by drmu | Jul 2, 2011 | Economy, Energy, MID
At the second meeting of the MID Energy working group last week, we presented our major project of 2011: how Mauritius can be entirely self-sufficient in energy. The need to drastically reduce our dependence on fossil fuels is best illustrated by the graph showing...
by drmu | May 6, 2011 | Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Human rights, Marine protection, MID, Social justice
Here is our take. What do you think? By 2025, Mauritius will be a global leader in terms of quality of life. Our economy will serve this goal by providing equal opportunities and fair rewards in return for meaningful contribution to our collective well-being and...
by drmu | Jul 13, 2010 | Economy, Name and shame, Tourism
“Ti Cretin” was the nickname given to Pravind Jugnauth by Paul Berenger at the beginning of February 2010. We have been trying to give our new Minister of Finance the benefit of the doubt while he found his feet and Ali Mansoor tried to cast his World Bank...
by drmu | Jun 18, 2010 | Economy
We finally worked out what Pravind Jugnauth, our new Minister of Finance, was saying in the National Assembly on Tuesday. The key that unlocked the puzzle was the old adage “always compare like with like”. What our rookie Minister had managed to do was...
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 | May 27, 2010 | Economy, Name and shame, Social justice
Today’s joke comes from Dr. Vasant Bunwaree, Minister of Education and Human Resources. An article in today’s News Now, quotes him as saying: We must remember that recent research shows that the brain is at its peak performance between the age of 55 and...
