Pride & Tourism: Two Antigua resorts—Pineapple Beach Club Antigua and The Verandah Resort and Spa—have publicly reaffirmed LGBTQIA+ welcome during Pride Month, using social posts that promise guests “belonging” and “authentic hospitality.” Carnival Culture: The Ministry of Creative Industries’ Department of Culture is set to host a Soca and Calypso Adjudicators’ Training Workshop on June 20, with hands-on scoring, rubric use, bias awareness, and performance analysis for Soca Monarch, Party Monarch, and Calypso Monarch judges. Barbuda Preparedness: Barbuda has completed a UNESCO IOC “Tsunami Ready” exercise (May 26–28), bringing schools and disaster officials together for hazard education, evacuation planning, and public awareness content. Work Permits: Cabinet says work permit rules will be tightened so employers must show they recruited qualified nationals first, with stricter transparency on where vacancies were advertised. Sports & Community: Work continues on the Potters Sports Field Redevelopment, with new courts, a dual-purpose field, Little League diamond, play area, walking trail, and a half-sized Olympic pool—aimed at youth pathways. Medical Community: Tributes continue after surgeon Dr. Radhakrishnan Krishna was found dead outside his Belmont home; police investigations are ongoing.