Mauritius: The Cost of Overseas Missions

Mauritius: The Cost of Overseas Missions

[L'Express] The overseas travelling expenses of Junior Ministers, parliamentarians and even the Speaker and Deputy Speaker have been given wide publicity in the media, and rightly so, since these expenses are paid from the budget and borne by taxpayers. Such expenses should be justifiable in terms of the necessity and objectives of such missions and the benefits that the country is expected to derive. We have to give due credit to the Prime Mini…