The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the non-profit USA-based organization that published the Panama Papers, has now exposed the big companies that nip through the Mauritius off-shore to invest elsewhere : the companies are tax dodgers. The ICIJ report begins with a (...)
Despite tax treaties and attempts at plugging loopholes, the idyllic island nation continues to play a major role in contributing towards the global illicit economy.
A new investigation called Mauritius Leaks’ was released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) (...)
In May this year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a motion that condemned British rule over the remote Indian Ocean archipelago of the Chagos Islands and which gave London a six-month deadline to return their sovereignty to Mauritius. That followed an advisory judgment in February (...)
Judges advise Britain that separating archipelago from Mauritius in 1960s was wrong
The UK has been ordered to hand back the Chagos Islands to Mauritius “as rapidly as possible” after the United Nations’ highest court ruled that continued British occupation of the remote Indian Ocean archipelago (...)
An absolutely riveting case was before the United Nation’s court, the International Court of Justice at The Hague, last week. How could a court case 50 years after the events, in what is usually the dry legalistic argumentation of the most arcane kind about international law, be “riveting” by any (...)
Since he took his first breath, Dominique Elysee has lived in exile. It is all he has known. His mother gave birth to him in Mauritius, having travelled while pregnant to the tropical island from the nearby UK-owned Chagos islands. She was forbidden to return home, for this was 1968, when (...)
Slavery, indenture and industrialisation have all contributed to Mauritius’ multiculturalism - and to its deep social tensions.
Mauritius, an island with no indigenous populations and a history of multiple European colonisations is a multi-ethnic society made up of just over two thirds (...)
This year, Labour Day in Mauritius was celebrated, just one month after the devastating floods in Port Louis.
LALIT celebrated the day in an appropriate way: members and supporters and their families met at the building we share with LPT at Grand River North West.
The event was chaired by (...)
This is an article just to say we in LALIT have been in total crisis mode after the terrible flash-floods which happened just in and around Port Louis, floods in which some people lost their lives in the centre of town, caught in underpasses and underground parking garages. Others were stranded (...)
Ashok Subron, an activist of the ecosocialist organization Resistanz ek Alternativ, is a spokesperson for the Left Trade Union Confederation-Solidarity (CSG-Solidarity) and an organizer of unions in the sugar industry, the port and the transport sector for the General Workers Federation-Joint (...)
The LALIT-organized international conference for action to close the military base on Diego Garcia, and to get the last colony of Africa, the British Indian Ocean Territory, dismantled, and for the right of all Chagos-born people to return to the islands of their birth, was a great success. We (...)
Self-presentation of the political organisation Lalit de Klas (Mauritius) taken from their website, February 23, 2010. About Lalit
LALIT is a very unusual party. It has stubbornly survived into its fourth decade of existence, always renewing itself successfully. From its foundation in 1976 as (...)
Dear Leaders of Greenpeace,
We understand that your organization has taken a position in favour of the British Government’s outrageous plan to create a “Marine Park” on territory which is not its own, thus tricking ill-informed people into supporting the British State on rather vague grounds of (...)
Management consultants Coopers and Lybrand are helping the Mauritan government avoid public debate on privatisation.
The whole debate on privatisation and development strategy was itself privatised when Coopers and Lybrand organised a seminar on privatisation where several top Ministers, (...)
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