ILE AURORE PROJECT – WILL IT BE ANOTHER EDEN ISLAND SAGA?The Minister for National Development, Jacquelin Dugasse, went to the National Assembly this week to “reveal” details of the Ile Aurore project, the man-made island opposite Anse Etoile on the North East coast of Mahe. …. read more
CELEBRATING 44 YEARSLe Nouveau Seychelles Weekly is proud to celebrate its 44th anniversary which falls on 5th October. …. read more
Leaders and supporters of the Seychelles National Party (SNP) gathered at the precinct of the National Assembly at 10 o’clock in the morning on 3rd October to take part in a short vigil to mark the moment one year ago when the police charged them using batons, tear gas and rubber bullets while they had peacefully gathered to sign a petition. …. read more
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he Highway Patrol unit which operated under the Department of Transport between 1998 and 2002, then unceremoniously disbanded, has now been re-introduced as of Monday October 1. …. read more
France Albert Rene is a potential candidate of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation For Retired Dictators Award in Africa, the Foundation founded by cell phone magnet Mo Ibrahim. …. read more
Earlier this year, the Government proudly announced that a foreign businessman who had made Seychelles virtually his first home ever since he first landed as a tourist in the seventies, had donated a Rolls Royce to the Government. …. read more
President James Michel sounds satisfied with his brief visit to France, his first to meet the new French President , Nicholas Sarkozy. …. read more
Lions Club Monkeying AroundLike most people, I have been watching the Lions Club going about its public contribution programs and observing what they say and what they do. The Lions Club is supposed to be a non-political organization, but in Seychelles it seems to have taken a very political spin …. read more
This week marks the first anniversary of what has become known as the 3rd October incident. This day is also known as “Black October” in opposition circles. …. read more
Dear Sir, I would like to add to Christopher Gill’s list of lies by Jack Joker (JJ if you will) which appeared in last week’s issue of Seychelles weekly. …. read more
All these talks about more foreign exchange entering our banking system from tourism and investors are a load of lies designed by the SPPF to fool Seychellois in believing that the economy is growing. If there is one thing that the SPPF’s leadership is very good at, is at lying to the people of this country. …. read more
The new hand of the IMF, Frenchman Dominic Strans-Khan, has claimed that he is a free market socialist. As attempts are made over here to label and pigeon-hole President James Michel, many political analysts are asking whether the same label can be attached to our very own President. ….read more
Air Seychelles, which for over two decades has been selling tickets from a ground floor shop in Victoria House, a privately owned building in the centre of Victoria next to the clock tower, is to have new ticketing sales offices by the end of this year. ….read more
During the recent Extraordinary CEO Forum, President Michel urged the assembled Principal Secretaries and Heads of Parastatal Organisations not to tell him things that they think he wanted to hear. He told them that he wanted to hear “nothing less than the truth; nothing less than the reality”. I wish, therefore, to remind our President of a few truths and reality in our country. ….read more
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