Did Sithanen Do Anything Positive During The Last 5 Years?

That was the question put to me by someone 5 minutes ago. And he was surprised when I immediately answered in the affirmative.

Well, sort of. I thought Rama was going to resign with a minimum of class when he heard about L'Alliance de L'Avenir and acknowledge the harm that he's done to Mauritius with his ultra-toxic policies. That would have definitely given me an opportunity to salute a somewhat honourable exit.

But no, he instead preferred to take the whole nation on a guilt trip and second guess the Prime Minister's prerogatives one more time on Sunday.

And this robbed me of a darn good opportunity to say something positive.

Gilbert Ahnee Quits

This has been one of the top stories unfolding over the last few hours. He will apparently be taking on a new job in January. Probably some of the most interesting pieces he has written as editor-in-chief were penned in the last few months when he finally started to doubt the toxic economic policies of Rama Sithanen.

We are also grateful to him for his good taste in allowing the readers of his quality paper as he liked to describe Le Mauricien to enjoy quite a few of our pieces in the Forum section.

We wish him all the best with his new challenges.

Ramgoolam's Invincible Candidate

That would be Rama Sithanen. I mean, here is a great opportunity to allow the voters of No. 8 to give back just a little bit of all the love he's been showering on the beautiful people of Mauritius for nearly four horrible years now. Besides, didn't he write in paragraph C of the rehashed version of the last June budget that his "reforms have saved the economy". And who says that Mauritians have lost their ability to recognise their saviour when they'll see him screaming atop a lorry? But first, he has to perform an extremely complicated task: resign.

Kozelidir's free guide to a successful ministerial resignation

1. Write a letter where you put down a good reason why you are resigning from parliament (shouldn't have too much trouble there: gosh, there are so many!!! Try this one: how I have been fooling Mauritians into paying too much for their petrol prices for the past 3 years!)

2. Drop the letter at Le Reduit. Don't drop it with the Deputy Prime Minister.

P.S: Help may be available to write an exhaustive letter as well with point no. 2.