[1] Bikramsingh Ramlallah (also known as Beekrumsing or Beekrum) and Sir Kher Jagatsingh teamed up to start the publication, shortly after Jagatsingh had left the Civil Service and before becoming an active politician.
[4][5] News articles in Mauritius Times often analysed events in the context of the country's socio-political history.
[6] Its founder-editor Bikramsingh Ramlallah was arrested and jailed in 1984 as he was founder-chairman of the Mauritius Union of Journalists (MUJ).
The MUJ had organised a public protest against the proposed restrictive Newspapers and Periodicals (Amendment) Bill.
Also arrested were 44 other journalists who had joined the public protest in Port Louis.