Category: Features

I hasten to send you a quote from an article written in the International Express by Frederick Forsyth, author ‘Day of the Jackal’ fame, in the wake of

Les questions telles que qui suis-je ?, qui est l’autre ? ont depuis toujours mis en avant des différences et des ressemblances intra-sociétales.

Are we capable of taking the preventive measures that we hope will stem the flow of drugs in our community? The answer is no. Neither parents nor teachers

Three important events which have occurred on the international scene recently do not seem to have obtained the attention they deserved in the national media.

Mauritius can top all indices in Africa but does not match up to the highest standards of the best democracies of the world

The African Safari of Indian Prime Minister Narendera Modi was noticeable by being different in his interaction with the Indian Diaspora.

Nearly everybody is convinced that the economy is not doing the best it could. The government has been making efforts to get the private sector to make breakthroughs.

It was always childhood fun to go and sleep at the maternal grandmother’s place on weekends.

One does not even have to know about, believe in, or understand ‘climate change’ to accept the reality of the shifts in weather that are taking place, and

After the first wave of all-embracing economic growth took place in Mauritius in the 1980s, on the back of industrial expansion, notably in textiles and garments, there was

• Punch and Judy Goodness knows how the controversy raging between NMU and JNR is going to end. Its light aspect, however, cannot be overlooked.

The political class can make or unmake social and economic development of a country. Progress depends on taking the right decisions in given circumstances.

D. Oliver Dörschuck, Chief Operating Officer of TUI Germany, talked about the importance of Mauritius to TUI as a strategic growth market and a key destination for the

The Ministry of Education in its current shape and form, holding a brief spanning from pre-primary to university levels, covering pre-vocational, vocational, technical and special needs education, supervising

This is the kind of wastage that the country can simply not afford