DPM is always doing his job marvellously well.Why mention only the name of DPM when all political parties were in one way or the other dealing with hawkers..These people are working while they were dominated at some point of time by someone. Why accusing someone in this case.

Obviously, you save a lot by buying from hawkers. There are no expenses for maintenance(premises) and rent. Therefore the customers should also be fined...

samem maniere ti ena emeute Kaya .
nou atan lorde depi la o...ki la loi nu pe coser..kisanla ki suposer fer respecter la loi...ti bizin ena 2-3 tet briler ki ti prend LORD MAYOR en otaz ...no arrest...pencore ena 1 politicien digne de ce nom pou capav met 1 lordre ek marsand ambulant...merci Deepa oune fer moi rapel ki ena 1 commissaire de police d'ayere monn blier so nom tou...sa fer moi rapel nou bye Harris Boodoo...li ti dire ki 1 zour c la queue ki pou bouge lisien..zour la deja ici. lil Maurice 1 tro ti pei sa si vremem ena volonter pou netoye sa pei la be li tro facile bizin 1 ti doz couraz..1 ti doz determination ek la moitier sincerite ar nou mem..pendent ce temps priyer pou nou gagne 1 kiken coumsa..

"The police are so scared of Rashid Beebeejaun that they didnt dare take the hawkers to task because they feared a telling off from government. And the commissioner of police, forgetting himself, bows down to the dictate of politicians. I have absolutely no problem with hawkers - I save money buying from them. At the same time, allowing them to operate wherever and whenever they want is unfair to other law abiding traders."
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I like your comment.Govt.talking about duty free shops, duty port etc. Wouldn't be marvellous if ALL traders do not have to pay for licence to trade?
The licence fee is unnecessary.

When I was on a visit recently to Mauritius, the cost of 1 shirt from marchands ambulants was Rs600, whereas in UK I can buy 3 shirts for Rs1,000.

They are not hawkers, only outlaws selling stuff on the streets. And the police, the mayor, the government and the Prime Minister are not able to remedy to this anarchy. Nothing illegal should be tolerated, else some day, we will not condemn a drug trafficker "pre de famille" only trying to get his living. And this might not be too far away. Cowards reign these days.

Amidst the dry logic and manipulative words flying so often across and through the media these days, your quote from Willam Yeats brings back a bit of freshness to the mind and heart of all those who can still 'hear' the voice of feelings. Thank you for that, Deepa. Otherwise, coming to the issue of hawkers and the lawlessness and injustices being tolerated in the name of political mileage by all our mainstream politicians and their apparatchiks, I would just like to invite every thinking and awakened citizen to ponder hard whether we are really living in un tat de droit (Rule of Law), as our glorified representatives so often like to harp upon. If the act of the so-called street-hawkers can serve as an apology for us to boast that we are still Un Etat de Droit in flesh and blood, then I would like our leaders, Judiciary and Police, to tell us what is not the Rule of Law and Anarchy. Or else, let us continue to revel in the Culture of Denial .. until the cows ( or the raging bull) come home!

Get rid of all hawkers, all squatters, all strayed cats and dogs, all littering, and all religious structures off the beach.

its the wild west my dear miss bhookhun.its the law of the jungle that prevails when there is political appeasement. where is our prime minister? does anyone know his whereabouts?

Now the next time we hear a poltician make use of that hollow claim that we are in ''Un Etat de droit'',there are several possible reactions.I will name two.We can point out that ''etat de droit'' is passionately selective,and is dependant on one's interest in remaining elected and in office.Or we can simply LOL,and then mind the bouncers.

Miss Bhookhun the politicians have destroyed our beautiful country.They only care about filling their own pockets.

If it was just people trading and causing a nuisance,but it's much more. these vendors are money launders ,and some do not even know it...! Some peope with dirty money ,go overseas with cash in hand, and buys goods,that we see the street vendors offering for sale.Invoices are nursed to reflect a much lower cost thus defrauding the customs.

We have watched the " Occupy " movements in New York, London, Madrid, Berlin and Frankfurt protesting against abuse and exploitation from capitalism and the banks. I won't call it anarchy but just occupy to claim its rights. Squatters and hawkers belong to certain communities who have voted repectively for a representative who as usual promise a lot before the elections and after that dissapears like the PM who is mostly in London than in Mauritius. Now instead of receiving what have been promissed they are kicked out like wandering dogs. What remains, if not using force to claim their rights. But many squatters have been relocated in comfortable homes which arise the same expectation for the hawkers to be better treated. The let go of Beebeejaun is not only cowardly but shameful and dangerous. Occupy can quickly escalate to anarchy. As long as political hypocrisy rules we can only expect more and more outlaws. Even the constitutional laws have a bad tuning of equal rights which results to manipulated meritocracy and democracy. Can a President with universal power bring a change ? And what will happen if he is for a long time sick and the country is burning ? A hawkers rebellion , no police, no political intervention not even from the opposition, il's only a foretaste for the worst. Cry my motherland !

Kewal What's your problem with religious structures on the beach? as long as there are no howling crowds beheading their brothers. ...

If the mayor could be taken hostage in this way, is there any guarantee that the PM or the parliament will not face any such a destiny? By the way, the hawkers are closer to the parliament and outnumber the police officers guarding the parliament. In case that happens and after capitulation, the parliament issues orders in favour of the capitulators, one wonders whether to abide to such ''laws/decisions'' or use commonsense before acting. That will be the real anarchy which our authorities have been tolerating so far. Everyone will be forced to take laws in their own hands because our authorities have been uncapable of make the laws prevail.

It is the basic norm in India and PAKISTAN and many 3rd world African Country...it was in Europe until they began to ORGANISE SOCIETY, respect for law, a define set of values, a common language and Culture, FAMILY at the Core of the Formation of SOCIETY and some of that was installed in MAURITIUS But that was before Independence before more 3rd WORLD ASIAN conduct and behaviour and mode of operation and disrespect for LAW and Regulations except the one they make in Corruption and Fraude of anything evrything that Civility demands YES ANARCHY IS I N OUR MIDST and MAURITIUS IS WHERE THE MAJORITY HINDOUS and some allies do as they wish and ANARCHY IS ripe for the Political Communalist pretence feeds on it...No accountability let's take exploit violate abuse appropriate all we can justify....YOU WILL FIND SAME IN BIHAR.....

I was in Mauritius 2 years ago and have noticed with great dismay how hawkers have literally taken over most major roads, footpaths, parking in Port Louis. I undertand that the problem is not confined to Port Louis only, it's far more widespread than this article portrays. Yes Deepa, you are spot on when referring to the lack of actions by politicians at all level. Yes anarchy it is and it is also very sad and unfortunately it is also a reflection of what is happening at the helm of this beautiful country that I still call mine! "Le peuple admirable" is still being taken for a ride by opportunistic political leaders, alliances are formed and broken as quickly as rain falling over Le Plateau Central, or is it an "ondee passagere". I think not! The rot is setting in. The apple tree must be shaken to get rid of the bad apples...

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I'm not sure beau- bassin prison was anarchy.

but to those who were there at the time: it must have felt so.

the world knows not anarchy; what anarchy the world has known--no longer knows the world itself

anarchy is not to be feared, its a transient state of affairs. It is subjective.

and relative.

one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.

we know this, and yet we insist, singularly, on being right.

when all everyone ever is--is wrong.

welcome anarchy.

it will feed the masses. and tear out souls.

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@Sylvain Sangham: In respect of what law and rules of decency your patron Western Colonialists took over , colonised through slavery and still control " our" island? At one level of abstraction they may be said to be the precursors of the unfolding lawlessness. the harder life gets the worse the anarchy. So before it is too late, let's get round the table and talk : Distribution of Wealth, in the name of peace!

Navin se gargarise de grands principes tels que 'Respect des institutions', 'Etat de droit', et autres declarations creuses. Mai il n;est pas fichu de diriger se pays correctement. C'est lui le principal coupable de l'anarchie qui regne dans le pays (dans la socit, sur nos routes, dans les institutions etc..). On rcolte que ce qu'on sme.

You wrote ...'' and MAURITIUS IS WHERE THE MAJORITY HINDOUS and some allies do as they wish ...'' I consider your choice of words inappropriate and you better have written Mauritian instead of HINDOUS as Mauritius is a democratic country where we vote and elect governments accordingly.

**The use of the term anarchy in Yeats poem The Second Coming has nothing to do with The concept of anarchy which Ms Bhookhun mentions. In fact, she should have said the concept of anarchism , since anarchy is a state of affairs rather than a concept.**

ALTHOUGH not necessarily part of the Anthology of Longer Poems syllabus students used to study, perhaps still do, in English Literature, the following quotation cited by Deepa Bhookhun in her article Anarchy , lExpress 14th September 2012 : Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world .. from the poem THE SECOND COMING written in 1919 by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, has to do with the Christian teachings of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ (ref. The Book of Revelation) as an allegorical tool. The contexts were the alleged anarchy brought by various wars and revolutions in Europe, ranging from the French Revolution to World War I. Some even argue that the imagery points to the Antichrist which precedes the Second Coming and that the poet was on the side of the counter-revolutionaries. Now, just by quoting from Yeats poem means nothing unless one displays an understanding of the citation as well as an understanding of the poem itself and how it applies to contemporary issues, if at all.

THE use of the term anarchy in this poem has nothing to do with The concept of anarchy which Ms Bhookhun mentions. In fact, she should have said the concept of anarchism , since anarchy is a state of affairs rather than a concept. Anarchism, as expounded by Bakunin and Proudhon, and anarchy as used by Yeats, most certainly has no parallel with the story of the 1977 prison riots or with the aggrieved hawkers in Port Louis who allegedly took the Lord Mayor hostage , as depicted by Deepa Bhookun. A more appropriate comparison would be the anarchy which prevails further to the terror attacks on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, since Yeats was writing in the contexts of wars and revolutions in Europe. The very use of the word gyre in the poem denotes a historical process and metaphysics which could lead to an apocalypse.

WITHOUT proper understanding, Ms Bhookhun takes a free ride on the back Yeats, distorts the very Christian message contained in his poem in order to lead a campaign against the Deputy Prime Minister Dr Rashid Beebeejaun and the government. She gave the game away when she said : The police are so scared of Rashid Beebeejaun that they didnt dare take the hawkers to task because they feared a telling off from government , which is a zillion years away from The Second Coming of William Butler Yeats. This is the sort of technique often used by many writers, journalists and politicians alike to poison the minds of the masses and provoke unrest in the country, especially when they have a section of the press behind them.

READERS have been grossly misled. They are well advised to read Yeats poem, the contexts in which it was composed as well as the Biblical teachings which surround the poem which, speaking of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ (after the apocalypse), clearly says :
"Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand."

M RAFIC SOORMALLY.

All of this is due to democratcally elected governments,surrendering to a mix of communal and business lobbies,not to mention freemasons!The much decried lack of vision and leadership of the actual contributes immensely to this state of anarchy,this state of organised chaos!It is true to say that Mr Rashid Beebeejaun,has gof a few balls in his hands to squeeze as hard as he pleases!And that;s very much the fault of his leader!T note that Rashid Beebeejaun does no longer refer to 'his abiding of the vision of Ramgoolam' in his speeches,say like a Bachoo,Assirvaden,Bundhoo!It was the 'vantardiz.'. of Ramgoolam in 2005, that has led to the cancellation of an hawkers palace in Port Louis ,as planned by the previous MSM.MMM government!The 'LEV PAKE ALLE; era!Hoever this is no justfication for the ;marsan anbilan. to break the law with the benediction of the Police!Moleader can always batt so lestoma and claim,mwa mo pou san pitchey pou ban dimoun ki pa respek-t lalwa!Moleader can even claim that the suggestion that the Mayor was taken hostage for four hours is pure fiction.A figment of the imagination of ban c-mi intelektyel! N FOSS NOUVEL!!!What Sylvain SANGAM really meant to write is that depi ki MALBAR p diriz pays ,Mauritius has gone down the drain..as compared kan banne BLAN ti p diriz payr before independence! Mauritius' democracy have to put up it would seem with the likes of 'Sylvain SANGAM' too!

ala poblem lisien errant vin 1 problem politik. sa ki mo pa capav comprend . si zot si zotte vinn minis zot pou pareil. ICI P COZ PROBLEM LISIEN ki Ramgoolam Ki beebeejaune vinn fer la dans papa. kit fwa zot bann lisien mem ki taainer partout zot fer nou fer diversion pou ki Deepa rate fer passe so messaz lor tretment ki zanimo ganger a morice. Sanz zot mentaliter s'il vous plait>>>