Mauritius heads to New York to press London on Chagos and a £170 million hole
Mauritius plans to confront UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham at next month's UN General Assembly in New York over London's slow handover of sovereignty, according to The Telegraph. Port Louis says the delay has left £170 million gap in its budget that nothing currently covers.
At stake is the Chagos archipelago, the Indian Ocean territory Britain agreed to cede while keeping the Diego Garcia military base on a long lease. The treaty was meant to settle the question. For now the cheque and the sovereignty are both still in transit.
Mauritius wins the seat of Africa's new credit rating agency
Mauritius has been picked to host the headquarters of the Africa Credit Rating Agency, or AfCRA, the continent's answer to the big Western raters whose scores set what governments pay to borrow.
The African Peer Review Mechanism chose the island over rival African Union members, and AfCRA launches on 7 October. Its verdicts will help set what African governments pay their lenders. Hosting the body that grades Africa's debt is a quiet kind of clout.
Bus operators face losing their permits over route 150 delays
Transport Minister Osman Mahomed has warned operators on the Pailles to Vallée-Pitot bus run that repeated delays could costs them their permits. He suspects some coordinate which days they run, and lay on paid special trips, while passengers wait. Mahomed also wants the word accident redefined, arguing reckless driving is a choice, not bad luck.
Church asks Mauritius not to let hiring bias become normal
"So that hiring discrimination does not become a normalised system." Bishop Jean-Michaël Durhône used his Saint-Louis Mass homily to launch a diocesan team on bias in hiring, reviving the 2011 Truth and Justice Commission's findings on the Creole community's blocked access to work. PM Ramgoolam and opposition leader Chetan Baboolall sat in the pews.
Shorts
Driver, 39, killed in Mapou crash – His car ran off the road at Mapou before dawn and hit signs and rocks; rescuers found him ten metres away.
Rodrigues 'on a budgetary drip' – Deputy chief commissioner Johnson Roussety says the island survives on transfers it cannot control.
First Indian Oil cargo due end September – Under a new State Trading Corporation deal with Indian Oil, the first fuel cargo lands by late September.
Sting nets alleged Rs 400,000 extortion – Police held a St-Paul man, 43, accused of demanding Rs 400,000 to bury a smear.
New Curepipe to Réduit bus from Sept 1 – From 1 September a direct line links Curepipe and Réduit, sparing commuters a change.
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