''Mauritius Times'' is a

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which is published in

Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It incl ...

, primarily in

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History

''Mauritius Times'' (MT) was founded on 14 August 1954. Bikramsingh Ramlallah (also known as Beekrumsing or Beekrum) and Sir

Kher Jagatsingh Keharsingh Jagatsingh, more commonly known as Sir Kher Jagatsingh (23 July 1931 – 19 July 1985) was a Mauritian politician and Labour Party (Mauritius) minister. Early life Keharsingh was born in India, the 14th child of a family of 16 childr ...

teamed up to start the publication, shortly after Sir Kher had left the Civil Service and before becoming an active politician. Ramlallah was the editor of ''Mauritius Times'' from 1954 to 2000. The ''Mauritius Times'' (founded in 1954) must not be confused with an older and defunct daily newspaper which was also called "''Mauritius Times''". The defunct paper used to be published a century earlier, between the 1840s and the 1930s.

Contributions

News articles in ''Mauritius Times'' often analysed events in the context of the country's socio-political history. It became known as an "opinion paper". Its founder-editor Bikramsingh Ramlallah was arrested and jailed in 1984 as he was founder-chairman of the Mauritius Union of Journalists (MUJ). The MUJ had organised a public protest against the proposed restrictive Newspapers and Periodicals (Amendment) Bill. Also arrested were 44 other journalists who had joined the public protest in

Port Louis Port Louis (french: Port-Louis; mfe, label= Mauritian Creole, Polwi or , ) is the capital city of Mauritius. It is mainly located in the Port Louis District, with a small western part in the Black River District. Port Louis is the country's ec ...

Website

Mauritius Times
' provides the online version of the weekly paper, including the free-to-download

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version of the newspaper.

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