Blog: Party Malin steals the limelight

At different epochs in the young history of our university, we have paused to enquire about the profile of a typical university student. He is not a student who needs to be spoon-fed. In fact the major distraction in the upper secondary system lies in narrowing knowledge to the strict frontiers dictated by the syllabus and learning only for what is examinable....

The debate on electoral reforms must go on and on and on until every section of  society is convinced that it is in the interest of the nation and nation building that the Best Loser System is abolished and a dose of PR is introduced. At present, in the First Past the Post System, the votes cast in favour of the losing party are totally wasted....

The Muslims gathered in large numbers to bolster their crusade to maintain the Best Loser System (BLS). The intellectuals, or whatever, who were present at that gathering dished out their belief that without the BLS the Muslim minority will not feel secure in the country....

Hon. PM Dr Navin Ramgoolam was invited at an Islamic function on 5th February 2012 at Aleemiah College Phoenix on the occasion of Yaum-un-Nabee, the anniversary of the birth of the Holy Prophet of Islam, Muhammad ibn Abdullah (saw), a religion which has existed for over 1400 years....

Part of the written media built up a huge publicity around the broadcasting of a feature on Mauritius by channel M6 that is broadcast by MC vision. Those behind that publicity relished with glee the fact that the feature would focus on the negative aspects of life in Mauritius....

Why shouldn't government decide to relieve parents of the heavy financial burden of spending thousands of rupees on textbooks which differ from school to school, and which give way to the production of poorly conceived books by Mauritian authors? Some of these authors hide behind American/British pennames in order to lure readers....

US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said during a recent visit to Ivory Coast, that democracy does not mean only free and fair elections. Democracy also requires an independent judiciary, a free press and strong institutions....

Talks are still going on the issue of electoral reforms. We have had the benefit of the Sachs report as amended by Mr. Ivan Collendavelloo and destroyed by the MSM when that party was in a coalition with the MMM. We have had the benefit of the Carcassonne report that has generated much controversy. The backbone of the reforms of Carcassonne is proportional representation. It is appropriate to go down memory lane here as Great Britain as the colonial power succumbed to the conservatives' point of view following the 1955 constitutional conference that took place in London from 12 to 20 July 1955....

The right to be happy, the right to happiness and celebration has been fully exercised by all Mauritians during Christmas and New Year. I come from a culture which celebrates life and in which life includes death, from one's birth to one's demise. This is the ultimate truth. But in between we should not forgo our right to be happy and to celebrate....

If the need to nurture an elite remains in the agenda of the Minister of Education, and if this elite tactically blends with the mass in a spirit of equal opportunities and within the framework of democracy, the admission of students of CPE or its variant will only help to divide our State Secondary Schools into three main categories - the star schools, the less popular and yet well performing schools like the France Boyer de la Giroday SSS or Sodnac SSS, and the least popular schools that are associated with rowdy youth, demotivated teachers, poor school leadership and therefore poor academic performance....

Cher Monsieur Jugessur

Vous avez donné des entrevues à droite et à gauche pour essayer de justifier votre injustifiable comportement. Le public a droit à la vérité et pour lui rendre la tâche facile nous vous posons ces quelques questions. De grâce, répondez par des simple OUI ou NON et n’essayez surtout pas de noyer le poisson dans des marécages de confidentialité, ‘gagging order’ ou secrets imaginaire....

The MMM professes to be a party with original ideas that will save Mauritius from all evils real or imaginary. It also claims to hold the monopoly of good governance and solutions in Mauritius. The MMM has been in government in 1982 for ten months; in 1991 for two years; in 1995 for two years and in 2000 for five years. In what way has it changed the evils that it says are besetting Mauritius?...

A small step is being taken at dawn 2012 to set us on the path of realizing our dream of becoming a developed country, a high income country. Our civil service and para statal bodies will remain open on Saturdays....

Nothing has changed in the approach and thinking of the MMM. If we go back to the press of the seventies when the MMM were not represented in Parliament and even after the 1976 general elections, the clarion call of that party has been general elections. If it depended on the MMM they would hold general elections every six months....

It would have been strange if we had lived a specially cosy 2011 in the midst of floundering European and American economies, in the offing of the Arab uprising which saw the death, expulsion and murder of tyrants, dictators and political psychopaths like Bin Laden....

The Bible is, for the first time, being translated into Jamaican patois, which is a Creole language. But many Jamaican Christians say Creole "dilutes the word of God" and "patois words that we would want to use to fully explain what was in the original (Bible), are words that are vulgar"....