Tag: Labour Party-MMM

Being elected to represent the people does not mean that an MP, Minister, Prime Minister or President has been given a licence to do whatever he or she

A nation alienated from its government is a recipe for national disaster with the result that public policies, however well-intentioned, will become both dysfunctional and perverse  After two

left by the 2014 elections

Whilst it could be safely argued that the outcome of the last general elections represented a huge protest vote against the outgoing government, and more particularly against the

Interview: Mrinal Roy

Any proposal from any political party or alliance should be open to scrutiny and analysis. This exercise, to be worthy of consideration, should be based on a principled

It is incumbent upon the Labour Party-MMM Alliance to convince the voters that they are in the game of “conviction” politics as opposed to opportunism The expectation is

The more our institutions are empowered to state facts without fear or favour in a bid to enlighten the public, the more justice will be done to our

The hour is grave. For the people, this battle must be won if we are to safeguard the rights and future of the young and the next generations.

Last week we mentioned how a number of unrestrained distractions, some blatantly and outright unpalatable, are being brought into the political discourse. Whereas, as was pointed out, the

Colonial Linguistic Inheritance and Impact On Ideologies It is fairly common to hear people in Mauritius say that ‘imperfect’ command of English is tolerated here, but not ‘imperfect’

A few weeks ago in the midst of the euphoria about the nearly completed Labour Party-MMM Alliance we wrote that anything was still possible since there were still

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

Interview: Dr Satish Boolell