Interview of Steven Obeegadoo in today's L'express : «Ena bann nouvo chatwa»

A reply :

We have to put a stop to their inexact and flawed arguments on the Covid measures

Our criticism of Budget measures !

Some of the Govt people, and the new chatwas, seem to be irritated by our criticism of some budget measures . There have been some accusations that many of us derive a “kick” from the clickbait of our social platform exerting a disproportionate and undeserved influence over shaping, or rather distorting, the national narrative.

La grogne de la rue : À la sauce FMI! ( Newspaper version)

(Published in L'express  25 June 2025)

This is what happens when a  Govt, his ministers , senior and junior,  are more interested  in their usual show in National Assembly then engaging in a permanent dialogue with LePep…a LePep, used to the past ten years of cheap populism and welfarism, who is likely to be easily unsettled by rapid social change and bold reforms .

La grogne de la rue : À la sauce FMI!

Kan enn Govt -ek specialma so Junior Minister, so advisers, ek so acting FS -pa fin consulté LePep pendan sa dernier 7 mois la , pa diskit avec LePep, pa diskit avek so ban Miniis, pa engaz diskisyons avek ban Xperts, ban social workers , ban trade unions, ban différan kous socials....

Hats off to Kugan, Raviraj and Véronique !

 

We want to show our appreciation to Kugan Parapen, Raviraj Beechook and Véronique Leu-Govind on their stand that the elected representatives must set the example.

"Non à la surenchère", yes we can but....

Govt has set up two committees to assess the accompanying measures to mitigate the impact of the pension reform- un Govt à l’écoute de LePep following the discontent expressed by different components of the population.  

"Consultations larges” on the BRP

Damry and his team(including EDB) finn asé fané; to remedy the situation, Please, pa les zot fer enn lot gaff!

Ki fer Lepep pé anmerdé !

The increase in the age eligibility for BRP even though it is being phased out over a period of 5 years is not being well received by the population.

Budget 2025-26: High on promises, low on reforms

 Published in l'express June 2025

It’s not a Budget for this fiscal year, for the short term; it’s rather a vision statement, without implementation plans, but with the promise of possible attainable goals not before 2035 at the earliest. It lacks the foundation to build a bridge to the future and contains too many gaps to ensure a safe and solid path to a better future.

African Leadership Magazine awards ?

September 2021, Harvesh K Seegolam, Governor of the Bank of Mauritius, was accepting his African Leadership Magazine ’s (ALM)award with yet another great speech! The Webinar was absolutely fantastic!

Budget Adjustment

The upcoming budget exercise calls for major policy measures to address the fiscal deficit and public debt. The degree of budget adjustment needed to put public finances on a sound footing is less evident.

The Chagos deal: Mts - An ally of western powers

After a six-month absence, bogged down by the FCC’s investigation on the seizure of Rs 113.8 million in foreign currency from Josian Deelawon and Chandradeo Oomah on February 15, the former Prime Minister, used the Chagos deal for a come back on the political scene. He declared that if he were Prime Minister, he would not have signed the new deal on the Chagos archipelago. For him, the agreement that has just been signed has several disadvantages for the Mauritian state and the Chagossian people. “After going through the new agreement, I was saddened to see that the government of Mauritius did not negotiate in the interest of the republic. They have destroyed the good work we have done. Zot pe koz manti”, he says.

Convoluted arguments, analytically flawed !

 

In L’express : In and Out -Un ancien secrétaire financier, qui n'a pas été retenu comme conseiller au PMO ( ou comme future FS) serait devenu, du jour au lendemain, une voix critique dans les rangs de l’opposition. Depuis, il dénonce systématiquement le gouvernement pour sa politique économique.

Ces donneurs de leçons !

Pa ban Eshan Juman , ban Ravi Beechook (inklu moi mem) ki pou vin don leçons à ReA…

I was a mere puppet , I just followed instructions !

Rajiv Servansingh, ex-CEO of State Trading Corporation (STC), was heard again at the headquarters of the Financial Crimes Commission (FCC). Rejecting any irregularity in the award of the Rs 30 billion oil contract to Mercantile & Maritime Group (MMG), he asserted that he had merely carried out the decisions of STC's Board of Directors. The FCC has been scrutinizing potential links between the former STC boss and MMG director Kareena Neisius, to determine precisely what role he might have played in the awarding of this colossal contract. For his part, Rajiv Servansingh maintains that he has nothing to reproach himself for.

La méritocracie au travail : L'exemple vient d'en haut

Last Thursday, an official reception was held at the State House to honour the laureates. The Prime Minister expressed his wish for a profound transformation of our recruitment and employment system, emphasising the importance of providing young people with the right opportunities when they return home.

Second thoughts about voting today !

Why ?

What am I voting for? - for another 120-0.

For Alliance du Changement !

Ki Sanzman !

Fête du travail : Marked my presence

The Alliance du Changement was laying wreaths in Guy Rozemont Square and St Jean cemetery which was followed by the gathering of supporters in a supposed fervent display of "political fervour" at Edward VII Square in Rose-Hill.

The Mauritius miracle is losing its sheen

https://economist.com/.../the-mauritius-miracle-is-losing...

from The Economist

We didn't know how much damage they'd done ! Really !

(Published in l'express of 7th may 2025)

At yesterday's parliamentary session, the National Assembly passed two major budget bills without amendment: the Supplementary Appropriation (2023-2024) (No. 2) Bill and the Supplementary Appropriation (2024-2025) Bill.

Municipal Elections: Vote for candidates supporting sustainable and responsible local policies.

The citizens' collective #Savetheblu is sounding the alarm and calling for a national wake-up call: the Mauritian ocean is dying.

The organization urges citizens to make marine protection a central issue in the elections, by supporting only those candidates clearly committed to sustainable and responsible local policies.

Recent Currency Movements and Exports Subsidies !

Since the beginning of April 2025 to 16 April 2025, the US Dollar has fallen by about 4.5% against other currencies, as measured by the US Dollar Index, shown in the first graph below.

The centralisation of powers !

With the introduction of the Public Inquiries Bill, the stated objective is evident : to thoroughly modernise the public enquiry system. However behind this legal reform, two sensitive commissions of enquiry will be abruptly halted, raising questions and criticism.

Was BAI a “disaster waiting to happen”?

Goldfinger coming back from hibernation has affirmed that BAI was a “disaster waiting to happen” …He accused the BAI group of having ‘plundered investors’ and asserted that he believes that Dawood Rawat's demand for Rs 100 billion will not be met. Trusting the justice system, he argued that Rawat would not be fortunate enough to get even ‘one rupee’. On the contrary, he said, the government should ask him to pay back the money spent to save the country.

Ban Pantins ki finn osi zouir!

They have a good excuse -“We just obeyed orders ! “

Ki Acting FS, ki Chokra, ki Bissesur, ki Ken Poonoosamy (dan ka Sobrinho), ki board MIC, ki board MTPA, ki board SBM, ki board Air Mts, ki board, ki board STC, ki board….ki ban advisers.......... zot tou ti obligé parski fin gayn ban fortes pressions !

Pada’s henchmen!

Pada will surely go down in our short economic history as the champion of crony capitalism and nepotism and hailed as the master of financial fraud and corruption; he may be leaving his mark as one among the most corrupt Finance Ministers the country has ever known. (As corrupt as some previous ones , the ones viewed as trojan horses of the private sector dutifully carrying out the agenda of their backers and sponsors).

Le backlog de Sithanen !

The Governor of the Central Bank, at a ceremony marking the migration of ABCB Holdings to the official market of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius, was harking back again on the ‘extremely difficult’ monetary legacy left by the previous administration. He was referring to the printing of Rs 186 billion, divided between the government (Rs 93 billion), the Mauritius Investment Corporation (Rs 81 billion) and four state-owned companies (Rs 12 billion).

The Governor and the Politician !

A central bank governor needs a degree of reserved communication to maintain credibility, avoid over-promising, and ensure effective monetary policy implementation, as over-communication can lead to "signal extraction problems" and undermine policy credibility.

Sithanen’s unconvincing intervention on Radio Plus

Much of what Sithanen mentioned in his intervention is already public knowledge -the money transferred from BoM’s capital reserves for the repayment of Govt’s external debt, the transfer of Rs 60 bn to Govt , the MIC transfer of Rs 25 bn to Govt, dressed up as an investment in Airports Holdings Ltd, a state-owned company, which enabled Govt to pay off Air Mauritius creditors, the recourse to central bank deficit financing , the imprudent fiscal management, and the manipulation of GDP and Budget figures & so on- due to the efforts and articles of some top economists while our Sithanen was either advising the Govt on helicopter money or hibernating ….it seems that it’s now that he is finally beginning to wake up to the enormity of the economic devastation caused by our Pada.

My comments on the "SEL SOLUTION REVOLUTION" post (see attached)

 

Who cares who is Paul Lismore ? Kan li ti pé kraz rézim Jugnauth day and night, sans relâche-becoming one of the most popular and pertinent blogs that could not be missed, long before the manifestation of "Moustass Leaks "- so pseudonyme pas ti enn problem ler la !!

Quel Culot !

After the arrest of the Gooljaury brothers, what’s making the headlines is the shocking revelation by the PM in his parliamentary reply that the MSM government has squandered a whopping 110 million dollars  (with annual maintenance costs of 7.5 million dollars and  evidence of over-billing ) on purchasing highly sophisticated equipments for state  surveillance of the entire nation.

An independent audit and evaluation of Airport Holdings Ltd (AHL) !

 

Now that things seem to be stabilising at MK following its Annual Meeting of Shareholders and the appointment of a temporary Managing Committee with executive powers pending the nomination of a new Chief Executive Officer, ( as in the pre-2014 days waiting for NCR to come out of his proverbial lethargy and now familiar equivocation ), it’s time now for the Governor of the Bank of Mauritius to ask for a full audit of AHL, which has not yet published its audited financial accounts since its setting-up in August 2021.

Inspiring speech by ReA’s MP Babita Thannoo- “acting upon our care”

In her maiden speech in the National Assembly on Tuesday, Babita Thannoo called for far-reaching changes. Hailing the govt programme 2025-29 as a beacon of hope, the MP emphasised social justice and the need to overcome community divisions. She has stressed the urgent need to rebuild the country and undertake major reforms to meet people's expectations.

UK denies it faces paying billions more for Chagos

 The UK government has denied claims made by the prime minister of Mauritius that it faces paying billions more under a renegotiated deal over the future of the Chagos Islands.

Silver Bank and the MIC ! Eski sey sa ki LePep pé démandé ?

 

L’express rushes to the rescue of Sithanen ! It has not been difficult for the Chief Editor to make the transition from Padayachy to Sithanen !

A Moody’s downgrade was inevitable, but it could have been worse !

Our top economists had been warning us for some time now that there was a serious risk that Moody’s would downgrade us starting with an outlook change to negative, followed by a lower than investment grade rating, or junk status.

The culture of cronyism continues unabated !

The recent nominations of some old guards continue to raise eyebrows, if not disgust ! Pé distribué ban bouts pou "nou ban"; nou famis, nou partisans, nou ban suivers, ban chatwas, ban financiers, ban nouvo karapats kinn fin chanz lisyens !

Prime Minister visits Grand-Bassin .

The Maha Shivratree and Thaipoosam Cavadee Task Force, headed by our Prime Minister, visited Grand-Bassin yesterday. The purpose of the visit was to ensure that all the necessary arrangements are in place to welcome the pilgrims .

The treatment of minorities !

Why blame top fm ? that’s international news, what’s important is how we react to it ; there’s no need to find excuses ; there's always an excuse when we are in the mode Nou ban V/s Zot ban.

Clawing back: The deep reforms and restructuring the country needs !

There couldn’t have been a better reply to the ex-PM's Christmas and end-of-year message than Manou Bheenick’s assessment of the State of the Economy -the “rampage of dilapidation and depredation that we have suffered from the claws of the kleptocrats who have brought the economy to ruins”- in his MT interview of the 27th December.