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.

Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez said Nicolás Maduro re­mains the coun­try’s on­ly pres­i­dent, re­ject­ing US as­ser­tions of au­thor­i­ty af­ter Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Wash­ing­ton would “run” Venezuela fol­low­ing Maduro’s cap­ture.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ex­pressed Trinidad and To­ba­go’s an­tic­i­pa­tion of re­newed co­op­er­a­tion and stronger re­la­tions with Venezuela in the com­ing years.

The Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs has con­firmed that all Trinidad and To­ba­go per­son­nel sta­tioned at the coun­try’s em­bassy in Cara­cas are safe and ful­ly ac­count­ed for.

Af­ter months of grow­ing mil­i­tary pres­sure on Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump or­dered a brazen op­er­a­tion in­to the South Amer­i­can coun­try to cap­ture its leader and whisk him to the Unit­ed States where his ad­min­is­tra­tion planned to put him on tri­al.

US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio says he “an­tic­i­pates no fur­ther ac­tion in Venezuela” with the US mil­i­tary’s re­port­ed cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro.

U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said the U.S. planned to run Venezuela un­til a tran­si­tion of pow­er can take place.