Nan­cy Al­mar­ales, a 50-year-old moth­er from Daniel Trace, Va­len­cia, was shot and killed last night.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ques­tioned the ab­sence of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar from a press con­fer­ence held to­day, say­ing the pub­lic rea­son­ably ex­pect­ed the Prime Min­is­ter to ap­pear and ad­dress mat­ters of na­tion­al im­por­tance.

Caribbean-Amer­i­can De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Con­gress­woman Yvette D. Clarke on Sat­ur­day strong­ly con­demned what she de­scribed as Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s “unau­tho­rized” mil­i­tary strikes in Venezuela and the mil­i­tary’s cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment has paid trib­ute to the life and pub­lic ser­vice of for­mer Tu­na­puna Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Ed­ward “Ed­die” Hart, re­mem­ber­ing him as a com­mit­ted ad­vo­cate for com­mu­ni­ty de­vel­op­ment and youth em­pow­er­ment.

The Bu­reau of the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) lead­ers has re­it­er­at­ed a call for “peace­ful di­a­logue” to en­sure sta­bil­i­ty in Venezuela fol­low­ing the Unit­ed States in­va­sion of the South Amer­i­can coun­try and the de­ten­tion and ar­rest of its Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro on Sat­ur­day.

Re­stric­tions on U.S. air­lines bar­ring them from op­er­at­ing in sev­er­al Caribbean and South Amer­i­can air­spaces at any al­ti­tude have been lift­ed. This comes a day af­ter mul­ti­ple No­tices to Air­men (NO­TAMs) were is­sued by the U.S. Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion for parts of the Cu­ra­cao, Mai­que­tia, Pi­ar­co, and San Juan Flight In­for­ma­tion Re­gions due to what the agency called “safe­ty-of-flight risks as­so­ci­at­ed with on­go­ing mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty” in Venezuela. In a late-evening post to X, for­mer­ly known as Twit­ter, U.S. Trans­porta­tion Sec­re­tary Sean Duffy said, “The orig­i­nal re­stric­tions around the Caribbean air­space are ex­pir­ing at 12:00am ET and flights can re­sume.” He ad­vised pas­sen­gers to con­tact their re­spec­tive air­lines as they worked to up­date their sched­ules.

Hart al­so served as Min­is­ter of State in the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and Cul­ture, Cul­ture and Tourism, and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment and Gen­der Af­fairs un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar moved swift­ly yes­ter­day to dis­tance Trinidad and To­ba­go from a Unit­ed States mil­i­tary ac­tion in Venezuela that cul­mi­nat­ed in the cap­ture of that coun­try’s Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro and his wife Cil­lia Flo­res.

Act­ing Pres­i­dent of Venezuela Del­cy Ro­dríguez has made it clear that Nicolás Maduro is the on­ly pres­i­dent of Venezuela.

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.