by drmu | Sep 18, 2010 | Education, Name and shame, Social justice
We encourage you to read the article below about a fantastic initiative by a group of students, called the Golden Team, who are transforming their concern for those less fortunate than themselves into concrete action. Recognising that disabled children are unable to...
by drmu | Sep 2, 2010 | Education, Social justice
Those of us who can trace their roots back to Africa continue to suffer from institutionalised discrimination. The announcement this week that the government will introduce Kreol as an optional subject in primary schools to help the disadvantaged to read and write,...
by drmu | Jul 28, 2010 | Mafia at work, Name and shame, Social justice, Tourism
As declared a month ago, We Love Mauritius joined Kalipso and George Ah Yan in the fight to end the progressive privatisation of the public domain. The first battle was to stop a restaurant being built on Mont Choisy Public Beach. Today that battle has been decisively...
by drmu | Jul 7, 2010 | Environment, Mafia at work, Name and shame, Social justice, Tourism
Yesterday a dozen or so concerned citizens were battling to defend the rights of Mauritian citizens and to halt the privatisation of the public domain. Led by General Georges Ah Yan, the freedom fighters were battling the Beach Authority at the District Council in...
by drmu | Jun 26, 2010 | Mafia at work, Social justice
In 2007, our “democratising the economy” Government introduced the Aquatic Business Activities Bill which would have paved the way for the privatisation of our coastal lands, lagoons and inshore waters. Our friends at Kalipso ferociously opposed this...
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....
