Author: Peter Ibbotson

Mauritius Times – 60 Years Ago

By Peter Ibbotson, Enid Lakeman & John Fitzgerald

Mauritius Times 60 Years Ago – 3rd Year – No 98 – Friday 22th June 1956 

Mauritius Times – 60 Years Ago

MT 60 Yrs Ago — 3rd Year – No 96 — Friday 8th June 1956

Thanks to the officials, the Mauritius Legislative Council has given a majority vote to acceptance of the constitutional proposals. What happens next?

Mauritius Times 60 Years Ago – 3rd Year – No 92 – Friday 11th May 1956

Whoever is communally-minded, it is not the Hindus. Whoever is responsible for the introduction of sectional interests into constitutional discussions, it is not the Labour Party

Everywhere the free forces of the world are intent on achieving national independence. And everywhere the reactionaries are trying to delay the emergence of freedom

Mauritius Times 60 Years Ago — Guy Rozemont with his usual knack of firing the imagination of the masses foiled the anti-Hindus with their own weapons

Mauritius Times 60 Years — There have been several causes célèbres involving persons unfitted to be school proprietors in recent years

Our London Letter — British MPs and press debate about constitutional proposals regarding Mauritius

The constitutional proposals are nothing but organised gerrymandering designed to confer sectional advantages on the minorities by denying social and political justice to the majority

In their handling of the Cyprus affair and the deportation of Archbishop Makarios to the Seychelles, the Tories are displaying people’s desire for self-determination

Mauritius Times – 3rd Year No 82 – Friday 2nd March 1956 *  The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still ‘tis