A 30 year-old woman, who appeared in a TikTok video calling on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to kill Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be sentenced on December 18 after she pleaded guilty before a Chaguanas magistrate.
Alianna Samaroo, 30, a mother of two boys, pleaded guilty to the offence on Wednesday, when she appeared before Magistrate Marissa Gomez, who accepted Samaroo’s guilty plea to a charge under the Emergency Powers Regulations 2025.
Police alleged that on October 30 Samaroo posted a TikTok video under the username “alianna265” in which she urged Maduro to kill Persad-Bissessar and members of the Cabinet.
Samaroo was granted TT$50,000 (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) bail.
Her mother, Elizabeth Vasquez-Rosales, had issued a public appeal for forgiveness, saying she hoped the arrest taught her daughter not to disrespect the prime minister or Parliament.
Late last month, Commissioner of Police, Allister Guevarro warned social-media users who issue threats or attempt to destabilise the country will face prosecution.
On Tuesday, the police said a 48-year-old man had been charged after he threatened to kill former foreign affairs minister Dr. Amery Browne and members of his family.
The police said that the male suspect had been charged with three counts of threats to kill and four counts of misuse of an electronic device, following an investigation into threats made on social media against Browne.
The police said that on November 19 this year, Browne discovered threatening comments posted by a Facebook user on his personal Facebook page.
“The comments, made in response to public posts from November 8th 2025 and November 9th 2025, contained threats to kill the victim and his children. The victim confirmed to investigators that he had no prior connection to the user,” the police said in a statement.
Meanwhile, six people, including two women, some of whom were previously held under ministerial preventative detention orders (PDO) during the previous state of emergency (SoE), and later charged with conspiracy to murder, were discharged by the High Court after prosecutors failed to file an indictment.
The group had been charged with conspiring to murder a prison officer, but the court ruled it could not proceed because the state submitted no evidence.
Master Delicia Bethelmy made the ruling after being told the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) had received no police file and had not filed an indictment required for the sufficiency hearing.
Defence attorneys argued the state also missed all disclosure deadlines set by a scheduling order issued April 14, which required an indictment, statements, and all intended evidence by July 31.
Bethelmy ruled that, under section 11 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act, and with no application from the State to extend the deadline, the court had no indictment to consider and no evidence on which it could act. She ordered all six discharged under Rule 5(9)(5)(c) of the Criminal Procedure Rules.
The six accused were alleged to have participated in a plot to kill a prison officer between January 15 and 29. They were held held under PDOs in February during the previous SoE, declared on December 30, 2024. (CMC)
