🇲🇺 Factory colleague held over the Petit-Raffray killing of a widow, 62

Factory colleague held over the Petit-Raffray killing of a widow, 62

Police arrested Mehedy Hassan Rana, 26, at around 3am on Saturday over the killing of Soobhawtee Juguessur, the 62-year-old widow found dead at her Petit-Raffray home a week earlier. The Major Crime Investigation Team charged him provisionally with murder at the Weekend Court, where he was remanded in custody.

Rana, a Bangladeshi national, works at the same Ile d'Ambre factory where Juguessur had spent years on the line. Investigators say she opened her door that evening to a man she took for a friend selling seedlings. He strangled her, lingered in the house for about three hours, then slipped out through a window into the night.

For a week the trail ran cold, kept alive by CCTV stills and public appeals while the suspect stayed a step ahead. That he allegedly worked the same factory floor as his victim only sharpens the questions now. An arrest is not a conviction, and her children, split between Ireland and the Plaines-Wilhems, still wait to learn why.

Mauritius public hospitals shed their grubby past, but staffing lags

The old image of filthy public wards is fading. A walk through Jeetoo and Victoria hospitals, plus the Triolet and Plaine-Verte Mediclinics, found clean, modernised spaces with only minor lapses, a shift staff trace to the infection-control committee set up after covid-19.

What is missing is people and kit. Dr Dooshanveer Nuckchady, an infectious-disease specialist, credits the new protocols, yet the same report flag thin staffing, ageing equipment and patients who treat the place carelessly. Clean buildings are the easy part; keeping them running is the test.

Cannabis marchers fill Port-Louis as a user threatens to sue the drug agency

Hundreds walked through Port-Louis on Saturday behind the Kolektif 420, demanding that Mauritius legalise cannabis. Avinash Luchoo, known as Poum, called himself a gandia smoker on the record; the singer Nitish Jogannah cast legalisation as a weapon against synthetic drugs.

Emmanuel Sournoise went further, warning he would take the drug-control agency and the health ministry to court if pushed. Activist Kunal Naik put it plainly: telling people to just say no does not work.

Shareholders crash SBM Holdings' recovery pitch at the AGM

Vikram Punchoo chaired the SBM Holdings annual meeting expecting to sell a turnaround plan. Instead angry shareholders hijacked the floor, pressing the board on losses and governance until the new roadmap was almost afterthought. A recovery story is hard to tell when the room no longer trusts the storyteller.

Jonathan Koo's family petitions for justice as his killing goes cold

Jonathan Koo was shot dead on the night of 11 June at a private hunting estate in Midlands. Two weeks on, the police have no firm lead and the gunman is still free. His relatives have launched an online petition, pressing anyone with the smallest detail to break their silence. They describe a son, a husband, a brother, not a case number.

Shorts

Guard dies in a Rose-Hill warehouse fire – A security guard was killed when fire tore through a Central Water Authority depot on Saturday morning.

Driver held after hitting officer at checkpoint – A patrol officer was run over at a Saint-Pierre traffic stop; the motorist was arrested at the scene.

Bar Council slams a drug-squad leaflet on lawyers – The Bar called a drug-squad leaflet unacceptable for nudging suspects to waive their right to a lawyer.

Civil-service transfers reversed within a day – Public-service transfers announced on 22 June were quietly undone a day later, reviving talk of political meddling.

Reform Party wants hiring quotas for new mothers – With maternity leave going to a year, the Reform Party wants hiring quotas so bosses don't sideline women.

61%

of the island's rubbish still gets buried rather than recycled, even as the Rs 2 plastic levy stretches to every bottle from October.

Rs 800,000

plus 1,500 euros, seized by the gaming police probing an alleged illegal horse-betting ring at Arsenal; two locals walked on bail.

$99m

the doubled fine Australia will levy on platforms that let under-16s slip past its new social-media ban.

Ramgoolam joins Modi in Seychelles for its national day

PM Ramgoolam travels to Seychelles this weekend for its national-day celebrations, where India's PM Narendra Modi is also expected. Three Indian Ocean capitals, one ceremony, plenty of quiet diplomacy on the side.

For Port Louis the optics matter. Being seen alongside PM Modi, as New Delhi courts the region, signals where Mauritius still leans when the big neighbours come calling.

Burkina Faso breaks with France

Burkina Faso has cut diplomatic ties with France, its former colonial ruler, with Capt. Ibrahim Traore's junta accusing Paris of working against the country.

Kenya deports a top Somali minister

Kenya deported Somalia's second deputy prime minister on Thursday over an alleged passport-fraud scheme, several outlets report.

Israel and Lebanon sign a US-brokered truce that Hezbollah rejects

Israel and Lebanon signed a US-brokered framework in Washington on Friday, billed as a first step toward ending a war that has killed more than 4,200 people. It sets up a process to disarm Hezbollah and a joint military group to police the lull.

It is not a full peace. Israel keeps a security strip about 10km inside Lebanon, the truce hinges on Hezbollah laying down arms, and the group has already said no, insisting Israel must leave first. A framework, then, more than a finish line.

A quake jolts Yamanashi near Mt Fuji

A magnitude-5.6 quake rattled Yamanashi near Mt Fuji late Friday, west of Tokyo. No tsunami warning followed and no serious injuries were reported.

Cape Verde reach the World Cup knockouts on debut

Cape Verde, an Atlantic nation of half a million, reached the World Cup knockouts on debut, holding Saudi Arabia to a 0-0 after earlier draws with Spain and Uruguay.

They beat addiction, now they pull others out

What does recovery look like once the headlines fade? For Steeven Roussety and Jean-Francois Larose, it means going back for others. Both beat their own addiction; both now spend their days steering people off the same edge.

Their method is not a slogan, just showing up for for those the system writes off. After a week of raids and tough talk, two quiet comebacks are the better proof.

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