Author: Editorial MK

The overarching feature of a functioning democracy is that it has an effective system of checks and balances in place.

After the flabbergasting American election results, the status quo which has presided over the world will change.

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.

The Deputy Prime Minister, Xavier-Luc Duval, was asked to head a Committee, with the responsibility to review the existing electoral system in Rodrigues.

In the past couple of weeks, it seemed that serious differences of appreciation of the Heritage City project were keeping apart the Prime Minister and the Minister of

The government has taken too many risks with its public standing. Many controversies on non-issues have continued to plague it since early 2015. Mishandling of matters has landed

The political configuration is changing. No one has a clear idea what exactly it will come to.

Three police officers call at the residence of a senior adviser of the Minister of Finance early in the morning. This action is apparently prompted after the Minister

Despite the hope of order coming back in the ranks of the government with the return of Pravind Jugnauth to the Cabinet, the situation seems to be far

The government was elected to look after government business. It increasingly looks like it is being made to closely attend to many matters which are not necessarily government

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.

There is a general agreement that Pravind Jugnauth’s budget presentation marked a turning point. It represented a salutary break from the previous chaotic management of public affairs. Whether

A decision was taken by Cabinet to stop the Heritage City project. As expected, sentiments were divided. Minister of Financial Services and Good Governance who had been advocating

Last Friday’s budget did one positive thing at least – it pushed behind a thick curtain all the bad things of the past year. It went into a

Today’s budget will be determining for the present government.