Opposition lawyers take the US-Mauritius police pact to the Supreme Court
Sanjeev Teeluckdharry and Sacheen Yashnik Boodhoo, who lead the Congrès Citoyen Mauricien, filed a constitutional challenge on Tuesday against the state, PM Ramgoolam, and Foreign Affairs Minister Dhananjay Ramful.
They want the court to void the Cabinet's 29 May approval of an Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement, a deal to share logistics and services between US forces and the local police. Their argument: it passed with no public consultation, no referendum.
A pact citing the interoperability of American and Mauritian forces, they say, should never have been signed behind closed doors.
Ethiopian Airlines starts flying to Mauritius on July 12
Ethiopian Airlines will run three weekly direct flights between Addis Ababa and Mauritius from 12 July, on a Boeing 737 MAX 8.
The timing is no accident. Middle East tensions are disrupting routes through the big Gulf hubs of Dubai, Doha, and Abu Dhabi, and Ethiopian wants to pitch its Addis Ababa hub as the workaround. It already flies to five Indian cities, so the play is to scoop up Europe and India traffic looking for a way around the Gulf.
Five new safeguards land to shield the elderly from abuse
The government has rolled out five measures to protect older people from abuse, neglect, and violence, unveiled by Social Integration and Social Security Minister Ashok Subron to mark the UN's World Senior Citizen Day. The detail readers will want is enforcement: protections only count once a complaint actually moves.
Collège Alpha's crumbling buildings turn into a public row
A report on Collège Alpha, already slated for a phased closure by 2027, has put the state of its infrastructure at the centre of a growing controversy over the conditions pupils and teachers face each day.
Shorts
Two 15-year-olds accused of hitting an officer – Two teens face assault accusations after a road check near Goodlands on Tuesday.
366 cannabis plants pulled up at La Flora – Police uprooted a Rs 1.83 million plantation on abandoned land near an old factory.
Site supervisor badly hurt in a Bambous fall – A supervisor fell four metres at the Industrial Business Park on Tuesday morning.
Pointe-aux-Sables still living with the stench – Days after a foul odour gripped the area, the pollution's after-effects linger for residents.
One school that banned phones back in 2020 – New Eton College has run a phone-free policy for years, and says the focus shows.
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