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have to be put to the people clearly and sanctioned by them

Leaders of the MMM and the Labour Party stated on last Friday and Monday this week, respectively, that they failed to reach agreement on the discussions they had

Information had been coming out in public in rapid succession these past days, not only about the proposed electoral reform which the Prime Minister detailed out in a

The local political cauldron has been in ebullition since March 24th when the Prime Minister announced an electoral reform program. The apparent reason for the reform proposed is

More than 800 million voters started casting votes in India on 7th April for a 543-member people’s assembly or Lok Sabha. Votes will be counted on 16th May.

Usually, capital flows into suitable projects which hold a promise of a good return on the investment. Such capital (referred to as foreign direct investment (FDI) by the

In his ‘Modernising the Electoral System’ proposals for elections reform, which he made public this week for popular consultation, Dr Navin Ramgoolam seems to have achieved a balance

Last week we took the position that there is no point in speculating about what the White Paper on Electoral Reform to be released shortly, as announced by

There is no point in speculating at this stage about the nature and breath of the electoral reform proposals that the Prime Minister has announced, for public release

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It appears there is a recrudescence of domestic violence in Mauritius these days. In one case, acid was thrown on a household of sleeping persons. A child of

In 2012, the MMM decided on pre-agreed terms to form an alliance with the MSM, which it called the ‘Remake 2000’.The objective was to canvass enough support to

On 21 January 2014 the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life (MOH) issued a press communiqué which draws attention to a number of ‘several major structural changes

The electoral system in Mauritius and its particular ethnic-social politics will continue to throw up the kind of political alliances that we have seen so far and that

A less precarious political structure should improve our chances to do better Mauritius has many strong points. Instead of employing them to its best advantage, it often allows