Category: Features

L’année 2016, imprévisible à souhait, se termine donc dans un feu d’artifice qui présage d’autres développements.

We should stop fixating on the glass half-empty.

Three major “known unknowns”: What will happen in the Navin Ramgoolam remaining court cases?

On Wednesday 14 December 2016 at Octave Wiehe Hall (Reduit), the opening ceremony of the establishment of Confucius Institute was held on our soil.

“I didn’t know a single word of Russian; but people are so welcoming in Moscow.”

Cruising through the malls and supermarkets after mid-November many of us will rediscover ourselves or our childhood.

From time to time there comes a film from Bollywood which is not of the usual song-and-dance type and which one can watch without having to ‘leave your

Mauritius had to demonetise (i.e., remove banknotes from circulation) the whole of its banknotes in 1998.

An independent Canadian journalist and rights activist, Eva Bartlett; Sara Flounders, co-founder of ‘International Action against Capitalism’ (IAC)

‘Lepep’ seem to have concluded that it is the slogan and the campaigners that won. As for them, they are the eternal losers

La coutume a force de loi. Pèlerinage, festival mis à part, il est dans les habitudes, surtout celles des hommes et femmes politiques, des activistes et de certains

Décembre. Une période festive annoncée en musique, lumière et couleurs dès les premiers jours. Opération Lacaz Out à niveau national ayant fait bouger 600,000 personnes à travers l’île

The writing is boldly etched on the wall and the portent is clear. If there is no prompt change of tack, the people will democratically rock the boat

The world is now supposed to be a global village, a term which perhaps means that just as in a village we get to know what’s happening to

Mauritius is not in the business of undermining other countries’ tax collections.