Fined for a footpath: a lone pension protester becomes the story
Malina Cheeneebash, a 33-year-old former bank worker from Quatre-Bornes, had been sitting outside Parliament since Tuesday to protest the pension reform. On Sunday police booked her for 'obstructing footpath', saying a tent pitched near the building blocked the public way.
Police insist she was never arrested and that officers used minimal, proportionate force. Footage of the removal spread fast online. The Nouveaux Démocrates condemned the circumstances of her removal, while she says she wants dialogue and someone to carry the sit-in forward.
A sit-in that drew a handful became national the moment the state reached for a fine.
Sergeant sues for Rs 75 million over an amputation he says was avoidable
Rs 75,374,491. That is what police sergeant Mithun Kumarsingh Gopaul, 45, and his family are claiming from the state in the Supreme Court, arguing his right arm should never have been amputated.
He says it began on 13 July 2024 with severe pain at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Rodrigues, where a doctor read his X-ray, found nothing wrong and sent him home with paracetamol. The arm was later amputated. It is one of the largest negligence claims yet against the health authorities.
Mauritius lines up a Saudi energy pact, from solar to clean hydrogen
The Cabinet has approved a memorandum with Saudi Arabia to work together on energy. It reaches across renewables, clean hydrogen, storage and efficiency, plus hydrocarbons, refining and even cybersecurity for the power grid, linking the two energy ministries to swap expertise and know-how.
Three voices, one question: where press freedom ends
On press freedom, three familiar names stake out the ground. Academic Roukaya Kasenally says free expression is no licence for insults or verbal abuse; editor Nad Sivaramen calls a free press a guarantee for citizens; lawyer Rama Valayden warns there is no freedom once expression is locked down.
Shorts
Fire guts three market stalls up north – Three stalls burned at the northern market and traders are livid over lost goods.
Taxi fares climb with no rulebook – Fares have jumped across several regions and riders call it abusive with no legal cap in place.
Disability rights: 73 pledges, now the doing – The country has 73 UN recommendations on disability rights to turn from paper into practice.
Drug lab busted at Baie-du-Tombeau – Police dismantled a clandestine lab making synthetic drugs at Morcellement Illois.
Woman and baby hit by driver over the limit – At New-Grove a woman of 54 and her baby in a pushchair were struck; the driver failed a breath test.
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