The Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion has called for pub­lic clar­i­fi­ca­tion on the pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tion (ZOSO) leg­is­la­tion as mur­ders con­tin­ue across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In a press re­lease, the group said that while da­ta in­di­cates im­prove­ment in law and or­der, se­ri­ous crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty con­tin­ues. They cit­ed smashed shopfronts and bur­glar­ies in the Down­town City Cen­tre and gun­fire along the east-west cor­ri­dor.

DO­MA stat­ed, “Day by day there is a con­tin­u­a­tion of the sense­less loss of life, of par­ents killed in front of their chil­dren, of young men be­ing shot to death two and three at a time, of bod­ies strewn across main streets and road­ways in towns and cities in­clud­ing POS. It is hap­pen­ing re­peat­ed­ly and the gun­shots are al­most like a na­tion­al theme song to our cur­rent way of life.”