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Last week the Seychelles Nation and SBC simultaneously confirmed what Le Nouveau Seychelles Weekly had been saying for days - that Andre Kilindo will not be prosecuted for any offence at all. This, despite the fact that his fishing boat was caught red handed with illegal Chinese migrants on board fishing sea-cucumber. Even SFA admitted that Kilindo had committed several offences under the law and cautioned that “certain measures” would be taken against him. The evidence which incriminated Kilindo was irrefutable, and SFA cited violations of the Fisheries and Agriculture Incentives Act (FIA) and the Fisheries Act 1986 simultaneously to have occurred. The eight Chinese fishermen who were found on Ste Andre were all without valid work permits except for two. Two had visitor's permits and four had no valid permits at all at the time of arrest on the 7th April.….read more

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What is happening at the Ministry of Education??

Reports have reached this newspaper that the Ministry of Education is using tactics, which could easily be termed as extortion to get parents to contribute towards school repairs and refurbishment. ….read more

How Seychellois feels about the review of the Constitution

For a while now we have been following with interest arguments being put forward by government about the review of the Constitution. For many Seychellois this exercise seems to have no effect one way or another.  ….read more

SPPF is giving away our heritage cheaply

If one was to divide the Euro 5,355,000 which we are getting for allowing 52 EU boats to fish in our waters by the “supposedly” 63,000 tons of fish (which no one controls), Seychelles ends up earning a mere Euro 85 for a ton of prime tuna! ….read more

Seychellois beware!

The arbitrary practice of planting drugs on people and what are considered as “undesirables;” a prolific political tool employed in the one party state era, like the pipeline at Central Bank, has been revived once again. ….read more

Investment Code fails to live up to expectations

Three years after the introduction of a long-awaited Investment Code, it has failed to live up to expectations. While the Investment Code was seen as a welcome move, the legislation had various shortcomings. ….read more

When President Michel Goes to Church

President James Michel was among the large crowd attending Mass on May Day at Anse Royale. Michel likes crowds and the occasion was amply shown on television and other state media. ….read more

Face-a-Face on local food sufficiency

The first "Face-a-Face" programme on SBC-TV this year focused on local food sufficiency and saw the participation of three government officials and just one representative of the private sector, Ms Nicole Tirant-Gehardi,  Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. ….read more

What was President Rene’s private phone number doing on a dead drug dealer in America?

In late 1984, in the US, the New Jersey police found the mutilated bodies of two local drug-traffickers, apparent victims of a gangland killing. One of the two had in his pocket an address book which contained the name and private phone number of President France Albert Rene. ….............read more

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Message from the Editor

Dear Reader

Le Nouveau Seychelles Weekly has been providing a free online service for the last two years. Our policy has always been to make the paper available for free to online readers. Unfortunately our situation has changed drastically in the last year. We cannot find a printing house willing to print our newspaper in Seychelles. We are now printing the paper in Mauritius and there is a foreign exchange element attached to this state of affair. We are therefore making an appeal to all our readers overseas for a minimum contribution of $20.00 USD (twenty American dollars) only, for an entire twelve months subscription. The contribution is totally voluntary. If you feel that you can make a bigger donation we will be willing to accept gratefully (just increase in the quantity field so that the amount will increase accordingly). However, if you feel that you are unable to make any contribution, we understand and you can still carry-on enjoying the paper with our full blessing.

Your contribution will go a long way in keeping free speech and the freedom of the press alive in our beloved little country. Your donation will go towards paying for the printing and transportation costs of the paper to Seychelles, any surplus will be put aside to finance our own printing machine. We thank you for your kind consideration and hope that you enjoy the Weekly during 2008. Below are the details of how to make payments, should you require a receipt for your donation, please contact the Editor on editorlnsw60@gmail.com .

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Thank you all for your contribution and keeping democracy and freedom of the press alive in Seychelles!

Le NouveauSeychelles Weekly wishes you success and happiness during 2008!

Ralph Volcere

Editor

Le Nouveau Seychelles Weekly

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