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3 février 2014

Total Jumbo Strike

There are two big strikes going on at the moment. And being Mayotte, where nothing really ever goes as planned, they're both worth a mention. The first - and bigger - is the Total strike. Total is the one and only petrol provider in Mayotte, the group...

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Tags: france, mayotte, car, petrol, strike, supermarket, decree, job, jumbo, queue, reform, score, total, victorin lurel

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18 novembre 2013

Striking Teachers.

Before the school holidays, the French authorities started talking about their civil servants. Specifically the civil servants working overseas. As you already know, all French civil servants receive bonuses for working in the French overseas territories...

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Tags: mayotte, school, teacher, strike, money, euro, room, staff, bonus, civil servant, compensation, distance, headmistress, paper, pension, tax, thousand

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6 avril 2012

Striking

There are a few strikes going on at the moment, mostly led by the local health authorities. As we saw with what has come to be known as the révolte des mabawas, or chicken-wing riots, people who go on strike here tend to block the roads and throw stones...

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Tags: school, strike, rights, boring, bus, martin luther king, protest, rosa parks, stones, year 11

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10 janvier 2012

Happy New Year to all

P and I spent Christmas and New Year with my favourite people this year. When I got back, I was invited to a friend’s birthday party, where I was informed that I must be crazy to voluntarily spend any length of time in such a cold place when I live in...

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Tags: humidity, mayotte, cat, electricity, strike, boat, music, christmas, 2012, concentration, family, mould, new year, tree

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7 novembre 2011

Photo albums

Underwater photo of anemones and little fish, taken by a colleague's daughter with an underwater camera. I've just added a photo album to the blog, called "Blue Lagoon". It shows photos of the lagoon, above and under the water, some corals and fish, sandy...

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Tags: lagoon, newspaper, strike, coral, fish, beach, sand, album, photo, underwater, bag, bin, dark, people, rubbish, town

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22 octobre 2011

Sans Queue Ni Tête

A rather eventful morning today, because as it’s been fairly calm for the last 24 hours, I wanted to see if the supermarkets had reopened. Unprepared as always, I saw a great long queue in front of the local Sodifram and decided to join the fray. Again,...

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Tags: rice, strike, supermarket, pasta, quiet, security, shop, sodifram, toilet paper, watermelon

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20 octobre 2011

Opting out

Mad at CRS riot police. This morning, while setting off for school, a colleague rang to say that he'd heard that there weren't any lessons today. Once there, some said that lessons should continue as normal - public service - whereas others said that...

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Tags: mzungu, school, strike, supermarket, death, demonstrator, injury, lesson, opt out, ransack, riot, white

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18 octobre 2011

The Gold Rush

Things have been a little complicated recently. First, the strikes started because of the cost of living here. For example : 4.20€ for a 1kg packet of rice, 2.83€ for three large potatoes and 3.50€ for a packet of butter. "Essential" products here are...

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Tags: mayotte, food, mzungu, pupils, butter, chicken wings, cost, dustbin, gas, hunger, living, mabawas, rice, strike, supermarket

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