Buses sit idle at Bonne-Terre as 90 CNT staff call in sick at once
Roughly 90 drivers and controllers at the Compagnie Nationale de Transport, the state bus company, called in sick on Monday morning, leaving dozens of buses stuck at Bonne-Terre and long queues at stops across the north. The timing stung, with SC and HSC school exams under way.
Transport Minister Osman Mahomed called it a disguised go-slow and linked it to a new pilot that uses artificial intelligence to share out overtime more evenly. He warned that staff found responsible will answer for it, and lined up other operators for Tuesday. The union denies giving any order to down tools.
An overtime algorithm built to be fair became, overnight, a reason to stay home.
Lorry driver, 70, dies in a Laventure crash with a school bus
Munsoor Ramzan, a lorry driver of 70 from Mont Ida, died on the spot on Monday morning when his truck collided with a bus carrying schoolchildren near Laventure. The crash happened at about 6:45am on the main road, at the start of the school run.
The pupils on board escaped serious injury. Police have opened an inquiry into how the two vehicles came to meet on that stretch, and traffic was held up while the wreckage was cleared.
Govind wins bail on two charges but stays in a cell over a 156 kg plot
Gulshan Govind, husband of the MP Veronique Leu-Govind, won bail at Bambous on Monday over cannabis and methadone charges, on a Rs 30,000 surety. He walks nowhere yet: a separate charge of conspiring to import about 156 kg of cannabis, worth Rs 234 million, keeps him in custody until a 6 October ruling.
Ministry starts checking how much water big private users draw
With Mare-aux-Vacoas, the island's largest reservoir, sliding toward a critical 20% by late November, the Ministry has begun scrutinising how much water big private users consume. The Water Resources Commission is again asking households to save. The audit is new; the drought behind it is not.
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