Month: January 2017

Interview Suren Bissoondoyal * ‘It is up to BEC to cope with it if they do not want to be part of the Dookun-Luchoomun reforms. It is sad

It may be said that after two years of the present Lepep government voters have lost their compass once again. They can’t make sense of where the government

From Labour governments which downplayed the issue of private practice after normal working hours by medical specialists employed in the public sector (Ministry of Health) and often looked

We may look back over our past in years but we can only look to the future one day at a time, a day that also begins the

2017 is going to be a decisive year for the world economy. Markets have kept an optimistic mood on the back of Mr Trump’s statement that he will

3rd Year – No 74 Friday 6th January 1956 • The further he went West, the more convinced he felt that the wise men came from the East.

At each and every turn when the country could feel that at long last we might have a six- or even a three-month span of unhindered stability, government

The Finance Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, is reported as having said that a bright future awaits the country in 2017. Apparently he is not unduly perturbed by the departure

‘The classical definition of democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people. In a democracy, everyone is equal before the law…’

In terms of what a brand may aspire to exude and what it actually delivers, can a government get any further from the mark than the current one?

Qu’est-ce qui a changé en 2016? Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire ? Fin 2016. Que d’attentes, que d’espoirs ! Et en fin de compte, le peuple,

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

When India started posting impressive economic growth rates at the end of the last century, an oft-heard comment which used to go round the business community was that

Looking back at the events in Mauritius and some of the misguided government decisions of the past year, we invariably think of an amoeba moving hither and thither

Interview: Yvan Martial * ‘Le meilleur agent politique du PTr est plus que jamais Bhai Anerood… … il croit dérouler le tapis rouge devant son fils, sans se