Mauritius bagged an additional four gold medals at the Indian Ocean Island Games 2011 in Seychelles on Monday, bringing the total to 14. The men’s and women’s national badminton teams came out first in the competition while Scody Victor and Jeyseeka Rungoo won the gold medal in handisport freestyle swimming. The men’s national basketball team [...]

Mauritius has enormous potential to become a tourists destination, if custom duty and value added tax (VAT) is removed. As tourism is the backbone of the economy, the country can benefit by introducing tourism shopping to attract tourists to the island, said chief executive officer Gilbert Espitalier-Noel of the Bagatelle project (ENL Property), which will [...]

Since 2006, 16 people have been prosecuted for child labour while 14 have been found guilty and were fined. These details were given by the minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment,Shakeel Mohamed answering a question by MP Jim Seetaram. The MP wanted to know the measures that the government proposes to take for the [...]

Michelle Thew and Sarah Kite, two representatives of British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV), the world’s leading organisation based in UK, are presently in Mauritius. The aim of the visit is to raise public awareness on primate trade in Mauritius. In this context, they met the press and members from various institutions to [...]