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Blog: Unity in Diversity is still Unity
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 16th of November 2012 - 12:28:00]


It is not what our leaders say on the political rostrum that constitutes reality in its totality. It is the ground reality that makes nationhood or disturbs it. Here are certain disturbing events culled from the harsh reality of the ground.


Blog: Corruption as seen by the Opposition
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Saturday 10th of November 2012 - 09:58:00]


Paul Bérenger, Pravind Jugnauth and Sir Anerood Jugnauth are obsessed by two issues: power and corruption. They see corruption everywhere when they are in the opposition. Whatever projects are started is tainted with corruption. The latest finding of Pravind Jugnauth is that the contract awarded to a firm in Singapore for the preparation of new identity cards is very suspicious and that this is the latest scandal among others attributed to the present government....

Blog: Budget 2013 - A non-Event
[Written by M. Vishal Aditya (Guest Author) on Friday 9th of November 2012 - 09:56:00]


Budget 2013 which will be presented this evening seems to be a non-event. The high expectations of the yesteryears are gone. There used to be a time when everybody was rushing back home to watch the minister of Finance reading is speech and announcing measures to improve the life of the population....

Barack Obama.

Blog: Plus déterminé pour un second mandat
[Written by Luc Olivier on Thursday 8th of November 2012 - 12:26:00]


Barack Obama a remporté une large victoire à l'élection présidentielle de mardi aux États-Unis, au grand dam de ce que prédisaient tous les sondages d'opinion publiés ces dernières semaines et même jusqu'à la veille du scrutin....

Blog: Do not expect a miracle from Duval
[Written by Mahen Nowzadick (Guest Author) on Thursday 8th of November 2012 - 12:37:00]


We have reached it, it's finally here, we are on the eve of the 2013 budget that will decide how our economy will perform over the next 12 months....

Chagossians, banned from their homes since the U.K. gave the U.S. the right to use Diego Garcia for military purposes 48 years ago, protest recently outside Parliament in London.

Blog: Obama in Africa - Mauritius, the Chagos Archipelago and the Indian Ocean
[Written by Sylvio Michel (Guest Author) on Tuesday 6th of November 2012 - 09:14:00]


At the onset, I must say I am NOT qualified to talk about the whole of the African continent with its 54 or so states, but I can respond regarding the American policy under Barack Obama towards my tiny country, Mauritius....

Blog: Doctors - Continuous Education Plan
[Written by M. Vishal Aditya (Guest Author) on Friday 26th of October 2012 - 11:16:00]


Navin Ramgoolam has given a public support to the plan of Health Minister Lormesh Bundhoo to introduce continuous education and training for our doctors. The Prime Minister said that a similar scheme will be introduced in the UK as from December this year. He added that research in the field of medicine is a continuous process and the findings and knowledge acquired should be put at the disposal of our doctors for the delivery of better health care....


Blog: Municipal Election - Where is the Issue ?
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Friday 26th of October 2012 - 02:56:00]


The issue of holding local government elections has been an ongoing debate for some time now. The Local Government Act 1989 and the Local Government Act 2003 were amended to provide for the election of councillors of local authorities to be held in 2011 instead of 2010 and the extension of the mandate of municipal, district and village councillors, currently in office, until 2011....

Blog: An anonymous Pearl craving for Discovery
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 26th of October 2012 - 02:47:00]


Modern science is still young on its path to discovery of truth. When Western medicine raises its hands at the vast number of resolved mysteries it still has to create bridges with Ayurvedic medicine in order to explain according to its own logic the cures that take place with the simple practice of breathing. Will Western science go on dismissing the miraculous cures of incurable diseases by Swami Ramdev as the inventions of a greedy charlatan?...

Mauritius's complex dispute with the UK over the Chagos islands spans back to 1968.

Blog: The Chagos Islands dispute that just won't go away
[Written by Linley Bignoux (Guest Author) on Thursday 25th of October 2012 - 04:24:00]


Former colonial power Britain won't cede, Mauritius won't let up. And caught in the middle of a ping-pong game of diplomacy over a patch of islands in the Indian Ocean are some 40,000 inhabitants forcibly removed decades ago in a territorial dispute that at times has thrown up dark undertones of neo-colonialism....

Governor of the Bank of Mauritius Rundheersing Bheenick and Finance Minister Xavier-Luc Duval

Blog: Finance Minister Xavier Duval usurps powers of Governor of Bank of Mauritius, Rundheersing Bheenick
[Written by M. Rafic Soormally (Guest Author) on Monday 22nd of October 2012 - 13:25:00]


« In many countries the world over, the central bank has been given the mandate to preserve price stability as its single or primary objective, and been granted autonomy from government to make sure that short-term political considerations do not interfere with achieving this objective. Accountability to the legislature and the public at large balance the central bank’s autonomy » (Paul Moser-Boehm)...


Blog: Biased financial market
[Written by Mahen Nowzadick (Guest Author) on Monday 22nd of October 2012 - 13:07:00]


It's official that Mauritius will grow by only 3.2% this year. While personally I believe this number is very good compared to the insignificant GDP growth in developed economies such as India, United States or even France, the finance minister was not very satisfied with it....

Blog: PRB - Irrational Behaviour
[Written by M. Vishal Aditya (Guest Author) on Friday 19th of October 2012 - 12:20:00]


Do you know of anybody who is happy at the salary rise given to him by PRB? Do you know of anybody who will refuse to sign the option form allowing him to benefit from the new salary scale? An observer told me that the first ones to sign the option forms will be those who are most loudly opposing the PRB recommendations....

Blog: The unruly Horses
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Friday 19th of October 2012 - 13:14:00]


In the Annual Report of the Pay Research Bureau for 2009 an explanation is given on the establishment and functioning of the PRB. This is what is stated: The Pay Research Bureau (PRB), set up in 1977 as an independent organisation under the aegis of the Prime Minister’s Office, became operational in March 1978. Its main function is to carry out continuous review of Pay and Grading Structures and Conditions of Service in the Public Sector (the Civil Service, Parastatal and other Statutory Bodies, Local Authorities, Rodrigues Regional Assembly) and the Private Secondary Schools....

Blog: Quest for Quality
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 19th of October 2012 - 13:17:00]


We must rise above subsistence level and find in quality the vehicle of improvement that will sustain excellence and help Mauritius to face challenges in all domains of endeavour. The civil service will remain a sad-agglomeration of 83,000 officers who are governed by precedence, procedure and the habit of protection from blame....

Blog: It's Time for Mauritius to Take Ownership of Its Waters
[Written by La Rédaction on Wednesday 17th of October 2012 - 13:34:00]


The Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior has spent the past few days hosting all the key players in one of the Indian Ocean's prime tuna hubs - Port Louis in Mauritius. This is a welcome turnaround....


Blog: Cancer, Curse or Complacency
[Written by Murli Manohar (Guest Author) on Friday 12th of October 2012 - 13:47:00]


The street hawkers have become a law unto themselves and they are running a parallel State by trying to impose their own laws and sending ultimatums to the government. This is a totally intolerable situation....

Blog: PRB – What’s in for Me?
[Written by M. Vishal Aditya (Guest Author) on Friday 12th of October 2012 - 13:43:00]


What’s in for me? It’s everybody’s natural first reaction to the recommendation to the PRB 2013 report. It will be the same for the budget 2013. PRB has given a salary rise amounting to Rs 4.6 billion, an increase of 22.5% to 30% to all civil servants, employees of parastatal bodies and local authorities....

Blog: Has Hinduphobia vanished?
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 12th of October 2012 - 13:56:00]


The history of independent Mauritius stored with a fear for Hindu hegemony. The rise and the vigour of the Labour Party at the dawn of independence was equated to the hegemonic greed of a community to win power to force others to adopt a Hindu way of life....

Blog: The Teacher – My Hero
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 5th of October 2012 - 07:39:00]


We run away easily with many misconceptions about certain professions. Time has worn out the noble heritage that was at one time vested with rare, enlightened souls. What used to fly like an aristocracy has had to walk like a pedestrian in streets. In fact teaching is a vocation like motherhood. The teacher’s personality is that of a sharer, a compulsive sharer....

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