Inflation holds at 4% while the meat counter climbs
Prices held their line on paper and jumped on the plate. Headline inflation stayed at 4% in August, the same rate as July, so the official gauge looks calm. Year on year the figure hit 4.9%. That is 2026's steepest yet. Households are not fooled.
The gap shows up at the butcher. Between January and August, mutton and beef rose sharply, pulling the everyday food basket up faster than a calm headline rate of 4% would ever let on. A steady number is cold comfort when the cut you actually buy costs more each week at the counter.
A 4% average hides the items families buy most, where the squeeze actually lands.
Rs 2.7 billion puts bigger cranes on the Port Louis quays
Rs 2.7 billion is going into steel and rubber at Port Louis. A contract signed on Monday covers two Megamax ship-to-shore cranes, the tall gantries that pluck boxes off the biggest vessels, plus five hybrid rubber-tyred cranes that shuffle containers around the yard on part electric power.
Delivery is set for December 2027, which tells you how long harbour upgrades really take. The bet is simple: bigger cranes, bigger ships, and port that stops being the bottleneck in every importer's week.
Marble goes down in Jeetoo's maternity ward, dust and all
Who books a full re-tiling in a maternity ward while expectant mothers wait steps away? At Jeetoo Hospital, workers laid marble in the gynaecology department as pregnant women sat waiting, dust and all. The health ministry says the job will improve comfort and that disruption is being kept short. The women breathing it in may want that in writing.
Mauritius maps the beach paths that quietly vanished
Some beach paths simply vanished. Housing and Lands Minister Shakeel Mohamed walked the west coast and found several public accesses hidden behind fences and containers. His answer: fresh road signs and an interactive map that starts with La Preneuse, La Mivoie, Tamarin and Flacq. Spot a blocked path? Photograph it and send it to the ministry or the police.
Shorts
Infant dies aboard an Air Mauritius flight – A baby died aboard flight MK747 from Chennai on Tuesday; Air Mauritius confirmed the death, cause not yet known.
EDB gets its chief, three months on – Rajah Ramdaursingh has taken charge of the Economic Development Board, three months after Cabinet cleared him.
A new financial player buys into Mauritius – The Fidence group has entered Mauritius by buying MITCO, local corporate and fiduciary services firm.
A 37th MCB scholar heads to England – Yeshmee Dwarka is the 37th MCB Scholarship winner, off to study accounting in England.
Sergeant in the VIP unit held over fraud – Detectives arrested a sergeant from the police VIP protection unit over an alleged electronic fraud.
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