No young Mauritian should face a crisis alone, says a new hub
Robert Hungley has opened MauZen, the island's first health space built entirely for young people, spanning sexual, reproductive and mental health. It is free, confidential and walk in, with a round the clock chatbot called GenZee for the questions a teenager cannot ask out loud.
Hungley framed early pregnancies, addiction, online exploitation and mental strain as symptoms of structural gaps, not personal failure. Prevention starts long before the crisis, and it starts with a young person feeling heard. Trust comes first.
Declared dead and cremated, his body lay in a morgue for months
For nine months, a man his family believed cremated lay unclaimed in the Flacq hospital morgue. Stéphanie Thomas held a death certificate for her brother Jean-Noël, had been told he was incinerated at Trois-Mamelles, and had begun to grieve.
Then on 25 June, Rose Hill police called to say the body was still there. She wants to know how the state cremated her brother on paper while he never left the slab. The morgue never let go.
Police seize the raw ingredient behind synthetic drugs
Police have pulled a synthetic drug precursor out of circulation at Baie-du-Tombeau, a shift from seizing product to choking supply at the source. One concentrated batch can be stretched into far more street product than a usual haul. Police held a barman of 36 after weeks of surveillance. He spotted the officers and bolted, they caught him within seconds.
Facebook sellers vanish with the cash as scams pile up
A wave of online marketplace scams have hit local buyers, and the police keep logging fresh cases. Two people paid for goods that never arrived, while a fake landlord pocketed Rs 16,500 from a policewoman for a flat in Pointe-aux-Biches. She paid the deposit and the flat did not exist. The advice from officers is old but unheeded: pay on delivery.
Shorts
Watches barred from Cambridge exam halls – The exams syndicate has banned watches in exam hall to curb cheating since June.
New clue in the Juguessur murder case – Investigators found seeds at the home of suspect Mehedy Rana, who allegedly tried to sell them to the victim.
Travel fair returns to the SVICC in August – The Salon du Prêt-à-Partir runs 28 to 30 August, pitching trips that do not empty the wallet.
Thieves are now stealing decorative palms – Potted palmistes are vanishing overnight from doorsteps and gardens across the island.
France marks its national day at Telfair – The French embassy threw open a Bastille Day fête at the Promenade de Telfair, free to all.
|
Share