Le Nouveau Seychelles Weekly can sensationally revealed that the government lied when they used the increase in the price of oil on the international market as justification to increase taxes on petrol and diesel here by as much as 7 rupees on each litre of petrol and diesel purchased at the pump. …. read more

MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR SUPER YACHT RUNS AGROUND AT PLANTATION CLUB HOTEL!

A multi-million dollar super yacht, last week run aground on the beach at the Plantation Club hotel. At the time of going to press it was not clear how and why the yacht veered off course and ended up on the beach of the hotel. …. read more

Now we will have also environment police officers

An environment police unit comprising eight inspectors who will be out and about in Victoria and in the districts talking to members of the community on laws against littering. The announcement was made by the new Minister of the Environment, Natural Resources and Transport Joel Morgan. …. read more

SACL GIVES NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

After recently announcing that SACL was unable to pay dividends to its shareholders, Le Nouveau Seychelles Weekly can exclusively reveal that SACL will hold its first Annual General Meeting at the International Conference Centre, Maison Du Peuple, on Wednesday 10th October 2007 at 9.30am …. read more

INTELVISION NAMED AND SHAMED

Many people have called our offices this week, apparently at the end of their tether, to complain about the services offered by Intelvision. The criticisms were more pronounced in respect of its internet services, which are more offline than online, although other areas of its services were also singled out for criticism. …. read more

Glenny Savy Refuses Interview with ‘Le Nouveau Seychelles Weekly’

In our effort at getting to the bottom of this story, illegal hotel operation on Farquhar ‘Le Nouveau Seychelles Weekly’ (LNSW) has contacted IDC for their version on the scandal. …. read more

ONE SEYCHELLES, TWO SYSTEMS!

Seychelles, under President James Alix Michel, is fast getting a reputation for being one country with two concurrent systems; one for the rich and one for the poor. …. read more

Christopher Gill's Column

Fixed Penalties But Not Lapire

Minister of Environment and Land Transportation, Mr. Joel Morgan, has been unassumingly fronted as the SPPF new “poster child” on cleaning up the environment and imposing fixed penalties for trash, misuse of the roads which his Ministry is in charge. …. read more

Editorial

Moving Towards A Thugocracy

As the First Anniversary of the October 3rd, 2006 brutal assault and violent public beating of the Leader of the Opposition and his supporters within the precincts of the National Assembly, approaches,it is a good time to take into account how much progress we have made in enshrining democratic values in our society or in the alternative, ask each other if we are in fact in a Thug-o-cracy, hereinafter spelled “Thugocracy”. …..... read more

Another case of borrowing from Paul to pay Peter?

Sir – Two weeks ago Minister of Finance Danny Faure belatedly explained to the National Assembly why the government had to borrow an extra 30 million US dollars in the form of capital market bonds which Lehman Brothers issued at an arrangement fee of a million dollars or 3.34% of the total loan. …. read more

President Michel Cannot Think Outside The SPPF Box!

According to the Minister for Environment, Natural Resources & Transport. Joel Morgan, soon a new task force will be introduced. They will be known as the ‘Green Police’, nothing to do with SNP I might add or Leo the green turtle. …. read more

ELECTRICITY GENERATORS ADD US$26 MILLION NEW EXTERNAL DEBT

Hot after signing a fresh US$30 million external debt addition by peddling junk bonds to the international capital market, the government announced this week that it had signed an agreement with a Chinese company to install additional electricity generating capacity to the tune of US$26 million. …. read more

U.S. warned not to neglect Africa by Lee Davidson

The first president of the island nation of Seychelles told University of Utah students Monday that America is not giving it — and all of Africa — enough attention. So the United States is losing influence there while China is gaining it through gifts, big spending and personal attention. ….... read more

Close the army, let’s have performing Coastguards

Last week the “ The Weekly” carried an article calling for the closing down of the army, which is an expensive institution making no contribution to the national economy. …. read more

C&W staff takes anti-littering initiatives to heart

Cable & Wireless (C&W) has once again shown its ongoing commitment and support towards the protection and conservation of the Seychelles environment, and has also responded positively to the nationwide call for a waste-free Seychelles. …. read more

Pupils use urine as a weapon

Bottles of urine, rotten fruit and eggs have been found to be effective weapons by school children as they take their vendettas to the streets. …. read more

Be Gentle With SPPF

As it is becoming more apparent that the SPPF leadership has been lying to the People of Seychelles on just about everything, the DP and SNP must be compassionate and be gentle with SPPF Supporters, for this is a very difficult time for them, the most. …. read more

After the CIP lounge, two new VIP lounges

After the costly CIP lounge for use by first and Pearl class passengers prior to embarkation, the Civil Aviation Authority is to build two new VIP lounges. …. read more

Deratisation is imperative to counter leptospirosis

Seychellois of all political stripes are agreed on one thing; that rats must be eradicated since it is linked to the potentially deadly leptospirosis. …. read more