{"id":9593,"date":"2022-01-27T06:34:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T06:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/about-excellence-in-sports-slaughtering-trees"},"modified":"2022-01-27T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T07:08:18","slug":"about-excellence-in-sports-slaughtering-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/about-excellence-in-sports-slaughtering-trees","title":{"rendered":"About Excellence in Sports + Slaughtering Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Ref: \u2018All for excellence: But why in sports only?\u2019 by Dr R Neerunjun Gopee, in your edition of 19 July 19: One ex- Minister of Youth and Sports in the 90s never missed an opportunity to question the importance given to the list of best CPE and HSC Laureate awardees being broadcast on radio and other media.<\/p>\n

He was also the one who abolished a minimum cash token given to literary and sports clubs which existed mostly in the villages. These debating\/ literary\/ sports clubs disappeared from the Mauritian scene.<\/p>\n

He believed in excellence\u2026 not in education but in sports. The inter-village and inter sports federations activities were abolished as he wanted an elite sports for a handful of people in Mauritius.<\/p>\n

He has been successful! Where are the sports federations which federated all Mauritian youths? Hon Toolsiraj Benydin, MLA and PPS knows something about it!<\/p>\n

The result has been increase in juvenile delinquency, proliferation of all types of drugs not only in villages but in schools and secondary schools. Who will reverse the catastrophic situation?<\/p>\n

Vinay R A tribute to those magnificent huge trees which have been \u2018slaughtered\u2019 in the name of Innovation Gone are those iconic spruce trees which were once viewed as picturesque \u2018jewels\u2019 adding to the beauty of our \u2018paradise\u2019 island.<\/p>\n

I helplessly watched those which adorned the boring highway of Curepipe\/Floreal (also known as Swami Sivananda Road) being taken down by a merciless \u2018executioner\u2019 who was paid to exterminate my harmless friend trees that pleaded to God raising their \u2018leafless arms\u2019 praying for mercy.<\/p>\n

Each blow from the mechanical axe to chop them down stabbed my heart. As they wept, so did my heart. It will forever remain scarred. I close my puffed eyes and recalled my childhood days spent admiring them nesting those weary little robins hurrying into their open arms every evening in quest of finding solace and refuge in their mother\u2019s laps.<\/p>\n

Today, many claim that I should \u201clet go\u201d and \u201cmove on\u201d. I should \u201caccept\u201d the sacrifice of my friends in the name of infrastructural development: The Metro Express.<\/p>\n

I, however, remain speechless to those who have lost their \u2018innocence\u2019 and can no more hear the trees laugh with a voice of joy as the little birds tickle them and play amidst their branches.<\/p>\n

Today, I mourn their deaths despite the fact that the elected leaders promised and pacified many who have been deeply affected like me saying new trees will be planted to replace the ones soon gone and easily forgotten.<\/p>\n

This brings me to a quote by William Blake \u201cThe tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.<\/p>\n

Some see nature all ridicule and deformity\u2026 and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself\u201d. Kushida D. Fulena<\/p>\n

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