{"id":196,"date":"2010-04-02T09:28:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T09:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2010\/04\/02\/letters-8\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T09:28:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T09:28:56","slug":"letters-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/letters-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Readers’ Response\/ Opinion\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

To Our Readers\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

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A plea for justice and fairness for Asian language teachers<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Asian language teachers in schools continue to find themselves in a depressingly unjust situation in that they cannot look forward to opportunities of promotion in their entire careers \u2013 from their appointment in early youth to their retirement in old age. Though this matter has been raised a number of times in the press and elsewhere no solution has up to now been found to this flagrant built-in injustice.<\/span><\/p>\n

It should be pointed out that all General Purpose (GP) teachers are assured of benefiting from promotion to the Deputy Head Master (DHM) grade but this is not the case for Asian language teachers. In this connection it is worth mentioning that GP teachers have not only benefited from promotion to the DHM grade automatically but during the last six or seven years they have also been promoted to the Headmaster grade in accordance with the principles of seniority. Thus they have benefited from a minimum of two promotions whereas in our case it is practically nil. <\/span><\/p>\n

The principle of discrimination against Asian language (AL) teachers is too flagrant particularly at a time when there is so much talk about equal treatment and equality of opportunity. To clarify the point further, it must be mentioned that while several GP teachers who joined the Teachers\u2019 Training College in 1978 and who are younger than their AL counterparts, have been promoted to the DHM grade , their AL counterparts who joined the same college five years or so earlier continue to occupy the same post and among them many, having attained the age of retirement, are no longer in service.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hindi teachers have recently been shocked after taking cognizance of the fact that one union is attributing the problem of promotion of AL teachers to the number of assistant supervisors and headmasters on the primary establishment. It is common knowledge that nomination to the grade of DHMs is not necessarily related to the number of Assistant supervisors or headmasters. There is a good number of DHMs who retire without being promoted to the HM grade and government must consequently fill the vacancies which arise in this grade. <\/span><\/p>\n

The most important issue for us is the injustice to which AL teachers are being subjected to particularly when we compare the figure for GP to that of AL teachers. In fact, in the budget estimates mention is made of 2584 GP teachers and 1433 AL teachers. However, there are only 180 posts of DHMs for AL teachers as against 814 posts for the same grade for GP teachers. This matter is too serious and a responsible union ought to take up this matter with government by calling upon it to remedy the situation not necessarily by increasing the number to 500 but at least by making a plea to the effect that no AL teachers reaches retirement age without being promoted to the DHM grade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Asian language Teachers<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Le chat se taille la part du lion <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Apr\u00e8s les tractations d’alliance \u00e0 gauche et \u00e0 droite, apr\u00e8s avoir tenu le pays en haleine, pour ne pas dire en otage, Ramgoolam a finalement d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de se jeter dans l’ar\u00e8ne, non sans avoir pris les pr\u00e9cautions de se servir des boucliers (ou b\u00e9quilles). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Toutefois il a pris bien soin de se tailler la part du lion (m\u00eame s’il est un chat) pour \u00eatre s\u00fbr\u00a0d’\u00e9viter les coups de Jarnac de ses alli\u00e9s de qui il se m\u00e9fie toujours. Au lieu de\u00a0prendre soin de ses ennemis, le voil\u00e0 qui laisse cette t\u00e2che aux autres alors que lui s’occupe de ses “amis”. En gardant 40 tickets et n\u2019en donnant que 20 \u00e0 ses alli\u00e9s, il d\u00e9montre comment cette m\u00e9fiance se traduit dans la r\u00e9alit\u00e9. Donc aucune chance pour le MSM et le PMSD de s’allier et aucune chance d’un coup d’Etat au sein du palais en cas de 60-0. C’est triste pour ces deux formations combin\u00e9es de n’obtenir que 20 tickets (alors que le MMM en avait obtenu 25), mais en r\u00e9alit\u00e9 elles n’ont pas le choix, sinon c’est le chemin de\u00a0\u00ab\u00a0karo kan\u00a0\u00bb. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Le MSM, qui ne repr\u00e9sente que 4% des \u00e9lecteurs, doit se r\u00e9jouir d’avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 appel\u00e9 \u00e0 \u00e9pauler Navin. La rumeur circulait que le MSM accepterait m\u00eame 5 tickets. Quant au PMSD, qui d’apr\u00e8s tous les sondages, ne repr\u00e9sente que 1-2% de l\u2019\u00e9lectorat, XLD a d\u00fb se frotter les mains pour avoir bien n\u00e9goci\u00e9 et obtenu 8 tickets, bien plus que le PMSD ne vaut en r\u00e9alit\u00e9. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Si l’alliance PTr-MSM-PMSD est d\u00e9j\u00e0 scell\u00e9e, la deuxi\u00e8me partie de la com\u00e9die est encore plus belle: la r\u00e9partition des tickets. Le renard tourn\u00e9 en chat, ou inversement, fort de la b\u00eatise du MMM avec le MSM en 2005, fera en sorte de positionner ses soldats dans une rang\u00e9e bien prot\u00e9g\u00e9e\u00a0et exposer\u00a0ses alli\u00e9s \u00e0 une position o\u00f9 ils\u00a0recevront la premi\u00e8re salve de fusillade et donc tomberont les premiers. Dans ce contexte, Navin conservera les circonscriptions s\u00fbres de la campagne en laissant le MSM et PMSD se mesurer au MMM dans les villes. En cas o\u00f9 ses alli\u00e9s remportent la\u00a0victoire, il les r\u00e9compensera mais en cas de d\u00e9faite, il sera toujours Roi ou Prince en\u00a0conservant la majorit\u00e9, et au pire va contracter une alliance avec son ennemi pour rester sur le tr\u00f4ne. Voila donc le sch\u00e9ma de l\u2019alliance Bleu-Blanc-Rouge: pile je gagne,\u00a0face tu perds. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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George de Lamare-Lamvohee
<\/span><\/em><\/strong>Agence Freedom Australia <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.agencefreedom.com<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/lecourriercreole.com.au<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Request to the Mayor of Vacoas-Phoenix<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

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Following the construction of the bridge at Tranquille Street, we, prospective users of the bridge and inhabitants of the region, would like to point out the following safety measures that the Municipality should seriously take into account:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(1) Since Tranquille Street is a very narrow residential road, where two vehicles cross each other with much difficulty (big lorries and buses do not use this road!) and since the bridge would be mainly used by old-aged people as a short-cut to the Shivala, it would be highly appreciated if the bridge could be made \u00ab\u00a0pedestrian-only\u00a0\u00bb for safety reasons.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(2) There is one pre-primary school along this narrow road and it is feared that taxis and \u2018taxi-marrons\u2019 serving the region of Cite La Caverne would be using the bridge as a short-cut, hence posing a security threat to young children.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(3) There is also the apprehension that taxis and passenger-vans might queue up at the beginning of the road near the traffic-lights, thus causing major traffic jams, inconvenience and danger, both to the main road users (going towards Q-Bornes, Visitation Primary School and Saddul College and towards Vacoas, La Marie) as well as to residents of Tranquille Ave.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(4) If however the Municipality (despite the above problems) decides not to make the bridge \u00ab\u00a0pedestrian-only\u00a0\u00bb, then a sincere request is here made to the Mayor for making the bridge open to only one-way traffic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To conclude, we firmly believe that for the safety of one and all (especially young pre-primary children and old-aged people going to the Shivala), there is a need to either make the bridge \u201cpedestrian-only\u201d or \u201cone-way\u201d only, with speed breakers near the pre-primary school and near the Tabagie \u2018Alpha\u2019 \u2013 junction.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Inhabitants of Vacoas-Phoenix<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bienvenue au MSM<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Le Groupe de Surveillance contre le G\u00e9nocide linguistique et culturel de Brindaban accueille avec un grand soulagement et une grande satisfaction la nouvelle de la coalition Bleu-Blanc-Rouge tomb\u00e9e cette semaine. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nous avons v\u00e9cu les derni\u00e8res semaines dans une grande angoisse caus\u00e9e par les nouvelles propag\u00e9es par la grande presse d\u2019une possible alliance PTr-MMM. Pour nous, le MMM c\u2019est le parti de la m\u00e9chancet\u00e9. C\u2019est eux qui, depuis 1982 et m\u00eame d\u2019avant, ont tout fait pour d\u00e9truire notre langue maternelle qu\u2019est le Bhojpuri. Leur but certain et clair maintenant est de d\u00e9truire aussi la langue fran\u00e7aise en imposant leur grafilarmoni sur nos enfants en bas \u00e2ge. Un enfant qui a subi un lavage de cerveau par les principes d\u2019\u00e9criture du grafilarmoni ne pourra absorber les principes de l\u2019orthographe du fran\u00e7ais qu\u2019avec un effort hors du commun, dont les enfants dits faibles ne sont pas capables. Il n\u2019est pas certain que ceux qui ont des difficult\u00e9s avec le fran\u00e7ais auront plus de chances avec le \u201cKreol\u201d. Avec les principes du MMM notre syst\u00e8me d\u2019\u00e9ducation ne produirait majoritairement que des illettr\u00e9s. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nous pensons qu\u2019avec l\u2019arriv\u00e9e du MSM dans la coalition gouvernante, les chances de survie de nos langues ancestrales aussi bien que coloniales, entre autres du fran\u00e7ais seront am\u00e9lior\u00e9es de beaucoup. Bienvenue \u00e0 Monsieur Pravind Jugnauth.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Paramanund Soobarah<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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