Kuma Fin Dekoloniz Moris

Ek trwa zafer. Nu sistem elektoral FPTP, taksasion progresif e sutenab ek talan. Sa li ti vre promye 37 banane apre lindepandans – ladan 14 an ti top parski nun regle ban problem difisil kuma bom demografik ek fin mont welfer steyt. Me depi 2005 nun rant dan en period de rekolonizasion ek flat tax Sithanen kin kas nu lekonomi. La ena enn deziem tantativ pu ranplas FPTP ek en sistem otokrasi ki pwena PR ek la lwa anti-transfiz ek si pa ki lot gonaz. Fer tan u lavwa. Ek diman en referandum lor sa zafer fondamantal la kuma Lepep ti mete dan pwin nimero 9 kontra de konfians dan so manifes elekroral – tiek paz 7. 

Cocaine Killed 10,000 Americans in 2016

But synthetics opiods – excluding Methadone which caused more than 3,000 deaths – killed twice as much. And two times more than it did in 2015. What do the stats look like here given how weak we are in picking up patterns?

AMCCA Says MK Flying Understaffed Planes

They're saying there should have been one or two more cabin crew resources on each flight. And that all of this stems from bad planning. It's not the first time they are voicing out these concerns.

Mauritius at 50: Getting Ready

Here are some of the things we should do:

1. Bring basic -- very basic -- management back. Like building another reservoir so we can catch more of all the water that falls on our head every year. And of course put more money into fixing leaking pipes. Instead of squandering billions into building new offices because one Minister wants more legroom.

2. Have an A380 fly over Champ de Mars at noon sharp. The peculiar thing about this plane is that it would not have any name. Only a few digits. 12.3.68.

3. New national logo and tagline. Which recognise that we can have the world's best air quality. This will help improve our management. Ask Southwest Airlines.

4. Significantly reduce the 450 amputations that are done every year. We could start by immediately taxing soft drinks more and increasing the number of weekly PE classes in our schools to three. Redesigning the curriculum with the 9-amputations-a-week statistic in mind and by going for noncumulative semesters will also produce a better learning experience. And say goodbye to obese parrots.

5. Reinstate progressive taxation so we grow faster again. And allow us to be more mindful.

6. Tweak our electoral system in a thoughtful way. Without introducing a dose of PR and the dangerous party lists that come with it. A few hysterical Marxists who want to do "autogestion" with our iPhone of constitution won't like it. But that won't prevent us from sleeping tight.

7. Allow kreol as an option in which debates in Parliament can happen. That's the language more than 8 out 10 Mauritians speak at home. Lalit can provide an initial list of unparliamentary words or add an entry on Wikipedia.

8. Schedule Zurnal Televize (ZT) on the first channel at 19h30. Have one reporter posted in each of these three cities: San Francisco, London and Tokyo to help cure navel-gazing.

9. Merge the CWA and CEB into a superutility. To protect us from severe Ministerial delusions. And to go back to our interesting 1996 carbon footprint.

Saving the rest for Mauritius at 500.

How You Know Valentine’s Day is Not Far

Kind of easy. It's raining and Mauritius is shutting down. Just like three years ago. One year before that the CWA announced harsher cuts right after we received tons of rain.

What does that say about our management skill?

See you in exactly one year!!!

Is the TINA Disease Spreading To The CNT?

That's a potential conclusion on reading Le Matinal which is announcing that the state has decided to privatise the organisation because it is making losses and has debt. The article adds that planning is not needed: only vision is needed. Really?

I disagree. For sure people differ in their ability to read the tea leaves and peer into the future but planning is a building block of basic management. If you're not gonna -- or are not able to -- do anything else you should plan.

Kuma Pu Regle Problem Dilo

1. Met laru anba Maro-Vakwa apre buz li kot lapli tonbe
2. Rekumans priye selman sakula diman bondie viz inpe kuma dimun
3. Mont pri dilo par 10-20% parski sa pu rempli Maro-Vakwa tudswit
4. Lans en enhensment program pu ban minis – fer cabinet miting fini dimans tanto
5. Fer ban fib optik sarye dilo
6. Fer tu tax vin zero kumsa guvernman pu gayn kas pu ranz en lot rezervwar
7. Fer pers tu ban tiyo kumsa delo pu aret perdi
8. Ranpli en de avion sitern ar dilo lapli apre fer zet sa dan Maro-Vakwa tu le zur
9. Fer Moris vin dan dis premier dan sa gran gran gran renking kiapel Doing Business la
10. Dir ban turis amen zot prop dilo

Prayer Never A Substitute For Basic Management

Unlike what some of our pusari-politicians would have us believe. See, water stopped running almost as soon as Char Pahar Ki Puja ended this morning.

How Many Should Die in an Accident?

Depends where it happens. If two trains collide in Germany there may be only crumpled steel involved. Two trains collide in India and hundreds of lives are lost. Mauritian life preservation norms seem to be closer to those of the subcontinent. Well at least for ordinary citizens if we look at recent severe road accidents: sugar truck flattening a bus and a lorry killing 12 passengers of a van two days ago.

We don't have to brace ourselves for more horrific events like these if we start managing better.

Economy Could Grow By Only 2% in 2011

Or about half the current forecast of 4.2% because of how dumb we've become managing things in general and water in particular. See Minister Beebeejaun is saying that we are facing a 1-in-40 year drought which is exactly what the authorities said to us in 1999 when lower than usual rainfall cut economic growth by 50%.

True the Midlands dam came to life in 2003 but we have to remember that our economy has grown by a third since then. And I don't think it's possible at all to shower with the Mo Ibrahim Index rankings.

It's Not Getting Better, Is It?

MK reports that one yield statistic has reached a record level. Is that an indication of better management already? Not really.

See, they lent out one of their planes recently -- for which they self-congratulated themselves -- so that they are offering less seats to and from the land of c'est un plaisir. That should lower the number of empty seats aboard each time one of their planes takes off, right?

Well, it also depends on how traffic is doing. Although traffic fell over the past little while, it hasn't fallen enough so as to depress yields as much as renting that plane has increased it.

How Much For A New Reservoir?

Since yesterday the CWA has started implementing water cuts on the back of the same old excuses. These cuts are a very good indicator of the average level of management of our country. See, our population was controlled ages back, we sit next to one of the rainiest spots on earth (Reunion Island) and we're a rich country so how difficult is it to make sure that water stoppages become history for all of us?

It definitely can't be as difficult as the water supply problems of Singapore which imports more than half of the stuff from Malaysia and yet it's one of the most competitive places in the world year after year. They've managed this one with NEWater (recycling waste water), desalination and increasing the water catchment area. That sounds like uber problem-solvers at work, doesn't it?

And how does going to ocean depths to run our air-con sound? Un plaisir, sans doute...

Spoiled Brat Returns to Hindu House

Probably out of increasing desperation. And to run away, a little further, from the problems he was elected to solve back in 2005 and those he has created since then. Contrast that with Obama dealing with the burning issues head on.

So, given that Yes, Navin Can't it doesn't really matter when he calls us to the polls because nothing really positive will happen between now and then. And if you thought the way he lost power back in 2000 was really pathetic, you ain't seen everything yet.

Drama in the Mara

But not the kind that gets played there every day. Nope. Eastern Africa is two rainy seasons short so that many animals are dying and livelihoods are under attack. Which would explain why the wildebeests pictured above safely travelled between the Mara River and the Serengeti several times a day without meeting any ton-heavy Nile crocodiles.

Takes Only One Laptop

To run Mauritius infinitely better than how it has been done for the past couple of decades. With memories that are 4-8,000 times larger and hard disks that are 25,000 times bigger than what they were in 1989 there are only a few problems that matter to all of us that cannot be solved on that one piece of equipment.

You're saying nah, we don't even need a laptop, a blog will do. Hmm, you may have a point there.

More Space Will Make Us Better Than Singapore

So said Ramgoolam last week. While it's a fact that Mauritius is 2.86 times bigger than Singapore (2,030 square kilometres vs. 710.2 square kilometres for the Asian Tiger) they use their space infinitely better than we do. For example, let's consider the number of tourists in 2008: we welcomed 930,456 of them while they got 10.12 million. Hmm, that works out to about 458 tourists per square kilometre for us and a staggering 14,243 for them. That is they had 31 times more visitors per square kilometre than us.

He also doesn't want us to believe that nepotism is the only route to a job in Mauritius. Can he then tell us how many routes are there to become Chief Executives of Air Mauritius and Mauritius Telecom and Financial Secretary?