A Russ­ian rock­et at­tack tar­get­ed the north­east­ern Ukrain­ian city of Sumy on Tues­day, killing at least three peo­ple and wound­ing 25, of­fi­cials said.

The Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion has re­called all Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) Let­ter Per­mits num­bered 0001 through 0645, ren­der­ing them in­valid from Ju­ly 1, 2025, as part of an ef­fort to re­form and stream­line the per­mit sys­tem.

The head of the Dis­as­ter Risk Re­duc­tion, Re­cov­ery and Re­silience Build­ing Team at the Unit­ed Na­tions De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme (UNDP) Cri­sis Bu­reau, Ronald Jack­son, says a new re­port is call­ing for a reimag­in­ing of de­vel­op­ment strate­gies in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean (LAC) with a re­silience lens.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has been named the 2025 Peo­ple's Choice win­ner at the Caribbean Glob­al Awards (CGA), fol­low­ing a pub­lic vote that saw her se­cure 3,850 votes—more than any oth­er nom­i­nee in a field of 58 re­gion­al lead­ers.

Lib­er­al can­di­date Lee Jae-myung is fore­cast to win South Ko­rea’s snap pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, a joint ex­it poll on Tues­day showed, two months af­ter his archri­val and then con­ser­v­a­tive Pres­i­dent Yoon Suk Yeol was re­moved from of­fice over his short-lived im­po­si­tion of mar­tial law.

Days af­ter pa­trons were left dis­ap­point­ed by the ab­sence of the head­line acts at the One Caribbean Mu­sic (OCM) Fes­ti­val, two on­line tick­et­ing re­tail­ers have promised that cus­tomers who used their plat­forms to buy tick­ets for the event will be re­im­bursed.

For­mer in­struc­tor at the Po­lice Train­ing Acad­e­my and law en­force­ment in­struc­tor, Oluye­mi Mashama, is urg­ing po­lice of­fi­cers to be mind­ful of the ex­tent of force they use to re­spond to threats.

Di­rec­tor of the Lol­labee Group of Com­pa­nies, Shel­don Stephen, says over $60,000 worth of his com­pa­ny’s light­ing equip­ment was dam­aged by an irate pa­tron who stormed the stage of the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, ear­ly on Sun­day morn­ing.

Se­nior Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Port De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Lim­it­ed (Plipde­co) man­agers, vice pres­i­dent of Busi­ness Ser­vices Niegel Subi­ah and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary Richelle Ly­man, have been fired.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath and the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) are at odds over re­ports of con­tract ex­pi­ra­tions at the state-owned tele­coms provider.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Stu­art Young has opt­ed out of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) in­ter­nal elec­tions card­ed for June 22nd, paving the way for Pen­ne­lope Beck­les to be­come po­lit­i­cal leader un­op­posed.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil has of­fi­cial­ly closed nom­i­na­tions in eight elec­toral dis­tricts for the up­com­ing To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions, with 21 in­di­vid­u­als fil­ing to con­test un­der the par­ty’s ban­ner.