The Petroleum Pricing Committee of the State Trading Corporation has announced new fuel prices effective from Wednesday 18 May midnight. The new retail prices hit a...
Government has maintained the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Maximum Price of Essential Goods) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 concerning the seven essential product categories namely canned fish,...
Labour Party MP Shakeel Mohamed said he will present a ‘motion of disallowance’ against the recent hikes in the prices of fuel and cooking gas. The...
Protests against soaring energy prices erupted in Camp Levieux on Wednesday 20 April, marking a rare show of mass public dissent in the outskirt of Rose Hill. According to...
Mauritius’ state-run State Trading Corporation (STC) has, through its Petroleum Pricing Committee (PPC), raised the price of Mogas (gasoline) to Rs67.40 per litre – a yet...
As the State Trading Corporation faces a hole of Rs 2.9 billion swallowed as subsidies on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), rice and flour, the Ministry of...
“We are in a state of economic emergency, with very serious social implications,” Senior economist and ex-Minister of Finance Rama Sithanen has warned. He has urged...
The State Trading Corporation (STC) has launched a tender for the supply of ‘Refined Edible Oil.’ The exercise comes days after the state-owned procurement agency suffered...
Commerce Minister Soodesh Callichurn has urged locals not to panic – the country has enough stock of edible oil and importers have already secured their next...
All retail outlets in Mauritius have been urged to limit the sale of edible oil to a maximum of 2 litres per person. The instruction was...