The articles, the opinions, the stories and the cartoons, Ovi magazine covers for Thursday 14th, 2021
Has squandering of public wealth become the new norm? by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
This year the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York city was poorly attended in-person by the world leaders. Only about 73 heads of state and 31 heads of government attended the event. Under measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 , member states had agreed to limit the delegations entering UN headquarters with a leader or minister to six people, with only four of them allowed in the General Assembly chamber.
Rather than coming in person, many world leaders chose to deliver their speech virtually over the internet. Perhaps a wise decision from many fiscally smart leaders who were by no means unmindful of the mere fact that virtual meetings cannot substitute for in-person one-to-one or group contacts to tackle regional and global challenges and crises.
But what could justify the decision of some leaders from poorer nations who had defied logic and common sense and chose to spend tens of millions of hard-earned foreign currency to deliver their speech in person? Did the cost-benefit analysis justify their rather extravagant trip?
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Come to me #poem by Osy Mizpah Unuevho
“pick a choice object of the earth,
it is not today these hands river in
places lacking
stars in
their death seasons in our eyes, the
hunger of beauty”
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Worming 21_19 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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