Police say a public sewage plant hid and weighed cannabis
Three men are in custody after the Anti-Drug and Smuggling Unit searched a wastewater treatment plant at Balisson, Rose-Belle, on 18 September. Investigators say the gang used the site to store, weigh and package cannabis, with a phone found on the scene holding photos and videos of earlier operations.
The alleged central figure is Jérémie Patrice Siave, 33, a supervisor at the treatment company itself. One suspect told police he had bought cannabis from Siave for Rs 2,500 a time, and detectives are now tracing who else was on his list.
A plant meant to clean the island's water allegedly moonlighted weighing its weed.
Chief Justice warns 41 new lawyers not to lean on AI
Forty-one new barristers took their oaths before the Supreme Court in Port Louis on Friday, and Chief Justice Rehana Mungly-Gulbul used the ceremony for a pointed warning: do not trust artificial intelligence blindly. It is timely counsel.
Courts from the United States to India have sanctioned lawyers who filed citations invented by AI that turned out not to exist. For a bar this fresh, the lesson is that a chatbot is a starting point, never the authority you cite to a judge.
Rodrigues bets its tourism future on training, says Richard Duval
Tourism is the engine of Rodrigues's economy, and Richard Duval wants the island to guard it by investing in people. His pitch is skills first: train young Rodriguans in hospitality and service so the sector can grow without shedding the character that pulls visitors in first place.
A Flacq pharmacy keeps selling medicine after losing its licence
A pharmacy in Flacq is reportedly still handing medicines over the counter even though regulators have pulled its operating licence, according to local reporting. How a business ordered to shut can keep dispensing drugs is a fair question for the regulator. The answer looks like weak enforcement.
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