Thir­ty min­utes in­to its jour­ney, Jet­Blue Flight 2017, bound for Port of Spain, was forced to turn around and re­turn to New York’s John F. Kennedy Air­port af­ter the U.S. Fed­er­al Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion (FAA) tem­porar­i­ly banned U.S. car­ri­ers from fly­ing in cer­tain parts of the re­gion.

Brazil joins Venezuela’s con­dem­na­tion of the re­port­ed US mil­i­tary strike and al­leged cap­ture of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro, call­ing it a vi­o­la­tion of sov­er­eign­ty and a dan­ger­ous prece­dent for re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al sta­bil­i­ty.

Port of Spain, Sat­ur­day 3 Jan­u­ary 2026, Caribbean Air­lines ad­vis­es that there are no dis­rup­tions to its ser­vices to­day, Sat­ur­day 3 Jan­u­ary 2026, fol­low­ing re­ports of mil­i­tary strikes by the Unit­ed States against Venezuela, and op­er­a­tions are con­tin­u­ing as sched­uled.

US At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Pamela Bon­di has an­nounced that Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cil­ia Flo­res, have been in­dict­ed in the South­ern Dis­trict of New York on mul­ti­ple charges, in­clud­ing nar­co-ter­ror­ism con­spir­a­cy, co­caine im­por­ta­tion con­spir­a­cy, and pos­ses­sion of ma­chine­guns and de­struc­tive de­vices.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ex­pressed con­cern for the safe­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als in Venezuela fol­low­ing re­ports of US mil­i­tary at­tacks in Cara­cas, in­clud­ing claims that Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro was cap­tured.

Pres­i­dent Dr Ir­faan Ali Sat­ur­day said Guyana has ac­ti­vat­ed its “se­cu­ri­ty ar­chi­tec­ture” af­ter the Unit­ed States bombed sev­er­al mil­i­tary and oth­er sites in Venezuela.

Venezuela’s at­tor­ney gen­er­al Tarek William Saab says the he is hold­ing the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment re­spon­si­ble for the safe­ty of Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro and First La­dy Cil­ia Flo­res, fol­low­ing re­ports of a US mil­i­tary strike and claims Maduro was cap­tured and flown out of the coun­try.

The Con­fer­ence of Heads of Gov­ern­ment of Cari­com met very ear­ly to­day fol­low­ing re­ports of mil­i­tary ac­tion in Venezuela.

Venezuela’s Gov­ern­ment has con­demned what it de­scribed as Unit­ed States mil­i­tary at­tacks on Cara­cas and oth­er re­gions ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has said Trinidad and To­ba­go played no role in any Unit­ed States mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions in Venezuela, fol­low­ing claims by US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump that the ac­tion led to the cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has pledged to re­duce road traf­fic fines lat­er this year if road deaths and oth­er se­ri­ous road of­fences de­cline.

Urg­ing adults and chil­dren of St Au­gus­tine South to adopt this as their mantra for the new year, Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment and Rur­al De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen yes­ter­day re­flect­ed on the pos­i­tive strides made with­in the com­mu­ni­ty over the past three years.