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**updated as at 26 May 2026.** Side project on the Mauritius cabinet decisions, organised by field (because I cannot keep reading pdf by pdf). There may be errors as text is extracted from each PDF of the cabinet meetings, then assigned fields based on hardcoded keywords. Source code for the extraction is available at this repo. It’s then easier to feed the JSON file in an LLM for summarisation or analysis but note it will miss out certain things (unless explicitly asked to look for) such as the removal of “Preliminary Environmental Report licence” in Aug 2025, and in Nov 2025 the allowed use of non-biodegradable single use cups. ...

The sittings (most of them available) of the National Assembly of Mauritius produces a list of parliamentary questions as from Nov 2024. Because I cannot read pdf by pdf and there’s no easy way to search through them. There will be errors as I haven’t fully tested every output and it can be imperfect. Not to mention that source documents are inconsistently formatted but this is as complete as I can make it. There are some issues with the 2024 extraction but I am working on it (ETA tbd). ...