Author: Murli Dhar

Politicians in the “values” they now incarnate had become more important than the State the government of which they had been entrusted with.

Mauritius has not yet recovered from all the damage done from the revision of its Double Tax Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) with India. To add insult to injury, as

About a year and a half earlier, Mr Rundheersing Bheenick was replaced by Mr Rameshwurlall Basant Roi as Governor of the Bank of Mauritius (BoM) in the aftermath

Yacoob Ramtoola of BDO, the Special Administrator of the now defunct British American Insurance Co (BAI) appointed by the Financial Services Commission, asked that the assets of the

The Economy in 2015

The Key Repo Rate (KRR) of the Bank of Mauritius (BoM) was reduced by one quarter per cent to 4.4% at the last Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting

‘Tax havens’ & tackling tax avoidance by multinationals

The first move to deal with the BAI group was made by the Bank of Mauritius in early April this year, notably with the revocation of the licence

Speaking at the opening session of the UN Global Conference on Anti-Corruption in Small Island States, the Prime Minister announced on Monday last that the government was contemplating

“When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” — W Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Last week, we examined the legality of the decision of the Bank of Mauritius (BoM) to advance liquid funds to the Special Administrators of the erstwhile British American

Is this liquidity injection of Rs 4 billion by the BoM in a group under administration, backed by the shares of perhaps an over-valued foreign company, a better

The axe has kept falling on the poorer folk who have kept seeing their standard of living eroded continuously through price inflation. Those who entertained a glimmer of hope

Fed up with an increasingly arbitrary environment in place and apprehensive of more of the same to come if Constitutional changes, as being then proposed by the Labour-MMM

We were informed recently that, in the context of investigations about the contents of the safes of the ex-Prime Minister, the police were puzzled about certain foreign currency