General Mauritius

Do you claim for your medical expenses to your health insurance company?

Last year when I talked about life insurance policies, the rather low participation rate on the article give the impression that very little of my blog audience actually have one. As opposed to a life insurance policy, a medical insurance plan works differently. Let's see how.

16 Jul 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Quatre Bornes : long queues ahead!

I have stopped counting the number of times I have seen them digging again into newly tarred roads (see above). Or the numerous places with inadequate and confusing road warning signs.

13 Jul 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Public holidays 2014 for Mauritius

Some good news for 2014. Long weekends ahead and only 3 public holidays falling during weekends.

02 Jul 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

I have not been able to watch Miss Mauritius 2013?s competition. Did you?

The Miss Mauritius 2013 winner was announced yesterday. Anything interesting I might have missed?

30 Jun 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Outta Control. Just my 50Cents

Personally, that's too much for a small island.

26 Jun 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Some SBM customers reported weird incidents today.

After the downtime following the upgrade of their banking system upgrade a couple of months ago, several SBM customers have reported some weird incidents today.

14 Jun 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Bollywood, that’s Mauritius dude, not Goa!

Though the island is regularly pictured in Bollywood movies, most often, the credits of our beautiful landscapes are given to Goa. The recently released movie Go Goa Gone is one of them.

02 Jun 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Which speed radar detector do you use?

Anyone willing to share the make/model of radar detector you are using? (while radar detectors and laser jammers are not forbidden, not yet)

29 May 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Slight technical mistake – 20 speed cameras disabled until further notice.

OMG! Official announcement in the national assembly - The recently installed 20 speed cameras will be disabled because of a "slight technical mistake".

26 May 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Qu’en pensez vous du #WebCup 2013 Maurice?

Je suis vraiment déçu de la premiere compétion WebCup organisée à Maurice. Plusieurs groupes s'y étaient inscris et ils avaient tous 24 heures pour réaliser un site web.

20 May 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

“Bonbonnes gaz” : Yellow ones to be eventually replaced by red ones.

Say Bye to your yellow gas cylinders. For those who use the yellow gas cylinders for domestic use (for cooking or in your gas water heaters), things might change in some time.

18 May 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Prix folies pour la Journée Internationale des Familles 2013

Les Mauriciens seront par milliers à vouloir bénéficier de ces tarifs promotionnels le 18 et 19 Mai 2013. Alors, attendez-vous à des grosses foules, des longues files d'attentes et surtout, des embouteillages, surtout près des centres d'activités.

15 May 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Permis à Points – First case of corruption on the launching day itself.

Not surprised at all. I expected this one as mentionned in my post published only 4 days back. A police officer asked a driver an amount of Rs6000 following a speed check.

14 May 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Le jour J – N’oubliez pas votre DLC!

Le grand jour est enfin arrivé! Maintenant, parlons-en de la probable hausse des cas réglés via le "Constat à l'amiable", les "hit and run" et la corruption...

09 May 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Mauritian Minister of Justice accused of beating a driver after accident.

The news is all over the headlines of the different newspapers today. A 19 years old driver reported being beaten by the Minister of Justice, Yatin Varma, after their cars collided in an accident yesterday

05 May 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Map of Mauritius showing free WiFi hotspots

After the map showing speed cameras in the island, I'm launching another map which hopefully will be useful for Mauritians. This time, together with the help of contributors, I'm going to try to mark all areas in the island where WiFi can be available freely.

28 Apr 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Sympathy needed : Labour Party won’t hold any political gathering (meeting) on the 1st May 2013

Not later than yesterday morning, I shared last year's post promoting the various leisure activities offered at reduced price for the public holiday of the 1st May 2012. Few hours ago, the prime minister announced that his labour party won't be holding any political gatherings on this day because of the tragic floods of the 30th March 2013.

25 Apr 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

SBM customers complaining after new banking system rolled in

Although I have not personally experienced any problems as a SBM Customer recently, several people are complaining about being unable to carry out transactions during the past few days or even weeks.

22 Apr 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

SMS Alert : “Complete tou precaution”

Exactly two weeks after the request of the prime minister, the mobile operators (Orange, Emtel and MTML) got the 'opportunity' to test their new SMS alert systems.

16 Apr 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life

Who cares about the TNT “Going Digital” survey?

2 days ago, we received a piece of paper in our letter box. You probably did too. Now that the deadline is over, who did really fill in the paper?

14 Apr 2013, Yashvin, pages of my life