Category: Editorials

ODPP & Betamax — It will soon be two years since the new Government, installed after the December 10, 2014 victory in the general elections, in order execute

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

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.

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

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

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

In the course of a recent visit to Rodrigues, the Prime Minister had discussions with the Chief Commissioner, Serge Clair, of the OPR party, about the impact on

In 1997, based on a model employed to encourage energy production in less developed energy-deficient economies, the World Bank advocated that Mauritius should also embark on that model.

The local political situation was in limbo since June 2015 when the Intermediate Court found the leader of the MSM, the majority party of the government alliance, guilty

On 25th January 2011, the leader of the MSM party, Pravind Jugnauth, then Minister of Finance and Economic Development in the government headed by Navin Ramgoolam, was charged

The present government has had the courage to take an action against ‘street hawkers’ in Port Louis which none of its predecessors has had the courage to undertake.

The world population has increased to 7 billion at present.

The past few weeks have seen a distraction from government work.

Few will disagree that the outlook of the world economy is much more uncertain today than it was in 1983. As a small island economy, we have to