Author: Mrinal Roy

Instead of repeatedly rehashing past social and other assistance schemes implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic, people want government to competently address and resolve their current existential hardships By

The war in Ukraine shows how daily spin doctoring and propaganda repeatedly rehashed and recycled by the media and political leaders can systematically mask and occult the truth.

It is in times of crisis that the managerial acumen of the government is put to test. The onus is squarely on government to prove its mettle or

The choice of the electorate cannot continue to be about voting for the ‘lesser evil’.

This is not the time for budgetary largesse or freebies at public expense to all and sundry the country can ill-afford from strapped public finances

Are geopolitical gains more important than people’s lives, human distress and the widespread destruction of Ukraine?

The weaponisation of trade, the imposition of sanctions on sovereign foreign reserves and exclusion from SWIFT by the US could trigger a faster de-dollarisation among countries having the

The war in Ukraine has yet again exposed, despite the holiest-than-thou rhetoric, the double standards which continue to prevail in the world regarding international rules and principles or

Is it not time for the major non-aligned countries of the world to take up the challenge of establishing the mutually acceptable common ground to defuse the underlying

Covid-19 is very much present and infecting people out there

Despite the losses incurred since the 2014 crop, emergency bailouts as well increasing support from public funds have kept the industry on a tenuous lifeline. It is akin

Has the Cold War not ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union? As a consequence, is NATO not an anachronistic vestige of the Cold War?

This is not the time for reckless adventurism. There is only one way forward

Change can only come from the people. We above all need to cut loose from the shackles and trappings of a banana republic

Economic recovery and a semblance of normality can be extremely tenuous. This should have a sobering effect on world leaders and the government in Mauritius