🇲🇺 Rose-Hill pharmacy manager arrested as nearly 2,500 psychotropic pills go unlogged

Rose-Hill pharmacy manager arrested as nearly 2,500 psychotropic pills go unlogged

Police arrested Deneeta Dhondee-Dulloo, 32, who runs two pharmacies in Rose-Hill, and provisionally charged her with possession of dangerous drugs for the purpose of delivery. Officers from the Anti-Drug and Smuggling Unit (ADSU), working alongside a Government Pharmacist, searched both shops she operates and walked out with several hundred tablets and capsules.

The unravelling began at Samina Pharmacy on avenue Pierre-Jean-de-Roton. Asked to hand over the Drug Register, the logbook that tracks every controlled medicine in and out, the manager could not produce it, according to police. The haul that followed was not modest: 700 Tramadol tablets, 665 of Valium, 480 and 384 Cabalin, and 270 Zamudol capsules, drugs built on pregabalin that hold a steady street value.

Psychotropics slip into the illegal market through exactly this gap, a shop that hands out more than it can account for. The charge is possession for delivery, not a filing slip, the register was the whole case.

AGOA renewal clears the US Senate, a lifeline for Mauritian textiles

Lose duty free access to the American market and a Mauritian shirt suddenly costs a US buyer more than one stitched in Asia. That is the stake behind a green light from the US Senate for AGOA, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, the deal that lets eligible African economies sell into the United States without tariffs.

For the island's garment factories, still a major employer, the programme had been drifting toward expiry. A Senate nod is the clearest sign yet that renewal is alive. It is not law yet, though, which is why the sector is watching Washington rather than celebrating.

Bérenger's protégé Baboolall becomes Leader of the Opposition

Chetan Baboolall is the new Leader of the Opposition, capping a plan the Front Militan Progresis (FMP) set running when Paul Bérenger quit as deputy prime minister in March. A lawyer from Bel-Air called to the Bar in London in 2003, Baboolall reached Parliament only in 2024.

Loyal to the Bérengers since his years in the MMM, the Mouvement Militant Mauricien, he now inherits a credibility test. The FMP let Joe Lesjongard lead from the front, then moved. Timing is everything.

A suspect is held over a Rs 1.5 million haul in Plaine-Verte

Police in Plaine-Verte have arrested one suspect over a haul worth close to Rs 1.5 million. What the stash held, and where it came from, has not been made public. The case stays open as officers work to recover the rest and identify anyone else involved.

Mauritius readies a new law for children the system can't reach

Children with severe behavioural problems will get their own legal framework, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family Welfare says, built around early help, oversight by the Children's Court and a way back home. The ministry has asked the Attorney General to draft the bill; the hardest cases could mean a place in a specialised residential centre.

Shorts

Water restrictions kick in from Monday – With Mare-aux-Vacoas near 40%, curbs on tap water begin today as reserves keep shrinking.

Rs 1.2m drug haul seized in Quatre-Bornes – Weekend ADSU raids netted Rs 1.2 million of cannabis and 213 doses of the synthetic drug simik.

Anti-graft enforcement bill goes to the AG – The National Accountability Enforcement Authority bill has reached Attorney General's office for drafting.

Helicopter lifts hiker off Montagne Fayence – A hiker of 18 was winched to safety after getting stranded on the Montagne Fayence trail.

Adoption reform still stuck on the shelf – The Child Adoption Bill is still waiting, and so are the children it is meant to help.

269

young people had collected the Rs 20,000 Independence Allowance by 30 June, the first tally for a one-off youth grant. The figure looks small for now.

Rs 75,000

is the price police put on two tortoises stolen from a yard at Pointe-aux-Sables. Even the island's slowest movers have a black market. Details.

1,500 couples

married in a single ceremony in Nigeria's Kano State, bankrolled with about $1.1 million of state welfare money to spare poorer families the wedding cost. Every pair first cleared health screening.

Sudan's war now threatens the ancient pyramids of Meroë

Sudan's civil war is now lapping at the pyramids of Meroë, the cluster of more than 200 royal tombs the rulers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush raised over 2,000 years ago. The site sits on UNESCO's protected list, the UN's cultural body, but a listing means little when fighting moves through.

War tends to erase the old long after it stops killing the living. Meroë survived two millennia. It may not survive this.

Eight Mauritian youngsters fly out to a Seychelles music camp

Eight youngsters from vulnerable homes are flying to the Seychelles for a solidarity music camp, several leaving Mauritius for first time.

FIFA digs in behind Infantino over a UEFA payment

FIFA, world football's governing body, is defending president Gianni Infantino after UEFA, its European counterpart, confirmed a departure payment to an alleged mistress.

Israel rejects President Trump's plan to end the Gaza war

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected President Trump's plan to end the Gaza war, a framework of 15 points, and said Israeli forces will not pull back until Hamas genuinely disarms. President Trump had sold the plan as the path to a ceasefire.

Israeli PM Netanyahu's refusal revives the oldest deadlock of this war: who disarms first, and who moves once they do. For now, neither blinks.

Two jets come dangerously close over Sydney Airport

A Jetstar jet and a Qatar Airways plane came dangerously close at Sydney Airport on Sunday, hurting one crew member and triggering an inquiry.

Iran ties a Hormuz reopening to US sanctions relief

Iran says it is close to a shipping deal with Oman for the Strait of Hormuz but wants US sanctions relief before reopening it, after a ship was attacked off the UAE.

Rodrigues turns its whole island into a classroom

What can a reef teach that a textbook can't? On Rodrigues, plenty. Three young winners of Deba Klima, Samuel, Timothée and Gauthier, are learning the climate straight from the soil, the wind and the water, in outdoor lessons that treat the island as the syllabus.

It is a neat inversion of school. The environment sets the exam, and the answers count only if the island is still there to grade them.

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