Category: Editorials

It is around 9 pm in Paris on Friday 13th November. Gunmen armed with AK-47s land in several places in the 10th and 11th Arrondissements of the city

Danielle Selvon, a deputy elected in Constituency No 1 last December, resigned this week from the MSM. This resignation was prompted by the proposed introduction of the highly

With new proposed legislations of late, including Constitutional amendment, a strong feeling is gaining ground among thinking Mauritians that a sense of original guilt is being thrust upon

Good Governance and Integrity Reporting Bill We alerted the public in our editorial of 16th Oct 15 about a piece of legislation under preparation, according to press reports,

Following its defeat at the last general elections, the Mauritius Labour Party (Labour) appears not to have taken adequate stock of the strong message voters sent to it.

Better to err on the safe side

The present government has run into the 10th month of its five-year mandate. Were it to collect itself and address the real work on its hands, it has

Nine months after the defeat of the Labour-MMM alliance in last December’s elections, a new stir appears to be rousing the local political scene. This election represented a

On the occasion of the ‘celebration’ of the anniversary of SSR on Sunday 20th September,  it is is most approriate and timely to take a look at the

The routine of submitting the annual Audit Report has been followed with the release of the latest one. Many things are unpredictable. Not so with the Audit Report:

There has been an enduring feeling among citizens that the economy has not been receiving the attention it deserves. It is with the hope that the government will

It has been announced that the Prime Minister will present on the coming Saturday an ‘Economic Mission Statement’, which is said to contain clues about how the government

Ever since Mr Bérenger raised the question about a possible blackout of electricity in 2016, as mentioned in a recent World Bank report, there has been a lot

It was announced early this week that the Prime Minister who is coming back to the country after three weeks’ private visit overseas, will himself chair a body

It is perhaps a bit early in the life of the new government. But it’s beginning to emerge that an increasing number of voters who parried the Labour-MMM