Author: Mrinal Roy

Matters of the Moment

The pitfalls ahead and the choice facing the nation are clear if we want to stall the risk of being pilloried again and sullied by new instances of

Before proposing costly support measures in a context of strapped financial resources, the government must first ascertain whether the sector or activity being helped is viable or not

Mauritius also needs to do some profound rethinking and initiate fundamental reforms, including land reform, required to usher a new socio-economic order which rallies the nation

This is not the time for government to cave in as in the past to tall private sector demands

Matters of the Moment

Matters of The Moment

Costly bailout packages dished out by government from the Public Exchequer to help the corporate sector reboot the economy must ensure that the crying lessons of the 2008

The daily rat race now seems so irrelevant. Lives are more important than livelihoods. Our outlook and the world will not be the same again

Covid-19 must necessarily have a sobering effect on mankind. Major existential lessons have to be learnt

No country can afford to relax measures too early and risk a resurgence of the virus

A sustainable future will depend on whether we can draw potent lessons from past blunders in respect of climate change, inequality, a fairer sharing of the fruits of

Is it not high time to trigger a political big bang to free the country from the stifling stranglehold of power politics and finally honour the seminal promises

More than ever before, the country needs to be together as a nation and harness all our resources and men and women of goodwill to define the most

We are in this boat together. This is not the time to panic or scramble helter-skelter for masks and food supplies. This is also not the time for