A ma­jor Russ­ian air at­tack on Kyiv ear­ly Thurs­day—in­clud­ing a rare strike in the city cen­tre that dam­aged the Eu­ro­pean Union’s diplo­mat­ic of­fices—killed at least 17 peo­ple and wound­ed 48 more, au­thor­i­ties said.

Last week, two mem­bers of the Cab­i­net of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar—Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Kennedy Swarats­ingh and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, John Je­re­mie—ac­tive­ly at­tempt­ed to force the First Cit­i­zens group CEO, Karen Dar­basie, to re­sign.

Buck­le up, sports fans, as we are once again blessed with a boun­ty of im­por­tant sport­ing events over the next few weeks. Let us start with the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL), which bowled off on Au­gust 14 in Bas­seterre, St Kitts.

On Tues­day, the Hin­du com­mu­ni­ty in T&T—and around the world—be­gan ob­serv­ing the ten-day fes­ti­val of Ganesh Ut­sav, ho­n­our­ing the birth of Lord Ganesh, revered as the re­mover of ob­sta­cles and pa­tron of new be­gin­nings.

On the is­sue of the pres­ence of US naval forces in Caribbean and Venezue­lan wa­ters, let us ac­knowl­edge a top­sy-turvy mul­ti-po­lar world in which pow­er mat­ters more, prin­ci­ples mean less and ex­pec­ta­tions are be­ing re­cal­i­brat­ed dai­ly as com­plex geopol­i­tics plays out.