Weekly: Headlines of issue 64

11 octobre 2013

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Weekly: Headlines of issue 64

COVER STORY

Budget 2014:The wish list

The upcoming budget has everybody’s hopes up. Talk of a 10-year strategy is supposed to outline the future development of the Mauritian economy. Nevertheless, every sector is hoping that the budget will contain some short-term measures to help them cope in a crisis that’s grinding on. What are the foremost concerns of players in each sector? And what kind of palliatives do they hope the budget will contain?

INTERVIEW

Rashid Ahmine: “Fighting crime is not only about prosecuting criminals.”

Rashid Ahmine, currently Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, sheds light on the recently spotlighted Asset Recovery Act. Having worked for a long time within worldwide organisations like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Commonwealth Secretariat, he puts the issue into perspective for our readers.

EDUCATION

Revision myths demystified: How NOT to tackle exam stress

Many high achievers who have maintained a constant rhythm of study across the school year are probably confident they will ace the end of year exams. But let’s face it: most students only just realised the end of year exams are around the corner and are running around in panic at this very moment. While it is probably too late to try dethroning the star kid, it may still be time to salvage the year.

HEALTH

Revolutionary heart disease breakthroughs: Your heart will go on and on…

Céline Dion was right: our hearts will go on and on. Thanks to recent breakthroughs in cardiology, healing (literary) broken hearts is getting less risky and more effective. Are we getting closer to a scenario where no one dies of heart disease? Is Mauritius embracing the new knowledge?

THIS IS MAURITIUS

Eid-ul-Adha: Cowboys for a day

Along with Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Adha is one of the major festivals on the Islamic calendar commemorating Abraham’s the great act of faith. In Mauritius, the build up to the festival gives rise to a yearly parade of the bulls and transforms the regular city Muslim men into cowboys who, just for a day, don their cowboy hats and rubber boots – close enough to the leather ones – to bring the bulls to town.