Happy retirement to a remarkable modest lady !

She was given a nice, heart-warming send-off today. It is very rare in government to see people in positions of authority to be so easily accessible , well-respected and loved. From the minor-grades , the ancillary staff, to the students and teachers- new and seniors- they all gathered to wish her a happy retirement. She deserves it.

"Journalist and Journalus”

There are some of them who will not stop at anything to get some advantage over their competitors even if it means compromising on their ethical standards .

I do not know from where they dug up our dear friend, the ex-globe trotting Minister, who has bequeathed us with such wonderful pearls as “Government is Government and Government decides”, “Bizin enn Jugnauth pou roul sa pei la” and similar "stupidities" on the impact of higher crime rates on the tourism sector and on the question of meritocracy.

The ReA ,the Unions,NGOs and Citizens (Kolektif Konversasyon Solider) made history today .

Without any funding, without any sponsoring , the common man, the young, the old, the intellectual, the militant, the worker, the civil servant, the NGOs, the "marginal" …u name it, they were all there, rallying to the call of” Lavi, Solidarité, Liberté” . No briyani, no free buses......they came on their own; it was spontaneous . It was a communion, something new and qualitatively different ,rarely seen in the meetings of the traditional bourgeois parties. 

We warned you, it was sheer bluff by the BOM !

You recall that at the time that the BOM announced that it was going to raise Rs60 bn on the market to finance the similar grant to Govt, we had said that is a masquerade. We had commented that under pressure from the Press, the Opposition’s requests for clarification, negative public comments, and probably also on account of IMF reservations expressed informally, BoM has been compelled to present a face-saving device. But the BoM grant to Govt will remain a printing money measure.

High Income Economy – Temporarily !!!

(Publshed in Weekly issue no 408, 9th July)

While most observers did not attribute much to the World Bank’s recent classification of Mauritius as HIC knowing very well that we will not last long in this income group , one of the poodles of the regime rushed in to echo the music set by the cheerleaders of the PMO that
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Why I'll be present at the "MANIFESTATION PASIFIK" on Saturday

Because ,

• this country needs a new development model not authoritarian populism,

• our institutions have gone to the dogs, they are stuffed with incompetent loyalists,

You have every reason to hang your head in shame !

Over the years, Mauritius has put in place a political system that provides for effective transfer of power and periodic renewal of the leadership through a competitive multi-party and multi-candidate system, impartial and credible electoral administration, effective electoral oversight of the electoral process, and an informed and active citizenry. We were a rare beacon of good governance in Africa.