🇲🇺 Two colleagues found dead at a St-Pierre building site as autopsy points to carbon monoxide

Two colleagues found dead at a St-Pierre building site as autopsy points to carbon monoxide

Two employees of the same Ebene firm were found dead on Friday morning at a half-built house on Caprice Lane, St-Pierre. Norvic Salesse, 31, the company's HR officer, was discovered in the garage of the home he was building. Manisha Budhoo, 24, who worked in the legal department, was found inside his car parked on the same grounds.

The autopsies, carried out by forensic doctors Sudesh Kumar Gungadin and Maxwell Monvoisin, put both deaths down to carbon monoxide poisoning. That answers how they died. It does not explain why two colleagues ended up dead at the same address on the same morning, and police are treating the case as alleged murder.

At Nouvelle-France, where Budhoo lived, the grief is raw. Her father Manoj says he wants the truth before anything else. She had earned a master's in New Zealand, worked there a while, then came home to build a career and a future with her fiance. The St-Pierre police investigation continues.

A cause of death that raises more questions than it settles is the hardest kind for a family to sit with.

Minister tells Parliament that shelter staff formed a 'clan' and manipulated children

Some staff at the Cap l'Espoir children's shelter developed what Deputy Prime Minister Arianne Navarre-Marie called a clan-like culture that led to the manipulation of children. She was answering the opposition leader's question on shelters for minors in the National Assembly on Friday.

The figures are sobering: 34 police complaints linked to the shelters since December 2024, with reports of runaways and suspected cannabis use. Six caregivers were suspended in January so they could not interfere with the probe. No NGO has yet offered to take over the centre, and a fresh call runs to 12 June.

Bank of Mauritius takes ex-finance minister Padayachy to the CID over money-printing claims

The central bank has lodged a formal complaint with the Central CID against former Finance Minister Renganaden Padayachy. It follows his claim that the Bank of Mauritius had printed Rs 83 billion, an allegation the bank calls false and malicious.

PM Ramgoolam had already rejected the figure in the Assembly, countering that the bank printed Rs 181.5 billion under the previous government. PM Ramgoolam also accused the Mauritius Investment Corporation of channelling money to the minister's allies.

A new Consumer Protection Bill is on the way, says minister Sik Yuen

Commerce Minister Sik Yuen has announced a new Consumer Protection Bill, unveiled at a product-safety workshop run with the regional COMESA competition and consumer body. The aim is tighter rules on what reaches shop shelves, with regulators and trade associations weighing in.

Mauritius makes 'ecocide' a crime carrying up to 10 years in prison

Wreck the environment badly enough and you could now face a decade behind bars. Mauritius has written ecocide into law, becoming one of the first ten countries to formally recognise and punish severe environmental destruction as a crime.

Shorts

Three held over Rs 1.04m Moka jewellery heist – Moka CID has arrested three suspects over the theft of gold and cash from a home.

Bet on Line 'victim' suspected of staging it – Police now suspect the man who reported a Rs 300,000 robbery orchestrated the whole thing.

No drugs found in Gino Bodha's body – The FSL found no trace of drugs in the murdered man, with two suspects still in custody.

TotalEnergies switches gas distributor – From 1 June, Racso Distribution becomes TotalEnergies' approved distributor for household and commercial gas.

Cannabis policy reform opens to the public – The drug agency's technical group has launched a public consultation on reforming cannabis policy.

Rs 3.39 billion

is the turnover Harel Mallac & Co. just posted for 2025, the conglomerate's full-year result to 31 December.

Rs 500,000

is what two CID officers must pay Gerard Thierry Maurel after a magistrate found them liable for police brutality in the Intermediate Court.

$245 million

is the hard salary cap MLB owners want, the first since 1994; the players' union has rejected it and the 2027 season now hangs in doubt.

Burkina Faso's junta shuts the capital's main mosque after mass arrests

Burkina Faso's military rulers have closed Ouagadougou's main Sunni mosque after nearly 100 arrests of a detained preacher's supporters. The closure landed after street protests over the cleric's detention.

Rights groups say the move is the latest sign of tightening repression under a junta that seized power promising to fight jihadist violence. Shutting a major place of worship raises the stakes in a country already on edge.

Madagascar court tosses bid to oust military ruler

Madagascar's top court dismissed lawmaker Antoine Rajerison's treason case against Colonel Michael Randrianirina.

Malema slams Ghana for pulling citizens out of South Africa

South African politician Julius Malema criticised Ghana's decision to evacuate nationals over xenophobic violence fears.

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket blows up on the pad in Florida

Jeff Bezos's space firm watched its New Glenn rocket explode during a static fire test in Florida, destroying both the vehicle and the launch pad. Nobody was hurt.

Still, it is a heavy setback for a company already running years behind SpaceX. New Glenn was meant to be Blue Origin's big leap into heavy-lift launches, and losing one on the ground sets the timeline back further.

US brands two Brazilian gangs as terrorist groups

Washington has labelled the PCC and CV gangs as terrorist organisations, a narco-terrorism move President Lula da Silva firmly opposes.

Austrian man gets 15 years over foiled Taylor Swift concert plot

A Vienna court jailed a 21-year-old for 15 years over a planned Islamist attack on a 2024 Taylor Swift concert.

The smallest nation ever to reach the World Cup is a Caribbean speck named Curacao

How does a place of roughly 150,000 people reach football's biggest party? Curacao, a tiny Dutch Caribbean island, has qualified for the FIFA World Cup for the first time, the smallest nation by population ever to do it.

The blue wave, as fans call it, leans on players raised in the Netherlands who chose their roots. Proof the World Cup is not only for the giants.

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