🇲🇺 Health minister had surgery at a public hospital, with his private doctor present

Health minister had surgery at a public hospital, with his private doctor present

Health Minister Anil Bachoo confirmed on Sunday that he underwent surgery a few weeks ago at Dr A. G. Jeetoo Hospital, a public hospital in Port Louis. L'express reports that he arrived by ambulance at night, skipped the casualty queue for a private room, and had his operation in a public theatre from a surgeon who works only in the private sector, a practice the rules forbid.

Bachoo tells it differently. A public hospital surgeon performed the operation, he says, and his private doctor of about ten years attended only as an observer, invited because he knew the medical history. Bachoo adds that the arrangements had been cleared with the ministry and 'scrupulously respected.'

He did not say what the operation was, or exactly when. For the minister who runs the public health service, the questions about a private room and a private surgeon inside a state hospital are the story, whatever the paperwork says.

Father arrested over the killing of his baby son in Roche-Bois

Roche-Bois Criminal Investigation Division (CID) officers arrested Adriano Perrine, 30, on Sunday evening on suspicion of fatally stabbing his baby son at the family home. Police took the child, Jean Kelyano Perrine, seven months old, to the morgue at Dr A. G. Jeetoo Hospital for an autopsy.

His aunt, Anaelle Milazar, said she had fed the boy only hours earlier. She told reporters the child's mother had endured domestic violence, and that police had held Perrine once before. She wants a heavy sentence. Inspector Seelochun leads the case, and the motive is not yet clear.

Kim Le Court-Pienaar becomes the first Mauritian to win a WorldTour stage race

Kim Le Court-Pienaar held her leader's jersey through the fifth and final stage around Royal Leamington Spa on Sunday to win the overall Tour of Britain Women, the first Mauritian to take a UCI Women's WorldTour stage race, cycling's top tier. Le Court-Pienaar, 30, who rides for AG Insurance-Soudal, built the win on Friday's decisive climb, attacking about 2.5 km from the line to finish alone. She had already won a stage at the Tour de France Femmes this month. It was a solo win.

A Tour de France stage and a WorldTour title in one month; Mauritian cycling has never had a summer like this.

Government delays the sugar tax on sweets after small-firm pushback

Weeks before it was due to start on 1 October, the government has postponed the sugar excise duty extension to sweets, biscuits, jams and chewing gum, pending talks with small firms. Salim Muthy of Muthy Sweet calls it a reprieve, not a solution, raw material, wages and running costs keep climbing. The relief is temporary.

Family rejects the accident theory in a death by the Metro rails

The death of Jean-Claude Collet, found near the Metro Express rails at Beau-Bassin, is now at centre of a reoriented inquiry. His family rejects the accident theory and is pressing police to treat the death as suspicious. No cause is confirmed.

Shorts

SIC casino staff to protest tomorrow – Staff at the state casino operator SIC walk out tomorrow over their conditions.

Tougher penalties for drink and drug driving – A new bill would seize vehicles, revoke licences and digitise the permit, with 93 road deaths by 17 August.

CEB to import its own solar panels – The electricity utility CEB will import photovoltaic panels itself to speed its solar rollout.

Man, 72, accused of assaulting a woman of 92 – A man of 72 from Eau-Coulee faces court over an alleged sexual assault on a woman of 92.

How far should we hold back the sea? – A new report warns several Mauritian beaches could vanish as erosion eats the coast.

4,076

cybercrime reports reached the police over seven months, yet just 17 investigators cover them all. That gap helps explain why so many online fraud and harassment cases stall.

5.9

was the magnitude of the earthquake that hit eastern Japan, Tokyo included, early Sunday, injuring at least 37 people and snarling train lines.

1,000+

new cancer cases turned up on the island across six months, a caseload that keeps stretching a thin oncology service.

Bush fires tear through Burundi's Ruvubu park

Fire has destroyed more than 10,000 hectares of Ruvubu National Park in Burundi, one of the country's largest protected wildlife reserves. Rangers, short of staff and gear, are battling the flames with little help as the dry season feeds them. Conservationists fears lasting harm to the park's wildlife and grasslands.

Kabila takes his US sanctions to court

Joseph Kabila, who led DR Congo from 2001 to 2019, is challenging his US blacklisting in a Washington court, calling it unfounded.

Attacks slow Congo's Ebola response

Response teams in eastern DR Congo face threats and mistrust fed by rumours, slowing efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak in a region already scarred by armed violence.

Trump says Canada wants the perks of statehood as tariffs bite

US President Donald Trump says Canada wants the benefits of becoming an American state, even as a trade war between the two neighbours deepens. President Trump and Canadian PM Mark Carney have traded retaliatory tariffs, pushing up costs on both sides of the border. Ottawa rejects the statehood talk.

Girl killed in Swedish school sword attack

A sword attack at a school in Fagersta, Sweden killed a girl of 17 and wounded three students; the suspect, 18, is in custody.

Russell wins the Dutch GP sprint from pole

George Russell led every lap to win the Dutch Grand Prix sprint at Zandvoort, ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.

A jar of names, tied in black thread, under a grave

What would you do with a jar you can't name? Cleaning his brother's grave at Bigara cemetery last month, Shane Dorasamy prised one from the concrete, capped with a boxer short.

Inside were cloves, bits of lime and three papers bound in black thread. Two had survived the years, and the names on them belonged to politicians. Who left it, and why, nobody can say.

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