More Emphasis On Saving Lives

Hats off to

> the Mouvement Citoyen AntiCovid of Rodrigues for their courageous stand of a 14 days quarantine on the opening of their borders and

> the ReA for recommending these urgent measures to be put in place within 3 months

Bank of Mauritius is failing to comply with BoM Act

Section 32(3) of the Bank of Mauritius Act prescribes that the Bank submit a copy of its audited accounts together with a report on its operations to the Minister of Finance not later than 4 months after the financial year end, i.e., by latest 31st October 2021. And the Minister shall at the earliest available opportunity lay a copy of these documents before the National Assembly. So far, this has not been done. The audited accounts of the Bank and its report on operations for the year ended June 21 is still awaited. The Bank should explain its non-compliance with the provisions of its legislation, at least as a mark of respect owed to the members of the National Assembly.

Why were we caught unprepared ? Why were we caught napping as the virus made a comeback ?

The responsibility lies with this regime that has ignored all caution and allowed people to become more complacent about the virus.

The responsibility for the devastating surge of the pandemic now is "first and foremost" to this government.

It is a self-inflicted national catastrophe.

The PRB award-a futile and onerous exercise

(Published in l'express of 2nd Nov 2021)

 

Why is the PRB award a futile and onerous exercise.? Let us examine some of the issues pertaining to the PRB at these three levels : a)  Compensation for improved service delivery?  b) PRB: An outdated institution! and c) Financing the PRB and the wage-price spiral

Kee Chong : the new look ?

He alerts us to these happenings in our offshore sector "Qui ont intérêt à entretenir de telles cachettes dotées de structures fortes compliquées ? Qui ont cette expertise professionnelle à faire de tels montages financiers ? Cela démontre tout un réseau de facilitateurs qui ont failli à leur tâche de gardien de l'intégrité du système financier. Je veux dire certains cabinets d'avocats, d'experts fiscalistes, de comptables, banquiers, notaires et autres conseillers financiers."

Levelling up" : From slogan to strategy !

The recent party conference of UK’s Conservative Party in Manchester fleshed out its new signature policy, “levelling up ” , meaning closing the gap. Neil O’Brien , the new minister for levelling up has promised a white paper that will give a clearer definition of levelling up and also provide the measures to measure it .

Wrong message for Air Mts !

Fracassant début de Ken Arianus !

The super CEO , “divan divan”, led the 18 pilots of Air Mauritius, who were under five years of leave without pay, to the PM’s Office.

Our almighty PM, using his magic wand, reinstated them back on the pay system and our ex-laureate pilots will be receiving training on the A330 aircraft .