The country expects to receive 24 cruise calls during the 2023 season and 30 in 2024, suggesting a gradual return to pre-pandemic figures; in 2022, fewer than 10 calls had been recorded

A group of organisations, which support the right to social security, praised the Mauritius government for its decision to extend the universal child allowance, called Contribution Sociale Généralisée, for another year, from July 2024 to June 2025

A workshop on the Central Electricity Board Agrivoltaics Scheme, which aims to promote national energy and food security objectives, opened in Long Mountain

A workshop focused on defining national priorities for harmonisation with the Codex Alimentarius, or 'Food Code', was launched by the Minister of Agro-Food Industry and Food Safety

126 housing units are to be built by the National Housing Development Company Ltd in Wooton, Curepipe, to meet the population's need for housing, particularly for young people, the elderly, the needy