Blog Mauritius
Blog: Cancer, Curse or Complacency
The street hawkers have become a law unto themselves and they are running a parallel State by trying to impose their own laws and sending ultimatums to the government. This is a totally intolerable situation.
12 Oct 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: PRB – What’s in for Me?
What’s in for me? It’s everybody’s natural first reaction to the recommendation to the PRB 2013 report. It will be the same for the budget 2013. PRB has given a salary rise amounting to Rs 4.6 billion, an increase of 22.5% to 30% to all civil servants, employees of parastatal bodies and local authorities.
12 Oct 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: The Teacher – My Hero
We run away easily with many misconceptions about certain professions. Time has worn out the noble heritage that was at one time vested with rare, enlightened souls. What used to fly like an aristocracy has had to walk like a pedestrian in streets. In fact teaching is a vocation like motherhood. The teacher’s personality is that of a sharer, a compulsive sharer.
05 Oct 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Pre-Criticisms of the Budget
Before even the budget has been presented Paul Berenger, the Leader of the Opposition, a Prime minister-in-waiting under the wings of Sir Anerood Jugnauth whereas he represents the crutches for the former president; a former Prime minister; a former minister of Finance who found the handle of the saucepan too hot in that capacity in 1982; a former minister of Foreign affairs; has come with virulent criticisms against the government.
05 Oct 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Strong Bonds
Is it a coincidence that India has chosen Mauritius to hold the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) - Overseas Indian Day on the 26th, 27th, 28th October this year? Is it a coincidence that the World Hindi Convention was held in Johannesburg recently? It followed the PBD in Durban in 2010. Is it a coincidence that PBD Mauritius being organized in October, the birthday month of Mahatma Gandhi? The birthday of Mahatma Gandhi falls on 2nd October.
05 Oct 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Lifting The Veil of Drug
Drug Trafficking has indisputably soared up and it will be ludicrous to state the contrary seen the scale of drug seizures in the yester weeks. However, the rather disproportionate nature of reporting on a day to day basis has induced people to believe that the steep ascent has now reached its peak and the condition is unprecedentedly worrying.
03 Oct 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Lost Battle
Best Loser System (BLS) or no BLS. The issue has been a gangrene and a cancer that has permeated the news and the political gymnastics of politicians especially those of the MMM and MSM.
28 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: The Vanity of Bureaucratic Rhetoric
We are witnessing two illustrious examples of bad rhetoric that is the symptom of a society where knowledge is a cheap commodity traded from mouth to ear while the diseases that are the root cause remain intact. The Commissioner of Police vaunts of a strategic reform plan for policing for a society where the police provides a useful service and is not just a repressive force.
28 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: In the National Interest
When the Pay Research Bureau (PRB) report is about to be published, revising the pay packet and conditions of service of civil servants and employees of the parastatal bodies in early October and when the Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Xavier Duval is about to read his budget speech on November 9, it would be appropriate for our policy-makers to take cognizance of the address to the nation of Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India on economic reforms.
28 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Humanisation of the Post of President
The constitutional status of the post of President gives it a certain sacredness and aloofness for the preservation of respect, dignity, and decorum, a distance from common day reality so that the post is not cheapened by pedestrian behavior of laypeople who lack the subtlety to pay tribute to one who is the prime custodian of the constitution.
22 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Tourism Mantra
There is a general feeling that something is wrong with our tourism. It is being battered. It is going through difficult times as an outcome of the world financial and economic crisis. It is a sector which brings billions of rupees of revenue in foreign exchange, provide jobs to thousands, ranging from taxi drivers to CEOs, massive investment, both foreign and local.
22 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Organised racism or isolated incidents?
When the industrial sector in Mauritius started picking up with exports being guaranteed under different agreements Mauritius was enjoying full employment level. But soon the country started facing a shortage of cheap and skilled labour workforce and it was then that with the agreement of the Mauritian government and governments of some countries, foreign workers were recruited initially in the textile industry and they were mostly women. These workers have come in the main from China, India, Madagascar and Bangladesh. Today foreign workers are working in many other sectors of the economy.
21 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: This paradise ought to be on your radar
Situated thousands of miles from the coast of Africa in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Mauritius definitely qualifies as the ‘middle of nowhere.’ This is interesting for a number of reasons – I’ll explain.
21 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: « The Second Coming » of William Butler Yeats and Deepa Bhookhun’s gross distortion
The use of the term « anarchy » in Yeats’ poem « The Second Coming » has nothing to do with « The concept of anarchy » which Ms Bhookhun mentions. In fact, she should have said « the concept of anarchism », since anarchy is a state of affairs rather than a ‘concept’.
16 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: From West to East
Life is a concatenation of periods of learning followed by unlearning in order to come nearer and nearer to the meaning of the self which is a truth among many.
13 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Instructive, confusing or bewildering
The ruling of the Human Rights Committee in the matter of Rezistans Ek Alternativ in regard to the obligation required of a candidate at the general elections to declare his/her ethnicity on the nomination paper has caused quite a stir.
13 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: The $10 Trillion Prize
This is the title of a book, an abridged version available for free on Harvard Business Review website. This book written by Michael J. Silverstein, Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao, David Michael from Boston Consulting Group (BCG), aims at captivating the newly affluent in China and India. It focuses on the vital force that will transform these countries, their economies and their global market place by 2020 - their new one billion consumers. By 2020, India and China will add up to a $10 trillion consumer market.
13 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: I recommend Mauritius…
… No, not for its white sandy beaches and clear blue water, but for stashing millions in its growing offshore sector.
08 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: BLS - Mauritius will not be bullied by an unfair and biased UN Human Rights Commission
In defiance of the rules and regulations and in bad faith, the candidates of the political party Rezistans ek Alternativ, with premeditation, refused to select the General Population residual category upon registration at general elections in the knowledge that their candidacies would be rejected in order to afford the party the opportunity to mount an infectious campaign against the reforming Best Loser System (BLS) and against the government.
07 Sep 2012, Le Matinal
Blog: Courage, Cowardice or Despair
At a press conference on Saturday 1 September 2012 SAJ stated that the MSM must be prepared to go alone at the next general elections notwithstanding the remake because a misfortune (malheur) may occur at any time.
07 Sep 2012, Le Matinal