March 2020 – Correspondent.World

The pugnacious creator of “Sin City”, much beloved by members of South Africa’s apartheid government, and later also by the country’s black rulers, has died.

29 March 2020 By Paul Martin

Paul Martin was chosen by the BBC, because he had reported from sSouth Africa for it, to discuss the liefe and role of Sol Kerzner, who died days before. His conversation with Last Word begins at 7 minutes 49 seconds into the BBC’s audio file. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gn6n Sol Kerzner’s vast hotel and gambling resort in South […]

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Corona Virus aboard! On their 66th wedding anniversary, a ghoulish visitor arrives.

19 March 2020 By Paul Martin

Exclusive. By Paul Martin of correspondent.world When Alan and Gwen Cohen cautiously opened their cabin door they saw a ghoulish vision: two ghostly figures, dressed in shimmering white suits and masks. “They looked like they came from another world,” Alan Cohen told correspondent.world in a WhatsApp call from the cabin later.

Month: March 2020

The fine print in a statistical report on the Covid-19 crisis published today (March 30) shows that hundreds more are dead than the UK government previously admitted. (Correspondent.world told you so a week ago.)

Protected: Body-bags at hospitals running out, say UK medical sources. There are shortages, health authority finally admits.

The pugnacious creator of “Sin City”, much beloved by members of South Africa’s apartheid government, and later also by the country’s black rulers, has died.

The government says around 1,000 people died from Corona Virus up to the last weekend of March. But we can reveal the truth. The death toll in Britain from the killer virus is at least double.

Protected: How to deal with adversity. “I’ve had plenty of it, during my career as a foreign and war correspondent.. Maybe, as I recount how I emerged unscathed from various ‘spots of bother’, you might find some useful ideas for dealing with the current crisis…”

Stark sign of Corona virus escalation in Britain. Hospitals plan patients’ transfer.

Statistics ‘vastly underestimate’ crisis in British hospitals over the corona virus.

Elderly passengers on stricken cruise ship finally get “pack your bags” order. But did it take far too long?

Son of elderly British couple protests at government’s ‘double standards’ for rescue of quarantined cruise passengers.

Corona Virus aboard! On their 66th wedding anniversary, a ghoulish visitor arrives.

Stranded. Passengers on the quarantined corona virus Silver Shadow cruise ship held in Brazil have a story to tell. Boredom is the main emotion of the two oldest (but feisty) Britons on board.

Corona Virus brings end to tradition – no more kissing the Wall in Jerusalem. PS: Personal notes to God still welcome.

A British couple in late eighties are “bored but well” as a cruise liner remains stranded in a Brazilian port. Even the rubbish has to stay on board. A case of one Corona Virus patient wrecking a dream holiday for hundreds.