Doubts surface over the evidence in a Rodrigues murder case
A forensic officer says someone tampered with key exhibits in the murder of a Rodrigues girl of 16 before technicians could examine them. In a police complaint, the Scene of Crime officer describes altered writing on an exhibit bag and mismatched photos of the alleged weapon. Several items, the knife among them, seem to have shifted before anyone logged them. That should not happen.
Searchers found her dismembered body on shore near Anse-aux-Anglais in February 2025; she was five months pregnant, and a man of 63 was arrested. A fresh inquiry will decide whether any of the proof still stands.
The minister who policed the coast now defends his own flat there
Lands and Housing Minister Shakeel Mohamed has given the Financial Crimes Commission 24 hours to fix its public register, which he says omits declarations he filed in late 2024 and January 2025. Fix it, he warns, or he goes to the Supreme Court.
The gap, he argues, fed the online storm over his flat at Bain-Bœuf, on state coastal land. Dave Kissoondoyal piles on with a 13-point list demanding lease papers and permits. Mohamed says he filed on time. The proof he cites is the record he wants fixed.
Auditors give Vacoas-Phoenix council a failing verdict
The Director of Audit has handed Vacoas-Phoenix council an adverse opinion, the verdict reserved for books too unreliable to trust. His report to Parliament flags Rs 10 million of stock with no proper register, depreciation understated by Rs 11.7 million, and a Rs 12.3 million hole between the asset register and the accounts. Nobody has explained it.
An adverse opinion is as blunt as public auditing gets, and here it lands on the basics: stock, assets, cash.
A Palma holiday that turned into a police file
How do you lose a holiday and your savings in one go? About 20 Mauritian travellers found out the hard way, police say, after paying a bogus agent for trips to Palma and learning near their departure dates that no trip existed. Losses already run into the hundreds of thousands of rupees, detectives are still tallying the victims.
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Probe after a toddler video circulates – Police at Henrietta have opened an inquiry after a video involving a girl of three spread online.
Jellyfish warning for Bras-d'Eau beach – Police are warning beachgoers about jellyfish at the public beach of Bras-d'Eau, near Poste Lafayette.
Le Court-Pienaar plots an aggressive ride – Cyclist Kimberley Le Court-Pienaar says she plans to race aggressively and seize every opening.
Kreol Morisien gets its own committee – Arianne Navarre-Marie will chair the new Select Committee on Kreol Morisien in the National Assembly.
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