The Weekly Catch Up

23/04/2024

Let’s be fair: no one is saying we are the only country that has been hit by extreme weather, torrential rain and floods. We have seen the world over the havoc nature is wreaking on mankind. But let’s put things into perspective. We can’t sh...

19/04/2024

PMSD leader’s move out of the opposition alliance was a fatal miscalculation. The worst I have seen in our political history. And it is rather sad. Had he been 30 years old, we would have put this miscalculation on the account of youthful impetu...

09/04/2024

The damage done to the opposition alliance is difficult to assess but the one done to Xavier Duval is arguably irreparable. Whether he decides to go with the MSM or stay within the opposition alliance; whether he has swallowed his pride, dignity and ...

26/03/2024

It’s a tough and painfully brave war that the Director of Public Prosecutions, Rashid Ahmine, and his valiant colleagues are waging on our behalf against the Financial Crimes Commission and the State. A war to safeguard our rights and freedoms in a...

07/03/2024

Now, that the dust is beginning to settle a little on one of the saddest chapters of our recent history; that many families have started walking in the long and interminable tunnel of grief, loss and despondency; that the whole nation has managed to ...

30/11/2023

This year, we have paid close to Rs300 billion for our imports and the year is not over yet. Three hundred billion. But this is not the worst part of the news or the most worrying. The more concerning news is that the value of our exports was only Rs...

09/11/2023

Opinion by Touria Prayag.

02/11/2023

"It reminds me of those who are never seen when there is a march against abhorrent acts perpetrated by powerful people as that might cost them the boutte they are after. However, they are always busy organising walks against causes like drugs, diseases, etc. " Bonne lecture!

Now that the dust is starting to settle a little on the incidents at *La Citadelle* where a group of hotheads invaded the place and decided to unilaterally put an end to a concert prematurely; now that the recriminations and condemnations of everyone...