Month: August 2016

CEO Lord Krishna in MNC Boardroom

Tit-bits Budget presentation to Parliament and the nation is an important annual event laying out not only the financial forecasts and measures but also, particularly at the start

As Port Louis celebrates the 50th anniversary of its elevation to the status of a city, it will evoke ambivalent feelings in many of those who just go

While the country certainly does not need to wait for yet another “messiah”, the urgency to have a real leader who has the requisite skills and contextual intelligence

Mauritius Times 60 Years Ago

Home is where the heart is. — Pliny the Elder

Foot-and-Mouth Disease, again Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has come back after a century. In fact, a century ago Mauritius was hit by the disease, and the livestock was slaughtered

Some have asked whether we have not fallen out of the pot into the frying pan. The Leader of the Opposition has qualified the government as being leaderless.

If we take a hypothetical village of 1000 people, living 2000 years ago, how many of them would be illiterate, slightly educated and highly educated? We could guess

A teacher friend of mine was fond of the saying that ‘money is a good servant but a bad master’, and remarked that this could be said of

The answer to a global economy not turning around so soon, as current forecasts seem to indicate, is to re-energize the local structure of production. Remove the dust

Interview : Jocelyn Chan Low, Historien —  * Roshi Bhadain – ‘En politique, un homme isolé ne vaut pas grand-chose’

Prometheus Unbound As a teacher and a humanist, Frank Richard was unequalled in terms of the sincere affection he indiscriminately bestowed on each and every child coming under

Tit-bits Following a PQ in Parliament, the PM has expressed “shock” that the ICTA, had embroiled itself in what has become known as the “19m Rs saga” towards

In his summing up of the Budget Speech, Minister of Finance and Economic Development Hon Pravind Jugnauth stated as follows: ‘In fact, the Public Sector Reform Programme that