An HIV result is pushing migrant workers toward the airport, even as one law forbids it
Some migrant workers here risk expulsion after testing HIV positive in the mandatory medical exams required for a work and residence permit. The National Human Rights Commission, the state body that polices rights breaches, has stepped in and flagged a real risk of discrimination.
Two laws point opposite ways. The Immigration Act lets the state bar a non-citizen with a contagious disease, while the HIV and AIDS Act of 2006 says plainly that an HIV status can never ground discrimination. The commission also leans on Mauritius's international commitments to argue which rule should win out.
One statute says deport, the other says you cannot. The worker is stuck in the gap.
Twelve years, sixty new synthetic highs, and the people on the ground say count higher
The Forensic Science Laboratory has logged sixty new psychoactive substances here since 2013, PM Ramgoolam told Parliament. Field workers reckon the true count runs higher.
These are molecules built in a lab to mimic known drugs while ducking the law, so a product sold under one name can hide two or three others, and its recipe can shift between batches. The buyer never really knows what is in the bag.
A 2,500-delegate US-Africa summit slips off the July calendar as Ebola worries spread
The 18th US-Africa Business Summit, set for July 26 to 29 with around 2,500 high-level delegates, has been put off indefinitely. No case has surfaced here, but the African Union warned that the outbreak in Congo, Uganda and South Sudan still threatens the region, and the government asked organisers to move the dates.
Tearing up the Bel-Ombre KPMM lease carries a Rs 600 million price tag
Walking away from the KPMM lease at Bel-Ombre is not cheap. Scrapping the deal would cost the state more than Rs 600 million, a figure that emerged after the land went up for sale in May on an as-is-where-is basis.
Shorts
Ballah granted parole as laundering probe runs – Businessman Hans Ballah was freed on parole while he arranges bail in a money-laundering probe.
Barbier plots a return via the FMP – Ten years after being pushed out of the MMM, Jean-Claude Barbier is eyeing a return via the FMP.
El Niño stirs, Mauritius told to brace – An oceanographer warns the building El Niño is not an if for the island, but a how.
Rue John Kennedy back open from July 10 – Shut since mid-February for the Takamaka bridge works, rue John Kennedy reopens on July 10.
Bois-Marchand crash kills a rider, 31 – Ahmad Ismail Kurmoo, 31, died Thursday in a two-bike crash on the New Trunk Road.
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