Transport drives another rise in building costs
Building a house costs more. Again. Statistics Mauritius put its Construction Price Index up 1.4% in the third quarter, in a report out on Wednesday. Bitumen, paint and waterproofing products posted the sharpest rises, several of them in double digits.
Materials are only half the story, transport is the other. Moving everything to a site has climbed too, and that feeds straight into the quote a contractor hands you. The quote keeps moving. For anyone building right now, the price agreed in January is already out of date.
Household builders feel this first, long before any index does.
Duval wants an attempted murder charge over the Elodie Thomas shooting
Opposition MP Adrien Duval wants the officer who shot Elodie Thomas charged with attempted murder. The IPCC, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, questioned Sergeant Gowtamsing Taukoor again on Wednesday as it digs into the shooting. Duval argues the charge now on file does not match a woman being hit by live fire, and he says the gap tells its own story about how such cases move. Investigation is still open. Where it lands, nobody official will yet say.
Cambridge will grade the cancelled exams without a resit
Cambridge will not reschedule the eight School Certificate and Higher School Certificate papers lost to the unrest of 13 October. It will instead award assessed grades, the Mauritius Examinations Syndicate (MES) said on Thursday. The board promises no candidate loses out. Thousands of pupils now wait to learn how a grade turns up for a paper they never sat.
Teen found dead in Baie-du-Tombeau died of asphyxiation, autopsy finds
Police found a girl of 17 dead in an abandoned house at Baie-du-Tombeau, on an upper floor, under a white blanket, with traces of blood near her nose. An autopsy by the forensic examiner Dr Prem Chamane found she died of asphyxiation, after inhaling the contents of her stomach. No arrest yet. Officers are still working out how she came to be there.
Shorts
Water police start issuing warnings – The water authority and police issued 13 warnings for hosing cars with drinking water, and sent one case to court.
Manhunt for uncle in niece abuse case – Police and residents are still hunting a man of 27 they say abused his niece, aged six.
Government websites knocked offline – Several state websites went dark this week under what officials are calling a cyberattack threat.
A new push on breast cancer screening – Health officials told Parliament they want to screen more women and make the tests easier to reach.
Minister Gunness pleads not guilty again – After prosecutors rewrote the charge, Infrastructure Minister Ajay Gunness again denied any wrongdoing in court.
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