On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Jason Mule
<jason.mule@gmail.com> wrote:
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> - 0.34% of Kenya in area (less than a square that's 50kms x 50kms)
> - Has 2.5% the population and more than half the GDP of Kenya.
> - Has approx 1:1 Tourist:Citizen ratio compared to Kenya's 1:40 at best
> - Income tax is 15% compared to >30% in Kenya
> - Education, healthcare and welfare is free. (Really! If you are below a
> certain pay grade, you get benefits such as money to buy water tanks, some
> electricity units free etc)
> - Makes power from Bagasse that is cheaper and more reliable than KPLC &
> KENGEN and mind you they have a higher per capita power consumption because
> of air cons etc
> - Cooking gas goes for ~500KES for 13kg cylinder (They have no refinery.
> It's all imported). No one uses charcoal with the exception of Braai/choma.
> - Fuel costs approx the same as Kenya (No refinery... again)
> - Used to have aircon on for ~12 hours a day, fridge, used electric oven,
> etc for a bill of at most 3000 KES/month
To pull this of, we would need a major overhaul in governance.
Yes, That's what I am hoping for
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> - Worker rights are enforced
> - Everyone has a job.. really, as a citizen, you can quit and a week later
> have a different job
> - Everyone get's a 13th month salary bonus. That's standard. 14th (and
> 15th in some cases) salary as a motivational bonus. Did I mention that
> ontop of this, some companies offer a free vacation per year for your family
> for a limit of say 5000USD?
> - Everyone's entitled to 24 working days leave per year and on top of that,
> you get 15 working days as sick days (fully paid) . You only need to produce
> a doctors note after missing 3 consecutive days. That comes to 39 paid
> working days as leave/year!
Excellent! But I can see how companies here would think this would
affect their bottom line.
Actually, When it's the norm. You can't do jack. In fact, to get fired there, I believe it's standard procedure for an employer to issue 3 warning letters and then bump you off. Any other way, and you the employee, can sue them.
Another recent case was a call center that failed to pay worker salaries. The workers protested and the government stepped in, liquidated the company (Inc. an Aston martin) and paid the workers. See
http://mauritiusnow.co.uk/article/view_article/suzanne_returns_supercar
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> What we have is a good educated population. Really! we do. The average
> Kenyan is more knowledgeable (by parsecs!).
>
> We just need better leaders and be accountable to ourselves. Stop paying
> that cop, stop corruption, make your leader accountable. That's it. That's
> all it takes.
Easier said than done. I think this would mean a change of culture for us.
IMHO, if we don't we are bust. Most of the growth that Mauritius has experienced is due to good governance and good policy. It's not exactly paradise; Corruption exists, It's practically ruled by one family/party/community, etc but the legislative made policies that changed it from a sugar based economy in the 90s to what it is now.
Have a look at their portal:
http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/Mainhomepage/menuitem.cc515006ac7521ae3a9dbea5e2b521ca/
Oh btw, did I mention that everyone has a house? A decent house with power and water?
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Kind regards
Jason Mule