🇲🇺 Sherry Singh heads to the financial crimes unit over his Air Mauritius years

Sherry Singh heads to the financial crimes unit over his Air Mauritius years

Sherry Singh will appear before the Financial Crimes Commission (FCC) this Friday, the island's lead agency for money-laundering and fraud cases. Investigators want to question the former Mauritius Telecom chief executive about alleged anomalies at Air Mauritius during the years he sat on the national carrier's board.

Singh joined the Air Mauritius board in early 2020 and took the chair of its Transformation Steering Committee as an adviser. That committee existed to pull apart the airline's finances and its business model at a moment when the carrier was deep in the red and hunting for a turnaround plan that would actually stick.

The FCC has not said publicly what it is chasing. But the summons pulls a familiar name back into an active probe, and the questions this time are about the airline's books rather than the old telecom battles that first made him a household name.

Mauritius redraws its economy to chase 3% growth in 2026

Statistics Mauritius has rebased the national accounts, shifting the reference year from 2018 to 2023, and the picture changes with it. Past output has been revised upward, the economy now sits at about Rs 873 billion this year, and growth is pencilled in at 3%.

Not every sector pulls the same weight. Technology and finance stay on the accelerator, while tourism eases off and construction climbs out of contraction. Rebasing is not free money. It resets the baseline that every later number gets measured against, and that reset matters more than the 3%.

Safe City cameras may soon be watching for speeders too

The cameras that blanket Mauritian towns could soon do more than deter crime. Transport Minister Osman Mahomed says talks are under way with the police, Mauritius Telecom and Huawei to let the Safe City network flag speeding and phone use at the wheel.

Turning a surveillance grid into a ticketing tool is a big jump, and it raises obvious question of how a fine gets served and contested. On a network this size, what matters is who reviews the footage before a ticket goes out.

Rodrigues airport workers take their equal pay fight to the tribunal

Talks having failed, the Rodrigues Private and Allied Industries Workers Union has gone to the Employment Relations Tribunal over pay at Airport of Rodrigues Ltd, demanding that equal work earn equal money. It is a small workforce with a big principle, and the tribunal now has to decide whether the slogan survives contact with a payslip.

Valayden presses the police over a woman who vanished

Senior Counsel Rama Valayden has asked the Commissioner of Police to say plainly where the investigation into the disappearance of Munawara Begum now stands. Families of the missing rarely get a running commentary from investigators, Valayden is betting that public pressure moves a file faster than patience does.

Shorts

A suspect gummy sends a pupil to hospital – A 17-year-old pupil in La Tour-Koenig landed in hospital after eating a suspect gummy.

First driver booked under the new drink-drive law – A motorcyclist blew 36.74 micrograms of alcohol, the first case under the amended Road Traffic Act.

Rs 3.6m of drugs seized at Batterie-Cassee – An anti-drug unit raid at Roche-Bois netted raw materials and drugs, with one suspect held.

Bank of Mauritius warns on fake banknotes – Counterfeit rupee notes is in circulation, and the central bank wants everyone checking.

Mauritius and Reunion line up on traffickers – A cross-island security group met as Attorney General Glover backed the planned crime agency.

280 plants

of cannabis came out of a cane field near Piton, a haul the police value at about Rs 1.4 million. The grow sites still hide between the rows of sugar.

$100

a barrel is the line Brent crude just crossed, up about 14% on the month and its biggest jump since July as US-Iran talks stall. The number your pump price quietly answers to.

£900m

of inflated revenue let Manchester City slip past the Premier League's money rules, a tribunal found. Sanctions could follow, and the club says it will appeal.

Zimbabwe probes a helicopter crash that killed tycoon Chivayo

A helicopter crash killed Wicknell Chivayo, a businessman famous for flaunting his wealth and for his closeness to Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party, along with his wife, Lucy Muteke. A family spokesperson confirmed both deaths.

Investigators have opened a probe into what brought the aircraft down. Chivayo's name has run through state contract controversies for years, so the inquiry will be read as closely for what it says about his dealings as for the cause of the crash.

East Africa races the clock on AFCON 2027

Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are rushing to be ready for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, with relocation rumours swirling nine months out.

Indian Ocean names its 25 women to watch

The region's Women Entrepreneur Awards have named 25 finalists from five territories, with the final set for 31 October in Ebene.

Seoul pledges $200 billion but disputes the Alaska gas

A $200 billion pledge is hard to ignore. President Trump announced that South Korea will pour that sum into American energy, from nuclear plants to a new facility in Texas. Both sides like big numbers.

The catch sits in the fine print. Seoul is disputing the Alaska LNG (liquefied natural gas) project that Washington wants folded into the deal, so the largest slice of all may be the part still being argued over.

Gaza City buries 105 pulled from the rubble

Hundreds in Gaza City held a mass funeral for 105 people recovered from the rubble, nearly three years after they died.

Russian strikes hit Kyiv and its power grid

Russian missiles and drones hit Kyiv and the energy grid overnight, killing several and forcing emergency blackouts across the region.

Rodrigues counts its dead, but not its lost years

How many Rodriguans die before their time? The island logged 342 deaths in 2024 and already 146 in the first half of 2026, yet the official tally never says how many were under 70.

Heart and circulatory disease drove 34.8% of 2024's deaths, metabolic illness 21.6%, cancer 12%. Nearly seven in ten. Counting premature deaths, not just deaths, is how a small island learns what is killing it early.

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