Category: ENVIRONMENT

Disasters: Do we have the ingredients?

S. Callikan | February 5, 2018

The successive floods of 2016, 2017 and 2018 remind us all too bitterly that the National Disaster Scheme may have been left to idle away in some office

ENVIRONMENT

Insensitive!

Ramesh Beeharry | September 29, 2017

We remain our usual selfish, navel-gazing, egocentric, insensitive selves and, burying our heads in the sand as it were, we see nothing coming

ENVIRONMENT

Pollution: A small step that would matter

Mohun Aujayeb | September 15, 2017

The approach to addressing the problem of pollution is in its use. Cleaning is good but not polluting is a better option

ENVIRONMENT

Why should Les Salines Saltpans be preserved?

Jayshree Mungur-Medhi | May 8, 2015

For the last two weeks Mauritians have been expressing their different views on Les Salines, with around 7000 petitioning through Facebook against its destruction. Les Salines saltpans consist

ENVIRONMENT

Water: The Way Forward

K. Kanhaya | November 28, 2014

The time for discussions and dilly-dallying is over. We need to go ahead with the construction of the La Flora Dam and the Chamarel Dam immediately In order