Safe City cameras will soon clock your speed and your phone
A phone at the wheel and a heavy foot are about to cost you, by camera. Amendments to the Road Traffic Act, tucked into the Finance Bill, will make the Traffic Management and Road Safety Unit the National Lead Agency for traffic, giving the outfit real legal teeth to act on our roads.
Transport Minister Osman Mahomed chaired a working session on Monday with police and the Prime Minister's Office to wire the Safe City network into enforcement. Speeding and phone use comes first. Other offences are next, once the technical talks wrap up and the cameras start writing the tickets.
Cameras do not sleep, and the Finance Bill just handed them a badge.
Jeetun says the financial centre's edge is not for sale
"The cost of doing business is one factor among many," says Financial Services Minister Jyoti Jeetun, brushing off operators who warn Mauritius is pricing itself out of the offshore game.
She insists the government will not chip away at the financial centre's competitiveness and would rather talk with the industry than trade barbs in the press. Jeetun also defended the Waqf amendments and rejected claims that nobody was consulted. That was their call.
Police put Rs 500,000 on a Midlands murder still unsolved
Jonathan Koo Yan Too, 40, a director of the Au Villars estate, was found shot through the heart beside his car at Midlands on 11 June. Almost a month on, the Major Crime Investigation Team has put up Rs 500,000 for credible information and says every hypothesis stays open. The case stays open.
Helmets may soon be the law for electric scooters and bikes
Riders of electric scooters, bikes and mopeds could soon be required by law to wear a helmet, under a safety framework transport officials are finalising. The rules aim to tighten oversight of a booming corner of the road, enforcement has lagged the sales.
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Committee to probe a Rs 51M market deal – A fact-finding committee will examine the Rivière-du-Rempart market contract and its cost.
Car stolen from inside the Line Barracks – Police arrested a man of 60 who drove off with a car held in custody at the Casernes.
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