Caribbean Relevance 

Theme II: Biodiversity, Climate Change and Disaster Management 

Presented to Renoir Auguste, Amy E. Deacon and Mark F. Hulme 

Evaluating the effectiveness of passive acoustic monitoring at detecting anurans in Caribbean tropical forests 

Theme III: Health and Well- Being: Issues and Advances 

Presented to Muhammad Sani Ismaila, D.C. Arrindell, F. Mohammed, D. Mohammed, P. Daniel-France and V. Sundaram 

Cosmeceutical Potential of Ficus benjamina Seed Extracts from Trinidad: Biochemical, Mineral, and Antioxidant Profiling 

Theme IV: Engineering and Green Technologies for Sustainability 

Presented to Bhanumattee Ramdhanie, Dhurjati Prasad Chakrabarti, Faisal Mohammed, Sharad Maharaj, Khadir Manwah and Oshaine Blake 

The Extraction of Cellulose from Bambusa vulgaris (Bamboo) Biowaste for the Synthesis of Useful Products for Environmental Purposes 

Theme V: Manufacturing, Trade, Tourism and Financial Well-being 

Presented to Christina Baptiste, Roger Hosein and George Saridakis 

An Empirical Assessment of CARICOM’s Intra-Industry Trade 

Theme VI & VII: ICTs for Digital Islands & AI for Multidimensional Research and Development 

Presented to Satesh Sookhai, Priscilla Bahaw, David Forgenie and Ghulfam Sadiq 

Generative AI for business sustainability: Examining usability, usefulness, and triple bottom line impacts in small and medium enterprises 

Theme VIII: Education, Culture, Sports, Equality, Law and Governance for a Better Life and Sustainable Environment 

Presented to Navin Dookeram, Akhenaton Daaga, Asad Mohammed and Isaac Dialsingh 

Towards More Efficient Policing – An Application of a Novel Crime Hotspot Detection Method