The rapid growth of the ready to drink mar­ket is be­ing seen as a lane of op­por­tu­ni­ty for An­gos­tu­ra in both the lo­cal and re­gion­al mar­ket.

Rio Claro moth­er Kellyann Lemessy was am­bushed and killed in her car as she ar­rived home just be­fore noon to­day.

Ven­dors op­er­at­ing at the Car­ni­val Cen­tre can now ac­cept dig­i­tal pay­ments fol­low­ing the roll­out of a point-of-sale dis­tri­b­u­tion ini­tia­tive by the Na­tion­al Pay­ment and In­no­va­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion.

For­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions leg­is­la­tion and tak­en is­sue with re­cent com­ments made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, warn­ing that the rhetoric and the law it­self could deep­en di­vi­sion and un­der­mine the rights of law abid­ing cit­i­zens.

Bran­don Lal­be­har­ry has been grant­ed $400,000 bail on a manslaugh­ter charge aris­ing from the al­leged killing of his fa­ther.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is warn­ing cit­i­zens to brace for a pos­si­ble in­crease in elec­tric­i­ty rates, which she says could re­sult from the pend­ing nat­ur­al gas price hike an­nounced by the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC).

If Gov­ern­ment’s Spe­cial Op­er­a­tion Zones (ZOSO) Bill is geared to­wards get­ting rid of peo­ple who have AK-47 and Galil au­to­mat­ic as­sault weapons, the fact that peo­ple’s con­sti­tu­tion­al rights will be tar­get­ed “is a small price to pay,” says De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge.

Pro­tect law-abid­ing cit­i­zens re­sid­ing in “hotspots’’ from be­com­ing col­lat­er­al dam­age and be­ing stig­ma­tised by the Spe­cial Zones law.

Min­is­ter of De­fence Wayne Sturge says he does not an­tic­i­pate the Zone of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs) to re­main in ef­fect in dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties across T&T for more than five years if the bill be­comes law.

Crim­i­nal de­fence at­tor­ney Ul­ric Sker­ritt is urg­ing Gov­ern­ment to di­vulge more in­for­ma­tion on the in­tro­duc­tion of Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs), as he feels most of the pub­lic is still not aware of what such a strat­e­gy would en­tail.

The mur­der toll con­tin­ued to climb yes­ter­day, af­ter two women were killed in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in Tacarigua and Arou­ca.

Af­ter a suc­cess­ful de­but last year, Car­ni­val will un­fold with­out the Ul­ti­mate So­ca Cham­pi­on (USC), a com­pe­ti­tion or­gan­is­ers say helped pro­pel emerg­ing artistes on­to na­tion­al stages but has now been shelved due to a lack of fund­ing and of­fi­cial sup­port.