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We all live in a Duty Free Island

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We all live in a Duty Free Island
Duty Free Island
Duty Free Island

We all live in a Duty Free Island
Duty Free Island
Duty Free Island

John, Paul, Georges and Ringo must have thought about Pravin Jugnauth’s budget speech when they wrote Yellow Submarine…

It’s now official :

Mauritius is becoming a Duty Free Island

Duty has been decreased and, for many products, completely eliminated for lots and lots of imported products including clothing, food, jewellery, photographic equipment, audio visual equipment, lighting equipment etc.

The plan is to make Mauritius totally Duty Free in 4 years. The motivations for doing that (in addition to winning the next elections…) are (1) Attract more and more tourists going to Singapore and Dubai and, (2) Make all Mauritians get access to quality products at affordable prices :-)

Yes !

I can now clearly see my future Nikon D70 coming as well as my Apple PowerBook and my iPod ;-)

Good luck Ramon…

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While perusing Soccernet today, I discovered that Manchester United has released on the 1st of April a young player called Ramon Calliste.

So what, I hear you say…

But, cast your mind 2-3 years back when the U17 Manchester United team came to Mauritius and the same Ramon Calliste completely destroyed our defense. I was very impressed by him that day and I was convinced that he was going to make it in a big club. In fact, he has been a regular for Wales U21 since.

Quoting Alex Ferguson : ” We […] have a bunch of players around 19 and 20 years of age and I think by the time you are 20-odd then you have to be in the first team squad so we’ve had to release a few. Some have been tough decisions”

Good luck for the future Ramon :-)

29-09-2005: An update

Ramon is now a Liverpool player. He has signed a 1 year contract. I really hope he can impress Rafa :-)

18-05-2006: Another (sad) update

Liverpool has just confirmed that Ramon Calliste will be free at the end of his 1 year contract after having failed to establish himself in the first team. Good luck Ramon!

04-07-2006: A final update

Ramon Calliste has signed a one-year deal with League One club Scunthorpe United. Good luck and thanks for the memories ;-)