Monday, August 30, 2010

Eyewitness News

A Moment With The President of Seychelles
Every month, the President of Seychelles, Mr. James Alix Michel, comes into the living rooms of every Seychellois through the state owned and operated TV station the SBC and dishes out his mushy impressions of what our reality in Seychelles is and is not.
This month was not an exception, but the twist and turns this month, make good reading, whereas in past months, we could afford to just turn off the TV, though some viewers have reported to have proudly, broken their sets.
Michel Says Seychellois Must Take Control of Tourism Industry
The first startling point Mr. Michel made was that Seychellois must take control of the Tourism Industry. This is a joke coming from the man that has promoted and approved more Tourism projects outside of Seychelles for Seychelles, than any other President in Seychelles history.
He cautioned us into falling hook line and sinker on his own assertion, when he himself told us:”next year, I will outline a plan on how Seychellois, can participate meaningfully in the Tourism Industry”. Next year?
My question to Mr. President is this: “What is wrong with telling us this year?” Taken a little deeper and more conclusive, “What is wrong with telling us how Seychellois can participate in the Tourism Industry for the last Five (5) years instead of telling your friends from UAE and Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, how to do that?”
People of Seychelles, under James Michel, our main Tourism Industry which has been built by Seychellois, has been sold by a Seychellois, James Michel to internationally branded companies that have key players behind them all. The money they earn, off our sun, sea, sand and Seychelles being simply, the most beautiful group of islands on earth, is banked over seas. The only money that comes to Seychelles, is monthly operating expense.
Now, he wants us to believe that he did not do the deals.
Ask questions and All Will Be Revealed
• Who brought in Lemuria Constance Group to Praslin, and now Anse Georgette Beach is off limits to Seychellois and Seychellois establishment guests, which has destroyed the “Seychelles Brand”, in so far as free unfettered island exploring holiday has been in fact, blocked?
• Who approved Raffles Hotel Praslin, which is an environmental disaster, destroying the Seychelles Brand and the Praslin Brand?
• Who brought in Four Season Hotel and Villa’s and what does Seychelles benefit from such a project, aside from a few private jets landing at the airport?
• Who gave Four Seasons tax free concessions on BMW x 5’s 75 in all, to the detriment of Seychellois taxi operators and transfer businesses, while Seychellois hotels have to beg State House for a concession to import a luxury transfer vehicle?
• Who gave Banyan Tree the right to transfer guests, and the right to block off effectively, a substantial part of Anse Intendance, which was one of the most frequently visited beaches on Mahe, Island by visitors and Seychellois alike?
• Who brought in Eden Island, a retirement villa community, that could not handle the market forces as the world financial bubble burst, and has now ventured into renting out apartments to make ends meet on an artificial island, competing directly with Seychellois owned businesses, further destroying the “Seychelles Brand” with a culturally artificial,fake product?
• Who allowed over 200 foreign owned barefoot charter sailboat units set up shop in Seychelles, hence creating the equivalent of a 1200 room hotel, with revenues banked overseas, aside from operating expenses? This decision displaced Seychellois boat operators, and hotels alike across the board, while destroying our environment and marine parks, with unfettered anchorage.
• Who allowed LaBriz Shilouette to set up operations, but allows IDC to furnish fuel to the establishment and boats, which it buys tax free from SEPEC, hence subsidizing a foreign owned hotel in effect;
• Who licensed not yet completed 385 room Ephelia Hotel, before additional flights could be set to keep “Tourist Arrival” numbers increasing? To keep things looking good we now quote: “Visitor Arrival” numbers, which includes ship mates in transit, and Ascon non GOP workers, all 3000 of them.
• Who brought in all these internationally branded hotels, without requiring that development impact fees be paid, in order to upgrade our water catchments nationwide, and our electricity grids and roads nation- wide, now we are at capacity, without funds to upkeep and improve basic infrastructure?
• Who brought in these internationally branded hotels to Seychelles, and claimed that they would save us, when in fact, we were declared bankrupt on October 31, 2008, by the same person in a national televised speech?
Our situation is so pitiful under James Michel, I must stop, but I will carry on in a second part article addressing Michel’s version of the “Melting Pot”, after the practice of selling passports for over two decades, has been exposed.
Melt on Jack!

Sesel Pou Seselwa!
May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

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GUARDIAN
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Published: 22 Aug 2010

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Anonymous said...

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Currently offered at the Lok Jack GSB:
The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business is currently offering as its graduate programmes:
• The International MBA
• The Executive MBA
• Master of Marketing
• Master of Human Resource Management
• Master in International Finance
• Doctor of Business Administration
A number of short courses and workshops are always available, such as Events Management, Project Management, Train-the-Trainer and Technical Report Writing, amongst others.

Anonymous said...

The Lok Jack GSB has trained and developed more than 20,000 people locally, regionally and internationally and has even gone as far afield as Botswana, Swaziland and the Seychelles. The Business School has been listed as one of only three centres of excellence in the Commonwealth. The first academic programme offered by the Lok Jack GSB was the Executive Master of Business Administration, which was launched in June 1990. In 1993 the Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management was birthed followed by the International M.B.A. in 1995, and the Post Graduate Diploma in Management Information Systems in 1997. The M.Sc. Marketing Programme was launched in 2002 with the Master of Human Resource Management being introduced in 2003.
In 2003 the Executive M.B.A. and the International M.B.A. were awarded international accreditation by the Association of M.B.A.’s of the U.K. in world record time of six months. The Doctorate of Business Administration developed in conjunction with our sister schools at the Mona and Cave Hill campuses of The University of the West Indies admitted its first cohort in January 2008, while the newest addition to the list is a Master of International Finance launched in March 2010. The Lok Jack GSB has graduated over 1400 persons from these programmes.
Currently Executive Education, Conferencing, Professional Development and Business Advisory services are provided by the Executive Education, and Diagnostics and Assessment Centres, with these offerings continuing to complement the formal academic programmes with accessible learning experiences aimed at the full range of business professionals in the marketplace. In July 2005 the Lok Jack GSB moved into the state of art facility located on 8.5 acres of land and continues to enjoy strong endorsement from the business community. It has attracted a $TT20 million endowment from the Arthur Lok Jack Foundation and other sponsorships from Republic Bank Ltd, Yara Trinidad Ltd, The Neal & Massy Group, Guardian Holdings Ltd and businessman Byron Gopaul.

Anonymous said...

The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business currently enjoys partnership with the World Economic Forum, the Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness of the Harvard Business School, George Washington University and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business has also produced the Vision 2020 Draft Strategic National Plan for the Government of Trinidad & Tobago. With these and other developments in areas such as Conferencing and Corporate Responsibility Centres, we look forward to your continued support and partnership as we advance the mission of developing the latent greatness of our region through the empowering of our people.
Currently offered at the Lok Jack GSB:
The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business is currently offering as its graduate programmes:
• The International MBA
• The Executive MBA
• Master of Marketing
• Master of Human Resource Management
• Master in International Finance
• Doctor of Business Administration
A number of short courses and workshops are always available, such as Events Management, Project Management, Train-the-Trainer and Technical Report Writing, amongst others.

Anonymous said...

Michel told us he has a plan and would take him a year in order to put it in place.But Mullah Michel have you start consulting those really concern namely the people actively involve and understand how the tourism industry works or it is a plan concocted by Khalifa?

Unilateralism Mullah Michel has result in the bankruptcy< of our economy and all the mess you have left on the back of our people stop bulling the people donkey and give the industry to be manage by professional not appretice donkey.

Jeanne D'Arc

Anonymous said...

This mad Michel have sold all our land to those foreigners now he come and say all Seychellios can do Guest House and small business.Why you did let Seychellios do this 32 years ago?
What,now you want to make Seychellios naked like you and co have done with our country.Bankrupt
our country and with your Rupees no value.Seychellios remove Michel& PP in Power befor you gonna invest your money otherwise you gonna be bankrupt.



MICHEL WHY YOU DONT GO AND TAKE A GUN PIONT IT TO HEAD AND PULL THE TRIGGER.

Anonymous said...

..........NOW HE'S DEAD
MAMA, LIFE HAS JUST BEGUN
BUT NOW I'VE GONE AND THROWN IT ALL AWAY
MAMA, OO OOUH
DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRY
IF I'M NOT BACK AGAIN THIS TIME TOMORROW
CARRY ON, CARRY ON AS IF NOTHING REALLY MATTERS..........

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