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Blog: Health Matters - A Time Bomb
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 27th of August 2010 - 01:11:00]
Now that the Prime Minister, Dr Navin Ramgoolam, has spoken publicly on the state of health of Mauritians at the two days seminars on cardiovascular diseases held at Maritim Hotel, is it not time for all of us to pay heed to the serious situation we find ourselves in connection with diabetes and cardiovascular diseases of Mauritians? Health should be a major concern for all of us, not only for the Minister of Health or the doctors, nurses and health personnel.
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Blog: Pravind’s Mantra - Restructure and Modernize
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 20th of August 2010 - 01:18:00]
The opposition and the media have not found anything better to say on the policies announced by Pravind Jugnauth to face the Euro Zone crisis and to restructure for the long term resilience of the Mauritian economy than it is a continuation of Rama Sithanen’s stimulus package....
Blog: Return of Voluntarism?
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 13th of August 2010 - 00:53:00]
A feature of the last general elections which was set aside in the background, not fully acknowledged, was the contribution of volunteers in ensuring the victory of l’Alliance de l’Avenir and the honorable performance of the opposition....
Blog: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari abandons dying Pakistanis in favour of Europeans
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Monday 9th of August 2010 - 03:59:00]
« Zardari's decision to visit Europe as Pakistan is ravaged by floods reflects the elite's flagrant indifference to human suffering », Mustapha Qadri in « Pakistan’s corrosive inequality », Guardian 4 August 2010. In times when Pakistani politicians have turned their guns on their own people to help the terror of Europeans in their occupation of Afghanistan, and in times when Pakistanis are dying in their thousands as a result of floods not known in Pakistan for nearly 100 years, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari decided to leave Pakistan for Europe to pledge, through his big smiles, his support for their terror in killing more Pakistanis rather than demanding that they remove their destabilising, murderous and terrorist forces from the entire region and for the responsible countries to be tried for war crimes, genocides and crimes against humanity....
Blog: Dubreuil Squatters - Tip of the Iceberg
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 6th of August 2010 - 01:49:00]
That the Prime Minister has deemed it fit to comment personally on the Dubreuil squatters issue shows that the matter is serious. Houses of these unfortunate people have been destroyed and they have been thrown on the streets in this cold weather. Fortunately, government reacted and acted swiftly and asked Minister Kasenally to find a solution. At present, the squatters are being lodged in the old Dubreuil tea factory....
Blog: L’Express witch-hunt against Cehl Meeah
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Thursday 5th of August 2010 - 16:22:00]
« IL Y A 16 JOURS, LE VENDREDI 16 JUILLET, UNE FILLE DE 16 ANS, DANS LA CHAMBRE 216 D’UN HÔTEL À ….. VERDICT = SEIZE ÈLECTRIQUE! » (l’Express Dimanche 1 août 2010)...
Blog: Raffick Goolfee’s role in the Cehl-Noorah affair
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Friday 30th of July 2010 - 01:57:00]
The fragmented background of the story is that 16 year old Bibi Noorah Careem (initially referred to as ‘Shenaz’ in the press), daughter of Mr & Mrs Haysan Abdool Careem, attempted to commit suicide on two occasions after her boyfriend left her and that her parents could not control her because she was allegedly rebellious and having late nights out....
Blog: Should we sleep on our laurels?
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 30th of July 2010 - 02:27:00]
Last week I felt very good and I am sure every Mauritian must have felt the same on learning the results of the African Peer Review Country Report on Mauritius presented at AU meeting in Kampala in the presence of African Heads of State and our Prime Minister, Navin Ramgoolam....
Blog: Père Souchon, pasteur et rassembleur
[Written by Dawood Auleear (Guest Author) on Friday 30th of July 2010 - 02:24:00]
Voici qu’approche l’heure du départ à la retraite d’un rassembleur du peuple mauricien et pasteur d’une Eglise qu’il a voulue sans frontières, et ce, en son 86e anniversaire....
Blog: Need of the hour - A new mindset
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 23rd of July 2010 - 01:04:00]
With the recent publication of the Director of Audit’s report, I noticed same sorts of remarks, comments which are made year in year out after the publication of the statutory report....
Blog: Should Education be replaced with ‘ledikasyon’?
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Friday 16th of July 2010 - 00:44:00]
A linguist is expected to know the nature and structure of the world’s languages without having to be an expert in any of them....
Blog: Age of austerity and productivity
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 16th of July 2010 - 00:41:00]
Who would have imagined or believed that Europe particularly the Euro zone countries would have gone on the austerity mode....
Blog: La France est grande
[Written by Dawood Auleear (Guest Author) on Wednesday 14th of July 2010 - 14:22:00]
Excellence,
C’est un grand plaisir et naturellement un honneur de vous adresser ces quelques lignes lors de votre journée nationale. La France est grande, Ile Maurice est petite; mais par-delà de cette différence et de bien tant d’autres, nous sommes unis par l’histoire et surtout par la langue française, un symbole d’égalité et une pourvoyeuse des valeurs universelles....
Blog: Disease of the SAME
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 9th of July 2010 - 02:40:00]
Watching the national scene and observing the trends, I am afraid that we have caught the disease of the SAME. Nothing abnormal. We can hardly do much, perhaps it is unavoidable. Throughout the world, we find multinationals spreading their tentacles and Mauritius is no exception. Hypermarkets are cropping up everywhere. They display the SAME goods. They successfully change consumer behaviour. The stores look the SAME. All have trendy shops displaying international brands: drugstore, bookstore, food court....
Blog: CSR Fair - Partnering with NGOs
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 2nd of July 2010 - 01:22:00]
A golden opportunity was provided to NGOs to show their work and activities at the CSR fair organized at the SVICC on Monday and Tuesday 28th and 29th June respectively. It was a unique fair....
Blog: The stolen goal which deprived England the quarter finals
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Tuesday 29th of June 2010 - 20:15:00]
Watching the knockout round in the last 16 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup (South Africa) between Germany and England on Sunday 27 June 2010, I cannot help expressing my revulsion with the referee’s decision to disallow a clear goal against Germany, wrong and evident bias decision which clearly turned the tide against England which ended up losing 4-1....
Blog: Dev Virahsawmy - ‘Motia Hindi’ or ‘Créole grossier’ ?
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Monday 28th of June 2010 - 06:38:00]
In his article « On Bhojpuri », Défi Blog 25 June 2010, Dev Virahsawmy attempts, on the one hand, to insult and demean the Bhojpuri language (spoken and written), which is the mother tongue and ancestral language of around 150 million people worldwide and around 70% of Mauritians who are of Indian origin and, on the other hand, to elevate the spoken language of slaves, which is branded as creole, into a prestigious language. His 300 word article is so full of inaccuracies, wild unsubstantiated claims that readers should be made aware through relevant explanations....
Blog: L’anglais est-il menacé aujourd’hui?
[Written by Noor Adam Essack (Guest Author) on Saturday 26th of June 2010 - 13:51:00]
Depuis ses origines en Angleterre, la langue anglaise n’a cessé d’accroitre son importance et d’asseoir son hégémonie dans le monde entier, surtout à partir du XVIIe siècle. Langue par excellence de la communauté scientifique, langue privilégiée du monde des affaires, langue officielle des pays du Commonwealth, enfin langue internationale – l’anglais est incontestablement la langue la plus parlée aux quatre coins de la planète....
Blog: MSPA/JNP Agreement - A major feat
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 25th of June 2010 - 05:45:00]
‘Na pas grate le dos malheur.’ No message could have been expressed in clearer terms to all parties involved in discussions to reach an agreement concerning the wages and conditions of service of the workers of the sugar industry....
Blog: Arrestable offences - Is Rama Sithanen pleading provocation and/or justification?
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Thursday 24th of June 2010 - 10:24:00]
In a statement given to the Police on 19 February 2010, Rashid Imrith, President of the Government General Services Union, alleged that on 10th February 2010, Rama Sithanen, then Minister of Finance and Deputy PM, called him twice on his cellular phone, abused him and make threats against him, thus making him fear for his own safety. If proven, this constitutes a criminal offence under the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICTA). Following Police investigations, Rama Sithanen was arrested on 16 June 2010, charged under the Act and released on bail....
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