Sheikh Khalifa - New ruler of Seychelles?
Bougla Pe Dir Sesel Pou Arab
While the election commission was grappling with the reality of the Constitution of Seychelles being abrogated and the imminent death of the Third Republic under PL, State House announced late last week that Abu Dhabi government officials were in Seychelles to present us a master plan for the smallest capital in the world, the capital of Seychellois national pride, dignity, identity…..Victoria.
The Delegation Was Bigger Than a Football Team
The delegation James Michel received on our behalf was bigger than a football team. It included the Abu Dhabi Director General of Planning Authority and a plethora of underlings.
Khalifa's puppet
It was an amazing display of the Michel’s friends coming to his aid, as he has forsaken our own people into contributing in a valuable manner, on the development of Victoria
Expo 2020?
What ever happened to the Sr. 22 Million Expo 2020? Was not that the expo of all expos that showed the new developments for the city of Victoria? I visited the International Conference Center
What About Qualified Seychellois Doing The Master Plan?
Why has James Michel not had qualified Seychellois contribute to a master plan and do it? That may sound like a hair brained idea to Mr. Michel, but it sounds like a reasonable and highly plausible idea to many Seychellois. We are not all meant to carry guns and shoot at our fellow brothers and sisters.
Michel - If Seychellois are not good at Planning, how about an Arab President as well?
Some of us, can actually develop a master plan. Some could probably do it better then Abu Dhabi Seychelles
I have been receiving reports that numerous properties are up for grabs by Abu Dhabi ictoria Waterfront property which was highly marketed at the 2020 Expo and which had been promised to the likes of the Seychelles Yacht Club and Marine Charter for further development is now earmarked for Arab investors. Properties all over South Mahe , even the defunct Emirates Cap Ternay Project is soon to find new Arab owners. The list is daunting. What exactly is going through James Michel mind to sell interests in Seychelles
Desperate Men Take Desperate Measures
Mr. Michel recently took over the Tourism portfolio. But he has not done much with it and we have not seen him do much with it except to increase State House' travel budget at the expense of taxpapers money. It is depressing to say the least. If anything, he has helped to destroy Tourism since he took over. It has been in my opinion, a little like the boy taking a toy and smashing it into a wall because he did not know how to wind it up. To make Tourism work, all players need to be engaged in a real way, and the playing field must not be said to be level, but it must actually be so.
Our most important Ministry needs a leader with vision, not a President who thinks he knows it all. Why does he not simply hand over the tourism portfolio over to Alain St. Ange who is doing all the work anyway? Surely St. Ange cannot do any worse than Michel.
Alain St. Ange - the defacto Tourism Minister
More Desperate Moves
Surprisingly, many people do not know that Mr. Michel has taken over the portfolio for Planning, Lands and Land Use and Habitat. It is here where, we must be afraid, be very afraid, because Mr. Michel will sell anything he can likely, under his “Sesel Pou ARAB”- policy!
But Michel's know-it-all and Arab-loving policies will surely backfire one day in the future as the Seychellois people have been watching the Arab Spring with great passion and are simply tired of being lied and manipulated. The death of Gadhafi on Thursday is a grim reminder of what happens to despotic and corrupt leaders who believe a country, its people and its resources belong to them.
Just remember the trick statement he made when he took office: “Judge me by my actions” and then he said: “I am President of all Seychellois”.
I guess a lot of passports will be sold in UAE over the coming months.
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These are the same people who are supposed to be our role models!
If James Michel cannot see what shit he's landed us in then he's a bigger fool than I had thought.
He declared that he was going to do things differently in his new mandate. Unless I've missed it, nothing seems to have changed one bit.If anything, it's getting worse and will continue to get worse until some people are taught that they cannot get away with murder.
We're all looking to the president to set the example.
The"prominent individuals at UNISET" are not doing anything our political leaders from top to bottom, have not been doing.
Albert Rene used State House as a brothel,dropped his second wife for a younger one and kept on sleeping around.
James Michel did same as chief. He dropped his wife and where he did better than Albert is that he got himself an even younger mistress and subsequently wife. This did not stop him from sleeping around.
Rumours of adulturous relations with staff are rife.
And I would not know where to start with his ministers. The only one you do not hear stories about is Shamlaye. All the others are falling over themselves to be better at conquests.
Yet, in all this we are being asked to set the example to get our country out of the morality mess it is in.
Someone asked what David Savy was doing at the airport welcoming Etihad, after being sacked from Air Seychelles. He is now the Chairman of the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority. Michel cannot keep the stepson out of work for too long, if he wants to hang on to his own job.
I can't help feeling that Michel was wishing on Friday that he could adopt Etihad as the national airline and smother the troublesome Air Seychelles. You could see it in his eyes as he welcomes the Etihad delegation at State House. What are the chances he will be flying Etihad when he goes to the Abu Dhabi Etihad Grand Prix next week. Etihad is of course the national airline of the Abu Dhabi where Khalifa comes from. Emirates is from Dubai, another of the 7 countries that make up the UAE. Let's see how this pans out.
Why Gleeny was present?Simply he is Still conlonel of the Air Froce though we do not have one and he does not even has any military responsibility.That is now Pp communist system works you given or takes many tilte in order to steal from the people wealth while douing nothing or have no idea of what they are given tiltes,promotion for.
This one thing we have to do instead of complaining overthrow this gang of crooks by massive peaceful streets protests thus save our land from neo-clonialsim and people form modern slavery.
Jeanne D'Arc
Sorry i meant David.
I think sometimes you forget to take your pill before you log on.
Khalifa this week sent his emisaries to meet with the sheikh of his 8th Emirate.
James Michel is happy in this role and everyday we keep quiet about the circus going on, we're endorsing the arrangement.
Sesel pou Arab! Soon nou tou nou pou pwenti fes dan divan lo konblaz.....
4 Tronpet
With all due respect to the distinguished honorary consul who made the presentation but SHOULD OUR GOVERNMENT STOOP TO THIS LEVEL AND ACCEPT 4 little tronpet FROM A LITTLE ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC????
And with so much fanfare????
Where is our pride and dignity as a nation?
Is this what our "active diplomacy" has been reduced to?
Accepting hand-outs, whatever they are and from wherever they come?
Come on guys, let's be real.
Miss Kreol
So Shamlaye reckons that failing to involve our Miss Kreol in this year's festival kreol is "an oversight"?
Really?
The more I look at and listen to these people the more I realise how pathetic and mediocre we've become.
James Michel should off-load these incompetent morons and appoint competent people in their place. It's not as if we're all a nation of morons. There are many competent people around.
Tronpet
I agree - Pathetic and humiliating this is.
There comes a point where, for national pride and dignity it's best to politely decline certain gifts, however well-meaning they may be.
Why do you think some nations, even after major catastrophies, refuse foreign help, even when offered?
It's all to do with national pride and dignity.There are certain things that an independent sovereign country should be able to do on its own. Getting its Music Conservatory 4 tronpet is one of them.
Tonight, I'm embarassed and ashamed.
Festival kreol
A disaster this year.Government funding PLUS close to a million rupees of private sector funding and nothing to show for it.
PLEASE hand this activity over to people who can to organise and run it.
Please - Pour lanmour Sesel
Mancham also is falling in love with arabs like Michel.
Michel will sell seselwa with arabs if seselwa let him.We will see were Michel and his crooks will run when troubel come their way.
Nothing will happen to Michel. Trust me on this. He and his cronies will continue to screw us until his term is up. Baton will then be passed to Danny Faure and Jean Paul Adam and the screwing will continue.
Seychellois are cowards. They'll moan, complain, swear under their breath but will never say enough is enough. This is why Lepep will continue to reign over us for ever and ever Amen.
Well i will twell one thing ,note it down in case you forget.PP will not be in power in the next election.WHY? if the electoral reforms are democractic we will get him out in the election but if PP try to fake and pretenting to conduct refomrs to gain time we will do it as the lybian,Tunisian,Egy<ptain did namely by massive streets portests all other the country.note it won't be for one day but 24hours on 24 until Pp crumble.
YOu were wrong on the boycott you will be again wrong on pp's fate.
This country is for the people of Seychelles not for a gang of criminals and its foreign firends we will show them what people revolution is.Morevoer if Pp is still in power it is not becuase pp is strong but becuase we the people have allow them to do so the table is turning,change will be on our shore soon not longer than until the next election.
jeanne D'Arc
Michel and PP will stay in power for as long as THEY want.
As usual you and I and everybody else will talk a lot about this being our country but will not do anything.
Stop talking about street protests. Will NEVER happen.
NEVER.
One thing we have excelled in is talk, talk talk.
You know it, James Michel knows it.
I was not born then but I hear that Albert Rene defied the British administration several times by taking his supporters to the streets in marches and strikes.
At least somebody had balls.
Reply to All-
I read clearly the sense of panic and chaos that is setting in the SNP camp from the comments made on this blog.
It is sad indeed.
The panic is caused because of two fundamental reasons: 1. Failure of existing leadership to deliver the promise for change after 18 years; 2 failure to allow willing and able leaders in the party to come up.
A third less important point of course, is the systematic exposure of SNP being a sell out party that Freedom Party is exposing on its blog. Most recently, Bernard Goerges tapes reveal he worked for his clients some British nationals and his other Client FIU and State House at the same time over the banking of $900,000.00.
In rebutal, the point has been made that these ideas are not believed by the people in the streets. Fair enough of a point as fair as a chicken without feathers wears a coat and tries to pass it off for feathers.
But my impression is that they do believe what we say.
Please stop mentioning Sylvestre Radegonde and Marc Hoareau on this site, like they do not deserve any respect.
These two men are great Seychellois. They are currently also private figures in our community. Permit them the respect warranted to allow them to make any announcements that they will go Public and get involved.
Anything better then what Ramkalawan has dished out will be an imporvement for Seychelles.
Have a great day and live FREE as God intended you to be.
This will destroy Communism.
Seselwa Unite!
Sesel Pou Seselwa!
Christopher Gill
Leader of Seychelles Freedom Party
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I have been on a private holiday with my wife, and children (15 days). Sorry, if I was missed and chaos brewed on the site while I was gone.
I ask all in the opposition to mature up a bit. Because the comments being placed on some blogs can only make PL Communist laugh to death.
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Who paid for your family holiday ?
Today in Seychelles's front page is another example of yellow journalism practised by that paper. It does not dare criticise the government, and in those rare occasions that it tries to criticise Parti Lepep government, it wastes paper and ink and its readers' time beating about the bush.
So, no surprise that it has used a totally inappropriate picture of Ramkalawan to accompany its article on Ramkalawan at the SNP Women's conference. It is one of Parti Laliberte's favourite pictures. But serious journalists from a struggling and fledgling paper wanting to be taken seriously can do better than that.
TODAY in Seychelles's forte is self-censorship, in various forms, while it ingratiates itself with the regime.
How incompetenet must Minister Morgan and Brig Leopold Payet be, before they are dismissed ?
Two fishermen, were kidnapped, just 60 miles from Mahe...thats right, somalis, came to mahe, kidnapped two fishermen, and took them away to somalia. These were not American SEALS in a helicopter spiriting away Bin Laden, but Somalis, in a boat, who came 60 miles to our shores..
If the fishermen were taken hostage on one of the outer islands, i could understand, but 60 miles from Mahe!!!?? thats desplorable...
Not only were the taken hostage, but they returned to Somalia, on mainland Africa with them!!!
Morgan, you are incompetent at best.. you cannot protect us..do the honourable thing and resign now!!!!
we have over 100 miles scattered over a million square miles, so yes, its impossible for us, with our limited resources to police over such a vast ocean.
However, the absolute minimum I expect, is that we are protected from these pirates on MAHE, PRASLIN and LA DIGUE...
Knowing that these pirates could come to mahe, kidnap fishermen, and take them back to somalia is unbelievable.
The buck stops with you Minister Morgan.
Morgan, Michel, you guys can`t protect us or our assets..time for you guys to leave!
In any other country, heads will roll..
when the Americans went to get Bin Laden, the pakistanis were up in arms that their sovereignity was invaded...well, our soverenigty has been invaded....
what guarantees do we have that this won`t happen again ? none whatsoever..Morgan and michel...you have to go!
if we cannot travel to the other islands, we are all hostages to these pirates, not just the two unfortunate fishermen..
morgan, you are useless...step up, be a man, admit your shortcomings, RESIGN....
what must the somalis do, come to seychelles, open a stand at next years SUBIOS festival weekend, send a candidate for MNA etc before you pull your finger out ?
i mean, any other arrival in seychelles, be it by air or sea pays an arrival and departure tax at the point of entry and exit...maybe these somalis have got the right idea, they enter and leave seychelles as they please, take our people hostages, and don`t pay anything for the privilege..next time i leave seychelles i am going to hire these Somalis Ferry Services and forget about Air Seychelles, that way i can leave seychelles, go to dubai, return with my shopping, and not pay a penny!!!! :o)
The 3 idiots Michel, Morgan and Leopold are taking us Sewelwa for fools.
While Michel is receiving a watch at State House with all his lovely ladies in waiting, Morgan is making another useless speech at Subios with ass-licker Alain St. Ange in a dinghy, and while Leopold is still counting his stolen millions, Somali pirates are 60 miles from our shores. Where are the Chinese planes, the Indian Navy boats, the Arab Coast Guard vessels, the drones, and whatever else equipment we have received to fight piracy? Where is La Viktwar pou Sesel?
Now we need Siva to cough up another cool million dollars to pay for the release of these 2 poor fishermen. But Siva is not in the good books these days as they have used him and now ready to throw the big Indian baby out with the bath water. Maybe the deep-pocketed JJ Spirit Foundation can dig into its illegal millions to pay for the ransom. Or Marie-Louise can ask fat cat Danny Faure for a supplementary budget.
And I wouldn't be surprised if the Somalis get smart and ask for the release of all the prisoners we are holding in prison. If I was the negotiator, I would ask for Pinocchio-nose Morgan to be handed over as well. What a day of joy that would be for us Seychellois. Hell, puny Morgan would fit right in with the skinny Somalis and maybe he could lead a tribe, make some white baby Somalians and become the feared Pinocchio the Pirate. He could also call on Meriton's renesans morale book to teach these Somalis some manners so that they don't steal other people's boats let alone hard working fishermen.
Michel you dickhead, why don't you invade Somali and become their head of state. Shit, Seychelles is too small for you and you are running out of women. So use your stolen millions and create en nouvo Somalia. Take your bunch of wanking Ministers and MNAs with you too. I can already see Marie-Louise and Mari-Rose enjoying those long Somali dicks; they won't even have time to squeal and make famous speeches. And the Somalis could feast on that fat bastard Dr. Hermini for at least 6 months.
James Michel, Joel Morgan and Leopold Payet are all fucking idiots and a disgrace to our land. I hope one day some Somali pirate gets a chance to put a bullet into their empty lying skulls.
And when did Regatta and Subios become so political?
Sov nou Sesel
Just wait til Somalis land on Bird, North, Denis, Fregate or Desroches.That will be the end of tourism on our islands.We are a time-bomb waiting to explode. The millions spent on our army and coast guards are wasted if they cannot protect our people just some sixty miles at sea.Too many fancy speeches with no substance and no action.
the last blogger mentioned something that i did not even think about...just imagine, if the somalis use these two poor fishermen as bait..?
the two fishermen, obviously have no money..but what if they are used as pawns to get the somalis already in prison released ?
if you google the name Omar Saeed, you will see that he was a young man from east london, he became a muslim fundamentalist, and went to bosnia, and was trained by al quaeda.
In the mid 1990´s, he went back to pakistan, and befriended brits and american tourists in pakistan, and kidnapped them..it was only after the army raided his property, they were freed and he was arrested..
a few years later, al quaeda hijacked an air india flight and demanded his release with the exchange of 200 or so indian passangers...his release was granted..
fast forward a few years, he was instrumental in 9/11 and financed it by sending the 911 hijackers US$100K..then later, it was he who kidnapped the unfortunate daniel pearl, who was then beheaded...
Omar Saeed is now in prison, on death rowe..
my point is this...these fishermen are poor, and have no money..my fear is the point that the previous blogger mentions... what happens if these poor fishermen are used as pawns to negotiate for the release of the somalis...how stupid would michel and morgan look, if after jailing them two weeks ago, in front of the EU etc, they have to release them next week!!!!
first morgan loses US$10million to the fake sheik, now seselwa fishermen cannot go fishing off the coast of mahe. DISGRACEFUL...
as the last blogger mentioned, where are the drones, war boats, coastguard etc..
when the royal couple were here, they had a coastguard ship permantly protecting their privacy, but what about a coastguard protecting our fishermen, in our waters...
we had a rogue shark that killed two tourists, remember how fast alain st ange and morgan and co tried to cover their asses on that one...now two poor fishermen are kidnapped...
st ange, morgan, michel....you all have to go...complete disgraces..
Our Coast Guards acted like the Royal Navy when William and Kate came to North Island on their honeymoon. I'm sure the British Monarch paid a huge sum for this and of course we will never know where the money went, if not in Michel's or Leopold's pockets.
Now where is the same Coast Guard when thye are needed to protect our fishermen just a few miles off the coast of Mahe? Ironic isn't it that Michel helped kicked the British out of Seychelles and then 35 years later he protects their future King. I just wished he would do the same to our locals.
isn`t James Michel also our Minister for DEFENCE ?
So, just on those grounds, he should resign..If he cannot defend our main island, which is a thousand miles from the mainland africa and even more from somalia..he is a complete ignoramus..
these pirates, sailed over a thousand miles from somalia, to mahe, and then back again with the fishermens boat in towe, AND NOTHING...if i were the fishermens family, i would be suing the ministry of defence, the coastguard etc...complete waste of time and resources..
Michel and Morgan ( M&M)..complete waste of human life, your mothers should have swallowed you both, instead of letting your daddies come between their legs
seriously...somali pirates, NOT SAS or NAVY SEALS travel a thousand kilometres from somalia, come to MAHE, and take a fishing vessel and two fishermen hostage, and then return the thousand miles back to Somalia completely unchallenged...
complete and utter, fucking disgrace...michel, you and trophy wife, cabinet of wankers should do us all a favour and fuck off..
if it is that easy to invade our country, we should pay some mercenaries like gaddafi did, to invade mahe and get rid off you... these pirates have proved to us, its not that difficult and that we have zero defences against such an invasion..
we should get these somalis to come to mahe and kidnapp michel and co...should not be so difficult...maybe throw them overboard to feed the rogue sharks whilst they are at it...fat bastard hermine will probably be confused for a walrus, and first to perish...
i am getting in touch rite now with the chandlers to see if they can put me in touch with some rent a pirates...
The best will be that the pirates land on Desroches when Rene,Michel and Clenny Savy are having dinner eating kari torti zale ek marswen zale.
Next time if the pirates take our fisherman,we will give Metsy La Rue for an exchange to get back our fisherman.
Johnny
The best will be that the pirates land on Desroches when Rene,Michel and Clenny Savy are having dinner eating kari torti zale ek marswen zale.
Next time if the pirates take our fisherman,we will give Metsy La Rue for an exchange to get back our fisherman.
Johnny
is it a bird? is it a plane? is it a nuclear submarine ? is it a crack team of NAVY SEALS ? no, its some somali sailors...
no need to guess how all the drugs get into our country now...
Seychelles Peoples Defence Forces....a big title for BIG TITS...they couldn`t catch a cold...what a waste of our tax ruppees....
Their forces are more on land that on the sea,because communist are afraid of the bad guys of overthrowing them from Power,seen 35 they been leaving with scare in their ass and having nightmare that why you see Michel look older than his age.
Michel is doing on purpose letting pirates making party in our water to give adventage to Khalifa that he can bring his camels army on our shore to do the jobs for PP and Michel.
Johnny
NO CAMELS BOOTS ON OUR SHORE.
Somali pirates
Pep seselwa note how our beloved president is sooooo silent on the recent kidnap of our fishermen.
James michel cannot be associated with failures. No sir. He will come out if and when the fishermen are released.Dan maler he stays quiet.To take credit he's always present with SBC in tow.
Laferm zannimo.
where are you pissed off and all the other PP sympathisers ?
feel safe in your bed tonite, knowing that somalis can travel 1000KM undetected, kidnap, and return another 1000KM without being challanged ?
your god, James michel is also our Minister of Defence...wow, that makes me feel so much safer..
i thought we were gonna become a muslim country because of the ARABS, now it looks like the somalis have carte blanche to invade us also...ho hum, its only a matter of time....
Misel y ennan palto zis pou Viktwar ek sikse, me pa pou maler. En presidan fes.
Our President is busy rubbing shoulders with arab and diplomatic visitors.
He cannot believe his luch and good fortune.He's just screwed us in a fake election yet people are still queueing up to see him. SBC does not fail an opportunity to blow this out of all proportion. Khalifa's cleaner visits and suddenly this is headline news.
Laferm zannimo.
And that after the Coast guard failed to act after and should have acted after within minutes after they lost contact with the fishermen this was the first mis-step,but the Coast guard did have a change to correct thier mistakes hours after when the Fish siener was atttacked ,again the coast guard failed to act with the excuse that the French vessel repelled the acttack though the pirates were still in our waters.Twentyx-four our last again a Spanish Fishing Vessel spotted the pirates for the third times the coast guard failled to intervene.All in all this was a demonstration of how bad trained,basd equiipped,bad commandand coordination within the SCG and bad strategy on the part of Pp regime to have appropirate stragety,equippment to prtoect our EEZ and country.
Just imaging if we would have a permanent base of one of our coral island confiscated by Glenny Savy?It would have reduce the risk that pirates reach so near to our shores,even after the hijack as in this case we would have had the poosibility to Chase them more effectively .You have also noted that we cannot only protect our EEZ from pirates but from illegal fishing by Twainese,Iranian,Thai,Chinese and many other ofriegners without control.
All this becuase of our failed communsit regime that has runnout of ideas that it never had anyway and is rusted to its spine.
Seychellois it is time for rapid change.
Jeanne D'Arc
En prezidan pour tou seselwa....kan tou keksoz i OK.
When ther's shit, send ti Morgan and the idiot Payet on SBC.
When the hostages are released, it's the Commander in Chief who made it possible.
Lafern zannimo.
James Michel's government is just a mirage.
A lot of talk and hand waving but when it really matters, there's no leadership, no strategy.
Why Michel the buffoon does not sack these incompetents around him, beats me.
Hasn't Flo Payet reached retirement age? Hasn't he made enough money?
Pp regime has as we all know failed of all front.But since we on our defence forces let us have a check of how good our military is. Under Pp communist regime after fourty years we still have no single officer with a degree in Military Science,no expert in military planing,strategy,opeartion and so on.WHy Pp is afraid if our men in uniform are highly trained they might be a danger to the communist system-with the moto-if they know too much they might topple us.
Time to get rid of communists.
Jeanne D'Arc
E ou la Zann Dark,
Do you want to know why the Seychelles Military have Specialists and not "experts"?.
That's because an "experts" are people like yourself who knows less and less.
And Zann, ou bez fer la peine ma fille. Arhhh wee seigneur.
its official, seychelles and zimbabwe have the last baffoon dictators in Africa...gone are Gaddaffi, Imi Dada,but remain are Michel and Mugabe..
michel picked up a gun 40 years ago, i doubt he can spell ``gun``, but nevermind, he does not want an efficient military in seychelles, as he is scared of will happen..maybe they might overthrow him, like he overthrew mancham.
when you have corrupt govts, the military is vital, look at pakistan, madagascar, various south american govts..the military are the ones who have the guns and tanks..michel knows this, thats why, we have undertrained military and no specialists...michel is scared that a military man, with a brain and training, will actually have political power!
Does anyone knows if Leopol was in the 1977 coup and what role he played for him to be BRIGADIER.
Not sure what role he played in the coup d'etat. He was probably in it. But he was made brigadier by James Michel soon after he became president. James Michel was probably trying to avert a military coup by Rene.
Michel throws his hands up in the air. He says we are surrounded by too much sea and the Parti lepep government cannot protect us from pirates. The sea is very big, he has just revealed to us, as if geography lessons taught in schools are deficient.
He is criticising western governments for taking action in Libya and doing nothing about Somali. Does Michel not know that there is no oil in Somali ? He is still mourning Brother Gaddafi.
He forgets that he was on a junket in Australia, yet again, when pirates got within 65 miles of State House.
what does this pirate attack say about our defences ? it is the year 2011, and pirates, probably uneducated guys, from a failed state, in a boat, can travel 1000KM to our shores, kidnap fishermen, and take them back...God (ALLAH) help us if we turn into a muslim state, and the israelis (or any elite forces ) have to send their commandos here for whatever reason ( if it emerges we are harbouring international terrorists etc _ probably are )...
as a nation, we expect our govt to provide us with security, water, food, effective civil service, protect us, judiciary, education etc, and in exchange, we pay taxes...Michel and his govt fail on all these fronts...
the americans don`t want to enter somalia ( see black hawk down) for obvious reasons, as well as zimbabwe, as the previous blogger mentions, there is no oil in those countries also..as in rwanda during the 90`s...the consensus is to leave those africans and let them kill themselves...
We the people of seychelles, demand an effective govt..we pay your salaries.
I am praying for Pirates to land on those islands to kinapped those PP crooks,if i have chance to give them 1 million rupees to kinnapped Michel,Morgan and other i will then we Seselwa who beleave in democracy can see the light of freedom and buried corruption for good.
Pissoff kote ou pe kaka were are you PP ass licker when bad news and negative things are happening on the island we never see you on this blog.Tell Michel to give a gun to sleep with Pirates are coming to land on our shore soon to Kinnapped all those PP crooks.
Pissdog no comment on Pirates.
Johnny
Metsy La Rue it easy to give her to Pirates because she dont has any bodygard our protection on Praslin.
Seychelles Military have no expert,because communist dont what Seselwa to be an expert pissdog and better than them old crooks.And you always scare of another coup d'etat that an expert will overthrow communist rulers and the bad guys.You can not see some that he recuit can not even write their name they can only pull the trigger.
Johnny
Pirates
Why did James Michel need that size of delegation and SBC in tow to go and visit the families of the hostages?
Why should this be such a public circus for the families who are traumatised?
Where is his sense of decency and respect?
I was struck also by James Michel's declaration that his government is going to "intensify" patrols.
Why does he come up with the same tired excuse each time? Seychelles has been under this threat for a long time now.One would have expected government to have a fully thought-out plan and strategy in place ALREADY.
His declaration that Seychelles does not have sufficient manpower to patrol our seas is sending alrm bells. He's saying that he needs to bring in foreign troops.
Here's Khalifa's golden opportunity to station his troops in our country.
With respect to the grieving families, I have a nasty feeling that James Michel has engineered this whole thing to be able to get arab troops stationed here. This was the plan of the new naval base all along. That is why they included a mosque in the plan.
We're screwed. It's either the somali pirates or arab troops in our country.
Viv sesel!
viv nou presidan!
james michel is useless cunt of a president..
any opportunity for a photo call..
the fact and fault that these fishermen were kidnapped, whilst on home waters, 60 miles from home, and taken to somalia over 1000KM away, lays firmly on his feet..
He is the minister for DEFENCE, and if he cannot defend fishermen, fishing 60 miles from the shore of the main island of mahe, means he is INCOMPETENT..
pirates come this close, and do this, and return to Africa, and then he wants to intensify patrols...its like bolting the gate after the horse has run...he needed to do this along time ago..
Somalian piracy is not a new phenomenon..its been there for the last 20 or so years...he has been in govt for the last 35 years...the blame rests surely on his shoulders..
Pissed off.... where are you ?
all the SPPF sympathisers are deafening by their silence...
I hope the fishermen return safely, i really do..i pray that their fate is better than tham that of others taken hostage, however, if my life was in the hands of joel morgan, i would be scared....
We have NO plans for Tourism..
We have no plans to deal with the pirates..
We have no plans to deal with water shortages and droughts...
we are so fucked...
But they have plenty of plans to increase the price of everything because they have 5 years to get away with it, and they need to pay for the last election!
Michel could have made his grand declarations from his teleprompter at state house. He did not have to go and embarass these grieving families with his crowd and tv lights.
It's right that the president wants to express his sympathy and solidarity with the families but if he was sincere he would do this privately - away from tv cameras.
Arab troops on the way
Viv Khalifa!
Viv UAE!
Viv our great Leader and Benefactor!
He is making sure he has more photos for the follow up to Distant Hoorizons. Pathetic !
The interview he gave was schoolboy's stuff. Hardly likely to impress anyone or scare off Somali pirates. The dilemma now is the more ransoms we pay, the more lives we put at risk, because the pirates will come back for more money. They know the closer they get to our islands, the more likely they will find boats and fishermen.
so, morgan heads the high level committee on piracy, that begs the question, who would have led the low level ? cos if morgan is the best we have those fishermen are fucked..
James Michel is Minister for Defence, and cannot defend us...he is minister for Finance, and we are a bankrupted country, with the highest debt per capita in the world, do you see a pattern emerging ?
reading todays nation, we see the same old James Michel..promising tough action, and radars etc...then ends with ``Morgan will soon explain how the new measures will be deployed``..in other words, he says what he needs to say in front of the cameras, but as usual, there is no substance..
When the royal couple were here, they had the coast guard at their back and call to protect them from paparazzi, but us seychelloise, the fishermen, who put fish in our plates, are unprotected..
I am reminded of the unfortunate Ken Bigley, the british contractor who was kidnapped in iraq, and then beheaded..during the whole trauma, Tony Blair and his govt rang the family and assured them that everything was being done behind the scenes, at no stage did he take his entourage to Bigleys family home for a photo shoot..michel has no class.
I fully understand the need to show that he is doing something, after all, it is his fault ( minister for defence ) that allowed the pirates to capture the fishermen...inviting the families to state house, or even going to the families home, but WITHOUT the camera crews..how can you haev a private and meaning ful conversation, and console somone, with 20 strangers and a tv crew in your living room and in your face ?
The difference with Bigley and the fishermen is also stark, Bigley went to Iraq and knew of the dangers, these fishermen, were 60 miles( less than an hour) from the shore of mahe, not on some distant remote island near somalia, they were seychelloise on seychelloise property, when they were kidnapped..
If you look at the SPPF website, and Michels election propaganda, you see him steering the coats guard ship..acting like he knows what he is doing..Michel, you don`t know ships, in fact, you don`t know shit!!!
I pray to god that the fate that bigley had, does not encounter the fishermen.
We should have a vigil for these fishermen..if they are not released soon, they will slip from the public eye...it is time for the opposition parties to hold Michel for account as Minister for Defence, for allowing this to happen, and in the names of the fishermen, mobilise the masses.
The Arab Spring began with one man, a fruit and vegetable seller setting light to himself, this shuold be our moment..
We are bankrupted by a minister of finance and have a the same minister of defence, who cannot defend us in our backyards....ENOUGH IS ENOUGH..how much more must we take ?
SESEL POUR SESELWA
The poncey, yellow, obsequious reporting in Today in Seychelles is by Raymond St Ange. Obviously !
The visit to the relatives' home was in poor taste. Shame, Today did not see that. Where was Michel when the pirates were marauding in the waters of Seychelles ? He was in China to launch his autobiography in Chinese and then he hotfooted it directly to Australia on an expensive junket. He was having FUN while Somali pirates were planning to kidnap hardworking Seychellois fishermen right under his nose. Shame, Today did not see that. Now Michel is talking about putting armed men on fishing boats ! Is that really practical, or just a president at a complete loss and clutching at straws ? Shame, Today did not challenge him on that.
The family had welcome the president and all the others in their home, maybe their opinion on this matter are very different from yours.We now have two major problem PIRATES AND HEAVY RAIN we need to work together more than ever before.PRAYER TO GOD OUR BEST SOLUTION.Changing gouvernment is not going to bring an end to all these fiasco that we are facing,this whole world are in torment stop wasting your time.All these ARAB countries where people had revolted against their president,they are still facing a lots of uncertainties even after their president had gone.SEYCHELLES need GOD PROTECTION AND PEACE,GOD KNOW WHAT WE CAN HANDLE,LIKE IT OR NOT IT'S A REAL FACT.
the buck stops with James Michel..
he is the minister of Defence. The fishermen would not have been kidnapped if he was doing his job competently, FULL STOP.
The pirates coming to seychelles, is not an unforseen even like the tsunami of 2004. As minister of Defence, he should have defended us, seychellois, the fishermen in our land and waters.
If my son is bullied in school, the minisry of education and the school are responsible, they have a duty of care towards him, if i am misdiagnosed at hospital, the ministry of health is also liable etc..
if two fishermen are kidnapped and taken hostage 60 miles from Mahe, then the minister of Defence AKA james michel, is responsible..END OF STORY..
James michel, should go...
if the pirates are released and a ransom is paid, the pirates will come back for more, knowing its a easy payday, if they are not released, the ministry of Defence is responsible for NOT DEFENDING Seychelloise, on seychelloise property, and are civily and criminally liable..james michel has got himself into this mess..
I just wonder why the family did not shut up their doors when the butcher knocked at the doors.The butcher with his ignorance did not even seem to have asked these families if they wanted cameras in the private homes or not,the butcher just decided by himself.
Michel said we do not have enough manpower.Well what about those thousands of unemployed youth many with qualifications.If there is not enough recrute more Seychellois donkey.
If Michel meansby we do not have enough manpower in order to illegally allow Arabs boots colonize our soveiregn land and control us then we might see us in the streeets sooner than he ever dream of.WE WILL NOT TOLERATE FOREIGN TROOPS STATION ON OUR SHORE,AND LESS aRABS CAMELS.
JEANNE d'aRC
Jeanne arabs dont like foreign troops in their land call holy land and we seselwa also we dont like muslim troops to base on the christian soul.We will make sure this does not happen,if it happen then we have to say its time to take in the streets.
Today in london only 2000 students took in the streets for their right,its not long befor Michel also test the same medecine.
Johnny
All politicians ha dem cross the floor in Seychelles.Thats why you see seselwa are paying the price and communist will rule Sesel and seselwa as long as they want to rule and i bet next President will be Faure no body.If you opposition leader dont move their ass.
Faure will be president becuase Michel will quit before his mandate is over ,just as Rene did with Michel,it is communist ways of doing thing,not intern election the polite buroe finger picked its candidates.But Faure as any of pp communsit cannot win any election in a fair and free process.we will see that in the next presidential election.
jeanne D'Arc
It is certainly not true that the families of the 2 hostages invited Michel in. Michel forced himself on them and the families had to find somewhere to accommodate Michel and SBC. Michel forgets that we do not all live in presidential mansions. He is so out of touch with reality. If Michel is genuine, he should do these visits without SBC.
The pirates have heard about Siva and Khalifa and are now insisting on a massive ransom. Morgan let on that the pirates' spokespeople know Seychelles and have even visited the country.
This new goon at Airseychelles decided to cancelled the flight to singapore without making provisions and alernatives for customers who have already paid their money to travel to other destinations.what kind of leadership is that? We start to see the next level of comsumer rights rapidly being eroded at a rate never seen before.
This new goon at Airseychelles decided to cancelled the flight to singapore without making provisions and alernatives for customers who have already paid their money to travel to other destinations.what kind of leadership is that? We start to see the next level of comsumer rights rapidly being eroded at a rate never seen before.
Under communist everything operates in communist style:mis-anagement,bad jugdgement,bad economic policies,bad environemnt policies,wtc...wtc and etc..
You have heard the butcher on piracy.He said ships,boats can be provided with armed men on board ,Rediculous isn't it?Does The buther think that our local fishermen with an already miger profit will pay for amred men on their boats?Does Michel think the two kidnapped fishermen in th future will be able to find money to pay for an armed man?Probably in the future under PP even on inner island ferries he will put armed men or maybe each fisherman might be given a Ak 47 to defence themselves when our caost guard can noteven see and deal with pirates at 65 miles from our shores.
Jeanne D'Arc
Ser frer e ser seselwa - Arabs are coming, in thousands, alledgedly to help us fight pirates.
Why they'e not sent to Somalia to fight the pirates from there is as clear as day: Khalifa wants his own troops here to protect him when he's around. Emir Michel is too happy to accomodate. The desalination plants and election money from Khalifa speak.
Ser frer e ser seselwa - Arabs are coming, in thousands, alledgedly to help us fight pirates.
Why they'e not sent to Somalia to fight the pirates from there is as clear as day: Khalifa wants his own troops here to protect him when he's around. Emir Michel is too happy to accomodate. The desalination plants and election money from Khalifa speak.
The somali pirates are shitting in their langouti tonight. Joel Morgan is going after them!!!!!
It took me a while for this gem to sink in.
Is the guy for real?
If "we" are so powerful, why negotiate? Just take little Topaz, Andromanche and the three other Khalifa boats and just sail into the port of somalia and get our fishermen out.
Don't forget to get James Michel to lead the fleet.
I am Arab and am move Seyshells with my family next week...we move bel ombre. Can you tell is bel ombre nice to bring family..I am look forward to meet my african neighbors..Your president mishal very good with my people..we want to make some arab carnival in januray..is good? What everyone is think?
Thank you
Ismael Bunjhavarak
Ismael - Is good. Kome with your kouzins, unkles,ants, mistresses as wel. Belom good. Vely vely good. There is place to built large mosque.
Our president vely vely good. The best in the world. He will take care of you and your peoples more than he takes care of seychellois.
No worry. Welkome.
Ismael, by the way, make sure you can run and swim. Before not too long, seychellois are going to reclaim their country and you're going to have to run and swim very fast to get out.
Have a kartye maron ready for your mistresses,cousins, uncles and whoever else you bring along.
Be afraid. Very afraid.
ARABS CAN SUCK MY DICK LIKE MICHEL IS SUCKING THEM.
Hello Ismael -welcome to the Seychelles.
Islam has just conquered another corner of the globe. For this one we did not need to commit any atrocities as we normally do when we invade different parts of the world. The president here is a fool, an illiterate to be precise so he will allow us to rape as many women as we want as per the unholy Quran. Our pedophile prophet Mohammed must be lauging in his grave. We are free to bomb churches as we please. The illiterate president says it's OK as long as we reward him well. Hurry up we have lots of work to do here. We need to get the woman in burkas fast, destroy churches, erect mosques, ban music and dancing,introduce sharia law and islamic banking.
Lots of work here dear brother. Vive Michel the illiterate president. Vive Islam. Vive Mohammed.
from Mohammed assistant
For the past months or maybe year, I have come to this blog to read about Seychelles news. But, as of today, I will come no more because I find for above post about Muhammad and Islam to be really disgusting.
Chris, how can you tolerate this, my friend?
I always thought that my country, Seychelles and its people were racially and religiously tolerant and all inclusive.
If someone wants to criticise an Arab for political reason, then 'maybe' this is fair but to bring religion into it is shameful.
Just like we do not bring Christ and Christianity when we criticise the Irish, we should do the same for other races.
To me, Christ and Muhammad are great Personnage who have founded great religions and civilizations in our history and should be respected, whether we human beings are today living to their high ideals or not.
I think we are losing our meaning of what a Seychellois creole is; Mixed and all inclusive and tolerant.
Are we becoming bigots!!!
Not "bigots" my friend. "Zenofob".
But here's the deal: For our country, we'd rather be zenofob any day. It's zenofobs like us who are going to protect our country.
I agree we should not be bringing religion into this but when catholic priests molest and abuse small boys, priests sleep around contrary to their vow of celibacy, they bring discredit on the religion.
Similarly, there are thousands of atrocities being perpetuated by muslims.A lot of atrocities and weird fatwas. These bring discredit to their religion.Do we want these kinds of people in our country? No way Mohammed!
I shouldn't ask but is there any reason-APART FROM THE VERY OBVIOUS ONE- why James Michel would appoint LISE BASTIENNE as chairman of the La Digue Trust Fund? Isn't there a diguois competent enough to take care of the affairs of their island?
What does Lise Bastienne know about La Digue's needs?
Suddenly, Lise's time as a simple teacher and then clerk at STB look so far away.
so, lets get this straight..
every national day, when we go to the stadium, what do we see ? our armed forces marching the quick step wih their shiny rifles.
Now, that we have a situation, that requires our Armed Forces, to defend ourselves and patrimony, what happens ? Michel calls in the Mercenaries ( ghurkas)... why do we have a military, if the military can`t help us in our hour of need..
the enemy, is not a professional army, but unemployed fishermen...surely, our trained, and professional armed forces can deal with them ?
Ok!
When a priest molests, do we criticise the beautiful teachings of Christ?
A fatwa is a religious degree.
It also exists in Christianity. The Crusade went to the Middle East (Palestine) by a religious degree and there they shut the door and set fire to the houses with screaming women and children inside, burning them alive.
Religious degree still exists today in Christianity.
Can the action of men cause us to criticise Christ and its beautiful teaching?
The same with Islam, whether there is fatwa or suicide bomber, we cannot criticise Muhammad the beautiful teaching of Muhammad.
Let us stop it with the religious intolerance because it is a raging fire that we will not be able to put off.
Does La digue has an elected mayor?Why does Pp just give more power to local administration/distircts to decide what best for the communities.
About Islam.We could agree and disagree on islam but the point here is that Seychelles is a christian sovereign state being annex by Arabs islamic despots with the help of Pp communists.Our land are being illegally dished to Arabs that we we as christian and people,be it our culture,tradition,language etc have nothing to do with them.Arabs want with the help of Pp to build Moshe on our shore while Muslim community in our represent 0,0001%,Khalifa even wants together with The butcher to even build one in a milit<ry base probably unique in world history.
Islam whether you like it or not,recent events of terror have proven that it is a pseodu.archaic ideology which does not have any place in our society.An as a christian whose religion exist 500 years before even Muhammad was born i do not see any reason why we should change our belif which not only is our belief but more,it is part of our culture to convert into a religion that we do not indentify ourselves with be it historical,culturally,socially,and so on.
Let us protect our land from the invention of a fate that is not ours and let stop Pp and his islamic despots from forcing their pseudo-religion on us.We were a peaceful nation without religious problem Pp is doing all to incite conflict in our soceity we must a people stop that.
Jeanne D'Arc
Seychelles is a christian country and christian it will stay.
That people, for whatever reason,decide to adopt another religion OF THEIR OWN FREE WILL is fine with me.But I will not allow anyone to come and impose their religion on me.
Our country and its traditions are ours to defend - at all cost.
why do we have an Armed Forces, if they can`t even protect us against these pirates ?these army guys get a fat salary each month, and the moment they have to protect us , we call in the gurkas...pathetic!!!!
Becuase our Commander in Chief is an idiot.
I am not a military expert but let me use my common sense and propose a more effective solution than Michel and goons.
What about for example with consultation with Fisherman Association determining a fishing zone whereby all fishermen will go fishing thus making it more effective to know where they are instead of letting them going fishing one to the North,one to the South,one to the East and one to the west thus meaning making it impossible to have control on them ,their whereabouts and much more difficult to detect their kidnapping.Having a specific and preditermined Fishing Zone will facilitate the Coast Guard jobs to intervene and also have a better control on what goingon in our waters.Since they will all be in the same Zone the probably of indetifing any abnormal movement could be detected early enough thus our coast guard can react rapidly.Moreover,if all fish in the same Zone ,you could have also a Coast patrol present in the zone at all time instead of rooing all over our EEZ to search form lost ships without knowing where to search thus wasting fuel for nothing.Common Sense PP.
Jeanne D'Arc
What about the fish ? Will they play ball too ?
Eoula Zan Dark le plus grande imbecil lo Mahe - don't forget to determine a swimming zone for the fish as well grande saperlipopette!
Akoz ou pa bez al lav ou sikore pi dan kanal derriere Ste Anne e ya servi konman laso mir pou pwason instead of coming here with your rubbish?
Is there anything good that we can do ourselves for ourselves ? It does not look like it under Parti Lepep. What a missed opportunity May 2011 is turning out to be !
Since 1977, we have maintained a standing army and it has cost us no small fortune. Think about the houses that could have been built instead, or the dams, or the roads. You name it, it could have been done, if you know how much we have spent. Accounted for or not accounted for. We did not even have an external enemy back then. Rene had to protect his coup d'etat at all costs.
Now that we need the army to defend us against Somali pirates in skiffs, we are told we need to employ Gurkhas. To spare our army top brass a well-deserved embarrassment, them who are weighed down by medals that they have awarded to themselves, we are also told (as in lied to) the Gurkhas will be under army command. Pull the other one. If the Gurkhas have come to save us, they will want to call the tune. Brigadier Payet will be under the command of the Gurkhas. Of course, the tanks and cannons are no good against pirates. They are left to rot on land. Where's the brigade, Brigadier ?
A while back, when soldiers were deployed on Bird and Denis Islands to carry out security and patrol duties, Michel used this to justify the army and to taunt those who believe Seychelles does not need an army. He is wisely keeping his mouth shut this time and not taunting those who think creating an expensive army was an expensive folly. Somali pirates were not impressed by his boasts. Quite frankly, neither was I.
The British Army is finding it too expensive to employ Gurkhas and is cutting down on recruitment. The Parti Lepep government has the money to recruit Gurkhas who, needless to say, will be paid much much more than our soldiers. Then, Michel will complain that Seychelles does not have the money and other countries should chip in. Who is going to take him seriously when he next pleads impecuniousness ? Not him personally. He is loaded.
This explains one thing very clearly. Parti Lepep has no good strategy to deal with the piracy scourge. Perhaps they thought the pirates had gone away, as it is sometime since the Chandlers were kidnapped. Parti Lepep did not realise that it is just taking the pirates a bit longer to do their deed, as they have longer to travel to reach 65 miles off Mahe. Undetected ! From Somalia to Mahe.
We are well and truly up the proverbial creek without a paddle. And the pirates are getting closer. We might as well start saying our prayers ! Unless the brigadier can find his brigade. Not the light brigade, oh please ! Don't be facetious.
Zot grenn mem zot!
La nou annan en Isaak nwar ki kwar i pli blan ki Pompidou!
en milat batar sinwan fabrike ki lorizinn dan cap ros Afganistan kinn sove Guam e ki kwar i pli kreol ki tou Seselwa - de pli gran menteurs ek kouyon dan Victoria pe vinn zwe malin ek nou! Me foutou o inn ler pou kreol konmans bez saboul zot ek gale bann bandit!
La li Zandark i bez rabase parey sa marten ki nenenn ki coud troufes - en zour zis nwa tann osi li pe dir "on ma couzi!"
where is the opposition ? we need the free press and the opposition to hold the govt to account for this..
minister for defence has not defended us, and our Armed Forces cannot defend us...we need to call in the mercenaries, who, will be overpaid..
so what excatly does brig payet do all day ? has done for 35 years ?
WE WANT ANSWERS...
SPPF cannot run an economy, they have BANKRPUPTED US...they cannot defend us...and our ARMY is TOTALLY USELESS, so we have to call in the mercenaries..
maybe we should do a whipround and ask the gurkhas to plot a coup and overthrow Michel ?
who is with me on this ?
There was a time when SPPF could detect a leaky boat in Mombasa which they said was on its way to overthrow them. Now they are waiting for skiffs to start appearing on the horizon before Parti Lepep can spot the pirates.
Meanwhile.....
We have these so-called diplomats, suah as we heard from the Australian guy last week,shouting from the roof top that Seychelles is an example to the world.
A joke isn't it?
Ghurkas for our prison
Ghurkas and arabs for the navy
Irish for the police
Ugandan, sri lankan, Mauritian for our judiciary
Lise Bastienne for the affairs of the president and La Digue Trust Fund.
You want to convince me that God hasn't forgotten us?
it used to be said, that the scourge of Africa, was tribalism. Whenever a president was elected, he would automticaly put his tribesman in govt and civil service, to protect the status quo, hence the genocide and nepotism, look at rwanda, kenya, uganda, libya, sudan etc, basically every african country, less seychelles.
Seychelles does not have tribalism, but seychelloise. James Michel will go down in history, as the first president in africa, who put foreigners, before his own people.
As the previous blogger stated, our judiciary is rife with foreigners, our police is dominated by Irish, soon our military will be with gurkhas etc.
All of our few profitable national entities, have been sold to an Indian ( ramadoss and valabjhi )..seychelles is marketing itself as the creole capital of the world, but james michel, creole himself, as betrayed his own people.
The fact that gurkas are now going to run our military, begs the following questions, for how long will they be here ? how many are coming down ? what will be the total cost ( accomodation, salary in forex, air expenses etc )who will be in charge of them ?
Gurkas are some of the most feared soldiers so i doubt they will take guidance or orders from brig Payet, who has only fought and lost one battle in his life, the battle of the bulge around his fat gut!!
After 35 years of SPPF leadership, we have a toothless coastguard, very effective in protecting the HRH from the paparazzi on their honeymoon, we all know how dangerous the paparazi are, they killed Diana after all, but against somali pirates are totally useless.
OOUr minister of defence, who is also our minister of finance, and leader of armed forces, then decides to call in the mercenaries to proetct us, proving to all that our military is totally inept.
All those national day celebrations wih the military marching, is a COMPLETE FARCE..
I am ashamed to admit that i am seychelloise.
Fishermen, from a failed state, in skifs, can travel 1000km to our coast, kidnap our brothers, and return, and our coastguard cannot do anything, our military cannot protect us, and we have to call in mercenaries..This is a sad day in our history.
So, after 35 years of SPPF leadership, we are a bankrupt state, with no military and no defence...guess who is our minister of finance, minister of defence and leader of our armed forces ? yes, james michel...for all you doubters out there, what more empirical evidence do you need for you to stop voting SPPF ?
5 more years of this bullshit ?
i would prefer to sell up and go to somalia, unbelievbly, there, where there is no govt, than live here with these corrupt thieving bastards!
35 years ago, the SPPF slogan was foreigners out and seychelles for seychelloise, how things have changed...
can someone please explain to the editorial team at Today in seychelles, the name of their newspaper, dictates that their news should be domestic based.
If i want to know about world affairs and remembrance day etc, i will log online.
Stick to reporting local events, give us an editorial, give us investigative journalism, hold the govt to account, do that, and we will support you.
Do a report on the fishermens families, see if they need help as they have lost their breadwinners, run a campaign marking how many days they have been held hostage, ask probing questions that SBC and Nation don`t, if you want some advice, see this blog...
gives us the voice that we are lookin for!!
talking about africa...see the king of swaziland...google him, or look n wiki....reminds me of james michel....
Reference the 'Today Newspaper' comment, I could not agree more with you, send your comment to the Newspaper!
Pissedoff
Mon"bez rabase" but you know what, Pp is now taking our idea on how to deal with the security of our fishermen at least give more security to ur fishermen namely setting a "GRID"
Morgan wanted Gurkas on ships-we proposed a grid ,now Pp has taken this idea for it is more logic, will be more effective and it is more realitstic and practical possible..
You should thank us for help PP and goons on how to have a solution without spending one rupee more,without the nned to have Gurkas which would have mean more expenses of tax payers money,no waste of fuel by Coast Gaurd to search hours long into noway.
Jeanne D'Arc
James Michel lost the way a long long time ago. His obsession now is to give the impression that he's a better president than Albert Rene.
Of couse he's dreaming. Rene must have been a butcher but he was intelligent. He had a vision, usually WELL THOUGHT OUT and stuck to it. He got on with his job without any tv or cheering cloud. The guy had substance and class, two of the many things James Michel would NEVER acquire, no matter how hard he tried.
Six months after his reelection,I am eagerly awaiting James Michel's "new" team which he announced at his inauguration.I'm hoping against hope that he'll get rid of the dead wood surrounding him and bring in some individuals with a little bit of brain and sense. Otherwise, we're well and truly screwed.
Rene unlike Michel though also a dictator refused to sell out his country to foreigners,except a piece of land at Anse Boubin Praslin to RICHI and Desroches Island to the Shah family of Iran but in both cases it was not for one rupee and not in National reserves,and no foreigner shit in our rivers,and disrespect our country's rul of laws like Khalfia and his Arabs clan is doing.Under RENE we had a coast Guard with, i think, about four ships plus two helicopters though all was in place to protect the communist system.
But Whether it Rene ,Michel,Faure ,whoever it is time to get rid of communism.Communism must be banished and radicated in our land and that ,now.
Jeanne D'Arc
so, today, michel inaugurated new, shiny equipment for the coast guard from UAE, which is state of the art and modern.
Brigadier Payet, also urges seychelloise to consider a career in the armed forces...
where do i sign ? get paid a salary every month and do nothing each month ? me wants that job!
Brigadier Leopold should be adviced to send young Seychellois with A-levels joining the forces to University abroad to study military science then we could at least have some colonels,Majors with Bachelor,Masters etc.. in order that they can do the planing,develop strategies etc for today it is the Indain doing it for us as if we a colony of India.
Michel will probably soon come on SBC to praise Khalifa for the donation and will tell the press or do as Mancham recently did namely telling Khalifa that Seychellois are starting to love him and appreciate him as if he is our king and our country a colony of UEA.And he might even tell us how is it important to have an UAE naval base in our sovereign state with a Moshee in it.
It is always good to be helped by others.but seriuosly we already 35 years independence should we already have all those tools to defence our land?
Jeanne D'Arc
Brigadier Leopold should be adviced to send young Seychellois with A-levels joining the forces to University abroad to study military science then we could at least have some colonels,Majors with Bachelor,Masters etc.. in order that they can do the planing,develop strategies etc for today it is the Indain doing it for us as if we a colony of India.
Michel will probably soon come on SBC to praise Khalifa for the donation and will tell the press or do as Mancham recently did namely telling Khalifa that Seychellois are starting to love him and appreciate him as if he is our king and our country a colony of UEA.And he might even tell us how is it important to have an UAE naval base in our sovereign state with a Moshee in it.
It is always good to be helped by others.but seriuosly we already 35 years independence should we already have all those tools to defence our land?
Jeanne D'Arc
University Graduates in the army
Rolph Payet can take care of this - God help us!
Does Flo Payet have a place as head of our joke of an army? I don't think so. The modern exigencies require competent people, as a minimum, somebody who can READ a simple speech written for him.
I was embarassed listening to him stuttering away on every word in the speech last night.
Isn't James Michel so deep in mediocrity that he cannot notice that something is wrong?
James Michel is accepting "gifts" left right and centre and to him it's a result of his "active diplomacy"!!! Seychelles diplomacy has been reduced to begging, reduced to sacrificing our pride and dignity as a nation.
This naval base is not as innocent as it appears to be. Khalifa wants to have his own troops to protect him.Use the guise of piracy to base his troops.
I look forward to the day when we would be able to walk with our heads held high, not beholden to anyone, big or small, muslims or bhudists.Not going about the world with a begging bowl. To the day when we shall be able to stand on our own two feet, with the little that we have but PROUD AND DIGNIFY.
I have never been a Rene supporter but today we need the guy more than ever.
We need him to stand up for Seychelles and Seychellois, to bring back strong and principled leadership.
It's true-you do not appreciate what you have until you lose it.
The mentality that we have today that we have to celebrate the "gifts" we're given, even as ridiculous as three "tronpet" has been instille into us by SPPF/Lepep.
It's OK to live off the sweat of others.Forget about your dignity as a person and a nation.
This is new "quality" that we can thank James michel for.
Will Danny Faure continue down this sad road as president?
I sincerely hope not.
We can do better, we can be better.
Two European Prime Ministers bit the dust this week: The Greek PM & the Italian PM were FORCED OUT of their cozy little chairs mostly by the same people who had voted for them and had been singing their praises.
When will we do the same to our Buffoon of the Indian Ocean?
Emirs do not resign nor are they "forced out".
On very rare occasions they abdicate in favour of a son, brother or cousin.
Why should ours resign? He will abdicate some time before the next election.
At least his successor will hold a university degree, however dodgy the degree.
Long Live our beloved, intelligent Emir!!!
la mon fake tande ki 2500 solda UAE pe al debark lo zill sesel avec 300 Napolese solda.Mon tande ki e annan solda de terre, special forces,avec marine.bann la sayouye zot disef.
Zan DArk:
Your post of Nov 12, 2011 4:19 PM
Good thinking! If only Jean Paul Isaac a.k.a. Johnny would enlist for love of country. I'm sure if he did he would immediately get the rank of colonel.
Our very own Jet Fighter Pilot who is also a "univercity & colledge" graduate flight instructer!
Go for it ti Johnny a.k.a. Jean Paul show the Brgadier how it's done!
Keep on deleting my comments the so called false prophet of freedom of speech. I use to have great respect for you personally now I know what you really are. This is why people do not trust politicians because most of them are like two edge swords with loads of hidden agendas.What sort of leader are you? If you are true to yourself prepost my comment and tell me what is wrong with it and let other bloggers see for themselves.
An educated Seychelloise who called a spade a spade, a hoe a hole. Nothing more nothing less.
The base is open and on this placarte their is two flag seychelles and united amirates flag.That mean Seychelles is been sole to arabs and seychelles is already in arabs hand.
Lets shot sa liki son manman Michel befor we been rule by camels.
CAMELS BOOTS LANDING ON OUR SHORE?WE ALL SIT AND LOOK AND NO OPPOSITION LEADER DO SOME THING ABOUT IT.
That just suck us SESELWA.
Seselwa can not do like Greek peoples and italien peoples,because as long as they getting gas cooker,freezer and few bottel beer and baka etc...they are happy with life under communist ruler and they are scared and they dont have this heart.At the end they future will end up in the mouth of other bad wolve.They will say ho god help us to late.
Pre avek mon pep
Can James Michel please stop the bullshit about being close to "his people"?
He was elected to deliver on his manifesto promises, aS ALL POLITICAL LEADERS THE WORLD OVER DO.Nothing more and nothing less.
whatever he does as the elected president of thiese small little islands is part of his duty.
He should stop being condescending towards us and make us feel as if he's unique in listening to the aspirations of "his people".
He should get on with the job without SBC in tow each time.
This is an example of where he wants to make us believe that he's better than Albert Rene.
In your dream you illiterate goon!
You'll never touch the tiniest finger on Rene's finger. Live with it.
Pep Seselwa,
If you do nor realise what is going on under the guise of "our fight against piracy", you never will.
One day you'll wake up and we'll be instructed-under pain of having our testicles removed,to put our asses in the air and pray to Khalifa the Merciful.
Khalifa's aim all along has been very clear. Unfortunately, our baka and guiness-drinking compatriots failed to see it and maybe could not care less. As a result we've been landed in the shit that we're in.
Leve seselwa and smell the coffee before it is too late!
Long live Khalifa our benefactor, our God, our guide, our Saviour!
Long Live our illiterate author president!
Keep screwing us back and front.
We're enjoying it!
News that UAE is positioning troops here is not surprising but very worrying. It was clear when Khalifa "donated" the new naval base, with a mosque incorporated in the plans, that some muslim elements were going to be based there.
Good old dyak Agatine was quick to defend this and two days ago he was at the base to bless it,along with an imam.
Why should an imam be there? This was meant to be a seychellois event.Can you imagine a situation where each donor has their own religious representative to say prayers???? What for?
I'm no zenophob but these things make no sense and worry me.
I hate to say it guys, but Christopher Gill has been right all along.
The proof is in eating the pudding for some of us. But this guy has been predicting our future for years now and it seems all is coming true.
Somebody please confirm that Ramkalawan is now participating in the constitutional review meetings?
Did I hear somewhere that they were against this and were boycoting it? Why are they joining it now? What is the deal? Will we hear more in the snp convention on Sunday?
It is extremely important to take note that our future is not in the hands of Ramkalawan. Whatever he does is irrelevant to us as a nation. What is very clear is that our inaction which amount to total submission that is giving these political leaders the leverage to think that they can act unilaterally on our behalf without being held accountable. If we want thing to change we has a nation must let these politicians know that we are not their robotic subjects and we are more powerful than them provided that we are united and stage a concerted effort to openly express our disapproval the way things. There is an adage in motivational science which said If you do not do something for yourself other we do it for you. Our problem as a Nation is that we complain so much but we do not act. So our weaknesses of inaction are being currently capitalized by these politicians to destroy our society by their lust of power and self grandeur. Who gave Lepep the mandate to allow UAE to build their base in the Seychelles since this where never put in a referendum to be approved by the people and to my knowledge it was never debated in the assembly. So lepep as usual they do whatever pleases them because the Seychelloise has no gut to bring them to task. Inaction will only bring more suffering to our nation and I am afraid that we will be an Arab satellite in the Indian Ocean if we keep on complaining without being proactive to stop the destruction of our small nation.
From an educated Seychelloise who call a spade a spade, a hoe a hoe. Nothing more and nothing less
It is extremely important to take note that our future is not in the hands of Ramkalawan. Whatever he does is irrelevant to us as a nation. What is very clear is that our inaction which amount to total submission that is giving these political leaders the leverage to think that they can act unilaterally on our behalf without being held accountable. If we want thing to change as a nation must let these politicians know that we are not their robotic subjects and we are more powerful than them provided that we are united and stage a concerted effort to openly express our disapproval the way things are. There is an adage in motivational science which said if you do not do something for yourself other we do it for you. Our problem as a Nation is that we complain so much but we do not act. So our weaknesses of inaction are being currently capitalized by these politicians to destroy our society by their lust of power and self grandeur. Who gave Lepep the mandate to allow UAE to build their base in the Seychelles since this where never put in a referendum to be approved by the people and to my knowledge it was never debated in the assembly. So lepep as usual they do whatever pleases them because the Seychelloise has no gut to bring them to task. Inaction will only bring more suffering to our nation and I am afraid that we will be an Arab satellite in the Indian Ocean if we keep on complaining without being proactive to stop the destruction of our small nation.
Corrected version
From an educated Seychelloise who call a spade a spade, a hoe a hoe. Nothing more and nothing less
Our proplems are not realy khalifa is this sucker Michel and his communist crooks as long those peoples are in Power those camels will continue land on our shore.
LET STOP SA LIKI SON MANMAN MICHEL FIRST THEN WE CAN PUT A FULL STOP WITH KHALIFA,BEFORE WE START TO READ KORAN AND HEARING ALA EVERY SUN SET IN VICTORIA.
Sa liki son manman Michel never tell Seselwa what the fucking deal is doing with Arabas.
Likî ou manman you dont hear Seselwa want to know if you are selling them with Arabs,i'am sure this asshole seen he come President has told khalifa he can do what ever he want in Seychelles.
Were are opposition leaders and their supporters are they just watching whats going on the island or they are crossing the floor again.
Where's the opposition
I would ask: And where are you? Why should it be the opposition each time who should lead the way? What are you doing? What are we doing?
This country is as much yours and mine as the opposition's. So let's act before Michel get us to open our ass to the wind and sing "Alah wakbar"....
The days of Assad are counted. Very counted.
People the world over are making their leaders accountable and off-loading dictators.
When will we off-load ours and his arab goons?
Somali pirates and Seychellois fishermen:
Beatty Hoareau mad a very pertinent point on SBC last night: How can the ghurkas, coming from a completely land-locked country, cope in small, cramped fishing boats for long periods of time?
Can they be effective?
Government should not be rushing into hasty decisions that are going to cost us a lot of money with limited success.
As it's taken government this long to come up with a "solution", they should open up this issue for further discussions, not least with the fishermen themselves.
Suggestions of fishing grids and others have been proposed. They need to be explored along with others so that any decision taken is cost effective and successful.
Afterall, we take every issue to the people for discussion before implementation, don't we?
My view is that it's high time that these pirates are dealt with like the vermins that they are.
Enough of being the nice guys.
A clear message that they should not be messing up with us should be sent. Nothing can be clearer than a policy of SHOOT TO KILL - ON SIGHT.
There is no reason for a small kiff 50 miles off our coast. There's no need to arrest and question. They should pulverised off the surface of the sea and others would think twice before messing with us.
Beauty Hoarau is the same one appointed by Michel for the fake electoral board. He has a fishing boat so when things turn sour, he now jumps ship. Traitors all of them.
Misel does not want to risk being persecuted as a war criminal. He is not prepared to risk his comfortable life to defend the Seychellois people, if it means ending up before the International Criminal Court. They got us to think that it was worth dying for their bloody 5 June revolution, but Misel does not think it is worth risking his liberty defending this country against pirates. We can expect Misel to pussyfoot even more as we come under more pirates attacks.
... prosecuted ...
Navy should sink their boat and let them swim back to somalia if they can,those guys no joke with them when you take some thing frome them,they will cut your hands off.NO more prisoner just to feed those sucker and then send them back home,they are destroying our fishing industry.
Johnny
Liki ou manman opposition leader in Libya make ditators like Gadafi buried.Me you will see me when when i recieve agaian a flyer in the letter box to take in the street liki.
Blow them off the sea, with their kiffs.
These guys are vermins, like rats and like rats they should be ERADICATED.
Shoot to kill on sight
I agree with you ,it is time to shoot to killthere is no use of arresting them ,feed them with our tax payers money,pay their flight back to Somali to in the end find them back in our waters.Any pirate find in our EEZ should be redicated and that by all means.We cannot continue to respect Interantional laws while pirates do not respect those laws and abuse it to bullshit our sovereignty.And furthermore,paying ransom just encourage them to come and continue with their activies becuase it is although the risk very lucrative and one could imagine for those hungry criminals who would have enever earn so much money in their lives they would probably take the risk.
Jeanne D'Arc
A word on Michel's rediculous statement in regard to sending our men in uniform to Somali as peacekeepers.One may wonder if our Commander in Chief is well in his mind.This is a guy who has failed to provide adequate equipments and tools to our defence forces to execute their duty effectively but hence he wants to send our men in a no mens land to put their lives at risks .What brings our dear leader to such redicule?It might be that he is opting for the money UN would pay him if he particpate in a UN peacekeepers mission Or simple a sign of how emntally disable our Commander in Chief is.Instead of attempting to send Seychellois on a battle in a foreign land while not being able to defence their own country,Michel should rather propose that AU level that all countires boarded with Somali to engage in a unified way their troops to do the job.After all, they are all driectly concern,it is right at their boarders.To date,be Uganda,Ethopia,with the exception of Kenya are doing enough to secure their own boarders and work to together to solve or at least shows the world that they are taking the risks seriously.Each one until to date,has intervene alone which of course cannot have long term effectiveness.AU so far has been calling on the rest of the world to help bring stability and peace in Somali,but as it common pratice in African mentality, they themselves to donot underatke any action or bring solution but just as Michel does beg others to do the job for them.Should those counitres boarding with Somali start doning the job fiorst before even asking for interantional help?And personally i think ,Uganda,Kenya,Ethopia conbine would be enough without the need fo foreign countries to bring peace there should they act together.
The world should ask African to act and take the lead first before any other countries should help them.It is time the dosmoething by themslves instead of doing like Michel begging and that after decades of independence .
Jeanne D'Arc
I see Seychelles troops participating in an international peace keeping mission in Somalia but which Somalia? This country is now broken up in several entities each with their own administration. Whose peace are we meant to keep?
AU, UN and others should set clear parameters and be clear what the mission's objectives are before we put our soldiers' lives at risk.
The international community should indeed look at the root of the problem.They should start by cutting off sources of arms to the country and help beef up the authority of the government, however undemocratic it may be.
We should first be able to defence,protect our own territories before going to participate in whatever mission abroad .For now Michel and Pp cannot defence our land that they need to import Gurkas but want to go and act abroad.
As the saying oges,Put order in your own house before putting it in others house Pp.
Jeanne D'Arc
Rene boycotts his own birthday bash in State House grounds. Birthday boy says he has fever. Don't we all ?
Like jeanne D'acr has said this sucker Michel can not fight pirates in our water and crimes and drugs in his home land he want to sent peace keeper in Somalia.OH JE.
Buried this ass Michel and Morgan and the rest a live.
Gurkas make sure those sucker dont get our passport for them to stay in Seychelles.
Johnny
He will send our soldier to somalia,then he can bring more camels soldiers on our shore.
If the Michel government is making Rene sick, then Rene is just about beginning to feel the way we do. He still has a long way to go, fever permitting. The boycott was a long time coming, especially after the lukewarm endorsement during the presidential elections. And much much has happened since then to raise anyone's temperature. This passive resistance strategy, started by Wavel Ramkalawan with the boycott of the national assembly elections, is obviously catching on. Rene's absence is a boycott. The boycott fever is catching on, whatever the form it may choose to manifest itself in. But what exactly is eating Albert Rene ? Rene is scared a fever will kill him off if he attends his birthday do ? No, he is boycotting. Was the sight of Michel bowing and scraping to his Arabian mates a few days ago too much for Rene ? Or was it the arrival of Khalifa's Etihad bearing a dagger for Air Seychelles the straw that broke the camel's back ?
State House is feeling well and truly miffed at Rene's refusal to decamp from his military camp at Anse Polite for his birthday shindig. No one believes in the fever hoo-ha because Rene's state of health has always been a closely guarded state secret. If Rene had not thrown the surprise at the very last minute, they would not have bothered with the whole thing.
SBC (still under the control of Michel but for how much longer) was ordered to report that the occasion is now a celebration for the elderly which merely happens to coincide with the birthday of Albert Rene. In true communist style, Rene is being declared a non-person even before he has kicked the bucket. What will SBC tell us next ? That Rene's Anse Polite compound is actually a Gulag ?
Never mind Rene's convenient bout of Chikungunya fever, it is Michel who is feeling the heat and sweating. Rene was probably having a right old knees-up at home today, as he celebrates not his birthday but the demise of James Michel who is now a dead man walking.
President Rene's fever
Really?
James Michel saw the need today to praise Rene more than he's ever done before. Suddenly, Michel seems to have recalled that another president came before him and "set the foundation for us to build on".
What prompted this sudden surge of fake humility when all along he's been acting as if Seychelles was nothing until he became president?
HE put Seychelles on the map.
HE alone engaged the international community on the specificities of small island states.
HE alone has "a heart for all Seychellois".
The likes of Madanm de st Jore who toiled endlessly, travelling across the globe to make Seychelles known and defend seychelles interests must be turning in their graves to hear James Michel.
All indications are that Rene is unhappy with Michel, has realised a long time ago that he made a grave mistake in handing him the presidency on a plate.
Rene is unhappy at the way Michel is prostituting the country he has worked so hard to build, to arabs.
Is this going to encourage Danny Faure to make a move ? Why wait when he can have State House now. We will know whether he is a man or a mouse, now that he has received a public signal from Rene.
There are worse excuses. He could have said he was washing his hair.
Thank you for response dear friend. I know may be you need more mosque. I hope great holiness Sheikh noble leader of my country can organize. What you think about arab carnival - we make halal barbecue- is good? I am come with all my kouzin Bin Zayhim Al Marakkah - he is actually the great nephew of our noble leader.
- Ismael
Ismael
Your sound like a Camel that has lost his master.If you fed up with life ,i have somwthing that can keep you busy - 1)go an shoot michel down thus help your people get rid his dictatorship,or why not voluntary yourself together with Marengo to fight piracy.The latter is a born killer ,his experience should asure you.
Jeanne D'Arc
President Rene should do better than have fever on the day of his birthday bash. He should express his views openly. Afterall he's never been one to keep quiet in the past.
He should publicly tell us what he feels when he sees somebody undoing all the work that he has done over so many years.
we have been re-instated into the IOC ARC, according to the Nation, however, why were we kicked out in the first place ?
Michel holding a party for senior citizens ? michel is no spring chicken himself, I am surprised he can still feed himself...if nathalie wants a real man, give me a call...22429.....
The ederly party is where Michel should be and a the photo shows he did fit well in the group that i personally took sometime to figure out where he was on the photo.
Jeanne D'Arc
Mr.Michel is doing a good work why should Mr.Albert Rene be so unhappy with his performance. Was not the same Mr.Albert Rene who promoted Mr.Michel with the support of all the state apparatus to be the president of Seychelles in order to protect his ill gotten wealth together with all his cronies. Birds of a feather flock together. During his relay inauguration was not the same Albert Rene who told Michel not to listen to anyone and if he needed advice he would be there. What is Albert problem? Did he not know that Mr.Michel did not have the brain to run a country? Who knew Mr. Michel better than Mr.Albert? Now Mr Albert is tasting his own medicine together with all the Seychelloise people. Please do not count on Mr. Albert to uproot his wild grasses in the Seychelles garden. It is us the Seychelloise who needs to uproot the bad seeds that Mr. Albert Rene himself had sow. I do not think that Mr. Danny Faure would be any different to Mr. Michel and in the Lepep rank nobody would be any better because most all of them are marinated in corruption and immoralities. These people are all about themselves. To end I would congratulate Michel for taking orders from the Arabs since he is Lawrence of Arabia and mark my words Lepep is crumbling under our very eye and the people will see them very clearly since they would be not able to blame the opposition since they are not in the assembly. Probably the Somali pirates this time would be blame for our problems because they have cause us to employ Ghurkas to protect Seychelles because the real Seychelloises are not capable enough as we are all dummer than our very intelligent president who attended only University of life
i want to be president!!!
i want to be nearly 70 years old and 80 years old, and have a wife half my age!!
Look at the front cover of Today in Seychelles, Nathatlie and Sarah....me wants a trophy bride too!!!!!
Jeanne D'arc quote:
"1)go an shoot michel down thus help your people get rid his"
Jeanne D'Arc
November 17, 2011 10:43 AM
And you say there is no democracy in Seychelles?!
Your above statement is enough to send you to prison for many years!
If you were in America the FBI would have been on top of you like a ton of bricks - anywhere else I dare not think about it!
You should be arrested and your office investigated because this is a serious threat you've made to the president of the republic. It is treason!
Keep digging your hole!
treason!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????? how dare you speak of treason. Bous ou trou fes ou. Treason albert ek son 4 klik kinn fer trahizon. bez al lir zistwar ou pei avan ou vinn ouver ou fes la .. zot pou bez pas parey gadafi en zour zot osi.. ou kwar nou bliy zot....
Air Seychelles is being dismantled post-haste. It will have just one smaller plane to fly to South Africa and Mauritius. Michel can then say he kept his election promise, although that's not what HM staff and most people understood his promise to keep HM was. Who will want to use an airline with just one plane with no replacement in case of breakdown ? It looks like very soon we will have just a domestic service and the international service being provided by Khalifa's Etihad and Emirates. It is payback time. There is no such thing as a free lunch or free gifts from Khalifa.
The dismantling of HM has clearly been delayed until after the presidential elections. This explains why PL was keen to call assembly elections early.
I do not suppose we will see Michel visiting HM HQ to explain his deception.
Pissedoff lives in a strange world where murderers are glorified and made president, but anyone who says the murderers should be shot are imprisoned.
If you want to send Jeanne D'arc to prison you must sent Rene and Michel first for killing and stealing Seselwa money,Pissdog.
Johnny
FBI should arrest Michel for arms dealing and put this sucker behind bar.
They will not because Seychelles have seen oil US and EuropeanS are waiting to get their share.All of them now want to help Seychelles more than before just because of oil.US and Europeans say Michel is doing a good job fighting Pirates but still pirates are under his noice and they dont this guy is real Mafia.
WE REALY NEED A REVOLUTION.
Air Seychelles
This is only the beginning. There's lots more to come!
Our national airline, the pride of our nation, is no more.
Thank you James Michel and Khalifa!!!
It was clear that all the excesses of David Savy was going to catch up with us. Clearer still when St Ange started opening his huge gut and singing the praises of "open skies".
Like in Animal Farm, we're soon going to be told that this is a great success. That Air Seychelles is now going to be a force to be reckoned with in the region.
And like retarded seals, our MNAs will applaud the foresight and courage of our Great president.
Hundreds of people's jobs are at stake and all that SBC can do is show us Michel hugging the south african high commissioner and read out a press release from the CEO of Air Seychelles.
Anywhere else in the world, the CEO, government and all concerned would have been pinned down to answer the tough questions.
Changing the colours on that the tail of an aircraft got more song and dance than the announcement of possible redundancies.
SEYCHELLES - ANOTHER WORLD indeed.
Was the plan to announce the closure of Air Seychelles the day after Rene's birthday what pissed him off ?
THIS WRITTING FOR AIRSEYCHELLES HAS BEEN ON THE WALL FOR SOMETIME NOW.i PRETTY SURE THE NEXT STAGE AFTER CANCELLATION OF THOSE FLIGHTS, IT WILL BE HUGH REDANDANCIES.alar alar woukba
Air Seychelles
Everything that's happened so far has been well-planned.James Michel and cohorts have been planning it all along. When, before the presidential election, James Michel visited HM offices at Pointe Larue and declared that HM was safe, he was lying for the votes that he needed.
The dutch CEO has simply been made the scapegoat.I'm amazed that government is putting this out as "restructuring & repositioning".Really? When will it be called "bankrupcy & redundancy"?
I am also amzed that, with the magnitude of the implications, government has left this to the CEO of Air Seychelles to issue only a press release. Where is the Chairman of the Board? Where is the Minister of Finance? The Minister of Civil Aviation? The Minister responsible for Tourism?
Why is it that when there is bad news James Michel ALWAYS takes cover and sends others as fodder?
Why can't he be a man, get his advisers to write a speech for him, put on the teleprompter and come out and read to us?
We were warned that James Michel was going to see the end of us. It's coming true.
"Code-sharing with Etihad"?? What a joke. Etihad is simply absorbing Air Seychelles international operations.No more no less. It's pay-back time for the naval base, the desalination plants, the school computers, the hospital.
Did someone say recently that there is no free lunch? So true.
Ass in the air - Ala wakbar!
Another one to celebrate!
Etihad swallows up Air Seychelles.
Our airline reduced to a plane flying to South Africa and Mauritius.
That's a victory for Seychelles!
I presume even the Dutch CEO refused to be made a scapegoat and refused to make the announcement in person, while the Air Seychelles board and the country's political leaders run for cover. They are all cowards and it is a bloody disgrace. Rene refused to attend his birthday party on the eve of the announcement and Michel is hiding in State House.
This must be the most insulting press release ever in the world.
Even SBC is struggling to find anyone to interview. It has promised a further report in a future news bulletin (the usual "fitir bilten"). If SBC can't get the government to explain, it can talk to the opposition to get their views. That's how it's done in Australia, Wales, England etc where these SBC journalists were trained before they became doormats on their return to Seychelles.
The truth is we have ourselves only to blame. No intelligent people keep a government in power for 40 years, especially not one as corrupt and incompetent as this one.
Pp communist is agan of criminal that have done nothing good than destroy our country by sell out our patrimony to foreignerss,by bankrupting our economy,by turning our institutions into a mafiosic establishment to serve and cover their crimes,and what happening to Air Seychelles is just another practical act that proves that Pp is not a governemnt but a gang of mafias .Soon we will only flight to Somali to transfers pirates back to their home and maybe lease our plnes to Interantional help organization in order to transport food to Somali refugees.
Criminals should not be ruling us but rather siitng behind bars.
Time for regime change,time for real democracy,time fro us to take bakc our country from those crooks.
Jeanne D'Arc
Still believe in Michel's leadership anyone? Fucking lying idiot needs a bullet.
Too many things don't make sense in this Air Seychelles saga.
We are told by a press release (that's parti Lepep running the country by press release) that we have more seats on flights to Seychelles. We knew that because of Etihad and Emirates.
We are also told that the reason Air Seychelles has gone under is that demand for those seats (i.e. passengers) has not increased.
On the other hand, Parti Lepep including Alain St Ange have been telling us non-stop that there have been more tourists coming to Seychelles. We were also told that Etihad and Emirates are bringing more tourists, not poaching Air Seychelles passengers.
Please stop lying. The demise of Air Seychelles is exposing the liars among us.
The truth is that there are now more seats on flights to Seychelles but there have not been more tourists to fill those seats. It follows that the stronger airlines with owners with deeper pockets (Etihad and Emirates) will beat the weaker ones like Air Seychelles.
Tell the truth please. You will get caught out by the harsh economic realities.
Then they tell us about the crisis in Europe. We know about that. There are still millions and millions of Europeans earning very good salaries who can holiday in the Seychelles. We need only a few thousands of those every month.
But you would expect the crisis to affect all airlines flying from Europe to Seychelles.
But why does Emirates still find it profitable to fly tourists from Europe to Seychelles via Dubai and Air Seychelles can't ?
There are those who say Air Seychelles was charging too much and more than Emirates and Etihad. So the UAE airlines have been undercutting Air Seychelles for whatever reason, putting aside the question of mismanagement at Air Seychelles.
But now that the UAE have a near monopoly on flights between Europe and Seychelles, won't they jack up the price of tickets and charge as much as they can without competition from Air Seychelles ? We will now rely on Kenya Airways and Ethiopian Airlines to provide competition on Europe--Seychelles routes and can they !!!
In the long term the Seychelles economy will suffer, if tourists find air tickets too expensive. We will pay heavily for the few gifts from Khalifa and the fact that we cannot say No to him.
The tactics have been tried before on cross Atlantic flights. Big airlines lower fares to drive out smaller competitors and then hike up fares.
But we have a moron at State House who does not understand any of that. We still vote for him.
The thing is that Pp is so use to lying that it has become commonplace ,they donot think that they are lying and forget that facts on the ground prove the contary.
Time for regime change.
Jeanne D'Arc
WHAT THEY TOLD US IN AUGUST 2011 ABOUT THE FALKLANDS CONTRACT
Air Seychelles ends Falklands charters - 31.08.2011
Air Seychelles has announced the end of its South Atlantic Airbridge on behalf of the British Ministry of Defence to the Falkands Islands.
This is because the national airline has embarked on a new strategic plan whereby it will concentrate more on its core business in flying more passengers from Europe to Seychelles and vice versa.
Air Seychelles executive chairman, Maurice Loustau-Lalanne has said: “Our Falklands contract providing an airbridge from the United Kingdom to the Falklands for the Ministry of Defence has now ended and we are now concentrating on our core business in flying more passengers from Europe to the Indian Ocean region, as part of a revamped strategic plan.”
The B767 aircraft which was operating the UK-Falklands route will now be deployed to serve the Seychelles–London route via Italy starting on September 8.
In his note of thanks to the services rendered by Air Seychelles, the out-going commander of the British Forces in the South Atlantic Islands, Commodore Philip Thicknesse, said: “Both my command team and I found your crew exceptionally courteous and professional and they managed the challenge very well – and Air Seychelles has been very highly regarded from our island community.”
Air Seychelles successfully bid for the contract in 2009 after the UK Ministry of Defence had to seek a replacement for the previous operator which had stopped flying.
Several other prestigious airlines bid for the contract but Air Seychelles was successful due to its experience with Boeing 767s and flying to island locations.
Air Seychelles is also considered as one of the world’s most experienced B767 operators with over 20 years extended range operations.
WHAT THEY SAY IN NOVEMBER 2011 ABOUT THE FALKLANDS CONTRACT
The situation has become worse as the Falklands charter contract of the UK’s Ministry of Defence was lost in September this year. Therefore, the two Boeing 767-200 aircraft were returned to the lessor in October before the expiry of the lease.
In August 2011, they told us the Falklands contract had been ended because of a new business strategy to concentrate on European routes.
In November 2011, they admit that the Falklands contract was lost and the loss has contributed to the demise of the airline and its European routes.
So many lies. We cannot rule out that this government is hiding major frauds at air Seychelles.
Air Seychelles will soon end up in the grave yard,and all Seselwa pilots soon have to start to look for another job.
We dont have to much seselwa doctors may be they can go back to university and study doctor.
Johnny
Communists are use to lying but what they donot understand is that with modern technologies and the speed information circulated their lies will come out fasrter than they can even think.
Time for regime change.
Jeanne D'Arc
Say whatever you want,55percent vote for the president and the assembly control by PP,the people voted for them,if we have another election it would be the same result so stop wasting time.Everyone see everything and know everything they like it the way it is.Half of the seychellios people it might be more like the way things are,stop wasting your time just leave them alone.
No the people did not vote for them ,Gappy manipulate the vote as always for if your arguement would be true than there would be no need for pp to:appoint emebers of Elelectoral Commission himself when ,there would have been no need to illegally tried to form a fake party with Pierre,no need to forbid access to opposition parties to National media ..etc
And lastly ,using your common sense what the use of having a party in power prohibiting all other parties access to national medais etc when genuinely it has a majoirty support as you want to make us beleive.Why afraid of democracy then when you think you have a majority behind you?Why manipulate elections then?
Jeanne D'Arc
It is pathetic - by any standard - for our so-called leaders not to come out and tell us what is going on.
James Michel is usually the first to show his puffed eyes and dyed hair whenever there is good news but takes cover when news is bad.
James Michel and shit do not mix, even when shit has hit the fan.
If Seychellois, even those baka drinkers who voted for James Michel last May, cannot see what is going on, then we have a serious problem.
Having said that, what can be worse than drinking delo kaka?
They did vote for Michel in their vast majority didn't they??????
Will we now see people go out to the gates of state house and demand justice?
Not in a million years.
People will moan, complain but life will carry on as usual and James will continue to screw us.
In any other country, the people would have taught him a lesson. Not in Seychelles. No Sir.
It's the deception that sticks in the craw. Some of us may well accept the economic case for grounding Air Seychelles. If PL's figures are to be believed, every person in Seychelles has contributed R4000 to keep HM afloat over the last 12 months. More was expected from each one of us in future.
Before the elections, PL was prepared to pump millions into HM and assured us it was to save the airline. It was really to save Michel's arse. The government was not able to forecast the dropping ticket sales a year ago.
With the elections now over, they have no difficulty looking into future to see declining ticket sales. Now they admit that HM is beyond rescue.
The world's economic climate has not changed over the last 12 months. What has changed is that both the presidential and national assembly elections are over. That's why the PL government is telling a different story, as the lies they told to get elected are catching up with them. That's what is hard to accept. The government lying to its people. Many of us expect nothing better from them. But it is still an affront when it happens and it sticks in one's craw.
nathalie is one lucky girl, her husband really knows how to fuck people...he has been fucking us longer than she has been alive...so we are also lucky...look, i am walking with a limp, james michel has just fucked me....
all the promises michel made earlier in the year about air seychelles, just to win votes....where are you pissed off ?
SPPF just go from one disaster to another, would be ok, but they are our govt, and are dragging us down with them...
Shame, shame, shame on you michel...you useless cocksucker!!!!
so SPPF, what is your opinion on the last 12 months ? Air Seychelles, Two shark fatalities, pirate attacks, droughts....still believe that James michel is the man for the job ?
useless piece of shit that he is...
oh my goodness, how is jenpa going to travel the world now that air seychelles is gone ?
sppf, michel, jenpa, all the adams and savys....you are all to blame!!!!
History will mark you down as the incompetent, lying, cocksukers that you are!!!
Don't worry about losing the national airline. When Khalifa's Etihad overflies Mahe, just close your eyes and think of Air Seychelles.
To add insult to injury, they are keeping one aircraft to fly to South Africa and Mauritius. This will be our reminder that we once had a national airline before Khalifa arrived. Business travellers will have no choice but use Air Seychelles on these routes, because no other airline does these so-called profitable routes. Tourists will think twice about using a one-aircraft airline. They will holiday elsewhere. If Air Seychelles' strategic planners are banking on the same level of traffic in future, they are making another big mistake. It is only a matter of time before the SA and Mauritius routes start losing money. No quick release for Air Seychelles. Parti Lepep has decreed a slow, painful death. A party in power for 40 years thinks it can walk on water or fly without wings. That's where the people of Seychelles have gone wrong. The inventors of democracy were no fools, whatever the Seychellois people may think of them.
Where are the tourists that Alain St Ange tells us are arriving in droves ? The lies are catching up with Parti Lepep.
We were told that new airlines were needed to increase seats and passengers. Now Air Seychelles is pulling out of Europe and Singapore. How does that increase seats and passengers ?
The demise of Air Seychelles has been so quick, that no other options could be considered apart from grounding it in a few weeks time.
Honourable men would resign over this. Those responsible include Michel, Morgan, Faure and Savy.
JEAN D'ARC i know my country too well and let me tell you i have very good common sense maybe more than C.GILL who once cross the floor and not to forget the SNP fiasco.In some sense,some people will never and never trust the opposition they might be worst than PARTI LEPEP because so far they are all in a mess just like the state of our country.2008 with the economic reform many would have beleived that things was going to be changed and you know what JEAN D'ARC after the PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2011 THE PARTI LEPEP MOTORCADE surprise many people,even after the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTION 2011 IN ALL THE DISTRICT MANY PEOPLE VOTE STILL ENDORSE PARTI LEPEP AND JEANN D'ARC some people even left the opposition party to join PARTI LEPEP.Me i beleive that GOD has given each one of us a mind,spirit and intelligence also understanding.Sometime to beleive that PARTI LEPEP manupilate voters doesn't sound well because i beleive nowadays people knowing too well and see alot this beleive might be just an excuse as usual.Am just an observer expressing my opinion.When i wacth the old people at state house 16 nov 2011 are they really care what going on around them,ONLY GOD KNOWS.As the saying of the parti lepep goes DAN BOTAN,DAN MOVETAN NOU POU KONTIYEN,PLITO NOU MOR KI VIV DAN LESKLAVAZ.Can you reason with such people,teach them whatever you want at the end of the day it is just useless.Have you ever think about LA MISER incident.JEANN D'ARC let tell you me am not afraid of anything i trust my GOD in my everyday life because my life is in HIS hand,GOD THE SOURCE OF MY EVERYDAY LIFE NOTHING MORE.
My friend
I agree with you when you say that some people would never trust the opposition,you know why?Becuase we never have an opposition before what we have had to date,is SNP which is nothing than a PP loyal opposition which sole purpose is to help Pp communist regime stay on power.However,since a few months Seychellois has a real,genuine oppostion call SFP,this party has shown within weeks before the fake Assembly election that people trust the oppostion if it is real,and this can be supported by its of a succeful BOYCOTT it conducted-which checkmate both RAM and Pp .and the effect of the aftermath is evident-RAM is still under shocked,PP is in disarray.
On Pp's Election win-elections conduct under one party state has one purpose and one outcome, in all cases it serve that purpose, namely to keep the crooked reigme on power by all means.Election whereby fraud,manipulation,intimidation etc..are part of the game,is not an election but a criminal process that rob the citizens from their right anf freedom.
The people at State are our grandmothers and fathers who gave the whole lives but working hard for their country,They have done their part for thier country and their hard work which objective was to better the country and better the lives of future generation has been robbed by pp crimnal gang,resulting in our bankruptcy,sell out of our land,poverty and so on....Do they care about what going on,which is your question?Well,send their National medias (SBc,Nation)ask them this question then they will be able to freely answer you,or you can just leave them in peace for the have done their part they deserve some peace of mind.
You say that PP does not steal votes and people know that-Well i guess that why he has soemone like La fortune who i will consider someone with an education that supposedly should automatically knows more-but you know what!He was appointd By Michel as Elctoral Vice President,guess what,He knows so much that he took his first course ever of how to monitor an Election two days before it took place.That is i think a good example of hoe much they know.
On getting PP out.You seems so pesimistic that your beleif that we cannot topple Pp is understandable.But if you would have asked the same question to the Tunisian,Egyptian,Lybian beofre their revolutions many would have probably hold the same opinion as you do.You did hold such opinion when SFP called for a BOYCOTT of the Aseembly Election,even RAM though he deiced to support the boycott was not that convionce of the effect it could have less was Pp who was convinced of win big-but the people took you all hostage of your illusion.I thought you learn from the lesson ,unfortunately you haven't which also explain RAM?S stubborness to participate at the round table.
Good that you put your fate in GOd not a Dear communist atheist Leader,at least you can hope for a place in heaven than hell.
Time for regime change.
Jeanne DÀrc
Alain St Ange, David and James Michel have, in one swoop, written Air Seychelless off the map and with it hundreds of jobs. Jobs of innocent hard-working and dedicated individuals.
Do they care?
As much as making the La Misere residents drink delo kaka.
Quelle victoire pour notre pauvre petit pays!!!
What is very sad about all this is that we are carrying on as if nothing has happened.....
Mac Susie Mondon last night on tv was looking like a cat had jussed pissed in her hand bag.
Morgan like like he's just finished sucking on a dick and had another one still in his ass.
Miserable suckers, sent forward as fodder while our president with a heart for every Seychellois has his head buried under somebody's wife's skirt.
What a mess. A real fucking mess.
My beloved people - it's time for us to wake up and take our country back.
We need to do it for our children and our grandchildren.
Morgan statement was a bag full og illusion and cofusion.
Let us go back on a few points raised by Morgan-(onPiracy)
-Morgan said,we need foreign troop becuase we do not have enough men.Well Morgan the fact is the Pirates have been operating for almost three years in our waters-My question is why all those years you did not trained our people to defence themselves?
_He said,ex-Seychellois if call back for duty will be vulnerable-Yes indeed-For until now our soldiers were trained only how to handle a Ak-47 in order to not protect the country but the Party.
Morgan went on to tell us ,that we do not have the means,well Morgan where did you get money to import and pay Gurkas,flight,feed them ,pay them their salries ,accomodation etc...
_Morgan in fact should only tell us one thing namely that Pp has failed on all fronts and has run out of ideas and solutions.
As to the Gurkas,their present is not a surprise,for do not forget that Khalfia wanted to stationed his troops ,hence Pp has found a reason to stationed foreigner troops on our shores under the guise of fighting Piracy .We must monitor PP ,becuase this Gurkas might well stay here forever thus fulfill Michel and Khalifa 's dreams.
As Air Seychelles.All Air Seychelölois staff should oppose PP polica and conduct a strike immediately to protect thier jobs and make sure our National company does not become an Arab controlled company as Michel and his Arabs dispots want.And we will physically come to particiapte thus help you in your strikes.
Time to get rid from communists, time for regime change.
Jeanne D'Arc
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