While Reunion Island moves away from a costly tramway to an overhead, easier to build, fast-mover, we are planning exactly the reverse! Can we both be right?
A week or so ago, Hon Pravind Jugnauth, PM and Minister of Finance of this government, was busy presenting his Budget Speech, an exercise which had raised little
We can hardly harbour expectations about our autonomous capacity to defend our outlying islands and territories, protect their environment, manage and tap their ocean resources. We rely on
Education revisited The recent HSC results together with the announcement of Laureate scheme winners, provides an opportunity to come back on a few aspects of our education system
While cautiously optimistic, this is not a game-changer and we cannot be unaware that a large number of clouds hover ominously around the skies as we embark onto
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
Geopolitical intelligence, all-weather friends and awareness of complex inter-locking issues are vital as we navigate the headier waves of the world’s new
By this Friday, when this issue of Mauritius Times comes out, the die will be cast and the totally unthinkable, for much of liberal media and market forces
When top-brass of the civil service bend over more than prudently to assuage short-term political demands and desires, while propping up their own career, lifestyle and juicy perks
By forging ahead breezily with NYS, the Ministry was fully cognizant of the socially and politically disruptive risks on a question that called for consensus and a non-partisan
Tit-bits There was every reason to assume that as new Minister for economic affairs and national development, but, even more, as future PM to be nominated following SAJ’s
Tit-bits SAJ’s last press conference had become pressing. Under other circumstances, this could have awaited the PM’s return from the UN mission, his pulpit delivery to world nations
