A 30-year-old woman who appeared in a TikTok video urging Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to kill Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be sentenced on December 18 after pleading guilty before a Chaguanas magistrate.
Alianna Samaroo, a mother of two boys, entered a guilty plea on December 3, 2025, before Magistrate Marissa Gomez. The magistrate accepted her plea to a charge brought under the Emergency Powers Regulations 2025.
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Police said that on October 30, Samaroo posted a TikTok video under the username “alianna265” in which she called on Maduro to kill Persad-Bissessar and members of the Cabinet. She was granted bail in the amount of TT$50,000.
Samaroo’s mother, Elizabeth Vasquez-Rosales, publicly appealed for forgiveness and said she hoped the arrest would teach her daughter not to disrespect the prime minister or Parliament.
Late last month, Commissioner of Police Allister Guevarro warned that social media users who issue threats or attempt to destabilize the country will face prosecution.
On Tuesday, the police reported that a 48-year-old man had been charged after threatening to kill former foreign affairs minister Dr. Amery Browne and members of his family. Authorities said the man was charged with three counts of threats to kill and four counts of misuse of an electronic device after an investigation into social media threats targeting Browne.
According to the police, Browne discovered threatening comments posted by a Facebook user on November 19. The comments, posted in response to public posts made on November 8 and November 9, contained threats to kill him and his children. Browne told investigators he had no prior connection to the individual.
Meanwhile, six people, including two women, have been discharged by the High Court after prosecutors failed to file an indictment in a separate case. Some of the individuals had previously been held under ministerial preventative detention orders during the state of emergency declared on December 30, 2024, and were later charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
The group had been accused of conspiring to kill a prison officer. However, the court ruled that the case could not proceed because the state submitted no evidence. Master Delicia Bethelmy made the ruling after being advised that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions had received no police file and had not filed the indictment required for the sufficiency hearing.
Defense attorneys argued that the state also missed all disclosure deadlines established in a scheduling order issued on April 14, which required the indictment, witness statements, and all intended evidence to be submitted by July 31.
Bethelmy ruled that, under section 11 of the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act, and without any 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 individuals discharged under Rule 5(9)(5)(c) of the Criminal Procedure Rules.
The six had allegedly participated in a plot to kill a prison officer between January 15 and January 29.
