Pres­i­dent-elect An­tho­ny Car­mona and his wife Reema were the guests of ho­n­our at a cock­tail re­cep­tion host­ed by Colom­bian Am­bas­sador Al­fre­do Ri­as­gos at his of­fi­cial res­i­dence, The Re­nais­sance at Shore­lands on Fri­day.Car­mona will be­come T&T's fifth pres­i­dent when he takes the oath of of­fice on March 18.

Among guests at the re­cep­tion were the am­bas­sadors of Venezuela, Pana­ma, Guatemala, Ar­genti­na, Cu­ba, Mex­i­co, Brazil and Chile.Min­is­ter of Trade, In­dus­try and In­vest­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance and the Econ­o­my Vas­ant Bharath and his wife Arvin­der, as well as busi­ness ex­ec­u­tive Arthur Lok Jack and Deputy Chief of De­fence Staff Brigadier Gen­er­al An­tho­ny Philip Spencer al­so at­tend­ed.