National honours call for a national approach
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The effects of COVID or not, it is expected that National Heroes Day will be observed this year, albeit in scaled-down circumstances. Pride of place will be the annual tribute to our National Hero, Paramount Chief Chatoyer, at the obelisk at Dorsetshire Hill, believed to be his place of death.
This year the tribute to our National hero has far wider-reaching connotations, for in the context of the COVID pandemic, there are many persons worthy of national appreciation for the selfless and heroic role that they are playing. How many of us would be willing to risk the lives and safety of ourselves and our precious families to take care of patients of the Mental Health Centre, badly affected by the virus, or the prisons for that matter?