Category: Features

Geopolitical intelligence, all-weather friends and awareness of complex inter-locking issues are vital as we navigate the headier waves of the world’s new and emerging realities

One can only hope that the decision makers at the highest level finally rise up to the tasks which this situation imposes on them

Let’s celebrate all those simple, hardworking, honest Mauritian men of the past 50 years… They toiled and kept improving their fate by gradual and definite changes

Letter from New Delhi

Mauritius Times – 60 Yrs Ago

It is high time that as a nation we cut loose from our real or imagined hangovers to finally reconcile ourselves with our history

The measures which brought about the welfare state – the moral economy of the people – formed the basis of our development

The EDB should endeavour to become the government’s arm of the public-private sector partnership – not a possible adjunct to the already powerful business lobbies

Mauritius faces a structural challenge to grow both its exports of goods and services. But the problem is not only related to internal fixes

Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Laureate in chemistry, said that ‘you cannot predict the future, but you can prepare for it.’

MT 60 Yrs Ago — 3rd Year – No. 94  — Friday 25th May 1956

Is it not pointless – and just plain greed – to continue to accumulate massive wealth beyond a certain comfortable threshold? — By Mrinal Roy

While the country takes pride in the accelerated rate of growth of Gross Per Capita income, the stark reality is that these figures actually hide an unsustainable two-speed

No less deserving of the population’s thanks, gratitude and congratulations are the members of that much reviled tribe called civil servants, who were d’arrache-pied to ensure the security

The Mauritian body politic will have at some stage to grapple with some “wicked” issues that many believe are fundamental to our future — By S. Callikan