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Blog: Let Dynasty die a natural Death
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 12th of August 2011 - 14:25:00]


Pravind Jugnauth took an irrational, impulsive, autocratic decision to make ministers resign from their post at a critical stage of the evolution of the country. We are tightrope walking on the thin line of economic success and we are on the verge of a churning cauldron. Our products are meant for an elite. We have always targeted up-market consumers in textile and tourism. We have laid too much emphasis on intelligence and creativity in the productive sector. The Euro zone is suffering from the excess of a society living beyond its means and the dollar is subjective to a superpower that does not deserve to be either 'super' or 'power'.


Blog: Broken Alliance - what Next?
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 12th of August 2011 - 14:29:00]


How can we trust politicians after the sayings and doings and general behavior of Pravind Jugnauth and his team during the last few days?...

“What future is there for the MSM if both Labour and MMM dump it? Can it stand on its own in a three-cornered fight?”

Blog: Only Option - Complete the Mandate
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 5th of August 2011 - 02:31:00]


The one and only option, I believe, Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has in the present political situation is to complete the remaining four years of his mandate....

Blog: Wealth and Success through Venality and Graft
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 5th of August 2011 - 02:37:00]


The era of moral rectitude is beating its wings of imminent death. The success earned through tenacious honesty, obstinate moral uprightness without compromise, through sacrifice, hard work and perseverance are things of the past. You will be mocked at if you do not slip a cracking note of Rs 1000 in your booklet, if you do not jump queues by seeking connections with those in power. I enjoy wrestling matches of the World Wrestling Federation and am a weekly witness of those who win by tricks, deception and deliberate diversion as long as the referee is kept ignorant of these ploys....

Pravind Jugnauth in fighting mood.

Blog: Pravind Jugnauth attacks and challenges ICAC
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Wednesday 3rd of August 2011 - 02:15:00]


Pravind Jugnauth even tried to intimidate ICAC by challenging them to summon him. He said « Si l’ICAC énan fiel, dire zotte vini ». I am wondering how Scotland Yard would have reacted to such a challenge from a Minister or MP who is under investigation for corruption in a transaction so closely linked to him....

Blog: Homosexuality in the Island of Mauritius (Part B – Discussion)
[Written by Jay Busgeet (Guest Author) on Sunday 31st of July 2011 - 23:24:00]


In this latter part of the paper I aim to briefly discuss the findings of the survey previously published on Part A. Given the nature of the findings, the main theme is to discuss societal attitudes towards homosexuality in Mauritius. Societal attitudes towards homosexuality, as a highly complex topic, is marred with a multitude of factors, such as the country’s law and politics, religion, culture, demography, socio-economic structures, personal values and beliefs and the like. It is within the context of some of these factors that the discussion has taken place....

Blog: Pressure, Blackmail or Scapegoat?
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Friday 29th of July 2011 - 02:18:00]


There is no Maya Hanoomanjee affair. There is simply a case of alleged impropriety that may give rise to a suspicion of corruption as it is understood under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PoCA) following the purchase of the Medpoint clinic by the State. The crux of the matter seems to be, at least from information that has transpired in the media, the inflated price that rose from about 72 million to 144 million rupees. Nobody in the government has been able to explain that sudden inflation and this very fact has started all kinds of speculation and rumours involving first highly placed public officials and Mrs Maya Hanoomanjee....

Blog: Le temps du bluff est terminé
[Written by C.H Mohandass (Guest Author) on Friday 29th of July 2011 - 02:27:00]


Le leader de l'opposition doit vraiment faire preuve d'une arrogance insupportable ou prendre les Mauriciens pour des imbéciles, ou pire, les deux à la fois pour faire les déclarations lues la semaine dernière. Imaginez un peu: le leader de l'opposition est parmi les cinq premiers personnages les plus importants de l'Etat. On attend de lui un certain sens de responsabilités. Or à quoi avons-nous assisté?...

Blog: The Culture Divide in rural Mauritius
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 29th of July 2011 - 00:28:00]


The changing face of Mauritius rural world often shows landscape that challenges our understanding. We are the older generation that has joined the ranks of senior citizens after having spent our adolescence in villages that were unsophisticated to the extent that a young person might not have held a telephone piece before finishing school at eighteen, artless to the point of utter simplicity because of a certain naiveté that could not be tutored by forces outside the home....

Blog: Winners and Losers
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 29th of July 2011 - 00:22:00]


Can anybody tell us in plain language what former Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and leader of MSM, Pravind Jugnauth has achieved by asking all MSM ministers including himself to resign, thus prompting a political crisis? He says that it is to express his solidarity with former Minister of Health, Maya Hanoomanjee and his disapproval of the ways of doing things by ICAC....

Blog: The MSM Scheme
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Friday 29th of July 2011 - 02:34:00]


The conspiratorial move of the MSM Ministers to resign after and in support of Health Minister Maya Hanoomanjee clearly demonstrates that they do not have much faith in the law....

Paul Bérenger and Maya Hanoomanjee.

Blog: Paul Bérenger’s sinister agenda on the corruption charges brought against Maya Hanoomanjee by ICAC
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Sunday 24th of July 2011 - 16:02:00]


Although the MMM Leader of the Opposition Paul Bérenger has rightly been making a lot of noise since the MedPoint controversial purchase was concluded in December 2010 at an inflated price of Rs145m (from Rs75m) this does not mean that he does not have a sinister no more hidden agenda. Instead of being pleased that the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has established prima facie cases against several Civil Servants and Health Minister Maya Hanoomanjee of the MSM against whom provisional corruption charges have been lodged in court, his strategy to try and split the mainly Ramgoolam(PTr)/Jugnauth(MSM) coalition government by cajoling the MSM is becoming more and more clear....

Maya Hanoomanjee, Health Minister.

Blog: Maya Hanoomanjee - « Niet » to ICAC but « Da » to Radio Plus !
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Friday 22nd of July 2011 - 06:21:00]


The Hon. Mrs Santi Bai Hanoomanjee, also called Maya Hanoomanjee, Minister of Health and Quality of Life, has been involved in the purchase of the unused MedPoint Clinic for the purpose of a National Geriatric Hospital per government policy. She is aware of the original government valuation of Rs75m around Aug/Sep 2010 submitted by the Number 2 of the Valuation Office. But the Chief Government Valuer Mr Yodhun Bissessur carried out a second valuation which turned out to be much higher at Rs145m and upon which the government purchase was concluded with Mrs Hanoomanjee’s knowledge and apparent approval....

Blog: Homosexuality in the Island of Mauritius (Part A – The Findings)
[Written by Jay Busgeet (Guest Author) on Friday 22nd of July 2011 - 00:02:00]


This paper is divided into two parts. Part (A) explores the finding of a short survey while Part (B) discusses the findings as a follow up at a later date. This qualitative survey is based on the actual comments received from commentators about their views on homosexuality as they perceived in Mauritius. The comments were received in response to two articles publicised in June 2011 on a local newspaper by the headings of: (1) L’Etat de New York approve le mariage homosexuel and (2) Anger as Indian minister calls for homosexuality a ‘disease’....

Blog: MMM - Now or Never?
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 22nd of July 2011 - 00:08:00]


No party seems to be in such a hurry - I would say desperate - to be in power - for power's sake? - as MMM today. In fact, its desperation started before the last general elections when it failed to clinch an alliance with Labour....

Blog: Diagnosis of a sick Society : Information v/s Intelligence
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 22nd of July 2011 - 00:13:00]


It is strange that in spite of all the revolutions that the East has waged against misleading philosophies of the West, our society is still a slave of the Western sophistry. Is knowledge the ultimate end of education or intelligence?...

Navin Ramgoolam and Paul Bérenger.

Blog: MedPoint scandal - Polls of Le Matinal and l’Express on Ramgoolam and Bérenger
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Wednesday 20th of July 2011 - 01:50:00]


In his complaints to the Police CCID, PM Dr Navin Ramgoolam alleged that, by stating that he is the one who gave instructions to the Chief Government Valuer Yodhun Bissessur to carry out a second valuation of the disused Medpoint Clinic after he had met with its main shareholder Dr Krishan Malhotra, the Opposition Leader Paul Bérenger had defamed him and attempted to tarnish his “character”, “dignity” and “integrity” as PM and that his allegations are likely to provoke social unrest in the country.  But the results from the online polls conducted by the two daily newspapers Le Matinal and l’Express seem to indicate otherwise....

Blog: The Singapore Recipe
[Written by Bijaye M. (Guest Author) on Friday 15th of July 2011 - 04:04:00]


Our fascination and admiration for the success story that Singapore is and our desire to replicate it comes to surface from time to time. The recent one being after the visit of the Prime Minister to the city state....

Blog: Regulating Attendance in Secondary Schools
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 15th of July 2011 - 04:07:00]


Political action lacks the alertness of ground experience because an issue has multiple ramifications. Politicians hate to take decisive actions aimed at solving problems because they fear the uncertainty of their measures. Will they succeed? Once a law is passed one cannot repeal it immediately afterwards unless it has been tried and tested. The politician prefers to postpone, prevaricate until no other measure can replace the legal action proposed....

Mauritian Prime Minister Dr Navin Ramgoolam

Blog: ICAC & Medpoint - Putting the cart before the horse !
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Thursday 14th of July 2011 - 02:25:00]


Does ICAC, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, really need « solid proof » before summoning someone to appear ?...

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