Putting the record straight: Minimum wage, free tertiary education, pension increase and the Workers Rights Bill

(Published in MTimes 30 08 2019)

There has been recently lots of chest-thumping by government on its so-called pro-poor, pro-worker measures. Let us examine how much of the rhetoric is matched by facts.

A Journey Derailed

(Published MTimes 30 08 2019)

The bottom line in 2014 was that people wanted change. The people wanted a new future that would embrace transformation and reorientation to keep pace with their changing sentiments, aspirations, needs, and preferences. The old order had to give way to the new.

Political Caricatures: Safe City project: Apprehensions persist!;MBC-TV : the government’s lapdog;...

Some facets of our democracy

(Published in MTimes 23 August 2019)

 The phases of the campaign: The political campaign is gathering steam. It will start by the high pitch, high level discourses and narratives giving a first impression of a mature democracy with a rich historical tradition of debates and discussions.

The pro-Worker Show !!!

(Published in Mtimes 16 August 2019)

 The 2019-20 Budget with its panoply of feel-good policies and give-ways to one and all, which they had expected to sail them victoriously through the forthcoming elections, turned out to be a damp squid. Moreover, there were no big policy reform signals in the Budget to jumpstart the flailing sectors, no concrete measures to revive the faltering economy and usher in a higher growth momentum. 

Political Caricatures:The Leader of the Labour Party takes up the challenge of the PM; ...School Violence – Prevention Strategy

Titbits : The School of the Future ; Some insights from the Education Renaissance in Rajasthan

(Posted in MTimes 09 August 2019)

 The school as it is now won’t be around in the next 5-10 years with the pace at which digital technology, robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are all working to enhance human life and our day to day experiences. The school of the future will no more be a building with students sitting for hours at a desk and the teacher standing at the front. No, it will be more of a virtual classroom operating seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

Political Caricatures: Air Mauritius: The chronicle of a programmed debacle;Relocation of street vendors in Port Louis: A mess; Lokal is not always beautiful; MMM’s Commission of Education; Chagos, what next?; National Insurance Company:colourable accounting !

Political Caricatures: The civil service at the politicians’ beck and call!, Kudos to athletes, Air Mts, Gender Gaps, garden drom, Solid waste management,Global innovation,Workers rights bill.

MAURITIUS: A TAX HAVEN ?

(Published in a truncated version in MTimes 02 08 2019)

The arguments of many of our outraged operators of global business and defenders of our "clean jurisdiction" do not hold. They argue that we are being picked out of the many other financial centres that are doing the same thing-that is tax-centric centres, if tax haven is too offensive for them. If they care to read carefully, they will note that we are one of the many but we are one of the worst elements among the many offshore centres- “the lynchpin of many tax avoidance structures in Africa,” and among ”the most aggressive corporate tax havens responsible for large revenue losses across the African continent.”