A skull fracture turns a Surinam roadside death into a murder case
"He had grave head injuries, his skull was smashed," says Annamalay, a village councillor and neighbour who had seen Karan Etwar that same Saturday morning, heading out to buy bread.
Etwar, 31, was found by the roadside at Surinam on Saturday evening. An autopsy traced his death to a fractured skull, and the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) now treats the case as a suspected murder, not an accident.
He was single and lived at Rivière-des-Anguilles, on good terms with those around him, the councillor recalled. His funeral was held that afternoon; no arrest had been announced.
New domestic abuse law counts economic and digital control as abuse
Control of a partner's money or a campaign of online harassment would count as abuse under the Domestic Abuse Bill 2026, which rewrites the rules to cover economic and digital harm alongside physical and psychological violence.
The text swaps the old framework for a faster, broader system, the government says, and reaches the children caught in abusive homes. How quickly an order follows a complaint, and what a breach actually costs the abuser, will decide whether the new law changes daily life.
Hoteliers wade into the beachfront access dispute
The hoteliers' association AHRIM has answered Housing and Lands Minister Shakeel Mohamed over the Pas Géométriques, the coastal strip of state land. Public seafront access and the rights of lease and title holders are both set in law, it argues, and should work together rather than clash. AHRIM says it wants to work with the ministry on a shared approach.
Yousouf Toofanny dies at 79 with his son's case unresolved
Yousouf Toofanny has died at 79. He gave the last eleven years of his life to a single demand: the truth about how his son Iqbal died, and justice for it. That campaign defined his final decade, it outlived him, the questions he kept asking still unanswered.
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Abused at eight, still waiting at nineteen – A girl who was eight when her ordeal began is 19 now, her case still unresolved after eleven years.
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