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The National Coast Guard (NCG) is the coast guard of Mauritius. It was established in 1988 and consists of No. 1 Patrol Vessel Squadron and the Maritime Air Squadron. [8]The NCG has been modernising its fleet introducing a Kora-class Offshore Patrol Vessel CGS Barracuda in 2015, two Sarojini Naidu-class patrol vessels CGS Victory in 2016 and CGS Valiant in 2017 and ten 14.5m GSL Fast ...
Commissioner of Police (Mauritius) The Commissioner of Police (abbreviation: CP) is the top-ranking police officer of the Mauritius Police Force. He is assisted by various holders of the title of Deputy Commissioner of Police. The CP reports to the Home Affairs Division of the Prime Minister's Office. [2]
t. e. The 1999 Mauritian riots were national-scale rioting and protests in Mauritius following the death of the popular "seggae" musician Joseph Réginald Topize, better known by his stage name "Kaya", in police custody. [2][3] The rioting lasted for four days from 21 to 25 February 1999. Four civilians and one police officer were killed in the ...
September & October 1967 Riots. The government of Mauritius dismissed 10,000 relief workers and soon protesters started to demonstrate in the streets of Port Louis to protest against the loss of their jobs. For 5 months leading to the August 1967 elections the Labour government had boosted the number of relief workers by more than 60% (from ...
Occupation. Activist. Azor Adélaïde (15 February 1922 – 25 November 1971), also known as Azor Adelaide, was a Mauritian Creole political activist who was shot and assassinated along Chasteauneuf Road in the town of Curepipe, Mauritius on 25 November 1971. [2] Although witnesses have provided detailed accounts of the murder it remains unsolved.
Duval was born in Rose Hill on 9 October 1930 in an upper middle-class Creole family of mixed ancestry. His father Charles was a civil servant and his mother Rosina Henrisson (1902-1989) was a housewife. [1] In 1933 when Gaëtan was only 3 years old his father died and his uncle Raoul raised him. The young Duval attended Saint-Enfant-Jésus RCA ...
Under his governorship, numerous buildings were erected, a number of which are still standing. These include part of Government House, the Château de Mon Plaisir, and the Line Barracks, the headquarters of the police force. The island was under the administration of the French East India Company, which maintained its presence until 1767. [37]
Mauritius was later rediscovered and visited by the Portuguese between 1507 and 1513. Mauritius and surrounding islands were known as the Mascarene Islands (Ilhas Mascarenhas) after Pedro Mascarenhas. Portuguese discoveries 1415–1543 in the Reign of D. João III (verde) An official world map by Diogo Ribeiro described "from west to east, the ...