Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mauritius Election 2010

Congratulations to the Labour party who have won what may be termed a landslide victory. At least 40 seats in a 60 seats parliament. Now that the dust has settled,

I think it is time to analyze the results.

1. No independent candidate was elected. One very notable exception is Mr Chel Meah came out top in his constituency. He is a real dark horse and actually reveals the voting trend over the whole of the country.

2. Most of the constituency with three seats up for grabs, went to a sole party. I.e all the three top members were from the same party. Shows that people tend to vote for a particular party, rather than individual members presented!

3. It is a rather good result, which gives the winning party enough leverage in the parliament to bring forward their legislations.

4. We are finally going to have a government of continuity. So for once, we will really see if all the policies comes to fruition.

5. The leader of Party Malin deserves an award. Not for his jokes but rather the sincerity he displayed and the conviction he had in his own arguments!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Neo Town – biggest waterfront project in Mauritius

I will not digress too much on this issue. We will not delve into who is going to be involved in this project.

My main gripe with this new town is, why Port Louis, of all the places in Mauritius?

Everyone knows that PortLouis is already overcrowded, with all the main offices being centralised in this small Capital, which only has two entry and two exit points!

Yeah, I know, we have set about building new roads and stuff, but will they really reduced the number of vehicles going to Port-Louis? Only time will tell!

And what will the focus of centralising the centralized centre of Mauritius. Having an integrated town inside the capital, I guess only high level intellectuals can think of this!

Anyway, there are so many coastal villages that we could have chosen,we do not lack any, do we? I would have been good for once, if we could have transformed one of those lesser know coastal village into an integrated town?