VENEZUELA's vice president has vowed his country's security services will stay on high alert after his government claimed to have arrested a "group of terrorists" entering the country via Trinidad and Tobago.

Diosdado Cabello was addressing the swearing-in ceremony on June 4 for the governor of Monagas state (Ernesto Luna) following recent municipal elections in Venezuela. His speech was reported by Telesur news agency which has very close ties to the administration of President Nicholas Maduro, who himself had earlier announced the alleged incursion.

Meanwhile in TT, a statement by the Ministry of Defence headed by Wayne Sturge said the TT authorities did not know of the individuals described by Maduro as ever being in TT but that border surveillance was being heightened.