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On January 2, the government presented the new aid formulas to which companies in Reunion Island placed in a state of health emergency and under curfew will be eligible.. A new device, known as “fixed costs” is put in place and replaces the solidarity fund. Il concerne les entreprises des secteurs protégés dès lors qu’elles perdent plus...

In 2019, 37% of the Reunion population lived below the metropolitan poverty line, underlines a recent publication from INSEE. Despite a clear decrease since 2007, the poverty rate is 2,5 times higher on the island than in mainland France. Minor children are more exposed : 46% of them live in a poor household. This part ...

The 2020 agricultural census has just produced its first results. It shows in particular that Reunion Island has lost 4,000 hectares of cultivated areas (-10%) in ten years. In 2020, the agricultural area used (OR) of the island extended over 38,650 hectares, or 15% of the territory. The decline is especially noted in sugar cane, qui a perdu 3...

En dépit de la dégradation de la situation sanitaire et des nouvelles contraintes qui l’accompagnent (confinement partiel et couvre-feu mis en place fin juillet), l’économie réunionnaise a de nouveau fait preuve de résilience au 3ème trimestre 2021, selon la note conjoncturelle de l’Insee. L’emploi salarié a continué de croître, avec 3 300 emplois supplémentaires par rapport au 2ème trimestre...

The redemption of antenna meeting in Océinde by the Cirano group received the green light from the Superior Council of the Audiovisual Council on November 24, which however asks the buyer to comply with certain conditions. Nassir Goulamaly, President of Océinde, remains chairman of the board of directors of antenna meeting, which he had acquired in 2016. « Des engagements forts ont été pris avec...

In 2021, calls for projects have been launched throughout France as part of the government policy of “the first 1,000 days”, this period going from the parental project of conception of a child to the latter’s entry into school. « La politique publique des 1000 premiers jours vise à agir dès la petite enfance contre...

Published at the end of 2021, the annual energy assessment carried out by the Observatoire Energie Réunion reveals that energy consumption has fallen by 8,3% in 2020. The slowdown in economic activity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has notably reduced fuel consumption by 14%., those of airplanes and land vehicles. The share of fossil fuels (coal, fioul...

New car sales increased by 13,5% in 2021 in Reunion, erasing the drop of 13,6% recorded the previous year, marked by nearly two months of health confinement and fall in consumption. A total of 32,768 passenger and utility cars were registered last year on the island., including 16,516 sales to households (+2,4%)....

Run drive, the carpooling platform launched in 2018 by Zeop, is transformed. It now has the ambition to become a multimodal hub, bringing together in a single application all the mobility solutions available when a user wishes to travel. Bus and coach lines, shared electric vehicles : the offer must be gradually enriched over the months, at...

Une part non négligeable des habitants de la commune attend l’événement avec impatience: un ensemble commercial incluant un supermarché de 1 000 m2 sous enseigne U Express ouvrira ses portes mi-2023 à Sainte-Rose. Les travaux doivent débuter en février, avec pour maître d’ouvrage la SCI Rose des Vents des familles Kin Siong et Lam Tow. So far, les Sainte-Rosiens...