What follows is a slightly modified version of an article which appeared in the 40th Independence Anniversary celebrations issue of the Mauritius Times. The issues raised being still very much there, I thought that a timely reprint might provoke a thought or two.
The following three features relating to the status, form and use of our [...]
A TEENAGER has been fatally stabbed only days before he was due to leave Britain to be reunited with his family.
Mauritian Nabil Bakurally, 19, was killed in a suspected row with a group of rival Asian men in Ilford.
The foreign student, who emigrated to London three years ago, became the 28th teenager to be violently [...]
“The cost of production is high in Mauritius as we are far away from our main markets. Our island is so small that at times our clients do forget us. We no longer benefit from any trade preferences. We don’t have any natural resources but we have plenty of sunshine and wind and we have [...]
The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] Maurice Iwu has a penchant for employing every opportunity to embark on hollow self praise.
The economic outlook in the US and EU, the two largest export markets of emerging countries, has worsened as the credit crisis has deepened and some major players are in recession. How does this affect us?
It was a splashing game for the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, Saturday, October 11 at the Ahmadou Ahidjo Stadium, Yaoundé marking the last playing day of Group One in the Joint 2010 World Cup and African Cup of Nations qualifiers.
MAURITIUS-domiciled Aureos Capital, a private equity fund manager, says its new fund, which raised $253,5m last month, seeks to tap “superior risk-adjusted returns” in Africa.
Thanks to the 700 million people who travel yearly, the world tourism industry rakes in a staggering $2.4 billion daily! And an increasing number of these are demanding greater environ-mental accountability from their service providers.
On 12 December 1946 Sookdeo Bissoondoyal organized a procession of bullock carts in the streets of Port Louis to protest against the arrival of white South African tourists. It was his way of drawing the attention of the public to the policy of apartheid, which most Mauritians had not even heard of at that time. [...]
Mauritius — along with Botswana, Malawi and Madagascar — did not sign the Gender Protocol at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in August. While the island nation has made some recent progress in political representation of women at the level of Parliament, much remains to be done to allow women to enjoy their [...]
