Local Mauritius
Course on administration, software system by IOM
As part of implementing the monitoring programme of African Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD), the Mauritius Institute of Oceanography (IOM) and National Meteorological Services are holding two training courses. The first will focus on systems administration for electronic technicians and will be held from February 28 to March 4, and the one on software applications for meteorologists will be from from March 7 to 18.
24 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Atom Travel wins best Indian Ocean award
The 18th edition of The Champions of the Sea, an annual event dedicated to the best travel agents, was held from February 14 to 20 in Costa Pacifica. Atom Travel Service received the award for Best Indian Ocean Sales Performance 2010 on February 17.
24 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
MAD claims to hold evidence in Caterino case
The Mouvement Anti Drogue (MAD) held its first meeting of the year on Wednesday at Kaza, Port Louis. MAD members Danny Philippe, Ally Lazer and Cadress Runghen spoke about various issues, including the arrest of Christophe Caterino and drug trafficking.
24 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
12 offshore companies under CBI lens
The Indian government has decided to take action over the recent allegations of tax evasion and money laundering against Indian businessmen and companies operating in the offshore sector of Mauritius and elsewhere.
24 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
‘EPA key to reduce poverty’
ProInvest has chosen Mauritius for a two-day workshop to review progress on negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA). Several countries have been participating actively since the launch of the negotiations in 2004.
24 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Court refuses bail to Harte accused
Sandeep Mooneea and Avinash Treebhowon, the two suspects in the murder case of Irish citizen Michaëla Harte, appeared in the District Court of Mapou on Wednesday afternoon.
24 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Thandie Newton supports differently-abled children
Thandie Newton, the lead actress in Mission Impossible 2, is currently on holiday in Mauritius. On February 22, she visited children from the Southern Handicapped Association day care centre at Riambel.
24 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
BPO company lays off 60 workers
The business process outsourcing (BPO) sector in Mauritius suffered another blow on February 22 as ProContact declared 60 of its employees redundant as the company is incapable of paying their wages.
24 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Bundhoo new Labour secretary general
Lormesh Bundhoo was appointed new secretary general of the Labour Party during the first executive meeting of the party on Wednesday.
24 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Puzzling death at Les Salines
Mystery surrounds Vicky Sunnasse’s rendez-vous with death at Les Salines on Monday.
23 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Commodity prices keep soaring
The World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have forecast a difficult year, especially for developing countries. World Bank stated, ‘ low-income and poor countries will suffer the most.”
23 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Official Creole book to be released soon
The 'Lortograf Kreol Morisien' document, prepared by the Akademi Kreol Morisien (AKM), will soon become an official reference book for the cin Mauritius.
23 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Search for 11-day old infant continues
An 11 day infant has been missing at Rivière-du-Poste from Monday morning. The infant's 21-year-old mother a resident of New Grove was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Division of Rose-Belle on Tuesday afternoon.
23 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Bagatelle dam bid awarded in June
The contract for the construction of a dam at Bagatelle will be allocated by mid-2011. The contract for the construction of a dam at Bagatelle will be allocated by mid-2011.
23 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Customs House gets new offices
With the official opening of the new Customs House at Mer Rouge, Port Louis, on February 23 by the Prime Minister, the customs department is entering a new stage of development.
23 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
ISCKON vs McDonald’s case postponed
The hearing regarding the injunction that International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) had lodged on February 11 against the proposed opening of the McDonald's at Phoenix has been postponed for March 9.
23 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
New PTr president confident to win next elections
Patrick Assirvaden the new president of the Labour Party talks about his vision.
23 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
ICAC to summon Infinity officials
The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), which has been following the Infinity BPO case, may initiate a formal investigation against some officials of Infinity BPO at the end of the week.
23 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
PM to convert island into garden city state
The government is currently undertaking infrastructural projects amounting to Rs 14.1 billion till 2013, said Prime Minister Dr Navin Ramgoolam at the inauguration of the Triolet Bypass. The head of the government declared that these infrastructural projects are in line with the vision of transforming Mauritius into a ‘garden city state’.
23 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily
Rainy weather expected today
The whole island received abundant rain on Monday. According to Prem Pathak, meteorologist at the Meteorological Station of Vacoas, this situation was due to unstable and moist atmospheric conditions over the region.
22 Feb 2011, The Independent Daily