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<B>More severe traffic regulations</B>
The PM had given a warning; he has finally taken action. The Road Traffic Act will be amended to make road safety regulations more severe. A draft of these amendments was circulated in Cabinet last Friday. After these amendments are voted, drivers who have taken drugs or alcohol and are involved in a road accident will see their driving licence confiscated. Even if they have taken no substance, the sanctions against those involved in an accident will be more severe but they have not been specified yet. These amendments will be discussed as soon as Parliament resumes.
<B>Jobless Health Care Assistants!</B>
The conflict between Health Care Assistants (HCA) and the government has finally come to an end? by force of circumstances. Chief Justice Ariranga Pillay and judge Asraf Caunhye have not granted the HCA the right to contest their dismissal through a judicial review. The judges have ruled that their dismissal was not illegal, as their contract was on a month-to-month basis; so their employers did not have any long-term commitment towards them. These 198 HCA had been offered employment during the electoral campaign by the former government. As soon as the Social Alliance came to power, the government dismissed them saying that their recruitment had been an electoral bribe.
<B>A modest celebration<</B>
The Labour Party timidly celebrated its 70th anniversary. But the party leader, Navin Ramgoolam, promised that the celebration would be given appropriate consideration during the party congress soon. He also announced some changes in the political bureau as well as the renovation of party headquarters at Guy Rozemont Square. The Labour leader seized the opportunity to pay tribute to the party founder, Maurice Curé, as well as to his own father, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam. The party leader and PM also made promises to the Mauritian population that Labour would transform society in spite of the economic difficulties at the moment.
Committee for integration of the disabled</B>
The minister of Social Security, Sheila Bappoo, has set up a National Steering Committee to make people aware that disabled people must be fully integrated in society. This committee will include members of the private sector, civil society, the media as well as people from different ministries. The setting-up of this committee lies in the context of the future ratification of the International Convention for the protection and promotion of the rights and dignity of disabled people. The minister did not want to wait for the signature of the convention to take rapid action.
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