The headline from a few days ago is chilling: Almost half of Mauritian teenagers are pre-diabetic. According to a senior official at the Ministry of Health, this could be a world record. These ...

Ever heard of La Caverne-Vacoas, Vacoas-Floreal, Rose-Belle – Baramia or Tyack-Rivière des Anguilles? They sound and rhyme like twins and when you leave one you are leaving both. My emotional ...

A mix of social, political and diplomatic issues made the headlines this week. We turned to Vijay Makhan, former ambassador and former foreign secretary, for his views on these. He comments on the ...

Corruption, a botched privatization, a change in government, money from the Gulf, a former first lady arrested, a cache of arms and underlying fears of a coup. Seychelles is being rocked by the ...

The number of protests sprouting throughout the country is unprecedented. And so are the legal issues we are dealing with. We approached Rajen Narsinghen, one of the organisers of one of these ...

Coffee at Cafe LUX Bagatelle. This week, I bid farewell to my primary school teacher, the late Mrs. Kiran Ratacharen. I had the good fortune to have her as a teacher at Villiers Rene Govt School in ...

Mauritius has spent decades searching for the next catalyst for foreign investment. Meanwhile, the $3 trillion global life sciences industry is boo- ming, yet we remain on the sidelines. The ...

This week l’express speaks to Sunil Dowarkasing, former strategist at Greenpeace and former environmental advisor to the Mauritian government on his view of what came out of the COP28 summit in ...

In “44, Rue du Pouce”, you delve into the history and culture of the Ward IV area in Port-Louis. What inspired you to explore this topic in your memoir? I never had any intention – after two ...

Considering the debate raging about the Commission on the Prerogative of Mercy, we republish the interview on the matter of Late Sir Victor Glover to shine light on some aspects being debated. He was ...

The new budget is dusting off the Rivière-des-Anguilles dam project, but this time with a much higher price tag of Rs9.4 billion for the dam and a water treatment plant. Since it was first floated in ...

My first encounter with Vijay Joypaul was in the mid 1950’s. We had in common our year of birth, our humble background and our love for the theatre. He had just joined the Royal College, Curepipe, ...