The Government should listen to its critics but not as a last resort.

(Published in Le Mauricien, 23 Mar 2020)

If this government wants to improve its functioning, its performance and enhance the trust of its citizens in its ways of managing the country, it has to start learning to listen to its critics and improve its communication with the public.

A Minister of Finance failing to rise to our aspirations

(Piublished in Le Mauricien 16 March 2020)

Analysing and decrypting the two recent interventions of our Minister of Finance (MoF), one in the context of the Government Programme 2020-24 and the other on the “Plan de Soutien” to help the economy cope with the coronavirus outbreak, we were quite disappointed on both counts, if not disillusioned regarding our expectations, however low, from the new team at the helm at the Ministry of Finance that it will wake up to the realities and somehow get its act together.

Happy Independence Day : a reflection

Today that we are celebrating the independence day of Mauritius, it is worth it to pause for a while to appraise ourselves of the state of health of our Mauritianess, however difficult it is to clearly define what we understand by this abstruse term. 

Quel Gâchis !!!

On the eve of the recent polls, the Director of the MBC had to resign because of his failure to get the better of his glib tongue that went on chattering and ultimately , as to be expected, spilled over onto too offensive terrain- considered too risky for the harmony of our rainbow nation but not that irrecuperable not to be appointed as consultant for the same MBC. 

A Communique from the Ministry of Finance that tries to con us !!!

The Communique from the Ministry of Finance on public debt tries to hide the facts. It states that “A sum of Rs billion was transferred by the Central Bank to the Consolidated Fund on 11 December 2019, as per Section 103 of the Constitution.” 

The FATF Greylisting: Implications and Future Actions

(Published in Le Mauricien on 09 Mar 2020) 
FATF or the Financial Action Task Force, the global body responsible for setting anti money laundering standards, has included Mauritius on a list of countries under increased monitoring, commonly known as the grey list. Grey listed countries are assessed to have deficiencies in their anti-money laundering regimes with regard to compliance with FATF standards, but are cooperating with FATF to address these deficiencies.  Another FATF list - a black list, comprises countries that are not committing to address their deficiencies.