The cost of living is soaring as a result of the steep rise in world oil prices. Forecasts are that crude oil may soar to $100 per barrel in the next forthcoming months. The State Trading Corporation says that such an increase in crude oil is inevitable.

The Health Authority in this country needs to control the prices of medicines. Government should not ignore the impact on patients living in poverty. Health care is a principal right of the people.

Poverty! What is poverty? The dictionary meaning of poverty is the state of being very poor. It is not inheritance but is rather the making of an incompetent and corrupt government, mainly in the third world, of which Mauritius is not an exception.