Venezue­lans liv­ing in Trinidad and To­ba­go yes­ter­day ex­pressed a mix­ture of joy, re­lief, and ap­pre­hen­sion fol­low­ing the ar­rest of the coun­try’s Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro by Unit­ed States forces.

The Min­istry of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs says all Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als and per­son­nel sta­tioned at the coun­try’s em­bassy in Cara­cas are safe, se­cure, and ful­ly ac­count­ed for.

Venezue­lan ac­tivists in Trinidad and To­ba­go are cel­e­brat­ing the re­moval of Venezue­lan leader Nicolás Maduro by the Unit­ed States mil­i­tary yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Min­is­ter of De­fence Wayne Sturge says there is noth­ing to wor­ry about re­gard­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­la­tion­ship with Venezuela, hours af­ter the Unit­ed States car­ried out an op­er­a­tion in the South Amer­i­can coun­try and cap­tured Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, his wife, and son.

T&T’s eco­nom­ic ex­po­sure to de­vel­op­ments in Venezuela has moved in­to sharp­er view, with one econ­o­mist and busi­ness lead­ers warn­ing that en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty, for­eign ex­change earn­ings and fis­cal sta­bil­i­ty re­main close­ly linked to the coun­try’s re­la­tion­ship with its near­est neigh­bour.

Ac­tiv­i­ty has sharply in­creased at the radar in­stal­la­tion site at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, with new im­ages show­ing an ex­pan­sion of equip­ment and on-site op­er­a­tions over the past five weeks.

Even with Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro now a pris­on­er of the Unit­ed States, fish­er­men in South Trinidad say they will still be ex­er­cis­ing cau­tion out at sea.

And that is whether her name was cried out in joy and love by Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress sup­port­ers, ut­tered with def­er­ence and rev­er­ence by her Gov­ern­ment team, hailed with fra­ter­nal warmth by the Unit­ed States and oth­er in­ter­na­tion­al as­so­ciates or mut­tered in an­noy­ance and dis­gust by Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) mem­bers, shout­ed in anger by Venezue­lan lead­ers and cit­i­zens, aired with as­ton­ish­ment and dis­ap­point­ment by re­gion­al lead­ers, or ex­pressed in gen­er­al con­cern—or meati­er lan­guage—by as­sort­ed sec­tors of T&T’s pop­u­la­tion.

But for Whit­ney An­drews and her loved ones of Ger­ald Street, New Vil­lage, Point Fortin it be­gan in ter­ror.

A beach out­ing at Clifton Hill turned trag­ic af­ter teenag­er Em­manuel Williams drowned while try­ing to save a friend in dis­tress.

This coun­try record­ed its first dou­ble mur­der for 2026, af­ter two men were shot dead in a re­mote area off Zion Road, Thun­der Hill Cir­cu­lar, Sou Sou Lands, Laven­tille Road, San Juan. Po­lice iden­ti­fied the vic­tims as Zim­ba Charles and Miguel Ed­wards. They were killed last Fri­day. Po­lice said both men sus­tained mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds. One of the vic­tims was found out­side, while the oth­er was dis­cov­ered in­side a brick shack lo­cat­ed on the rugged hill­side. - An­drea Perez-Sobers

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a break-in at the west Trinidad res­i­dence of Port-of-Spain South Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Kei­th Scot­land.