{"id":746,"date":"2011-01-14T08:07:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T08:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/2011\/01\/14\/letters-26\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:35:46","slug":"letters-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/letters-26\/","title":{"rendered":"To Our Readers\u00a0 \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Your views are of interest to us. They help us balance the argument in the correct perspective. We welcome you to draw our attention to anything or opinion expressed in the Mauritius Times (or any national or international event of interest) with which\u00a0you agree from your own angle or disagree due to a different appreciation of facts.<\/span><\/p>\n

We will gratefully receive your communications at the email address:\u00a0<\/span>mtimes@intnet.mu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

We may decide to publish your comments or the relevant parts thereof if we consider that they will help our readers better understand specific contexts and maintain MT as the foremost and most balanced analytical newspaper of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Open Letter to Director – CWA<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Greatly Excessive CWA bills due to AIR<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Please see 2 enclosed CWA Bills, dated 12.01.2011, one for Rs. 55, which I am paying in full herewith<\/strong>, and the other for Rs. 492, part of which has previously been paid to HQ in PROTEST at Rs. 100, last month.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am again sending Rs. 100 ONLY on account<\/strong> for the second bill for supply 03140155G. My cheque will therefore total Rs. 155.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason for this excessive bill is that our house supply comes directly from a 12\u201d or bigger main pipe descending from the reservoirs near Camp Cavall, and going down along the road outside our house.<\/span><\/p>\n

This pipe empties during the day, when the water is turned off, and then refills early next morning, and is consequently full of a very large volume of air. This air causes my water meter to run at high speed, hence the high amount claimed on the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have an air-valve installed before the meter, but the air flow is so excessive that it cannot handle the great volume of air coming from the main supply pipe.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the problem of the CWA, so you should arrange for it to be dealt with ASAP please.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I repeat: I AM NOT PAYING FOR AIR. This is NOT MY PROBLEM.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span>Dr David C. WEST<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/span>Forest Lane, Floreal<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/em>A propos de l\u2019interview de M. Vayid<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Dans l\u2019entretien de l\u2019invit\u00e9 du Mauritius Times<\/em> du 30 d\u00e9cembre 2010, Monsieur Vayid d\u00e9clare en termes tr\u00e8s cat\u00e9goriques que les ingr\u00e9dients pour une prochaine conflagration sociale sont bien r\u00e9unis et visibles, similaire au sc\u00e9nario de f\u00e9vrier 99. Il brosse un tableau sombre et n\u00e9gatif de la situation sociopolitique et \u00e9conomique du pays. A lui seul d\u2019assumer la gravit\u00e9 de ses propos, car il faut lui demander s\u2019il existe une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 sans probl\u00e8mes, sans divisions sociales ailleurs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Monsieur Vayid est un intellectuel de haut calibre, ancien pr\u00e9sident du BAT, de la MEF et actuellement il pr\u00e9side les destin\u00e9es du NESC, mais il n\u2019a point d\u2019exp\u00e9rience du terrain. Nos leaders politiques, sociaux et religieux labourent le terrain social et savent mieux que quiconque les besoins et les aspirations de cette masse de gens de la classe ouvri\u00e8re et moyenne.<\/span><\/p>\n

Et ce gouvernement du Dr N. Ramgoolam fait de son mieux pour pourvoir des am\u00e9nit\u00e9s sociales et infrastructurelles d\u00e9centes \u00e0 tous. La protection sociale est \u00e0 son apog\u00e9e et Maurice est le champion de toute l\u2019Afrique pour sa politique et strat\u00e9gie de bien-\u00eatre social et \u00e9conomique d\u2019apr\u00e8s les indications de Mo Ibrahim 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n

L\u2019ICAC est d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e0 pied d\u2019\u0153uvre pour combattre la corruption \u00e0 tous les niveaux et les signaux sont tr\u00e8s forts quand il s\u2019agit des exemples qui viennent d\u2019en haut. Plusieurs responsables des institutions gouvernementales ont fait les frais de cette lutte contre la mauvaise administration. La bataille continue toujours et s\u2019av\u00e8re tr\u00e8s f\u00e9roce.<\/span><\/p>\n

Monsieur Vayid parle des institutions gouvernementales et des corps para\u00e9tatiques dirig\u00e9s par des repr\u00e9sentants d\u2019un seul groupe ethnique, mais r\u00e9alise-t-il que ce groupe ethnique sp\u00e9cifique est majoritaire dans le pays et leurs perspectives ne se trouvent que dans le service civil. Ils n\u2019ont pas le profil ethnique pour \u00eatre recrut\u00e9s dans les compagnies du secteur priv\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n

Monsieur Vayid, ancien pr\u00e9sident de la Mauritius Employers Federation, n\u2019est-il pas mieux plac\u00e9 que quiconque pour savoir si le principe de chances \u00e9gales et de m\u00e9ritocratie est observ\u00e9 dans ce secteur\u00a0?<\/span><\/p>\n

Raja Bundhan<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/strong>raja_1255@hotmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

* Published in print edition on 14 January 2011<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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