Choosing between Politics hasn’t been exceedingly gratifying for voters. Not only have they had to overthrow governments by turn when they were unhappy with them. Over time, they
and the Dangers of Miscalculated Reforms in Our Electoral System One of the specialities of a certain brand of doing politics is to identify potential social fractures, and
Elections were held on Sunday 12th February for the Rodrigues Regional Assembly (RRA). There was an 80% turnout of voters numbering in total some 28,000. This speaks highly
After all the ups and downs of the several past weeks, a new government headed by Pravind Jugnauth as Prime Minister has been formed. The latter reconstituted the
At an extremely short notice meeting of the board of Air Mauritius on Friday last, the board took the decision to revoke Megh Pillay as its Chief Executive.
Election after election, voters have seen their choice of their representatives in Parliament narrowed down. To the point, the numbers of those abstaining altogether from voting – due
In the course of a recent visit to Rodrigues, the Prime Minister had discussions with the Chief Commissioner, Serge Clair, of the OPR party, about the impact on
The local political situation was in limbo since June 2015 when the Intermediate Court found the leader of the MSM, the majority party of the government alliance, guilty
The present government has had the courage to take an action against ‘street hawkers’ in Port Louis which none of its predecessors has had the courage to undertake.
The l’Alliance Lepep government has decided that municipal elections will be held on 14th June. Its object would be to cash upon the wave of popularity in its
Voters decided on 10th December 2014 that “enough is enough”. They chose to boot out the Labour-MMM alliance, not overly concerned how the alternative team they were voting
