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This is the number of over-indebtedness files recorded in August 2025 by the commission of the Issuing Institute of Overseas Departments. It's up to 22,8% compared to August 2024. 1,288 over-indebtedness files have been filed since the start of the year, an increase of 14,8% compared to 2024. Over a rolling year, the increase reaches....

The results of the INSEE survey on salaries paid in the private sector in Reunion, based on 2023 data, reveal a level even lower than those paid in mainland France, but also a reduction in this gap. Half of Réunion employees in the private sector received net remuneration of less than 1,780 euros per month in 2023....

The economic unit of the construction industry in Reunion recently published its annual economic report for 2024, which highlights the persistence of the crisis. 5,537 housing units were started last year (-1 %), mostly in the collective, for group projects, with smaller average surface areas. Construction authorizations, for their part, fell by....

EDF launches an experiment in Reunion to adapt the off-peak hours system to local solar energy production. Until now reserved for the night, off-peak hours can now be offered during the day, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., when photovoltaic production is highest. The experiment, which will begin in October 2025 for a period of three months,...

Interest rates on business loans stabilized in the 2nd quarter in Reunion, according to the Overseas Departments Emission Institute. Rates on equipment loans (3,96 %) are in slight decline, those on real estate loans (3,81 %) are stable while the rates on maturing cash credits (4,43 %) register for....

A new public service delegation agreement for the Car Jaune network was signed on September 4 by the regional council of Reunion. The delegatee of this new agreement is Cap Run with Transdev Service Réunion and GIE Activ, composed of ten transport companies : Transports Charles Express, house, Setcor, Transport L’Oiseau Bleu, Moutoussamy Émile,...

In 2024, Kevene Marimoutou succeeded Kelly Rangama as “signature” chef of meals served by Air Austral to its Club class customers. The executive chef of the kitchens of the Iloha Seeview Hotel,in Saint-Leu, previously signed one of the four dishes offered to high-contribution passengers. Since September 1, all dishes served in Club class..

The four subsidiaries of the CDC Habitat group (CIDER, Sodiac, Semader and Semac) delivered a total of 955 homes last year in Reunion Island, according to the annual report recently presented by the public interest housing operator, subsidiary of Caisse des Dépôts. 860 were built and 95 were acquired and renovated by Semader and Sodiac. 249...

The “Réunion Express” railway project, 140 kilometers long between Saint-Benoît and Saint-Joseph, via Saint-Denis and Saint-Pierre, is the central element of the roadmap signed on August 29 by the mobility organizing authorities : the Region and the five intermunicipalities of the island. The choice of rail transport is based on the priorities expressed last year..

A study carried out by Ipsos Indian Ocean for the Air Pub agency, which manages the advertising agency at Roland-Garros airport, shows that 60% of Reunion Islanders (nearly 420,000 people aged 16 and over) have been to “Gillot” at least once in the last twelve months. The study estimates 1,2 million the number of attendant visits...