PROPAGANDA GONE SERIOUSLY WRONG!
FRANCIS MacGREGOR: WHY HIS POSITION IS CONTROVERSIAL
MacGregor is not just any person with a legal background. He was, and continued to be a card-carrying member of the SPPF as well as a member of its politburo or central committee, in stealth. .... read more
“What is your favorite radio station?”
Shaun on Paradise FM, can you please shut up with the “What is your favorite radio station?” We only have one so we have no choice! So please change the question to: .... read more
First Anniversary of the death and murder of Ryan Lesperance
Two weeks ago was the First Anniversary of the death and murder of Ryan Lesperance (18 years) of Praslin. Ryan’s body was found under a bridge at Cap Samy, Baie St. Anne. ... read more
Will Lousteau-Lalanne succeed where Francis Savy and the Ministry of Education FAILED?
According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB), Maurice Lousteau-Lalanne, the Government of Seychelles has approved the building of 60 hotels in the next ten years to boost tourism revenues for the country. This will provide an additional five thousand beds. .... read more
This week the Editor of Sechelles Nation demonstrated his full allegiance to the system by running the same story twice, on consecutive days, on the front page albeit with a different twist each time. .... read more
Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir said that he is impressed with the South African justice system after he was granted bail of one million South African Rand last Friday, 6th July, 2007. The 38-year old has been in custody since his arrest by Interpol on April 21 this year when he entered
RAMKALAWAN STANDS UP TO HERMINIE
Radovan Krejcir a free man in South Africa!
The leader of the opposition, Wavel Ramkalawan, this week stood up to the Speaker of the National Assembly in a show of boldness and defiance. Herminie who was still reeling from a half baked apology from Bernard Georges in the morning, was clearly taken by surprise by Ramkalawan’s assertiveness and did not know how to react. .... read more
The political grapevine last week was dominated by the so-called re-structuring of government. In reality, as far as the Constitution is concerned, the only exercise of note that the President undertook was to sack Sylvette Pool, a long-standing political associate of former President Albert Rene, as a Minister in his Cabinet. .... read more
The mystery hotel on Farquhar is now hot news in political circles in Mauritius. Even the Vice-President of Mauritius, Abdul Rauf Bundhun, is known to have expressed concern over the matter this week. .... read more
NOUVOBANQ DENIED US$ 10 MIILION LOAN FROM WORLD BANK AFFILIATE
SYVETTE POOL: DID SHE JUMP OR WAS SHE PUSHED?
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), an affiliate of the World Bank, which lends money to the private sector in developing countries, will not disburse a US$10 million loan facility it had approved for the state owned Seychelles International Mercantile Banking Corporation, better known by its local trading name as Nouvobanq. .... read more
GLENNY SAVY AND PRESIDENT MICHEL MUST COME CLEAN!!!
Something wrong at SFA
SIR, I wonder if it has escaped your attention that there must be something wrong at SFA. There has been four or five Chairman at the Head of the Organisation over a five year period. .... read more
With SPPF Our Pensions Disappear
Every Government does what it can do for it’s Pensioners. But how a Government earns wealth for a country to maintain a Pension Scheme is where the lines are drawn between Communist SPPF and the Free Market oriented Opposition. .... read more
IN THE ASSEMBLY THIS WEEK
Obituaries
This week the Assembly debated on a motion brought by Mrs Joevana Charles which reads as follows :
This Assembly resolves to call on the Government to study ways to better support families who are most vulnerable in particular single mothers.
We publish below the intervention of Hon.
Damandra Eulentin is the 26 year old Seychellois who was killed in the most horrific of circumstances on 6th March 2007 by people believed to be working for State House Security. .... read more
Editorial
Justice in Seychelles? Well, forget about it
The recent appointments made by President James Michel of Mr. Jeremie Bonnelame to the post of Chairman of the Constitutional Appointment Authority (C.A.A) and Mr. Francis Macgregor as President of the Court of Appeal prove once again the hypocrisy and bad faith of the President. .... read more
Seychelles: Reshuffling the Cabinet into a circle
It is evident, starting from the Presidential elections of 2006, the events of October 3, 2006, the State of the Nation address and concluding in the National Assembly elections of 2007, that the experiment of building a democracy within the framework of a mixed economy, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-party society has failed in Seychelles. .... read more
Christopher Gill's Column
The Constitution is in crisis!
The monster of the one-party state has risen again, with a man and a woman as its horns in the Assembly. .... read more
