CDC development fund insists projects will create jobs in poor countries but NGOs accuse government of helping big business Millions of pounds of British aid money to tackle poverty overseas has been invested in builders of gated communities, shopping centres and luxury property in poor countries, the Guardian can reveal. CDC, the little-known investment arm of the British aid programme, has invested...
Success of case could lead to return of hundreds of exiled islanders who were forced to leave archipelago Britain's sovereignty over the Chagos Islands and America's lease for the Diego Garcia military base could be thrown into doubt by an international court hearing due to open in Istanbul on Tuesday. The case is considered of such importance that the attorney general, Dominic Grieve QC the UK government's...
Yashika Bageerathi's deportation seemed harsh but so would many others. And we can't bend the rules in every case You can still sign the petition at change.org, asking the government to allow the young Mauritian and refused asylum seeker Yashika Bageerathi to complete her A-levels before being forcibly deported. Though it did not finally help Bageerathi, who is now back in Mauritius, this effort has...
Supporters of A-level student Yashika Bageerathi urged people to protest directly to Air Mauritius about her deportation on Wednesday night, but the airline insisted it had no choice. Why did it have to take her on board? 9.11pm BST I have talked to somebody with a closer understanding of the legal situation. It seems my clumsy attempt to understand the 1971 Immigration Act was about right: in the...
The outpouring of support for Yashika may be well-intentioned but is misplaced, and risks doing a disservice to genuine asylum seekers As a Mauritian, and as someone who is deeply unimpressed with the current UK government's immigration policy towards non-EU nationals, it is with some dismay that I have followed Yashika Bageerathi's case . The show of solidarity from her school friends, together with...
Nineteen-year-old is to be deported without her mother and siblings after Home Offices refuses to intervene in case The 19-year-old Mauritian student battling a deportation order from the Home Office was being driven to Heathrow on Wednesday afternoon and is set to fly out at 9pm. A spokesman for the Oasis Academy Hadley in north London, where Yashika Bageerathi has been studying, said she was set...
Nineteen-year-old Yashika Bageerathi due to be flown out from Heathrow on Sunday without her mother and siblings The 19-year-old Mauritian student threatened with deportation at 5pm on Sunday has won a further reprieve although it was unclear why she was not being sent back to Mauritius as planned. According to Lynne Dawes, principal at the Oasis Academy Hadley in north London, where Yashika Bageerathi...
Exclusive: Yashika Bageerathi, 19, first led to believe she has been reprieved then told her entire family will be deported The family of a teenager who came close to being deported on her own are to be sent back to Mauritius along with the 19-year-old after losing their appeal, it emerged on Tuesday. The Bageerathi family's case came to light last week when it emerged that the eldest daughter, Yashika,...
• Teams could meet in Mauritius on 18 May • 'I'm very impressed with Mauritius,' says Liverpool official Liverpool's players are poised to kick-start their summer with a beach holiday with a difference, in the shape of a post-season friendly against West Ham in Mauritius. The club's director of sales, Olly Dale, was in Mauritius this week to examine the facilities at Anjalay Stadium, the nation's...
That the US could use the Chagos Islands to bomb Iran is another good reason why the UK must restore them to Mauritius David Cameron met Navin Ramgoolam, the prime minister of Mauritius, today. It appears they discussed what Robin Cook called "one of the most sordid and morally indefensible" episodes in our postwar colonial history: namely the deceitful treatment of the Chagossian people....
The UK has a great opportunity based on realpolitik and human rights to restore the Chagos archipelago to its rightful owners "The wind of change is blowing through this continent," said British prime minister Harold Macmillan when he addressed the South African parliament in Cape Town February 1960. "Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact."...
Investigator says reading from door entry system was initially withheld, leading to husband being held as suspect A police officer has told a court in Mauritius that senior staff at the hotel where Michaela McAreavey was killed "played a dirty game" that led to the victim's husband being held as a suspect. Yoosoof Soopun said a reading from the electronic door entry system was handed over...
Footage of Australian cattle being abused in Mauritius follows series of animal welfare outrages in the live export industry ...
s poorest countries. ActionAid has obtained documentation showing that Deloitte, which employs more than 200,000 people in over 150 countries, has been advising foreign companies on how, by structuring their investments through the tropical island of Mauritius, they can enjoy significant tax advantages. The charity claims that the strategy could help companies to avoid paying hundreds of millions of...
s authenticity, Steven Kovats QC, counsel for the Foreign Office, said the government would stick to a policy of "neither confirm nor deny" anything about the documents. The policy is known in Whitehall as NCND. But the judges warned that Roberts could not avoid answering questions by relying on the NCND policy. Kovats then argued that the Diplomatic Privileges Act 1964, which incorporates the 1961...
A national day of mourning has been declared on the island of Mauritius after at least 11 people died in flash floods ...
s unilateral declaration of marine protected area Britain's colonial-era decision to sever an Indian Ocean archipelago from Mauritius and turn it into a US military base will have to be justified before an international tribunal – a process that could lead to the return of the islands' exiled inhabitants. The unexpected ruling this month by the permanent court of arbitration in The Hague that it can...
We believe Mauritius is inaccurately portrayed as being a secretive jurisdiction on taxation ( Report , 11 December). Mauritius has a straightforward, transparent and predictable tax regime and understands the importance of comprehensive tax information exchange and co-operation in tax matters. We have all necessary elements in place to achieve effective exchange of information and collaborate with...
s aid budget for Africa is increasingly being channelled through public-private investment funds based in the offshore tax haven of Mauritius, despite David Cameron's recent commitment to tax justice for poor countries. The Department for International Development (DfID) has sponsored a network of offshore investment funds and trusts in Mauritius for aid spending on infrastructure and agribusiness...
s supreme court and the JCPC. In the past there have been hints that some consider the additional workload imposed by privy council work to be a distraction from cases coming up through British and Northern Irish courts. The deal has focused on commercial cases. Neither the Honduran nor Mauritian embassies in London responded to inquiries about whether criminal cases might also be sent to London. A...