No solace in IMF official’s words
A game of Handball game at Beau Vallon
First Anglican priestess to be, Rev’d Christine Benoit
Tony Lespoir won 4 gold medals at African canoeing competition.
Beach volleyball at Beau Vallon Youth Festival
Soroptimists do it for breast cancer
Who among the SPPF's MNAs will have the courage to propose a reduction or re-allocation of expenditure in order to reduce the deficit when the budget is brought before the Assemly? ...
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This week the people of the Banana Republic are upset and protesting. ... read more
Although I do not have a mandate to instruct the world, I would like to comment, as a student of Seychelles History, on the potential project of the ‘Livingstone Art Gallery’ in Marie-Antoinette Restaurant ex-Le Grand Trianon), which I presume has been named after Dr. David Livingstone: ... read more
Banana Republic
THE ADVENTURES OF LIEUTENANT JULIEN EMARD DURUP, TIBOY AND DR. DAVID LIVINGSTONE By Julien Durup
"The opposition’s activities do not worry us. But, sometimes, we are worried by the activities of the people who back the opposition." ... read more
Albert René: Yardstick for Democracy!!
Sir, If I remember correctly, not too long ago the SPPF MNA’s were using examples from well-established democracies to justify their actions in the Assembly on the Media motion. I wonder what they must have felt when Mr Albert Rene stated ‘if there was no democracy no one from the opposition will be able to walk the streets’. What a sad statement? ... read more
Interview of ex-President Rene by the "Indian Ocean Newsletter" in 1986
PERCY AH-MANE IS A LIAR!
In this week’s “Independent” Percy claims to have personally seen Ralph Volcere at Berjaya Beau Vallon Bay Hotel and Casino in the early hours of Monday morning in the company of two skimpily dressed red devils. ... read more
According to ‘The People’, the SPPF party rag, in this week’s issue, those behind the mercenary invasion of 25th November 1981, owe the people of Seychelles an apology. However, before that happens France Albert Rene has to apologise for the violent coup which ousted the legitimately and democratically elected government of James R. Mancham of which he formed part as Prime Minister. ... read more
Violence Breeds Violence
The government of President James Michel has finally managed to use the IMF in its domestic political propaganda campaign to try and give the illusion of economic progress as part of his 100 days in office milestone. ... read more
EDITORIAL
LNSW continues with the serialization of the Trial of Guy for exploding a bomb at the Reef Hotel in 1972. ... read more
The administration's proposed expenditure for 2007
Images Of The Week
Down Memory Lane - The Guy Pool Trial continues
Volume 5 . Issue No. 42 . Weekend November 24, 2006
ALBERT RENE THREATENS MORE VIOLENCE
Ex President France Albert Rene chose the occasion of the celebration of his 71st birthday to yet again threaten more violence against the opposition. His rhetoric, that had it been him who was still the President instead of President James Michel, he would have taken more “drastic measures” against the opposition, has sent chills of terror amongst the population. read more
Barclays Bank doing well so is the Seychelles Economy – Bainbridge
Mr. Bainbridge’s logic, that since Barclays Bank is doing well therefore it necessarily follows that the Seychelles economy must be doing well too is illogical to say the least. Many, however, especially among the bank’s clients feel not only insulted by his reported remarks, but consider them to be condescending. ... read more
NEWS BRIEF
Copyright 2006: Seychelles Weekly, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles
