Category: Good Governance

2023: unpacking corruption!

Economic recovery and a semblance of normality can be extremely tenuous. This should have a sobering effect on world leaders and the government in Mauritius

The country cannot continue to pay a heavy price for incompetence and costly blunders at the expense of public funds

“Heads must roll” would have thundered Minister Alan Ganoo in his Opposition days on that black Friday

Anti-Corruption Day 2021

It is only by putting the right people in the right place that a country can have the strong institutions. That this does not always happen is evident

The Central Procurement Board is reported to have allocated 77 contracts valued at Rs 23 billion in 2020. Has the St Louis corruption and bribery case unveiled a

History suggests that the most difficult reforms have occurred at the peak of protracted crises. So, the time for change is now

The opinionated lot in civil society and media spokespersons may feel comfortable with the detective’s relative sense of self-righteousness in loud denunciations of wrongdoings and suspicious dealings. Others

Implementation of a Freedom of Information Act may not be easy, despite exemptions for withholding critical information but this does not justify its non-introduction

If there is a will to get to the bottom of this corrupt act, the inquiry must start from where the bribe money originated up to where it

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

Far from us to hope for any divinity to prevail in the country. But at least some compassionate understanding of the woes of compatriots could be a beginning

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