Ten hours of airport chaos revive calls for an Air Mauritius audit
For roughly ten hours on August 7, from 9am to 7pm, Air Mauritius could not check passengers in or move their bags after its ATOL ground network failed. Queues built, luggage piled up, and only experienced staff kept counters moving. The counters held.
Sources say a manual fallback once existed. Whether it was still tested, and whether newer recruits knew it, is the question now driving a call for an independent audit. A ten-hour outage of a core system is not a glitch, it is a stress test the airline may have failed.
A councillor's wife takes her abuse claim to the PM's own desk
A municipal councillor in Curepipe stands accused of domestic violence in a complaint that has climbed to PM Ramgoolam's office. His wife says she fears for her safety and worries his political weight could bend her case.
She holds an interim protection order, the gender ministry confirms, and the councillor denies everything. Her letter to PM Ramgoolam, now with the police commissioner, lists episodes she calls physical and psychological, some in front of others.
Mauritius shops India, Japan and Qatar for its first gas plant
The feasibility study for a liquefied natural gas plant at Fort William should be ready by December 2026, and ministry sources say India will run it. The government has also approached Japan and Qatar. Gas is meant to wean the island off heavy fuel oil for power; the study will show whether the sums actually work.
Seize the car first, ask questions later under the new road bill
How hard can one bill come down on bad drivers? The Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill answers with immediate vehicle seizure, licence suspension and a wider offence of road rage, set out in the text heading to Parliament. It stacks on this year's points. The deterrent is blunt. Whether police and the courts can carry the extra load is what nobody has costed.
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School bullying: silence breaks, violence doesn't – Fewer victims stay silent now, but assaults in schools keeps coming, a new report finds.
Missing ex-officer, 79, found after six days – Neman Luchoomun, a retired policeman, turned up alive after six days of searches near his home.
Mauritian tuna loses its edge to rivals – Competition is chipping away at the preferential status Mauritian tuna long enjoyed, a seminar heard.
DistributeX victims flood the FCC – Complaints over the unlicensed DistributeX platform are pouring into the FCC, the financial crimes agency.
Two months on, a Goodlands leak still gushes – Thousands of litres run to waste while a reported Goodlands leak waits two months for a repair crew.
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