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MAURITIUS TIMES 65th Year -- No. 3575 Tuesday, May 12, 2020 www.mauritiustimes.com facebook.com/mauritius.times 16 Pages - ePaper MAURITIUS TIMES "There's a fine line between solidarity and stupidity. Which side you want to be on is entirely up to your commonsense." -- Mohith Agadi Nature is Interview: Rama Sithanen reviving - What about us? Photo - encrypted- tbn0.gstatic.com Covid-19 hijacked and hacked human lung cells. By adopting simple measures we can protect “ We Should ourselves, that is, prevent it from hijacking our lives. By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee + See Page 3 Throw Away Carnet Hebdo Le Destin du Pays Some Taboos and consider some unconventional financing methods which other countries Quant au bruit qui circule sur une mise en tutelle par have embraced” }Ethiopian Airlines, présentée comme super efficace, on se permet de se + See Pages 7-8-9 poser quelques questions, notamment sur la sécurité si jamais la logique des Post-pandémie profits à tout prix prime…” By Nita Chicooree + See Page 16 La rupture Opinion Just another est-elle enfin show? possible ? By Chetan Ramchurn + See Page 5 Photo - image.cagle.com Par Aditya Narayan + Voir Page 4 Mauritius Times Tuesday, May 12, 2020 www.mauritiustimes.com Edit Page facebook.com/mauritius.times 2 The Conversation The Covid-19 Bill Coronavirus: the first big test of he Explanatory Memorandum to the The Government in its fiscal measures to stabilise the Covid-19 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill economy of Mauritius’. the information age and what it Tstates that the object of this Bill is ‘to Readers will remember that in light of the amend a number of enactments to cater for the Finance Bill 2019, which proposed an amend- could mean for privacy impact of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), the ment to the Bank of Mauritius Act with a view to infectious disease commonly known as COVID- utilising the central bank’s Special Reserve Fund he late Harvard sociologist Daniel 19, and for matters connected, consequential or for repaying Government’s external debt, the view Bell long ago predicted the com- related thereto’. The scope of these latter matters had already been expressed in different quarters ing of the “information society”, is indeed broad and wide-ranging, and there can T and in the columns of this paper that the proposed which he said would soon replace indus- be no doubt that a lot of work and consultations amendment was not compatible with the notion of trial society. Bell foresaw scientific with different stakeholders have gone into the independence inherent in the legal provisions of experts driving government policy, ser- drafting of the 84-page document. the BOM Act and that it would undermine the vices taking over from manufacturing and What is of particular interest to us relates to Bank’s credibility for the proper conduct of mone- computers becoming the main mode of the proposed amendments to the Bank of tary policy. interaction between people. “What Mauritius Act and the Workers’ Rights Act 2019, One would also expect the proposed utiliza- counts”, he wrote in his classic ‘The which, if voted by a simple majority, will have long- tion of the official foreign reserves of the BOM in Coming of Post-Industrial Society’ lasting impacts on the way public funds and debts any corporation or company ‘set up for the pur- (1973), “is not raw muscle power, or are managed and utilised, and on the acquired pose of facilitating economic development’ would energy, but information”. The new socie- rights of workers and their protection under the cause much more disapproval. Dissenting views ty, about which he was mildly optimistic, surveillance studies. The specialism’s laws of the country. These concerns have also are already being heard about what are perceived would be a reality by about 2020. been flagged by Roshi Bhadain, who has called founder, Professor David Lyon, once told to be some dangerous provisions of the Bill, which The coronavirus crisis has thrown for concerted action by the Labour Party, MMM, me that the surveillance society is just would give the government a blank cheque to into sharp relief the trends Bell and other PMSD and his Reform Party to oppose the pro- the flip-side of the information society. print money with little by way of safeguards to information society thinkers identified. In posed legislation. But the issue is existential as well as manage this exceptional public funding to prevent fact, I believe we are undergoing the first academic. Cameras are everywhere; We concur with the view that exceptional abuse and protect the public interest. It has also real test of the “information society drones, facial recognition, roadblocks times demand exceptional measures. But Covid- been argued that the BOM had been ‘one of the thesis”. Whole populations have now and the snoop-line numbers that some 19 should not serve as a pretext to drive ques- rare central banks whose founders were far- been driven online. Amazon, Tesco and over-zealous police forces advertise tionable changes in our polity. For instance, the sighted enough to enable it to fund “development- our favourite takeaways are open while have all become normalised. There can provision to presumably increase labour flexibility related” projects with full accountability unaffected most factories and industrial plants are be no doubt that the infrastructure for - through amendments to the Workers’ Rights Act as it was the Minister of Finance (himself accoun- mothballed. Essential services have complete totalitarianism is now in place, 2019 which, through the insertion of a new section table to the Assembly) who was required to been protected. Teaching and marking should power fall into the wrong hands. (72A. Reduction of workforce in certain enter- approve any such project’. There was thus, it is have migrated to cyberspace. Meetings prises in the services) - will allow the Redundancy felt, no need to amend the BOM Act to take on the are now “virtual”. Scientists are indeed I believe that surveillance has already Board (in case it finds that the reasons for reduc- Covid rescue plan. calling the shots – onscreen via their lap- gone much too far. As someone posted tion of the workforce or the closing down are jus- Former Finance minister Rama Sithanen tops. to an online newspaper recently: “George tified) shall order that the worker shall be paid only Orwell’s 1984 is a warning, not a bloody seems to hold a different view. He says in today’s Information technology is enabling 30 days’ wages as indemnity in lieu of notice. instruction manual!” We must of course interview that ‘we should throw away some people to read, play and communicate – Workers can no doubt seek redress from the law look after our senior citizens, the main taboos and consider some unconventional finan- and, now, help the government trace the courts for abuses by employers, but the cost and victims of Covid-19, but we must also cing methods which other countries have path of the infection via an app. The time it takes to secure reparation can not only protect the rights for which their genera- embraced’, and goes on to suggest that in the elderly and other vulnerable groups are deter any challenge by aggrieved parties. tion fought so bravely. exceptional testing times in the wake of Covid-19 under electronic as well as human care. What is also likely to give rise to heated the ‘Minister of Finance simply has no choice than My mother, living alone 400 miles away The most important reference point in debate relates to the amendments being en- to depend on the two reserves of the Central and recovering from the virus, is buoyed all this is no longer 1984, but 9/11. Many visaged to the Bank of Mauritius Act, in particular Bank and on its electronic money transfer up all day long with face-time calls. My of the emergency measures may have Section 6, which will see the addition of a new machine to save the country from both an eco- wife’s mother has Alexa at her side in her been rescinded, but there remains an paragraph (oa) which will allow the BOM to ‘grant nomic and a social crisis. All countries are doing it care home. extremely toxic legacy. Torture was such amount to Government as the Board may - from the US and the UK to the EU and Japan’. brought back by the George W Bush Meanwhile, 3D printers in private approve to assist it in its fiscal measures to sta- administration and supported by Tony There are obviously different perspectives to dwellings are churning out protective bilise the economy of Mauritius on account of the Blair’s government as a “necessary” this issue. We would like to think that the recourse equipment. Health messages are getting Covid-19 virus having a negative impact on the response to the “unprece-dented” dan- to the BOM to save the economy has not been through. The mass media have been economy of Mauritius’. Furthermore, there is also ger. Now torture is something the “good taken lightly and would not serve any objective joined by social media in a never-ending the projected amendment of Section 46 for the guys” sometimes do. On this issue, the contrary to the public interest. The critical issue in supply of information and opinion. addition of a new subsection (5) which will autho- this transaction is rigorous oversight, preferably entire world order is in a worse place rise the BOM to ‘invest, with the approval of the through a parliamentary mechanism as sug- Data and privacy than it was. Board, such amount of the official foreign gested by Rama Sithanen.
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