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Saturday, May 31, 2025

Large turnout for Caura Monday river lime

by

Jesse Ramdeo
1902 days ago
20200316

The lyrics from chut­ney artistes Ravi B and Rakesh Yankaran’s 2015 hit “Mon­day” summed up the po­si­tion tak­en by sev­er­al cit­i­zens on Monday, that de­spite a glob­al pan­dem­ic and warn­ings to avoid large gath­er­ings, “every Mon­day is Cau­ra, yes every Mon­day is riv­er.”

Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed vis­it­ed the pop­u­lar lim­ing spot yes­ter­day and short­ly af­ter mid­day there were all the el­e­ments of a good “Tri­ni” riv­er lime.

At Cau­ra, mu­sic was blast­ing, pots were bub­bling, as peo­ple ap­peared to throw cau­tion to the wind and the rev­el­ry all went down while Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley was is­su­ing a warn­ing to the na­tion that “gath­er­ings be­yond twen­ty-five per­sons should be avoid­ed at all costs.”

From the young to the not so young, they con­gre­gat­ed along the riv­er bed where just a few me­ters away in­fect­ed peo­ple were be­ing quar­an­tined at the Cau­ra Hos­pi­tal.

Tents were al­so be­ing con­struct­ed sig­nalling that some in­tend­ed to ride out the wave for as long as it takes.

Ac­cord­ing to school maxi-taxi dri­ver Han­sraj Sam­lal, the threats posed by the coro­n­avirus weren’t enough to keep him at bay, “I not re­al­ly con­cerned but if some­thing have to hap­pen it just hap­pen, you can­not hide, so I just came out and said let’s come and lime, I not work­ing for this week so I take the week off and come down with my nephew to buss ah lime.”

While con­cerns over Covid-19 have not stopped peo­ple from en­joy­ing the out­doors, health of­fi­cials are rec­om­mend­ing that peo­ple, es­pe­cial­ly those with un­der­ly­ing con­di­tions like hy­per­ten­sion and car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, avoid crowds and prac­tice so­cial dis­tanc­ing—keep­ing a safe dis­tance away from oth­ers.


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