{"id":21,"date":"2025-01-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ministry1.govmu.org\/pm\/?p=21"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:29:31","slug":"2025-will-be-a-year-of-hope-and-reconstruction-affirms-pm-in-his-message-to-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"2025 will be a year of hope and reconstruction, affirms PM in his message to the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"21\" class=\"elementor elementor-21\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d81894d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3d81894d\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37969e2c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"37969e2c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ControlZone-control\"><div><div class=\"cke_editable rte--read\" data-automation-id=\"textBox\"><p><b>GIS \u2013 03 Jan 2025:<\/b>\u00a0Extending new year greetings to citizens, in a televised message to the Nation on 1st January 2025, the Prime Minister, Dr\u00a0Navinchandra Ramgoolam, stated that 2025 will be a year of hope and reconstruction.<\/p><p>Dr Ramgoolam expressed his thanks to the population for the remarkable victory during the 2024 general election and urged everyone to maintain a sense of unity, and patriotism referring to words in the National Anthem \u201cas one people, as one Nation, in peace, justice and liberty\u2019\u2019.\u00a0<\/p><p>The Prime Minister indicated that Government has at the core of its agenda to reconstruct and transform the country. He added that the Government Programme will be presented shortly.<\/p><p>Dr Ramgoolam outlined Government\u2019s key priority to redress the economy, adding that it will be based on a policy of truth and transparency. He underlined that Government has already embarked on its mission to deliver its set targets. He recalled that 90% of the Mauritian workforce have received their special 14th month bonus, the price of petroleum has decreased and the\u00a0re-<em>registration of SIM cards<\/em>\u00a0has been revoked.<\/p><p>The Prime Minister, moreover, emphasised on several substantial measures Government will implement to reconstruct the country. These include,\u00a0the\u00a0renegotiation of\u00a0the\u00a0deal over\u00a0the future of Diego Garcia and Chagos\u00a0Islands\u00a0and the revision of Cambridge School Certificate with a minimum of three\u00a0<em>credits.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><p>Speaking about drug trafficking, Dr Ramgoolam highlighted that Government will have a zero-tolerance policy towaards it and he also signified his intent to put an end to corruption in the country.\u00a0<\/p><p>The Prime Minister also had a special thought for the Agaleans after the passage of the cyclone Chido and noted that Government is doing its best to bring their life to normalcy on the island.<\/p><p><span class=\"fontSizeMedium\">Government Information Service, Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Level 6, New Government Centre, Port Louis, Mauritius. Email: gis@govmu.org \u00a0Website:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gis.govmu.org\/\">https:\/\/gis.govmu.org<\/a>\u00a0 Mobile App: Search Gov<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIS \u2013 03 Jan 2025:\u00a0Extending new year greetings to citizens, in a televised message to the Nation on 1st January 2025, the Prime Minister, Dr\u00a0Navinchandra Ramgoolam, stated that 2025 will be a year of hope and reconstruction. Dr Ramgoolam expressed his thanks to the population for the remarkable victory during the 2024 general election and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10","category-events","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GIS-\u2013-03-Jan-2025-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"cvmm-medium":["https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GIS-\u2013-03-Jan-2025-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"cvmm-medium-plus":["https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GIS-\u2013-03-Jan-2025-305x207.jpg",305,207,true],"cvmm-portrait":["https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GIS-\u2013-03-Jan-2025-400x428.jpg",400,428,true],"cvmm-medium-square":["https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GIS-\u2013-03-Jan-2025-600x428.jpg",600,428,true],"cvmm-large":["https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GIS-\u2013-03-Jan-2025.jpg",618,428,false],"cvmm-small":["https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GIS-\u2013-03-Jan-2025-130x95.jpg",130,95,true],"full":["https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GIS-\u2013-03-Jan-2025.jpg",618,428,false]},"categories_names":{"10":{"name":"2025","link":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/?cat=10"},"7":{"name":"Events","link":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/?cat=7"},"2":{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/?cat=2"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3200,"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/3200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primeminister.govmu.org\/pm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}