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Blog: MMMay Day for Justice
Following the injunction issued by Judge Bushan Domah on the private life of Ms Nandanee Soornack and her children the press against which the order was made has found ways and means of going round the order and challenging its legitimacy. The facebook and blog of at least one of the so-called journalists of l'Express is replete with vulgar comments on Ms. Soornack. This betrays a sick mindset on the part of those who would go to any length to intrude in the private lives of others. Journalists seem to be oblivious of the fact that since they are public …
18 Jan 2013, Le Matinal
Blog: Why such a discontent?
180,000 cases of sexual violence against women impending upon the Indian Judicial system and yet the gang rape of a medical student in Delhi raised such a storm of discontent that Delhi was paralyzed for days, a three-day mourning has been declared after the girl's demise in Singapore.
18 Jan 2013, Le Matinal
Blog: Silent Majority Speaking
A new phenomenon has appeared in the opinion horizon. The silent majority is speaking loud and clear. It is making its voice not only heard but its opinion is prevailing.
18 Jan 2013, Le Matinal
Blog: Welcome 2013
2013. Year full of challenges and opportunities. Looking ahead I see all possibilities to realize our dreams, to go beyond. Sky is not the limit. There are still more frontiers beyond the sky.
11 Jan 2013, Le Matinal
Blog: One Year of Trial and Error in the Ministry of Education
Bunwaree deserves my warmest congratulations upon having tried to effectively improve performance through enhancement of learning in class. He believes to the marrows of his being that learning for the mass does not take place through the classical formal method of chalk and talk. He like Gokhool is convinced that play can yield more positive outcome than the stern method of the magister?
11 Jan 2013, Le Matinal
Blog: Harassment and the Harlot
It all started because a stooge of the MMM who presumably is fond of collecting pictures of women by photographing them in public took pictures of Ms. Nandanee Soornack while she was present at a polling station as a Labour agent. Since then the media, especially l’express and the Mauricien/Weekend groups, have almost lynched Ms Soornack. They have invoked the public interest to drag in the public domain her private life and her business deals. They have made serious accusations that she has been lavished with favours on account of her political affiliations.
11 Jan 2013, Le Matinal
Blog: Electoral Bribery
The MMM and especially Sir Anerood Jugnauth as well as their stooges and blind followers in the blogging community have already seen the fact that a vehicle containing foodstuff spotted in a ward in Curepipe is convincing proof of electoral bribery. This the way Mauritius goes. This is a culture that is being propagated by the MMM. It is in the base mentality of the MMM to condemn, attack, insult, convict and sentence many people on mere rumours. Very rarely has the MMM leader ever gone to the police to register a serious allegation of a crime. Paul Bérenger has …
28 Dec 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: When the System breaks…
At the closing ceremony of a seminar organized by NICE, the PM said that the system obstructs nation building. He was referring to an electoral system which is backed by constitutional stipulations about the division of Mauritian society into 4 main ethnic groups. For him it is these legal dispositions that have made Mauritians become community obsessed so much so that however much we will it is difficult to separate communalism from politics. If young people who are the repositories of the future, look forward towards a country that can pride itself of a national identity, we need another system. …
28 Dec 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: The Year that was
In December 2012, all workers in this country, both private and public, received at least one month bonus salary. The performing and profitable enterprises gave more. The bonus amounts to more than Rs6.2 billion. As from January 2013, quasi totality employees of the public sector will receive salary as per PRB recommendations. A yearly amount of more than Rs4.6 billion.
28 Dec 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: The Man who said He was God
The Mauritian, however educated, is today ambushed by anxiety and stress to such an extent that he needs guidance. Marriage has failed because it cements a fake relationship of apparent unity when, in fact, it bonds loosely two persons who are tired of being together. The couple either echoes each other or expresses the angst of failed love in tempestuous violence.
21 Dec 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Defeat and Victory
The ruling coalition has suffered a defeat but has not been routed. Navin Ramgoolam must accept that fact and extract whatever conclusions and lessons from these results. Paul Bérenger the specialist of hyperboles is talking of a rout (raclée) and is predicting that general elections will come soon. The man Paul Bérenger is never magnanimous in victory just like his stooge Sir Anerood Jugnauth and is never conciliatory in defeat.
14 Dec 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Money does not always buy Quality
How much money will ZEP schools swallow for us to help children who live in challenging circumstances? Every budget brings a whole trove of benefits that aim at further empowering the schools that are responsible for children living in difficult conditions.
14 Dec 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Yes, Prime Minister
Yes, Prime Minister. I agree with your assessment of the results of the recent village and municipal elections. A close analysis shows that your government still commands the support of the majority of the voters. And Labour and PMSD have made real inroads into the usual strongholds of the MMM.
14 Dec 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Mauritius miracle or just Spain in the making?
If you really want to upset an African trade minister, comparing his economy to that of Mauritius is really a good place to start for the simple fact is that the comparison is rarely, if ever, a pleasant one.
08 Dec 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: The Renewal
What has changed since last Monday, the day of the proclamation of results of village council elections? And what will change as from Monday next, the day of the results of municipal elections? Two significant changes will take place.
06 Dec 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: The Putrefaction of the Opposition
Sir Anerood Jugnauth left the office of president to "save" the country. The question that comes to mind is whether he wants to save the country or his son and his empire. What if he passes away tomorrow as we would all, will Mauritius be rudderless? Is Mauritius the property of the Jugnauth clan?
06 Dec 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Portrayal of Barack H Obama’s yawn to that of an ape?
While, in her concert in Washington DC on 24th September 2012, Jewish Kabala sect member and pop singer Madonna referred to Barack Hussein Obama as a « Black Muslim », The Telegraph Pictures of the Day of 20th November 2012, make a subtle comparison between a yawing Barack Obama at the 7th East Asia Summit and a yawning ape by juxtaposing Obama’s big yawn with the yawning of two apes and a tiger.
26 Nov 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: The Boomerang Effect of PNQs
Since the date of the Local Government elections has been announced the Opposition has been quite prolific with parliamentary questions. The Leader of the Opposition has made full use of his right to address Private Notice Questions (PNQs) on a number of subjects.
23 Nov 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Changing Faces
The two world wars ended and brought in their wake a trail of social transformations in the rest of the world. The era of colonizers and their imperialistic and arrogant reign over countries which they deemed as uncivilized were floundered, not without deep social dislocations. The partition in India, the decolonization of Africa, the emergence and the fall of communism were products of the severe impact of certain forceful, momentous historical events. Politically the post-war world has never been the same as it was earlier.
23 Nov 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Learn to do
This is one of the four pillars of education for this century. It is Dr. Karan Singh, chairman of ICCR and member of the executive board of UNESCO who said so during his recent visit to Mauritius. The other three pillars are: learn to know, learn to save the planet, and learn to live together.
23 Nov 2012, Le Matinal