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Blog: Unpatriotic Mentality
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Friday 27th of January 2012 - 02:03:00]


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.

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Blog: Free Textbooks
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 27th of January 2012 - 02:19:00]


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....

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Blog: Strong Institutions needed
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 27th of January 2012 - 02:08:00]


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....

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Blog: The best Winning System
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Friday 20th of January 2012 - 02:44:00]


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....

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Blog: Tough Year, tough Times
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 20th of January 2012 - 02:39:00]


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....

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Blog: Addendum necessary for the Reform Agenda
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 20th of January 2012 - 02:40:00]


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....

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Blog: Lettre ouverte à Soodarsun Jugessur
[Written by Dr Dinesh Hurreeram (Guest Author) on Sunday 15th of January 2012 - 17:05:00]


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....

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Blog: The ‘indignés’ and the Ambitious
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Saturday 14th of January 2012 - 03:12:00]


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?...

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Blog: Our Ambition at Dawn 2012
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 6th of January 2012 - 02:42:00]


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....

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Blog: What has changed?
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Friday 6th of January 2012 - 02:57:00]


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....

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Blog: Final Resolutions
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 6th of January 2012 - 02:44:00]


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....

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Blog: Mauritians become like Jamaicans as they lose their Identities
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Saturday 31st of December 2011 - 16:45:00]


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"....

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Blog: To Hell with Remake
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Friday 30th of December 2011 - 11:56:00]


Day in and day out, week after week Paul Berenger the leader of the opposition states that there will be no Labour/MMM alliance and that the MMM option is a remake of the 2000 MMM/MSM alliance with Sir Anerood Jugnauth as the leader of that alliance....

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Blog: Ministry of Education’s Epiphany
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 30th of December 2011 - 12:00:00]


Reports say the Ministry of Education is unhappy with CPE results of 2011. Let it be understood why CPE cannot grow out of the mire and miasma in which our system is locked....

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Blog: Carcassonne Report on New Year Menu?
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 30th of December 2011 - 12:02:00]


I believe the Carcassonne Report on electoral reforms will definitely be a part of discussions during New Year celebrations among family and friends. It is healthy for every citizen to exercise his basic right to express himself freely on all matters of public interests - in fact on all matters in a democracy....

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Blog: Remake 2000 - What a Pity!
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Monday 26th of December 2011 - 10:55:00]


MMM today is reduced to seeking a remake of 2000 alliance to come back to power. The condition is that Sir Anerood Jugnauth, President of the Republic, resigns and leads the alliance. This condition means that the present MSM led by Pravind Jugnauth is worthless. But who remembers and cares for the remake of 2000 alliance?...

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Blog: Reforms in the Senior Scholarship System
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Monday 26th of December 2011 - 10:59:00]


Mauritius is a brilliant example of a democracy solicitous of providing equal opportunities to all,using the tools of positive discrimination to bring further equality where nature and accident have created disparities....

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Blog: Are We ready for Proportional Representation?
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Monday 26th of December 2011 - 11:02:00]


The topic of electoral reform has been in the air for ages now. A weighted majority is required to bring in any changes to the Constitution to implement any electoral reform whatever form it takes. We nearly headed towards an electoral reform under the MMM/MSM regime that swept to power in 2000. Though that coalition had more than the required weighted majority it beat about the bush as the two partners did not see eye to eye on the proposed changes....

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Blog: Is forgiveness realistic?
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 16th of December 2011 - 01:21:00]


The Truth and Justice Commission has recommended ‘reparations’ instead of compensation for the harm done to slaves. Here again it is interpretation that saves the foundational authors of the report. Apart from the rapacious occupation, seizure, prescription or robbery of land belonging to the poor and weak, the damage has been psychological, economic and spiritual....

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Blog: Our Dream, Fear and Uncertainty
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 16th of December 2011 - 01:19:00]


Fear and uncertainty which has been gripping America since the subprime crisis in 2006 and the present euro zone countries have caused persistent risks to the economic health, high unemployment, debt and low growth in developed countries and access to financing for developing countries....

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