The Casablanca authorities have failed in the mission to carry out the project of setting up modern toilets, announced two years ago. Instead, they have started to renovate the existing toilets to meet the needs of foreign tourists and the population.
The Moroccan medical and scientific community has just lost one of its most influential members. Dr. Fadma Abi, the first Moroccan woman to have practiced the profession of surgeon, died after being infected with the coronavirus.
The chaos reigning in the taxi sector in Casablanca led to a protest strike on Thursday, October 1st. The Casablanca taxi drivers are unhappy and demand an improvement in their working conditions.
Casablanca and Rabat concentrate 81.7% of tax revenues, according to the Court of Auditors in its report on the execution of the 2019 state budget. In terms of corporate income tax (IS), out of a tax population of 493,617 taxpayers recorded, only 358,617 are active. The active population does not pay its annual obligations, however.
The health crisis has not spared any sector of activity in Morocco. In the freight transport sector, professionals report a sharp drop in their activity and remain very pessimistic about a rapid recovery in the sector.
Since the government’s announcement of the resumption of classes set for October 5, private school managers no longer know where to turn. They are troubled by this resumption in the context of the coronavirus pandemic due to the very limited means at their disposal.
The mayor of Casablanca, Abdelaziz El Omari, wants to delegate the management of deaths in the metropolis. This project will be discussed at the next session of the Municipal Council.
The government has authorized schools, colleges and high schools in Casablanca , the epicenter of the coronavirus in Morocco, to reopen as of October 5th. It has also extended the curfew for two weeks due to the resurgence of new infections.
Luxury villas with gardens and swimming pools are springing up like mushrooms around Casablanca, Rabat and Mohammedia, in violation of urban planning rules. These works were carried out on the basis of building permits issued rather for agricultural activities, with the complicity of authority agents and elected officials.
Three individuals aged 36 to 56 were arrested on Sunday in Casablanca by the judicial brigade of Sidi Bernoussi, for their alleged involvement in cases of fraud, illegal immigration and human trafficking.
An employee of Hassani Hospital was referred, on Monday, to the Attorney General at the Court of First Instance in Casablanca, for his alleged involvement in a traffic of complicit medical certificates.
A 73-year-old Moroccan Jew committed suicide on Saturday afternoon by jumping from the window of his 5th floor apartment in Casablanca .