"Immunity is not a gift": PM Ramgoolam defends the informer bill
"Immunity is not a gift." That was PM Ramgoolam presenting the Criminal Justice Bill on Tuesday, a law to make people inside a crime talk so the organisers, not just the foot soldiers, face court. He cited Soopramanien Kistnen, an agent of the former ruling MSM party found dead in a cane field in 2020, first called suicide, later ruled homicide.
Opposition leader Chetan Baboolall backs the idea but wants tight limits: immunity for murder, rape, crimes against children? Asked if the reopened inquiry was a cover-up, PM Ramgoolam shot back, "You think you're dealing with the MSM?"
The real test is who actually gets immunity, and for what, once the cameras leave the Assembly.
Flacq father dies of burns after a herbicide drum explodes in his yard
Steeven Cattaperman was 38 and a father of three. He died on Tuesday of burns suffered when a blue plastic drum of herbicide exploded and caught fire in the yard of his Camp-Marcelin home in Flacq on Monday evening.
His wife Jenissa, 35, was burned across her body and faces three operations; a neighbour of 21 drove the couple to hospital before they were moved to the burns unit at Victoria Hospital. Police have sealed the scene and an inquiry is trying to work out how the drum came to blow up.
Mauritius's digital patient record passes 150,000 users
More than 150,000 patients are already on the E-Health record, the digital file now live in about thirty public health facilities in the East and Centre, with over a million electronic operations logged. The principle, one patient, one record: show your ID card and any connected hospital pull up your history, no chasing a paper file.
A new Rs 1,000 import fee could quietly land on your grocery bill
Every food-clearance authorisation now carries a fresh Rs 1,000 charge for importers, a levy that rarely stays with the importer. The fee looks small, it will not stay small. Spread across the thousands of consignments that feed the island, it is one more nudge upward on prices at a time when nobody needs it.
Shorts
Motorist drives at officer, weapons found – A traffic stop in Plaine-Lauzun turned violent when a driver aimed his car at an officer; one passenger held.
Rs 25.5M cannabis seized at the airport – Officers caught a Malaysian cook landing at Plaisance with 17.88 kg of cannabis.
Seven jailed over the October rioting – A magistrate jailed seven men for up to 28 months over the 13 October unrest, the first such convictions.
Cargo Handling audit sent for a graft probe – Cargo Handling Corporation's irregularities audit now goes to the Financial Crimes Commission.
No new solidarity tax for now, says PM – PM Ramgoolam told Parliament there is no plan for a fresh solidarity tax on the private sector yet.
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