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Expanding one’s insight on drugs

SALENA KURREEMUN Adam Rickitt, a British actor, once said, “Drugs ruin peoples’ lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our community”. But still,...

29 Sep 2018 14h52

Anoushka Shankar: Sitar’s Magical Fingers in Mauritius

BHAWNA ATMARAM On Wednesday 26th September 2018, in front of a packed audience at Trianon Convention Centre, Sitar Virtuoso Anoushka Shankar touched the heartstrings of...

29 Sep 2018 14h49

Singapore competition watchdog fines Uber and Grab $9.5m

FILTERED BY DR ZOOM Uber sold its south-east Asian operations to Grab in March in return for a 27.5 per cent in the Singapore-based company....

28 Sep 2018 17h07

Décryptage : aux frontières de la réforme électorale…

ADISH MAUDHO Les conditions sont posées par la Constitution : le redécoupage électoral entamé par l’Electoral Boundaries Commission doit maintenir un nombre de 20 circonscriptions et obtenir...

28 Sep 2018 16h34

Our Constituencies Should Be Unpaired Back

SANJAY JAGATSINGH To how they were in 1959 and 1963. That is 40 single-member constituencies (SMC) for Mauritius – we should add two for Rodrigues....

28 Sep 2018 16h20

A connected or disconnected generation ?

NEELUFAR ZARAH DAMRY Educator – Aleemiah College (Forms 1 to 6 – Girls) Can you picture a waiting room, or a bus filled with well-groomed youngsters,...

28 Sep 2018 16h16

Redefining economic, social, and racial equity

DANISHA SORNUM This 27 September marks 75 years since the 1943 Belle Vue Harel shooting that claimed four lives. I often recounted the event during...

27 Sep 2018 16h31

The Global Incidence of Suicide

SOORENDRA LINGIAH Senior Lecturer in Forensic Mental Health The global incidence of Suicide is staggering... one completed suicide every 40 seconds. Suicide is one of the...

27 Sep 2018 16h20

POLITICAL REFORMS IN MAURITIUS : Just Say No To “First Past The LinPost” (FPTLP)

IVANN BIBI NOUVEAU FRONT POLITIK Last week the Mauritian government, the self-proclaimed, so called “L’alliance Lepep,” held a press conference announcing their “plan” for certain political...

26 Sep 2018 15h04

Speed et cool, la Mustang est de retour

FILTERED BY DR ZOOM Il y a, dans l’histoire de l’automobile, quelques pépites qui sont passées à la postérité. Comme son aïeule de 1968, encore,...

26 Sep 2018 15h03

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