Drugs in Mauritius which have an expiry date are in fact given a fresh lease on their life for two additional years.

Expiry date in this country means what the authorities want it to mean. Drugs which have an expiry date are given afresh lease of life. Only in Mauritius can this happen.

Medicinal drugs which have an expiry date are in fact given a fresh lease on their life for two additional years. Drugs which are in short supply for the H1N1 virus have been extended for use for two more years. Not two days or two weeks but two years! Time gets suspended and/ or extended by Governmental decree. Either this means that the drug manufacturers are cheating on the shelf life of their medication in order to sell more drugs within a shorter span of time or the Mauritian decision- makers have more expertise than anyone in the research unit of the drug manufacturers. Does this policy of extension apply to all other products including medicinal drugs? Expiry date in this country means what the authorities want it to mean. Only in Mauritius can this happen.

But then the same authorities go to Kentucky Fried Chicken and they close all the outlets since some of their products had expired. These expired products represented a danger to public health. One is helpless when one tries to understand. Better not try or you will become mad- prematurely. But had this been all the story, it could have been digested without too many food poisoning implications. But it turned out that the ‘ friends’of a minister were interested in a rival chicken project. With KFC back where it was, the ‘ friends’ have chickened out.

The Hon Attorney General is summoned to Police Headquarters for purposes of an enquiry concerning public statements about the discriminatory manner in which the Police force carries out its functions in respect of a particular ethnic group. He goes to the Police Station and he is accompanied by a football team of lawyers who argue his case in law with the Police enquiring officers. The need for courts in Mauritius must be re- assessed. The case is enquired into, processed and he is acquitted. Great work, Police officers! A road traffic accident occurs at 05 00 and it is only at 08 30 that the Police manage to remove the overturned vehicle. Why did they need so much time? What happened to Traffic Highway patrol or Emergency Response? The answer is simple: the Police was waiting for the MBC TV to set its cameras before starting the unblocking activities. Some even say that the first takes were not very good with the result that the whole process had to done afresh. Rehearsals have now been ordered in such cases.

In Mauritius no religious ceremony can be performed without politicians being present. The blessings of politicians seem to curry more favour with the gods. Politicians pontificate and priests and religious personnel do politicking.

Here we have Voices for the Muslims, Creoles, Hindus etc as though the rest of Mauritians are voiceless and they need others to do what they shrink from. Voices indeed … but for their own business interests.

The latest saga is the feud at the Bank of Mauritius. One recalls vividly Rama Sithanen walking with his resignation letter as he was opposed to Manou Bheenick being appointed Governor. The latter was kept in his pocket under lock and key. It could not be delivered as he had thrown the key away. No pun on key, please. A Fact- Finding Committee ( FFC) has been decided upon.

One can easily see the futility of the exercise as all the facts have been talked about in Parliament. The facts are all there but we have this addiction of setting up FFCs when the conclusion is known in advance. Inevitably as all the facts which are found must be politically corrected.

What can be the real problem? Is it ego on the part of Sithanen? Can it possibly be because Bheenick is a product of the Royal College Port Louis – and a real laureate – and Sithanen comes from Bhujoharry College? Manou , send him some pink champagne and drown his ego. ……… Only in Mauritius the repetitive appearances of the Prime Minister on national television are tolerated as something normal. The latter misses no opportunity of reminiscing the political feats of late Sir Seewoosagur, his father.

If only during his lifetime the present Prime Minister would have let the 1st Prime Minister know about his fondness and affection for him. It is only in death that the qualities of people become obvious.

But then where else than this place where it is a pleasure to be – according to the asinine slogan of the Ministry of Tourism – does the street dictate to the Government? The hawkers of Port Louis are already working on a further climbdown by the Prime Minister so that the deadline in January is resuscitated.

He says he has decided to ‘ declare so piti’ from now on. Declare today, undeclare tomorrow and so on and so on….

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