Category: Features

Why is there an obsession to bring in more foreigners in such a small island, with lands at forbidding prices and an acute scarcity of lands for locals,

Why poor countries can’t be happy?

Mauritius Times 60 Years Ago – 3rd Year – No 98 – Friday 22th June 1956 

The great game in the global economy, which consisted in large numbers of countries sitting down to negotiate vast free trade and investment agreements, has suddenly been reversed

Mostly, the roads are not responsible

The success story of Mauritius has been built at the expense of widening inequalities. It is high time to take the urgent actions required to reverse the trend

No one can deny that science and technology have been a force for good overall, but as usual we humans mess up, and then we get what we

A piece of our folklore has gone into extinction for ever – just like our good old dodo. Never deride the ‘carnet la boutique’!

Mauritius Times – 60 Years Ago

The Alvaro Sobrinho Affair — Any attempt to hoodwink the nation with lame game plans in the wake of the Alvaro Sobrinho related crisis at the head of

Rising Social Inequality

The quasi-unanimous outcry of the country and Opposition parties has been for a full-fledged commission of inquiry to understand what happened, how it happened and how to prevent

‘Cambridge Analytica will equip you with the data and insights necessary to drive your voters to the polls and win your campaign!’

Assuming he will be fit for office until he is 80, the new presidency rule leaves 65-year old Xi with a total of 15 complete years to oversee

In the early 1990s, the apparently new phenomenon mentioned in a Time magazine article regarding young African National Congress (ANC) supporters killing white people, and leaving a note