Seychelles Weekly

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) will have a uniform customs external tariff by December next year. 8th December, 2008, is the launch date for the COMESA Customs Union. .... read more

Government officials in the Ministry of Manpower worked until the early hours of the morning in the days leading up to the National Assembly elections in order to finalise the payment of gratuities and other financial rewards for the 11,000 or so government employees, it has come to light. .... read more

The Fourth National Assembly to be elected under the Constitution of the Third Republic was called into session by the President of the Republic on Tuesday this week in accordance with Article 107 of the Constitution. .... read more

SIR, please allow me space in your paper to comment on and question, even belatedly, Mr. France Albert Rene’s distorted and confusing concept on how an opposition should behave once it has lost an election. .... read more

The people in charged of our life does the most incredible things in our name. This week we saw the reopening of State House, thousands of rupees, money we cannot afford, were spent on drinks and grub for guests and friends attending the official (supposedly) reopening of State House. .... read more

The leader of the Democratic Party, Mr Paul Chow, was special guest last week at a luncheon attended by six ambassadors from Europe accredited to the Seychelles. The luncheon which was held at the exclusive Muthaiga Country Club in Nairobi, Kenya, was hosted by the Ambassador of Switzerland Mr Georges Martin. .... read more

This is the infamous radio address Albert Rene made to the people of

Seychelles

in the early evening of 5th June 1977 the day of the coup d’etat. .... read more

Last Friday, the last day of public hearing of the Commission of Inquiry into the events of 3, October 2006 at the precinct of the National Assembly, saw the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Marc Waye Hive, subjected to what many in the audience felt was a most humiliating episode for the Seychelles police .... read more

This week a young man made a most disturbing and shocking complaint to Supreme Court Judge Perera, as he was brought before the judge to be remanded in prison until his trial. .... read more

In a historic moment this week the Democratic Party’s nominated member in the National Assembly, lawyer Mr. Frank Elizabeth, took the oath of allegiance at the first meeting of the Fourth Session of the Assembly. .... read more

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) seems to have acquiesced to demand by the Michel administration to bail it out of a tight spot on the forex front, while at the same time allowing it to be dragged into our domestic politics. .... read more

Many Seychellois misunderstand Air Seychelles’ position in regards to the planes it flies in our name as a National Air Carrier. Most of these planes have the Air Seychelles logo on them. However, the planes do not belong to Air Seychelles. .... read more

Members of the Bar Association of Seychelles have expressed alarm and concern at what they see as a disintegration of their once noble and honourable profession by the continuous onslaught of its precepts by the Chief Justice who, this week, administered the oath to Mr. Daniel Caesar .... read more

In this issue we have reproduced the radio address Albert Rene made to the people of Seychelles in the early evening of 5th June 1977, the day of the coup d’etat. The words of Rene then, give the lie today that the coup d’etat was in fact liberation for the people of Seychelles. .... 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. Guy Pool found guilty: "the offence is a serious one which carries the maximum penalty of life imprisonment." ... read more

Suicide car bomber strikes near Somali Prime Minister’s house, killing 5 ---- Fighting broke out in second Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon ---- Putin warns US missile shield in Europe would force Moscow t target Europe ---- Gordon Brown pledges to protect civil liberties when he introduces new anti-terror laws ---- 4 Islamist militants accused of plot to bomb JFK airport in New York ---- Litvinenko’s widow dismisses claims that UK security forces were involved in poisoning her husband ---- England to field the same cricket team that won at Headingley for the 3rd Test against West Indies ---- A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit southwest China killing two ----

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