Fuel stabilisation fund sinks Rs 3.28 billion into the red
Rs 3.28 billion. That is the hole now sitting in the State Trading Corporation's Price Stabilisation Account, the buffer meant to smooth what you pay at the pump. Cabinet has taken note of the strain, which the government pins on the drawn-out Middle East crisis and the oil bill that came with it.
The account works by banking money when world prices dip and spending it when they spike. A deficit this size means the cushion is gone, so the next global price jump lands closer to till. Someone pays a gap that big, and it is rarely the barrel.
Domestic Abuse Bill clears the Assembly with tougher reporting rules
The National Assembly passed the Domestic Abuse Bill on Friday with no amendments. Deputy PM Arianne Navarre-Marie, who brought it, made professionals report certain cases, kept the details confidential, and closed a quiet loophole: withdraw a Protection Order and the file no longer shuts on its own.
PM Ramgoolam put it plainly, that privacy ends where domestic violence begins. The real test starts when the first breach reaches a courtroom, enforcement is the whole game.
Mauritius courts Canada to wean tourism off Europe
Tourism officials want a direct line to Canadian wallets. A proposed partnership with Air Canada targets a market of some 38 million higher spending travellers, the idea being to lean less on the European visitors who have long filled the island's hotels. It is a courtship, not a route. Whether Air Canada bites, nobody on this end controls.
Watchdog orders a fresh look at a hospital supplies tender
A supplier's complaint has forced the Health ministry back to the drawing board. The Independent Review Panel, which hears procurement disputes, sided partly with Mauri Sure Consumables and told it to grade the bids for clinical products and surgical wear again. Contested tenders are routine; a panel sending one back is less so.
Shorts
Patient abuses two doctors at SSRNH ER – The medics filed two complaints after a patient insulted and threatened them on shift.
Police arrest a woman over a jeweller raid – A jeweller of 64 was beaten as he prayed; police have held a suspect over the Pointe-aux-Piments robbery.
Law to speed up registering undeclared kids – Amendments to the Civil Status Act aim to regularise children never officially declared.
KOREK app to let you report water leaks – The utilities app, live since January, will soon take reports of burst and leaking pipes.
London holds its Chagos line under a new PM – Britain's change of prime minister has not shifted its Chagos position, officials say.
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