Po­lice are prob­ing what they be­lieve is the mur­der of an 82-year-old pen­sion­er, whose body was burnt close to his home in Va­len­cia.

Amid the hus­tle, bus­tle and bur­geon­ing life of east Port-of-Spain stands the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion. Its blue lime­stone blocks tow­er in­to the sky, rep­re­sent­ing both a ge­o­graph­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal land­mark east of the na­tion’s cap­i­tal.

Tiger Woods got out of jail and in­to the pas­sen­ger seat of a dark SUV, his face as va­cant as his mug shot as he was dri­ven away to a fu­ture again filled with so much un­cer­tain­ty.

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has re­port­ed acts of van­dal­ism at four crit­i­cal wa­ter sup­ply fa­cil­i­ties in To­ba­go, warn­ing that the dam­age has dis­rupt­ed ser­vice to sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties.

The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to fair and trans­par­ent over­time com­pen­sa­tion for nurs­ing staff, as in­dus­tri­al ten­sions con­tin­ue to build with­in the pub­lic health sec­tor.

Iran­ian-backed Houthi rebels en­tered the month-old war in the Mid­dle East on Sat­ur­day by claim­ing a mis­sile launch that Is­rael said it in­ter­cept­ed. Pak­istan said re­gion­al pow­ers plan to meet Sun­day on how to end the war, while Iran ex­pressed scep­ti­cism about the diplo­mat­ic ef­forts.

Haiti’s Pro­vi­sion­al Elec­toral Coun­cil (CEP) has ap­proved 282 po­lit­i­cal par­ties and coali­tions to par­tic­i­pate in up­com­ing elec­tions, mark­ing a step for­ward in a long-de­layed process un­fold­ing amid deep in­se­cu­ri­ty and po­lit­i­cal un­cer­tain­ty.

Twelve peo­ple, in­clud­ing a re­tired US cit­i­zen, were charged with dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of al­co­hol dur­ing a five-hour po­lice ex­er­cise in Port of Spain to­day.

Va­len­cia po­lice have iden­ti­fied the man found burnt at Alex­is Cir­cu­lar, Plan­ta­tion Road, as James Le Carde.

Cab­i­net has agreed to work with the Spir­i­tu­al Shouter Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty to es­tab­lish a long-await­ed sec­ondary school, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an­nounced in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie says on as­sum­ing of­fice, he met out­stand­ing in­voic­es left by the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment gov­ern­ment for le­gal fees to­tal­ing $151,611,135.22, of which $82,393,780.12 has since been paid - and those paid the high­est in that sum in­clud­ed four for­eign law firms as well as Is­rael Khan, SC, and cur­rent House Speak­er Jagdeo Singh.

The At­tor­ney Gen­er­al’s Of­fice has paid the sum of $346,812,665.33 thus far for work on mat­ters re­lat­ing to the col­lapse of Cli­co.