SHAS­TRI BOODAN

Xo­tique is billed as the best and hottest all-in­clu­sive Car­ni­val fete for C2K11 to hit Cen­tral Trinidad. The fete was launched on Thurs­day at The Rise Grill and Bar Restau­rant, at Rod­ney Road, En­deav­our.Priced at $600 a tick­et, Raphael Roach Clarke, man­ag­er of The Rise, said Xo­tique promis­es a wealth of en­ter­tain­ment for each pa­tron.He said: "Af­ter sev­er­al weeks of plan­ning, we de­cid­ed that we would go all out to stage what we want to be a most mem­o­rable event, or a most fan­tas­tic fete for the peo­ple."

The event comes off on Feb­ru­ary 13, from 1 pm to 10 pm, at The Rise carpark.The or­gan­is­ers said there would be max­i­mum se­cu­ri­ty and safe park­ing to en­sure that Xo­tique comes off as the best pre­mi­um all-in­clu­sive Car­ni­val event to hit Cen­tral. Pre­mi­um en­ter­tain­ment from Kes the Band, Ravi B & big band Kar­ma, Mr Ren­zo and Ben­jai are al­so on the cards.With Valen­tine's Day be­ing the fol­low­ing day, Xo­tique will al­so present treats in light of that spe­cial day with an en­tic­ing dessert bar in­clu­sive of yum­my choco­late foun­tains.Roach as­sured that there will be se­cured park­ing for ve­hi­cles at a near­by venue and a shut­tle ser­vice will be pro­vid­ed to and from the event.• In­for­ma­tion on tick­ets can be made by call­ing 333-2979, 681-5429 or 665-5627.