The petition made by Resistans ek Alternativ, a political group, before the UN Commission on Human Rights and the response of the latter have taken local politics into
Leaders of the MMM and the Labour Party stated on last Friday and Monday this week, respectively, that they failed to reach agreement on the discussions they had
Information had been coming out in public in rapid succession these past days, not only about the proposed electoral reform which the Prime Minister detailed out in a
The local political cauldron has been in ebullition since March 24th when the Prime Minister announced an electoral reform program. The apparent reason for the reform proposed is
More than 800 million voters started casting votes in India on 7th April for a 543-member people’s assembly or Lok Sabha. Votes will be counted on 16th May.
Usually, capital flows into suitable projects which hold a promise of a good return on the investment. Such capital (referred to as foreign direct investment (FDI) by the
Last week we took the position that there is no point in speculating about what the White Paper on Electoral Reform to be released shortly, as announced by
There is no point in speculating at this stage about the nature and breath of the electoral reform proposals that the Prime Minister has announced, for public release
It appears there is a recrudescence of domestic violence in Mauritius these days. In one case, acid was thrown on a household of sleeping persons. A child of
In 2012, the MMM decided on pre-agreed terms to form an alliance with the MSM, which it called the ‘Remake 2000’.The objective was to canvass enough support to
A broad swathe of people we have come across have felt that the over-cautionary approach of the Meteorological Services in respect of the latest two cyclones we have
On 21 January 2014 the Ministry of Health and Quality of Life (MOH) issued a press communiqué which draws attention to a number of ‘several major structural changes
