Abolition of Private Tuition in Mauritius Primary Schools

The abolition of private tuition in all primary schools of Mauritius is a topic of real concern during the last few days. We are seeing a sort of verbal war-zone where the main heroes are the Minister of Education Vasant Bunwaree and some Pro-Private Tuition activists.

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Abortion in Mauritius – A Complicated Debate

May 7, 2009 by Kurt Avish  
Filed under IC Hard Talk, Mauritius News, Society

Abortion in Mauritius is one of the Taboo subjects even in 2009. Why is abortion still taboo can maybe be explained by the fear of open talks and some constraint that some cultures and religions put upon such talks. Abortion is the by-force termination of pregnancy.

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Rastafarian Culture In Mauritius

April 16, 2009 by Kurt Avish  
Filed under IC Hard Talk, Mauritius News, Society

The Rastafarian culture in Mauritius is one which is highly targeted by narrow minded persons in Mauritius! If you are still thinking what Rastafarian means, in simple word as we often say its Rasta. Yea those guys which you often say they have weird hair styles and strange vocabularies.

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Mauritius And Prostitution In 2009

April 4, 2009 by Kurt Avish  
Filed under IC Hard Talk, Mauritius News, Society

Prostitution exist well than you might believe in Mauritius! This is the 3rd and final IC Hard Talk series where the discussion will be about prostitution in Mauritius and what Mauritians think about it. You can also check the IC Hard Series previous posts here if you missed any.

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Legalization of Marijuana in Mauritius

March 18, 2009 by Kurt Avish  
Filed under IC Hard Talk, Mauritius News, Religion, Society

Today’s IC Hard Talk series will be on Legalization of Marijuana in Mauritius! For those who think Marijuana is the name of a girl I know then no! Marijuana is the thing that we Mauritian often call “mass” or “gandia” (written as ganja). It is illegal in Mauritius and we shall discuss whether this thing should be legalized or not.

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Legalization of Sodomy in Mauritius

March 15, 2009 by Kurt Avish  
Filed under IC Hard Talk, Mauritius News, Society

IC Hard Talks!


Today it start with the Legalization of sodomy in Mauritius! Welcome to the small series of Hard Talk on Island Crisis :-) – Infact I will be posting a very small series of about 4 to 5 post concerning some very Taboo topics in the coming days or weeks and we shall be having some serious discussions about these THINGS that we often call the Taboo! We start the series with Sodomy in Mauritius!

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