PM May Need A New Communications Team

Can you believe this? Ok, it's true there has been a policy breakdown for a while now. Still...

Mauritius Surprised to Be Told That Labour History is More Than a Tale of Two Ramgoolams

Indeed its leader mentioned a list of about 20 people a few days ago. I have no idea where he got that list. Could it be a bad case of alternative facts? Or maybe because we don't have someone at the MBC with a clause of conscience -- which is really a wonderful way of making sure that facts are not subjected to too much violence.

Ramgoolam the Second also mentioned that the Labour Party has always fought against social injustice. Always? Come on. Everybody knows that's not true. The LP only started to roll back poverty as from 2005 when it made a break with its regressive past.

Dekortikasyon Lingwistik JT Promye Ut

Biltin-la ti enn tigit mwins ki sinkant minit. Ladan 28.5% letan intervenan ti pe koz an kreol, 48.1% zurnalis ti pe lir nuvel ek 20.7% ti bann nuvel deor sen franse. Total pa fer 100%, non? Be seki manke-la se infopub.

Seki pli interesan ladan seki preske 100% bann intervenan ti pe koz an kreol. Parmi promye minis pendan sinq minit kat segon, DPM vensis, VPM karantwa, sef komiser rodrig dizwit ek PS PMO transis segon.

Ek pa bliye ki apard kan ena enn invite etranze tu bann konferans de pres PM fer an kreol. Bann dikte hebdomader lider lopozisyon zig zag usi an kreol. Miting premye me ek mesaz lane usi pa fer an zapone. Donk inn mari ler pu fer zurnal televise (ZT) vinn biltin linformasyon pli importan.

Kuma Pyongyang TV Kav Sanz Biltin Linformasyon

Pli importan biltin linformasyon li bizin en kreol vi ki dan saem langaz 84% popilasyon kominike lakaz. Donk bizin ena enn Zurnal Televize (ZT) lor promye sen ent 19h30 ek 20h00. News ti bizin deziem pli importan biltin vi mari limportans ki angle ena dan dunya. Ti kav pas sa lor sen de ent 21h00 ek 21h30. JT en franse nu met li ent 19h00 ek 19h30 lor deziem sen.

Bann biltin pa bizin plis ki trant minit. Kav fer sa: nek ena dimann promye minis rann enn servis pa vinn fer miting lor tv tulezur.

Ek ti bizin les bann depite exprim zot en kreol dan parlman ek ena versyon Hansard en kreol usi.

Batsa lor vites.

Pamela Asked To Leave Radio

Although she still has 5 good years before normal retirement. She apparently has had shortcomings as the boss of MBC Radio but she hasn't been told which ones exactly. I don't have all the details but this sounds a little bit fishy at best. After all, Ms. Patten has spent several decades of her professional life at the national station and the general feeling is that she has done a pretty good job.

And who should be fired for the poor quality of our evening tv news bulletin?

Dayal: Callikan Should Go

Because of the biased coverage of the current campaign favouring the two main alliances. I think there are more serious reasons like airing the gross remarks Berenger made about the face of Ramgooam. And where's the IBA when you need it?

Besides we didn't get to see Ramgoolam and Berenger debate about what they are gonna do with respect to the issues that are important to us.

MBC's Poor Coverage of The Day's Events

I just checked the latest 19h30 news bulletin and was quite shocked to see that it was made up of only two press conferences: one for each of the two main political blocks in the forthcoming general elections. What kind of news coverage is this? Nothing happened in the world today?

Broadcasting 101 would have called for a 3-minute summary of the main points of each press conferences with the full-length versions aired after a decent news bulletin on the main channel or another one.

I was under the remote impression that we were in 2010.

MTC Should Auction Off Broadcasting Rights

And get the MBC to remember that it makes good advertising money around these broadcasts. That's not any different from big TV networks bidding for broadcasting rights for events like the olympics, is it?

Can't wait for this monopoly to end.

Why Ramgoolam Could Lose Power in 2010

One of the reasons is because the MMM and the MSM could go together and make the electoral life of the current PM difficult enough for him to be ousted or return with a paper thin majority.

Two others are obviously the huge poverty that Ramgoolam has created over the last 4 years and the rewriting of history that he has been indulging himself in. Indeed, some of the Nazi-style programs that the MBC has thrown our way didn't seem to have gone too well with a lot of people. So that he'll be perfectly right to regret bad policies and bad communication when the polls reveal their secrets.

Another Non-event

That's what Friday's budget is going to be. Just like the previous ones. People are so fed up with the truckloads of lies that Sithanen has been dumping on them with such regularity that they've stopped listening to him for a long time now. And that reduction in interest has also spread to journalists across the board. For instance, many of them didn't even tune in to listen to his carefully choreographed appearance on MBC's Dossier last Wednesday. And it's kind of difficult to blame an overwhelming majority of us who feel this way.

While he certainly did appear quite pathetic on that programme the saddest part of his bean-counting policies is of course the unnecessary misery he has inflicted on the weaker segments of the population while making the richest ones richer.

Did We Need One in the First Place?

An additional stimulus package that is. I don't think so when you realise that our two largest banks have cashed in record profits in 2008: Rs3.7 billion and Rs2.1 billion for MCB and SBM respectively. That's an increase of 53% and 41% over the preceding year and twice their 2005 levels. I've already addressed why our banking industry has been spared (read this). So there's no trouble here unlike what has been going on in the United States and in the UK.

What we need instead is a government that solves problems. And that's the most important yardstick to measure the performance of any country. For instance previous governments did defuse the demographic bomb, implement free education and create the middle class. We need these kind of governments and not governments that have substituted brilliant work with dumb MBC reports.