The Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations (IASCER) meets in Seychelles. Archbishop Drexel Domez, left is the Head.
First group of Seychellois to leave for the ACNOA games in Mauritius.
Tiny Seychelles frogs being studied by conservationists.
This week the Minister of Finance, Minister Danny Faure went before the National Assembly to spectacularly announce the centre piece of his budget speech. The attraction this time around was the tax break given to businesses which in effect means that businesses would now not be taxed on profit up to a ceiling of Rs.250,000. ... read more
President Michel breaks yet another election promise!
The long serving chairman of the local football association, Mr. Suketu Patel, a Chartered Accountant by profession, is the newly elected President of the Council of the Confederation of Southern African Football Associations (COSAFA). ... read more
TAXI DRIVERS ASSISTED TO BUY NEW CARS?
The Minister of Finance, Danny Faure, presented his first budget to the National Assembly this week, Tuesday, and if you had just stepped down from a plane the day before, you could be forgiven for believing that you had died and gone to heaven. ... read more
A local advertising company, iMedia Seychelles Limited, has been contracted to publish and supply the new Seychelles telephone directory for the next five years. The 2007/2008 edition which will be made available in July 2007 will combine telephone number entries from Airtel, Cable & Wireless, Intelvision and Kokonet customers. ... read more
LNSW: You are currently the president of the Democratic Party. Does DP have a political role to play given the recent events that have occurred i.e. the shutting down of Regar and the boycotting of the National Assembly? ... read more
iMEDIA TO PUBLISH NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY
THE HEALTH SERVICE IN CRISIS
Tthe main X-ray machine at Victoria hospital has been out of order for the past few weeks and no one knows when it will be repaired. ... read more
SUKETU PATEL IS THE NEW PRESIDENT!
If there is one thing that is certain in life it is death. Dictators come and go but sometimes they behave as if they will live forever. Who would have thought that General Augusto Pinochet, the strong man of Chile, would today be haunted by his crimes? ... read more
INTERVIEW WITH PAUL CHOW
“Nothing we have done has compromised our core beliefs”
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund are currently in Zimbabwe to decide what to do about the Country’s outstanding debt to the fund. Dictators like Robert Mugabe have a knack of running their Country’s economy into the ground .... read more
The Suicidal Economic Policies of Communist Dictators
Not so long ago this newspaper reported on the fact that Dara Alleear, the Mauritian born son of the Chief Justice, Vivekanand Alleear, had been granted financial assistance by the Seychelles Ministry of Education to study law in the United Kingdom. ... read more
On Tuesday this week, 5th of December, 2006, at around 2.30 in the afternoon Le Nouveau Seychelles Weekly received a telephone call from a group of fishermen at the Roche Caiman market. They wanted us to witness the harassment they were being subjected to by the Police Force. ... read more
WE ARE ALL EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW BUT DARRA ALLEEAR IS MORE EQUAL THAN THE AVERAGE SEYCHELLOIS!
Was Faure’s statement to the National Assembly another government smokescreen?
The SPPF members, of what’s left of the National Assembly following the boycott by SNP MNAs, were treated to a surprise appearance in their midst last week by the newly appointed Minister of Finance, Danny Faure. ... read more
Police harassed fishermen at Roche Caiman
DUBAI COMPANY OFFERED SMB PRAWN FARM
Police waiting for fishermen at Roche Caiman market.
Sexual Interference with a Child does not exist...
Editorial
The Court of Appeal has remarkably quashed the conviction and sentence of a young man who was convicted by the Supreme Court of the offence of “Sexual Interference with a Child.” ... read more
LNSW continues with the serialization of the Trial of Guy Pool who was accused of exploding a bomb at the Reef Hotel in 1972. ... read more
Images Of The Week
Down Memory Lane - The Guy Pool Trial continues ...
Chilean Dictator too weak to have second surgery
Volume 5 . Issue No. 43 . Weekend December 8, 2006
NEWS BRIEF
Copyright 2006: Seychelles Weekly, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles
The consultative committee on law holds first meeting
