The Port Louis City Hall that we can see today (2014) was constructed in 1965 and replaced the old Colonial building known as “Hotel D’Europe”. The idea of creating a municipal corporation in Port Louis started in the 1820s and among those who emphasized on establishing such an institution were Adrien D’Epinay and Rémy Ollier. …
During the years 1950 – 1970s, whilst not many families had a television set, the Government had set up the mobile cinema to provide entertainment to the inhabitants. The structure was a mobile vehicle equipped with a projector and the display screen hanged outside, be it on a tree or a building wall etc. Shows …
Vacoas Transport was a bus company serving on the routes of the town of Vacoas and its surrounding suburbs, and which unfortunately had faced operational difficulties during the late 1970s. As a result, the company was taken over by the Government in the early 1980s and the National Transport Corporation was then set up. Its …