by drmu | Jun 17, 2010 | Comedy, Mafia at work
Today’s joke is the charge against Rama Sithanen. While we think the man is incompetent for introducing the CSR Fund, and a traitor for contracting unsustainable external debts and selling off Mauritius to China under the secrecy of a confidentiality agreement...
by drmu | Jun 15, 2010 | Economy, Social justice
“Speech is silver, but silence is golden.” Writing this out a few hundred times was a common punishment for talking in class when I was at school in the UK. Of course, the advent of computers and word processors has rendered the punishment redundant....
by drmu | Jun 11, 2010 | Health, Human rights, Name and shame
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 (London, UK and Port Louis, Mauritius) – UN human rights monitors have warned against the reintroduction of the death penalty for drug offences in Mauritius, suggesting instead a range of public health interventions designed to address drug...
by drmu | Jun 10, 2010 | Comedy
Today’s joke comes from the Prime Minister’s speech yesterday at the opening of the new headquarters of the Mauritius Freemasons Bar Association. [Editors note: I am feeling a bit like a middle aged DJ this week, nostalgically dusting off his favourite...
by drmu | Jun 9, 2010 | Comedy, Transport
Today’s joke comes from the Presidential address delivered yesterday. Paragraph 105 reads: “Government, in its attempt to alleviate and solve the traffc congestion problem, will soon embark on a Bus Modernization Programme to upgrade bus services...
