Touria Prayag

Editor in chief - Weekly

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Touria Prayag is a graduate in Linguistics and Literature and holds a Master’s in Linguistics and Stylistics from Edinburgh University, a postgraduate Diploma in Applied Linguistics from the same university and postgraduate qualifications from Moray House College, Edinburgh. She was working as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Charles Telfair Institute before she joined La Sentinelle to set up the l’Express Weekly supplement, which paved the way for Weekly magazine of which she is currently the editor-in-chief. Touria’s hobbies include reading, jogging and cooking. 

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The comments made by the sitting prime minister and a lawyer, who has perhaps spent more time in court as a defendant than as a barrister defending c

We have reached a level of nepotism in Mauritius whereby there is really state capture. Are all those political nominees deserving of the positions t

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These words do not come from someone who doesn’t like India. So, those who are always prompt to talk about India bashing can go back to sleep. It was

Debate is raging over the uncontrollable amount of drugs on island, alleged planting and the Special Striking Team. We talk to Sam Lauthan, former mi

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The move of Commissioner of Police Anil Kumar Dip to challenge the decision of Magistrate Jade Ngan Chai King in court is an excellent idea. It will

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Two words, a terrible faux-pas and very serious implications on the judicial process, the way justice is dispensed and the protection afforded to the

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Two sureties in the sum of Rs1 million each (=Rs2million!) a recognizance in the sum of Rs50 (FIFTY!) million, keeping 500 metres away from the coast

The Tribunal Judiciaire de St Denis, which held its sittings in public, has already brought it to the public arena that such a request had been made

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The Very Independent Commission against Corruption (VICAC) has put up an absolutely fantastic show! So fantastic in fact that it has made our compatr

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If it is true, as revealed by l’express yesterday, that Jean Hubert Celerine, alias Franklin, may have given Rs10 million of drug money to a politici

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People in charge have stopped reflecting and asking themselves ‘what are we doing wrong?’ In many parts of the world, people who have a responsibilit

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Amid the sad news of floods, closed schools, dry taps and the resulting wrath of the population which have been jostling for the headlines recently,

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I do not have any rigid view on quotas for women because I think the evidence points in both directions. You can’t make a change without some kind of

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Honestly, they could have spared us the embarrassment. And they could have avoided giving the confirmation that there really is a total disconnect be