Mauritius

EUROPEAN UNION AID FOR TRAINING

A grant from Europe of ECU 2.5 million (US$2.8 million) under the European Development Fund's seventh programme should be authorized [...]

A "NEW LOOK" FOR PMSD

With the nomination on May 22 of Xavier Luc Duval as leader of Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate (PMSD), following the [...]

ANEROOD JUGNAUTH

After the closure of the forthcoming OAU summit in Tunis, [...]

The government of Mauritius has decided to demand entry visas [...]

THE TELEMEDIA AFFAIR

The circumstances under which Mauritius Telecom awarded a contract to TeleMedia, a subsidiary of Swedish Telecom, to publish a telephone [...]

JUGNAUTH REPRIMANDS NABABSING

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Mauritius' prime minister Anerood Jugnauth fired off several reproachful broadsides at [...]

JEROME BOULLE

An MP belonging to the group of defectors from the MMM party and which still has several ministers in government, [...]

NEW PARTY FOR MMM DISSIDENTS

The group of former members of Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) who defected from the party headed by Paul Berenger is [...]

MICHAEL GLOVER

The Mauritius youth and sports minister (and MSM president) implicated [...]

DECISION ON FORT GEORGES III STILL PENDING

Expected last December, a final decision on the Central Electricity [...]

NEW LABOUR LAW

Mauritius' labour and industrial relations minister, Dharmanand Fokeer, submitted a Bill to parliament on May 10 which covers trade union [...]

A World Bank report handed to the Mauritian government in [...]

CHEDDY JAGAN

Guyana's head of state Cheddy Jagan is expected to carry [...]

FISHERY ACCORD UNDER THE LENS

During its last meeting prior to the European elections due on June 12, the European Parliament's development committee in Strasbourg [...]

THREE MINISTERS IN PARIS

The most important delegation from Mauritius to travel abroad was in Paris this week in the framework of a campaign [...]

OPPOSITION CALLS FOR ELECTIONS

The Labour Party led by Navin Ramgoolam and the Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM) headed by Paul Berenger, who have been [...]

African civil aviation ministers and representatives of the continent's airlines [...]

MINISTERS GO TO DIEGO GARCIA

The Mauritian foreign minister Swaley Kasenally, the fisheries minister Mathieu Laclé, and two other high officials from the Port Louis [...]

OBNOXIOUS CLIMATE

The Sun Trust Building, a ten-storey building belonging to the Mouvement Socialiste Mauricien (MSM) headed by prime minister Anerood Jugnauth, [...]