Category: Editorials

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

Recent events on the political front – two ministers facing investigations on allegations of attempted corruption – have weakened the government. The Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) is

On Monday 28th March 2016, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions issued a Communiqué in relation to a case which took place in the bungalow of

The world economy remains in a weak condition. Our opportunities for doing business with the outside world are therefore fairly limited. Nevertheless, the economy has stayed positive in

Questioned lately about the lack of economic results since the coming in place of the new government, the Prime Minister rightly replied that such results take time to

There was a two-day visit by an Indian delegation of officials this week concerning the Double Tax Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) between the two countries which exists since 1983.

The Mauritius Labour Party (Labour) celebrates this year the 80th anniversary of its foundation in 1936. Indisputably, this venerable establishment of the local polity was born out of