Court jails four and clears seven over October's curfew breaches
Four people will serve four months, seven walk away cleared, and one pays a Rs 5,000 fine. That is how the Intermediate Court closed twelve cases of breaking the curfew imposed during October's unrest.
Magistrate Adeelah Hamuth said punishment should track the gravity of each breach. Police stopped the accused across Port Louis, Bambous, Tamarin, Rose-Hill and Pointe-aux-Sables, some on their way to a partner or a sick relative. These are the first sentences to put a number on who paid for being out after dark.
Cabinet overrules Juman on the Port Louis night markets
Cabinet left the festive season night markets in limbo on Friday, including the busy one on rue Desforges in Port Louis. An interministerial committee under Local Government minister Ranjiv Woochit will hear traders' concerns and report back.
Juman got ahead of Cabinet. The Labour MP had floated dates as if the plan was set; he now says he still backs the markets, which were a hit last year, but accept shopkeepers deserve a hearing.
New transport corporation boss named in a trio of Cabinet picks
Dr Dev Rajan Daliah will take over as general manager of the National Transport Corporation, the state bus operator known as the CNT, one of three appointments cleared at Friday's Cabinet. It puts a new hand on a service commuters lean on every day.
A Baie-du-Tombeau family says armed bouncers are hunting them
"They are waiting to kill me," a father at Docker's Village in Baie-du-Tombeau says of armed bouncers he says have turned the estate into a place his family no longer feels safe to live in. His account follows videos of force and violence around the estate, it lays bare how little safety residents feel. Residents feel exposed.
Shorts
Two held over abuse of a girl of 11 – Police arrested men aged 19 and 21 on Friday over the alleged sexual abuse of a girl of 11.
Suspect charged in Selven Iyempermal killing – Imtiyaz Chady, 35, now faces a provisional charge over the fatal Vacoas assault on Selven Iyempermal.
Unions march on Port Louis again – Thousands marched on Port Louis over living costs, water and working conditions in a third protest.
Man held over online remarks to a minor – Police held a Quatre-Bornes man, 25, after a video with alleged sexual remarks about a minor spread online.
Driver knifed by a biker in Solferino – A motorcyclist knifed a driver, 31, in the arm and neck in Solferino.
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