Alex Rima
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Alex Rima
OR:
Alex Rima on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Jean Alex Rima, more commonly known as Alex Rima (born 29 August 1929) is a
Mauritian Mauritians (singular Mauritian; ; Creole: ''Morisien'') are nationals or natives of the Republic of Mauritius and their descendants. Mauritius is a melting pot of multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious peoples. Mauritian is made up ...
politician.


Political career

Alex Rima was a trade unionist who founded the ''Organisation de l’Unité des Artisans''(OUA) to fight for the rights of manual workers. One of his recruits was Rajpalsingh Allgoo who became OUA's negotiator, and later became an influential figure in industrial relations. In 1965 Alex Rima was elected as Lord Mayor of Port Louis, replacing A. Monaf Fakira. During Rima's 1-year term A. R. Abdool Carrim was the Deputy Lord Mayor. In 1966 Rima was replaced by D. Moorghen and Carrim was replaced by Norbert Poupard. At the 1967 general elections Alex Rima was a candidate of the ''Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate''( PMSD) in Constituency No. 4 - Port Louis North and Montagne Longue but he was defeated by pro-Independence IFB-CAM-Labour coalition candidates Foogooa, Bundhun and Rault. However he secured one the eight special seats in the Legislative Council as a nominated member, that is, as a Best Loser. In 1969 he became Minister of Employment and Labour soon after the IFB left the government, and when his party's leader Gaëtan Duval entered a coalition with Ramgoolam's Labour Party.


Larceny charges, conviction and revocation

Alex Rima made a legal precedent for being the first serving minister to be privately prosecuted on a charge of
larceny Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking or theft of the personal property of another person or business. It was an offence under the common law of England and became an offence in jurisdictions which incorporated the common law of Eng ...
, after which he was convicted and sentenced. Rima was revoked from office after the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction and sentence.


See also

*
1965 Mauritius race riots The 1965 Mauritius race riots in Trois Boutiques refers to a number of violent clashes that started in the village of Trois Boutiques, Souillac on 10 May 1965 and progressed to the historic village of Mahébourg. The unrest eventually led to th ...
*
1967 Port Louis riots The 1967 Port Louis riots refer to a series of violent clashes and looting in the city of Port Louis, Mauritius. August 1967 Elections Riots The 07 August 1967 General Elections were held to determine the nation's support for independence from ...
*
1968 Mauritian riots The 1968 Mauritian riots or ''Bagarre raciale Plaine Verte'' refers to a number of violent clashes that occurred in the Port Louis neighbourhoods of Cité Martial, Bell Village, Roche Bois, Sainte-Croix, Cité Martial and Plaine Verte as w ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rima, Alex 1929 births Mauritian Creoles Living people Government ministers of Mauritius Members of the National Assembly (Mauritius) Parti Mauricien Social Démocrate politicians