by drmu | Apr 16, 2011 | Energy, Environment, Mafia at work
The decision to stop CT Power’s proposed coal-fired power station is to be reviewed. According to the press yesterday, the Prime Minister made this promise to representatives of the Tamil community during an event celebrating their New Year on Thursday. Another...
by drmu | Apr 6, 2011 | Tourism
Are hotel operators finally beginning to question the wisdom of the Ministry of Tourism’s goal of 2 million visitors per year? As reported in the press yesterday, Beachcomber is warning against the industrialisation of the sector. Mauritius has always benefited...
by drmu | Feb 5, 2011 | Environment, Marine protection
It is good news indeed that Mauritius is proposing to add a third site to the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance. We agree the lagoon at Pointe d’Esny is well worth protecting. The problem is that protection is not something that we are...
by drmu | Jan 19, 2011 | Energy, Environment
On the 14th of January, the Government decided to refuse permission to CT Power to build a coal-fired power station in the west of the island. However, just three days later, while local environmentalists were still celebrating, the Minister of Trade and Industry...
by drmu | Jan 19, 2011 | Vision 2020
Sustainable development is defined as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. However, this does not provide a very useful prescription of what we should do now for three...
by drmu | Jan 11, 2011 | Environment, Mafia at work, Tourism
At the end of July 2010 we sent a letter to the Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security detailing our concerns about breaches of the contract for Flat Island as highlighted by the Director of Audit (details here). At the end of September we produced the video...
by drmu | Jan 2, 2011 | Vision 2020
Sustainability has become one of the most popular words in the worlds of politics and business. It literally means the capacity to endure. But what is it that we want to last and for how long? When looked at in narrow terms, say of a small business, the fundamental...
by drmu | Dec 17, 2010 | Environment, Miss Earth
Vietnam is a country whose rich biodiversity sheltered within network of national parks, nature reserves and marine protected areas. It is also a nation of contrasts, with urban centres experiencing ambitious development, fertile deltas threatened by rising sea levels...
by drmu | Nov 2, 2010 | Miss Earth
Anne-Lise Ramooloo, elected Miss Ile Durable 2010, will arrive in Vietnam tomorrow (Wednesday 3rd November) hoping to make Mauritius proud in the annual Miss Earth contest. Miss Earth was started in 2001 by the organisers of Miss Philippines. Their aim was to create a...
by drmu | Oct 28, 2010 | Comedy, Mafia at work
Those who read l’Express Dimanche last Sunday may have been surprised to find a feature about freemasonry in Mauritius. What is surprising to us is that masons in Mauritius have waited so long to come out of the closet. In 1984, the United Grand Lodge of...
