Why Buy-Now-Pay-Later Credit Sale Works Well in Mauritius!

I have just been to the CEB in person, to pay for the corrected bill and imagine my bad luck that there’s a long queue… Yeah, it’s the deadline today… So many people wait for the last moment to do their things…

A similar long queue was shown on TV for last year’s income tax deadline. Why do people have to wait for the last moment to make their payments? Of defer payment? I’m sure a lot paid late payment fees, both for the CEB and income tax…

Personally, I like to pay my bills as early as possible, and not buy on credit: it’s bad. It keeps your head worried so as when I’m doing to do it, makes you pay interest if you go past the deadline… and worse… credit sales have huge interest associated with them. Pretty normal, since the shop wouldn’t be making profit instantly with a credit-sale, so it has to charge extra!
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No Public Smoking, Drinking – Lallmatie Looks Cleaner and More Peaceful

With the for and against the new smoking and alcohol drinking in public places, there actually is a real change in Lallmatie.

People of Lallmatie have started to respect public places. No more drinking around the corner (for the fear of fines)… no more smoking… It really feels fresh now.

What a good way to celebrate the National Day!

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When Will University Fees be Tax Exempted?

I have been waiting for post-graduate courses to be advertised at the University of Mauritius… not because they’re the best (they’re simply not), but because they’re the most affordable at Rs 85k for a Masters honours degree…

But I come to think of it… As an IT professional, I work and pay loads of income tax… If only the money you spend on university degrees and courses relevant to prioritised fields could be exempted from your taxable income? That would really encourage people to upgrade themselves. After all, we’re serving the country, the private sector, the pillars of Mauritian economy…

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New MyT and ADSL Tariff – Unlimited internet is finally accessible to all?

I have to say that at first, I was quite disappointed when the MBC Journal said that they 128K ADSL is now being offered at 256K but with a 3GB cap (and extra transfer at Rs0.57/MB) at only Rs 499… But then I looked at Orange.mu news section. The old 128K unlimited is also available as ADSL 512 with a Fair Usage Policy at Rs 863 (inc vat). That’s good… but MBC didn’t say about MyT? That got me worried… but MyT has also went down… from MyT 256 at Rs 750+VAT to MyT 512 at Rs 869+VAT (LOL, no, it didn’t go up!).

I decided to have a few speed test to verify if Orange people would really be working on a Sunday to do the switching to faster speed…It’s Sunday 1 March… 15h00 let’s go on http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ one of the reliable speed tests out there, and make a few tests. I made 4-5 tests which gave me over 500kbps almost every time. And 370kbps 1 time. That’s pretty good… But I still have to test on Rapidshare and see what it gives.

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