Watchdog finds the door to dangerous drugs left open at Health
The Financial Crimes Commission, the state body that chases money crime, has flagged serious holes in how Mauritius controls imports of dangerous medicines. Its review centred on pregabalin, sold locally as Pregatas and Nervigen, which the law treats as a controlled drug for its abuse potential.
The verdict is blunt. Weak oversight, manual paperwork, loose import quotas and thin traceability leave the door open to fraud, diversion and even drug trafficking money, the Commission warns. It describes a Health ministry pharmacology unit whose own governance invites the abuse it should prevent.
URA chief walks out after refusing a key appointment
Antoine Domingue, Senior Counsel and president of the Utility Regulatory Authority, has stepped down, citing his health alongside deep internal disputes and structural strain inside the regulator that watches over water, electricity and other utilities.
His exit is abrupt. It follows his refusal to sign off on a key appointment. For a body built to hold utilities to account, losing its president to an internal fight is not routine housekeeping.
Inflation climbs back to 4.1% as prices bite again
4.1% is where inflation settled in June, up sharply from 2.9% a year earlier. Prices bite again. After months of relative calm, cost of living is pushing up once more, and it lands in the same week the state trimmed the benefits meant to cushion exactly this kind of squeeze.
The North eyes seawater, powered by the sun, for its taps
Turning seawater into drinking water could become a pillar of the island's long term water strategy, and the first candidate is a solar powered desalination plant in the North. It is early, more vision than blueprint. But with a drier winter on the way, the logic is hard to argue with.
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Boy of 14 wounded by sabre in Grand-Gaube – Police arrested a man in his forties after a sabre attack left the teenager with a leg wound.
Phoenix Beverages wins court nod to restructure – The Supreme Court cleared the drinks group to absorb two units and simplify its shareholding by 23 July.
81 fake Mauritian passport cases since 2021 – Officials logged 81 forged passport cases between 2021 and mid 2026, two of them caught abroad.
38 product types spared the plastic tax – The government exempted 38 categories of goods from the Rs 2 levy on plastic containers.
Man, 24, dies of burns after Bois-Chéri fire – A young man died of his injuries days after a fire left him severely burned at Bois-Chéri.
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