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Dear  optimists who believe that 2009 is an era of change and that Mauritius will be shining again,
You are wrong!
Recession has hit major foreign economies and the economy of the island is about to suffer. While there are high expectations that the ongoing change due to recession will lead to less foreign dependency, Mauritius still [...]

Global stock markets plunged.
Oil prices varied eratically.
69K people were killed in China by the Ghengu Earthquake.
Fidel Castro no longer ‘rules’ Cuba. His brother Raul Castro does.
Russia and Georgia went to war over South Ossetia.
Musharraf resigned as President of Pakistan.
Terrorists killed 195 people (incl. a Mauritian) in Mumbai.
Tibet and China have been still at “war.”
The relations [...]