Platinum Card Case

President’s dismissal triggered by Cabinet

The President of the Republic is at the center of a major controversy following recent articles published in the newspaper L’Express by La Sentinelle about purchases she would have made with a Platinum Card from Barclays Bank with a ceiling of Rs 1 million given to her in 2016 by the NGO Planet Earth Institute, chaired by the controversial Angolan businessman Alvaro Sobrinho. This affair has caused a torrent of criticism and the President has been asked to abdicate.

Ruby Moothien Pillay : “We are moving towards a gender parity era”

The International’s Women’s Day being celebrated on 8th March, we approached the first woman director of the Mauritius Oceanography Institute (MOI) for an interview. Dr Ruby Moothien Pillay not only shares with us her objectives as Head of the Institute but also her views on the place of Mauritian women in our society, in science and regarding gender parity.

50 Years of Independence - Michel de Spéville : “Emigrating has never crossed my mind”

Michel de Speville is and will remain for a long time an outstanding example of who is a true Mauritian. He started from scratch – a little poultry farm with a few dozens hens at Moka a few months before Independence, when his friends hurried to settle in a foreign country, South Africa or Rhodesia. Very often, he spent his nights at the farm with his watchman listening to the latter singing in Bhojpuri.

Ramnath Jeetah - a True Patriot as a frontrunner for education

Ramnath Jeetah was born on 13th June 1930 at Tagore Road, Riche Mare, Central Flacq. He was one of the parliamentarians elected at the 1967 general elections that gave Mauritius its Independence. Ramnath Jeetah served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly until 1976. He occupied the position of Minister of Information and Radio Broadcasting.

The working sector

From agriculture through industrial revolution to qualified professionals

Mauritius has inherited an economic structure which has been inspired by its colonial past. At the start, the country focused mainly on sugar plantation, which was owned by Franco-Mauritians, and then slowly other sectors emerged, such as textiles, tourism and financial services. The emerging of these sectors brought lots of changes in the working sector as trade union. Azad Jeetun, former President of Mauritius Employment Federation and Ashok Subron, Trade unionist opens the boom of history for the readers.

Mauritius is ready for a Second Republic

A constitution by definition is a Supreme legislation and a sacrosanct document and unlike ordinary legislations, it cannot be amended according to the whims and caprices of those in power or as per the wish of a minority or a simple majority.

PERSPECTIVE

Economic evolution over the next 50 years

Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth has on Tuesday officially launched the activities as part of the celebrations of the fiftieth year of our Independence. In recent days, there have been several activities showcasing the socio-economic evolution of Mauritius during the last five decades. But where do we see Mauritius in the next fifty years?

World Women Day

Charon Potié Joseph :“Mauritius must be given the opportunity for a woman to take up the challenge as Prime Minister”

Charon Potié- Joseph is the Executive Director of Safe and Sound Academy situated at D’Epinay Avenue in Quatre- Bornes. She is the founder member of Lions Club of Rivière Noire and became its President in 2012-2013.

Raise Brave Girls Campaigns

Be your own wonder woman

For the International Women’s Day 2018, Raise Brave Girls (RBG) has chosen the theme “Be your own wonder woman,” which is in line with the United Nations of #Timeisnow theme. RBG wants women to be strong and to help themselves. The world has not seen such waves of women empowerment in terms of activism since years. Now, it is high time to be your own wonder woman, to take actions and initiatives.