WORLD: PAGE 5 SPORTS: PAGE 11 MAGAZINE: PAGE 16 WASHINGTON: OBAMA HOLLYWOOD LOVES WADES INTO MIDDLE CRICKET: PAKISTAN STARS DEPART HALLOWEEN: FEASTS ON EAST PEACE EFFORT FOR BETTING SCAM PROBE THE WEIRD AND WACKY theVOL 1, NO 250, PORT LOUIS Independent THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2010 ● 16 PAGES ● RS 10 DAILY NEWSDIGEST ADSU tightens Minister Choonee files France teams up with complaint for slander airport arrival checks PORT LOUIS: Minister of Arts and Culture Mookhesswur Independent News Service Police also managed to nab his Choonee lodged a complaint Plaisance, September 1 other local accomplices. at the Independent Broadcast- Since the arrest of Ndrenato, ing Authority (IBA) against a Officers of the Anti Drug police has been on alert. After island on key issues Smuggling Unit (ADSU) based brown sugar and Subutex, the private radio station on Wednesday. He stated that his at the Sir Seewoosagur Ram- police are working hard to pre- comments have been wrongly TO JOIN FORCES WITH MAURITIUS ON TOURISM, CULTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE, EDUCATION goolam International Airport at vent heroin from hitting the reported and this has tar- Plaisance are under strict or- market too. FRANCK THIBAULT nished his image. The contro- ders to maintain a rigid control The ADSU has been work- versy is about the speech of over the movement of any sus- ing closely with the anti drug the minister at an event organ- picious passengers, especially unit of Madagascar, Tanzania ised by the Vaish Welfare Asso- those arriving from Madagas- and Uganda and the Sub Re- ciation lasst Sunday. RELATED car, Tanzania and Uganda. gional Bureau of Interpol as STORY ON PAGE 2 There are growing fears that well as the Mauritius Revenue the country is increasingly be- Authority and the customs. coming a hub for drug traffick- In line with this, police are Suicide blasts in Lahore ing in the Indian Ocean. scanning the luggage of all pas- kill 25, injure 180 Hence, the ADSU officers sengers arriving at the SSR air- are determined to be sterner port. They are not only looking LAHORE: Three suicide than ever and would no longer out for illegal drugs but also bombers targeted a Shiite focus their efforts only on the products such as alcohol, to- mourning procession in Pak- European network. They are bacco and trademark clothes. istan’s eastern city of Lahore now looking at Subutex and The aim of the monitoring is to on Wednesday, killing at least heroin drug traffickers from prevent smuggling. 25 people and wounding 180, other parts of the world too. Ac- In 2009, the government police and rescue officials said. cording to social services, hero- amended the Dangerous Drugs It was the first major attack in in is slowly making its way back Act as Subutex was previously Pakistan since devastating to the nation. defined as a psychotropic med- floods engulfed a fifth of the The arrest of Rakotoarisa icine and not as a drug. More- volatile country over the past Ndrenato, a Malagasy national, over, the sentences were less month in the nation’s worst- in August led to the disbanding severe for drug traffickers in- ever disaster. AFP of a drug network at Vallée des volved in the sale of other drugs INS Prêtres. The drug trafficker had such as heroin and brown sug- swallowed 37 pellets of heroin. ar. [email protected] 10 skeletons unearthed at Le Morne heritage site Independent News Service following excavation works and Le Morne, September 1 will help the Truth and Justice Commission (TJC) better un- Archaeologists have found derstand movements of slaves. 10 human skeletons at Le Historian Vijaya Teelock Morne archaeological site. Ex- said that the TJC had ordered Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam lighting the flame of the Unknown Soldier at the Arc de Triomphe in Champs-Elysées,Paris on August 31. perts want to trace their origin excavations at Le Morne ar- and it is assumed that they date chaeological site. Independent News Service tance and expertise to Mauritius for Council. The proposal was wel- back to the colonial period. “We have the right to carry Port Louis, September 1 the establishment of a centre for comed by the French President. Samples will have to be sent excavations here even though it disaster management. In a statement to the French abroad to find out more. is listed as a UNESCO World After his Tuesday’s meeting with Raising cultural cooperation I want my country to press later, the PM confirmed that It is believed that the re- Heritage site,” said Teelock. Zakumi,the 2010 FIFA World the French President Nicolas hopes, France expressed its inten- once again become the Herve Lassémillante is part of the mains belonged to Malagasy The remains were kept at Cup mascot (left),strolls with a Sarkozy in Paris, Prime Minister Dr tion to extend more help through team of mediators of SADC. slaves or settlers who had been the Museum Council as the Le Smurf as other cartoon charac- Navin Ramgoolam had a similar the Institut Français de Maurice, Star and Key of the Indian The PM, who took over the presi- buried in an abandoned ceme- Morne National Heritage Trust ters parade at the launch of the working session of 50 minutes with help in instituting a philharmonic dency of the Indian Ocean Com- tery. Fund does not possess facilities five-day comedy festival at the French Prime Minister François orchestra, a national painting Ocean, as it was in the mission (IOC) from France in Au- Security at the site has been to preserve them. Company Garden in Port Louis Fillon at Matignon, his official resi- gallery among other plans. 18th century. gust, said he will be visiting Reunion tightened following the discov- “We decided to preserve the on Wednesday. dence, on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon, the Island in the near future to ery and more research will be bones at the Museum Council During both meetings discus- PM met France’s former finance strengthen the economic and trade carried out in this zone. as it was raining during the ex- sions included several issues rang- minister Alain Madelin and profes- relations. The excavation was led by cavations,” said Teelock. Netanyahu calls Abbas ing from bilateral cooperation to sor Benhamou of the Interminister- Ocean. He reiterated the govern- From Elyséee, Ramgoolam went Mauritian-born Dr Kris Seetah, An anthropologist believes the political crisis in Madagascar. ial Delegation for Digital Education ment’s intention to create a tribunal to the Arc de Triomphe for a torch who was assisted by Dr Diego that forensic archaeologist and ‘my partner in peace’ Wednesday’s meeting also in Africa. to try pirates. A regional conference lighting ceremony attended, among Calaon, Dr Sasa Caval and Dr bio-anthropologist should WASHINGTON: Israel PM showed excellent promise for Mau- President Sarkozy on Tuesday on the issue will be held in October others, by war veterans. After the Aleks Pluskowski. analyse the links between the Benjamin Netanyahu on ritius. Now the two countries will described Mauritians living in in Mauritius. Jack Lang, the advisor wreath laying and lighting the In a statement in July, See- skeletons instead of excavating Wednesday called Palestinian join forces to implement a joint pro- France as exemplary citizens. to UN secretary general Ban Ki- torch, the national anthems of tah said excavations began in nine tombs. leader Mahmud Abbas “my motion for tourism. Regarding the thorny Tromelin Moon on piracy, is also expected to the two countries were played. December and explained that The TJC carries investiga- partner in peace” and said he In the field of health, higher issue, claimed by both Mauritius participate. Some 50 Mauritians who attend- his team was primarily looking tions to establish the truth was seeking a peace to end the education and sustainable develop- and France, Sarkozy was happy with France has promised help in ed the ceremony were invited by the for remains belonging to Mala- on slavery and indentured Middle East conflict “once and ment, further cooperation with the signing of a framework agree- prison services and on security Prime Minister to a reception gasy slaves. labourers. It also listens for all.” But the Israeli leader France is expected too. ment on economic, environmental matters. at Grand Salon du Musée de He said that the bones to grievances of people warned that “peace must also Also in the offing is increased and scientific co-management of On Madagascar, Ramgoolam L’armée, Hotel des Invalides after- would be analysed through who claim to be victims of be defended against its ene- collaboration on some huge infra- the Indian Ocean Island. spoke of the need to establish an wards. [email protected] DNA testing and Carbon-14 dispossession and land pre- mies.” Netanyahu met US structure projects. Ramgoolam also broached the ombudsman’s office within the dating to determine their age. scription during the colonial President Barack Obama as France will also provide assis- subject of piracy in the Indian Southern African Development More photos on page 2 A report will be submitted period. [email protected] Washington makes a bold bid to resume direct Israeli-Pales- tinian talks for the first time in ADDING A MORTAL TOUCH: MARKING JANMASHTAMI AFP Trapped miners AFP ‘Animal’ Blair opens up 20 months. AfrAsia Bank goes ‘fruity’ won’t get wages on Fridays for health on sex and politics London, September 1 PORT LOUIS: Showing con- London, September 1 British prime minister in 150 years cern for employee health, — adding: “There are times when I The 33 Chilean miners who are trapped AfrAsia Bank has introduced Tony Blair’s memoirs out on am in awe of that woman.” inside a gold and copper mine since August ‘Fruity Fridays’ when seasonal Wednesday concern more than just Later in the book Blair waxes 5 may not receive wages while they are un- fruits are distributed to all its affairs of state — Britain’s ex-pre- lyrical on his thoughts about the re- derground, a report said on Wednesday.