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Navinchandra Ramgoolam (Navin)


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Cheque book diplomacy

United States President Donald Trump's sudden interest in buying the Chagos Islands is another irritant for Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam who has been frustrated by delays to Britain ratifying the £3...


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Ramgoolam targets super rich to balance the books

Complaining about inheriting a battered and debt-ridden economy Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam is planning radical new tax incentives to attract more foreign capital and get wealthy investors to set up family offices on the island to expand its key financial services sector...

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A change of the dynastic guard

Results are yet to emerge but Navin Ramgoolam's Parti Travailliste is widely expected to claim a majority of the 62 seats up for grabs under a first-past-the-post system with the remaining eight allocated under what is dubbed the ‘best loser' system...

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Arvin Boolell

Prior to his appointment as Foreign Minister in Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam’s government in 2008 Boolell was Agriculture Minister in 1995-2000 and 2005-2008...


Rogue rosewood exporters

The scandal has caused an uproar especially after the revelation this May by Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam that Madagascar's Bureau Indépendant Anti-Corruption was in possession of an audio recording that implicated a Mauritian politician in the trade...


To save a treaty

Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam denied reports by The Times of India in early July that Port Louis had offered control of the North and South Agalega Islands in exchange for maintaining the tax treaty’s status quo...


Phantom economic zones

Residents living around the proposed zone which just happens to be in the constituency of Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam refer to it as the ‘ghost project’...


Triangular trade

The fixer has been Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam who was approached by Sassou-Nguesso for help with the free ports in June 2010...


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