Special Education Issue:

COVER STORY

Higher education: Making the right choices and righting the wrong ones

Is there a difference in the types of subjects chosen by students going to study abroad and those choosing to stay? Weekly finds out what courses Mauritian students are gravitating towards and what new trends are becoming more apparent.

INTERVIEW

Philippe Forget: “Archaic politicians are holding us back.”

Dr. Philippe Forget is a man like no other. He does not preach principles. He – unfortunately – practises them. Board members, journalists and employees from his generation remember this opinionated man who refused to give in to the then prime minister Sir Anerood Jugnauth’s attempts to intimidate and arrest journalists. The newspapers and periodicals (amendment) bill and the tax imposed on publications were to sound the death knell on small newspapers which – unlike l’express – could not afford this financial burden. Dr. Forget waged a war against the principle of killing small newspapers and was prepared to go to the Privy Council to fight it. When his board did not back him, he tore up his press card, put the key to his company car on his desk and, before the employees’ anguished eyes, walked to the bus stop and took the bus home. He never looked back. Today, he talks about this and other issues which are as relevant now as they were 50 years ago when he was at the helm of l’express.

HEALTH

Learning to live with a deadly virus: “The day I found out I was HIV-positive”

Weekly asked for the opinions of those who have gotten a positive test result and lived through it – local HIV victims.

THIS IS MAURITIUS

The thriving business of witchcraft

Weekly looks into why witchcraft is still so common in Mauritius today.

ISSUES

The Black Mamba: A dangerous drug hard to pin down

A new wave of drugs seems to have reached our shores. Weekly looks into one of them called the Black Mamba which has managed to slither its way among drug users in Mauritius.