The Metro Express: the acommpanying measures

Recently, a top architect was commenting that « ... l’ État est en train de manière continue, de démocratiser et libéraliser l’accès à l’automobile, kot tou dimounn anvi roul loto, sans se soucier de savoir si le Metro Express un changement de mentalité ». 

Rs 15 to Rs19 billion for the Surveillance State

Can we afford this huge amount for the Safe City project? Another prestige project! We can achieve equally good results by spending more on our police force. Intelligent video surveillance has become widespread in more and more numerous social and national spaces, while its effects in terms of crime prevention and/or law enforcement and community reassurance are not demonstrated. 

Political Caricatures: Free education: Cost Sharing;The Metro Express: The accompanying measures; Rs19 billion for the Surveillance State; The Census Issue: “L’hypocrisie politicienne”

The salvation of free education and its public schools lies in giving more fiscal space to Government to allow it to invest heavily in overhauling the education system

The census issue: “L’hypocrisie politicienne”

(Published in Mtimes,13-20 September 2018)

In our dear little "C'est un plaisir" country, when some societal issues appear occasionally, as they do in most societies, we tend to sweep them under the carpet. After the Grand Bassin gandia issue, the LGBT march , the child marriage issue, religious conversions and now the Census issue: “L’hypocrisie politicienne”, there is a common pattern. 

Free education: Cost Sharing

Published in Mtimes 13-20 September 2018

 The five students of RCC, the laureates of the Omnicane award on the theme “Enn sel lepep, Enn sel nation”,  question and challenge us on the free education system, inter alia.  “ Il y a beaucoup de parents qui peuvent payer. D’ailleurs, ils payent bien les leçons particulières. L’argent ainsi économisé pourrait être consacré aux plus nécessiteux. De même on aurait du prévoir  le Wi-Fi gratuit à ceux qui n’ont pas de connexion la maison….”

CRY MY BELOVED COUNTRY !!!

Dear Daughter,

I always had the feeling that wherever you are it cannot be as good as home. There is no better place than home. I am feeling sorry today to have had such feelings because now I am having that uneasy sentiment that this cannot be home. Indeed, I am not recognising it.

CENSUS ON ETHNIC LINES

What's the big fuss about it ?

It does not make any difference to progessives whether the Census is or is not carried along ethnic lines.