In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to a fire that broke out at a Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty safe­house in San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day.

Ozzy Os­bourne, the gloomy, de­mon-in­vok­ing lead singer of the pi­o­neer­ing band Black Sab­bath who be­came the throaty, growl­ing voice — and drug-and-al­co­hol rav­aged id — of heavy met­al, died Tues­day, just weeks af­ter his farewell show. He was 76.

Cus­tomers across North, Cen­tral and South Trinidad will face tem­po­rary wa­ter dis­rup­tions on Thurs­day night due to emer­gency main­te­nance at the Ca­roni Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant.

More than 1,000 Pales­tini­ans have been killed since May while try­ing to get food in the Gaza Strip, most­ly in the vicin­i­ty of aid sites run by an Is­raeli-backed Amer­i­can con­trac­tor, the Unit­ed Na­tions hu­man rights of­fice said Tues­day. Is­raeli strikes killed 25 peo­ple across Gaza, ac­cord­ing to lo­cal health of­fi­cials.

Au­thor­i­ties in Bermu­da said Tues­day that they ar­rest­ed four U.S. cruise ship pas­sen­gers ac­cused of drug pos­ses­sion.

The Po­lice Ser­vice is con­firm­ing that the crime syn­di­cate it says has been en­gag­ing in “kid­nap­pings as a rev­enue stream for ac­quir­ing weapons”, re­mains iso­lat­ed from their col­leagues, as dis­man­tling op­er­a­tions con­tin­ue.

A man was killed last night af­ter he was struck by a ve­hi­cle while at­tempt­ing to cross the Solomon Ho­choy High­way in an un­lit area near the Debe over­pass.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is as­sur­ing the pub­lic that the crime syn­di­cate whose ac­tiv­i­ties prompt­ed the de­c­la­ra­tion of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency, is be­ing dis­man­tled, piece-by-piece.

A sec­ond sus­pect in the kid­nap­ping of Jankie Satie Karim was shot and killed dur­ing a late-night po­lice op­er­a­tion on Mon­day, hours af­ter the 44-year-old vic­tim was res­cued.

Lazarus was at the home of a 27-year-old pie ven­dor at Emer­ald Dri­ve, Roys­to­nia, along with three oth­er men, when the in­ci­dent oc­curred.

Af­ter eight days in cap­tiv­i­ty, kid­nap vic­tim Jankie Satie Karim is now back home safe and sound.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is claim­ing his name has been placed on an In­ter­pol watch list and is now de­mand­ing an­swers from both Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro about what al­leged crime trig­gered the list­ing.