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Who was responsible for Curepipe?

By 1882, the inhabitants of Curepipe started complaining of the haphazard development badly maintained roads no drainage system and absence of pavements. Sir Virgil Naz was shouldered the responsibility to find solution to the problems. He was personally not in favor of a municipality.

Who was the first mayor of Curepipe?

In late 1968, Late Sir Gaetan Duval, QC, became the first Mayor of Curepipe. The Municipal Council then consisted of 16 members. With the extension of boundary limits, the township area increased from 3502 arpents (1478 hectares) to 5660 arpents (2390 hectares) or by 61.6%. The population increase, however, was only 6,962, or 10.6%.

How many parts are there in the shield of Curepipe?

COAT OF ARMS. The shield of the Arms of Curepipe is divided horizontally into two parts, the upper part being about one third and the lower part two thirds of the area of the shield.

When did Curepipe become a village?

Curepipe became a village in 1858 , with 400 inhabitants. On the 27 March 1890, Governor Jerning- ham proclaimed the area a Town. The Town was to be governed by a Board of Commissioners.

When was Curepipe first named?

It is believed that the name Curepipe was first given to the area in 1817.

Is Curepipe a fast growing area?

With a population not exceeding 80,000 today , Curepipe is a fast developing area, with numerous industrial zone, upmarket shopping. It is also an area favoured by tourists for items such as handmade ship models, duty free jewelry, Indian silk and cottons, Chinese embroideries, handicrafts and woollen jumpers etc.

Overview

Early life

Jules Maurice Curé was born on 3 September 1886. He completed his secondary education at Royal College Curepipe where he was a "Laureate" in 1906, along with his peers Fernand Maingard and E. Osmond Barnard. He travelled to England at the age of 20 to study medicine under scholarship.

Political career before launching the Labour Party

Soon after returning to Mauritius in 1913 Curé joined Dr Eugène Laurent's party Action Libérale and as a result he was appointed as Medical Doctor of the Municipality of Port Louis. He also joined the Retrocessionist Party which advocated that Mauritius should be turned into a colony of France rather than England. This made him an enemy of the Franco-Mauritian oligarchy which favoured England over France as the parent state. Curé was even prosecuted as an enemy of th…

Founder of the Labour Party (Mauritius)

Following his defeat at the General Elections of January 1936 in the district of Plaines Wilhems Dr Maurice Curé decided to form a new political organisation which could best defend the cause of the workers. Thus on 23 February 1936, and with the assistance of Jean Prosper, Mamode Assenjee, Hassenjee Jeetoo, Barthelemy Ohsan, Samuel Barbe, Emmanuel Anquetil, Godefroy Moutia and Dajee Rama (also known as Arya Samaj's Pandit Sahadeo), Dr Maurice Curé register…

1937 UBA riots and 1938 Dockers' Strike

Dr Curé's new approach surprised the establishment which was led by aristocratic Governor Sir Bede Clifford. British colonial policy in Mauritius was to maintain unquestionable loyalty of Indo-Mauritians to British rule. Prior to the Labour Party's new campaign Eugène Laurent's Action Libérale had urged Indians to register as voters, but only to raise the Secretary of State Lord Crewe's concerns about the threat of arousing Indo-Mauritians' interest in politics. A year later the Uba …

Persecution by sugar oligarchy and colonial government

The establishment led by Franco-Mauritian sugar oligarchs (with Governor Sir Bede Clifford's support) continued to persecute the leadership of the Labour party and Dr Maurice Curé's medical practice was no longer profitable. As a result of the harassment and due to mounting competition within the Labour Party's leadership, Curé resigned from the Labour Party in 1941. He was bankrupt and had to close down his newspaper Le Peuple Mauricien. On the day of its closure C…

Nomination to Council of Government

In 1948 Governor Mackenzie Kennedy nominated Dr Maurice Curé to the Council of Government. This was followed by another nomination to the Executive Council, along with the nomination of Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, André Nairac and A.M. Osman. Between 1950 and 1963 Dr Maurice Curé stood as an Independent against Labour Party candidates in a number of constituencies at both general and municipal elections; but he had limited success. In October 1964 he was finall…

Pre-Independence 1967 General Elections & new party NSWP

At the August 1967 general elections he was an independent candidate of his newly formed party National Socialist Workers Party at new Constituency No.16 (Vacoas Floréal). But he was defeated as he collected only 158 votes (1.07%), well behind the 3 defeated anti-independence candidates of PMSD (Bussier, Narrainen & Maingard) and the 3 elected pro-independence IFB-PTr-CAM candidates (Chettiar, Awootar & Mason).