The gov­ern­ment re­mains most­ly silent as the na­tion waits for clar­i­ty fol­low­ing a cryp­tic mes­sage from the U.S. Em­bassy to­day, ad­vis­ing cit­i­zens to avoid all U.S. Gov­ern­ment fa­cil­i­ties in Trinidad and To­ba­go through the hol­i­day week­end due to a “height­ened state of alert”.

The em­bassy’s no­tice urged cau­tion, ask­ing peo­ple to be aware of their sur­round­ings, mon­i­tor rep­utable news out­lets, and re­port sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ty to lo­cal au­thor­i­ties. It al­so re­mind­ed U.S. cit­i­zens trav­el­ling home that they must hold valid U.S. pass­ports.

While such alerts are not un­com­mon, the cur­rent con­text is far from or­di­nary. With ten­sions ris­ing and the prospect of mil­i­tary ac­tion in Venezuela grow­ing, the mes­sage has stirred pub­lic con­cern.

Guardian Me­dia has reached out to mem­bers of the gov­ern­ment for com­ment, but re­spons­es have been lim­it­ed.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, when asked if the U.S. alert was re­lat­ed to the on­go­ing “No Kings” protests in the Unit­ed States, replied sim­ply, “No.”

“No Kings” be­gan as a protest move­ment against Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in New York City, with sim­i­lar ral­lies planned across the U.S.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der said the em­bassy’s ad­vi­so­ry was based on in­tel­li­gence re­ceived by the U.S. gov­ern­ment and ap­plies on­ly to its own fa­cil­i­ties.

“Trinida­di­ans are safe,” he said.

When asked about ru­mours that se­nior of­fi­cials were be­ing moved to safe hous­es, Alexan­der replied, “Every house is a safe house.”

Guardian Me­dia has con­firmed that work­ers at the U.S. Em­bassy con­struc­tion site in Mar­aval were sent home “un­til fur­ther no­tice.” Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo is cur­rent­ly out of the coun­try, with Wade Mark serv­ing as Act­ing Pres­i­dent.

Sep­a­rate­ly, De­fence Force sources con­firmed that per­son­nel have been in­struct­ed to pre­pare for a tran­si­tion from aid-to-the-civ­il-pow­er op­er­a­tions to de­fen­sive and bor­der-se­cu­ri­ty roles by year end, a move tied to the risk of mi­gra­tion and refugee flows should the Venezue­lan con­flict in­ten­si­fy.