Category: Politics

D’une élection à une autre, le comportement de l’électorat et le verdict des urnes nous interpellent. Chaque expérience, que ce soit pour les élections municipales ou pour les

‘I found Rome brick, I left it marble’

Municipal elections

Les Mauriciens seront appelés aux urnes dans le cadre des élections municipales le week-end prochain. 

When the government of l’Alliance Lepep came to power late last year, Kailash Purryag was President of the Republic.

Under the title ‘The Presidency: Respect the Constitution’ on 23 January 2015 this column wrote:

In fact it’s more than a question, it is perhaps the biggest problem that every citizen is faced with. In almost all countries the talk is about trust

Dr Maurice Cure must be turning over in his grave at the latest twist in the saga of the Labour Party. He would never have imagined that the

Last Friday, after it was announced that the Conservative Party had won a wholly unexpected overall majority in the UK parliament – “the sweetest victory” according to its

Le déferlement de scandales les uns plus scabreux que les autres vontils finir par rendre la population de Maurice totalement blasée? Déjà, l’actualité pré-électorale de l’année 2014 était

Le moins qu’on puisse dire, c’est que l’opération Clean Mauritius bien enclenchée nous promet de traîner devant la justice un gros paquet de nos gentlemen en costume et

The Minister may be right in preferring a studious, even cautious approach where complex questions call for it, but incumbents, lobbyists, administrators, trade unions, stakeholders and inertia risk

A rainmaker in popular parlance is a person who can bring new business or new accounts through his personal standing or portfolio of contacts. It should not be

Prime Minister (PM) Sir Anerood Jugnauth’s (SAJ) comforting statement on the occasion of his 85th birthday celebrations recently, that he intends to establish and entrench the overriding principles

Fed up with an increasingly arbitrary environment in place and apprehensive of more of the same to come if Constitutional changes, as being then proposed by the Labour-MMM