SEYCHELLES REALITY

  A coroner has decided that a sailor who died from the effects of alcohol and heroin probably had the drug adminstered to him by someone else. Engineering Technician Charles Warrender, who was 22 and served in HMS Richmond, was found dead in the Seychelles in May last year. His family are upset at the inquest verdict, saying they believe he was unlawfully killed. ET Warrender was found dead in a park in the Seychelles capital Victoria, with his socks and shoes beside him and an empty wallet. A quantity of high-grade heroin had been sprinkled over his chest. He had been on a night off as part of the crews’s celebrations of the Queen’s birthday. Giving a narrative conclusion at the inquest, Grimsby and North Lincolnshire Coroner Paul Kelly said: “There was no objective evidence of illicit drug use by the deceased. The overdose was likely administered by a third party.” But the sailor’s mother, Kate Warrender, told The Lincolnshire Echo: “We are disappointe...

THE DAY OF RECKONING, is upon us. In a couple of hours’ time, later this morning the Seychelles Constitutional Court will pronounce on the Presidential Election petition before it. Who will be the victors? What lessons are there to learn from this event and things/failures that led to it? Who failed? Have the people been failed? Will there be any regrets? The wait has been long. Today all await with much anxiety and trepidation. This landmark case is sure to still have ripples years down the line, long after a number of heads have rolled. The case and its rulings will have huge implications on various levels. Whilst the case clearly defines the petitioner and the defendants, the case has a direct and immediate importance for the life of the nation, for democracy and the people and these will have been a major consideration when the hammer finally falls later. It is the people and democracy that have been the biggest losers these past few elections. What exactly would constitute a vic...

Here is the person who has been chosen by the opposition to be the candidate for LDS for the district of Anse Royale. When she disagrees with your opinion, the barage of vulgarity that she spits out is very disturbing indeed. Will she be using the same tactics with the people of Anse Royale who she might not agree with because of their political affiliations? Below i have some of her responses to others prior to the presidential elections that was held on the 5th and the 18th of Dec 2015. Flory Larue on Patrick Pillay and Ahmed Affif:

More than 200,000 Panama Papers offshore companies revealed‏ The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has published a  searchable database  that strips away the secrecy of nearly 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 jurisdictions, from Nevada to Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands. The data, part of the  Panama Papers investigation , is the largest ever release of information about offshore companies and the people behind them. This includes, when available, the names of the real owners of those opaque structures.  ICIJ, part of the nonprofit organization the Center for Public Integrity, has spent more than 12 months investigating the 11.5 million files that make up the Panama Papers, working with and assisting more than 370 reporters from all around the world. Your support helps us continue our investigation, and helps journalists hold the powerful to account. ICIJ.ORG

Several projects launched in Seychelles by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa during his tenure, are on the brink of closure, media reports said today. Bank of Ceylon (BOC), Sri Lanka Insurance, Mihin Lanka and Nawaloka Hospital opened up their respective offices coinciding with Rajapaksa’s visit to Seychelles in June 2014. Sources told The Sunday Leader that operations of Sri Lanka Insurance curtailed reportedly within a period of two months. According to employees of the insurance company, the Seychelles office was intended to be ‘temporary’ as the decision to close the operation was taken at the very inception. Nawaloka Hospital Seychelles is scheduled to cease its operations by the end of this month after reportedly recording a loss of Rs 5.2 million, hospital employees said. It is also speculated that Mihin Lanka is likely to cease its operations to Seychelles. Meanwhile Bank of Ceylon (BOC), Seychelles Branch was reporting tremendous loses and its staff was li...

Guys. This is not going to be an easy one. I am being asked to comment on a recording posted that I never heard. Like most people I never got to hear the recording posted, which apparently had to do with a dialogue of sorts I had with Martin Aglae. I have 2 recording of Martin Aglae, the first from the 6th. April which was his Press Conference (and that was recorded by a number of people present) and the second on the 08th April, also at his office. There were 3 people at the second meeting. Apart from Martin and myself there was also a certain Mr, Dave, Martin’s deputy. That second one was a dialogue mainly between Martin and myself. Martin is an intelligent guy, which explains why he quickly made it up the ladders in quite a few different opposition parties and in such a short time. He must in a way or another have impressed the leaders of these various parties, or were they so desperate that they all had special passes to allow unvetted newcomers and unknowns into their inner...

Against the backdrop of recent territorial gains, the cessation of hostilities and a peace process in Geneva that is rumbling along, President Bashar al-Assad seems more secure than ever after five years of conflict in Syria. When people ask how he managed to stay in power despite the country having its economy collapse in half, hundreds of thousands killed, one in two Syrians being forced from their homes and the conflict dragging in four of the five UN P5 members of the Security Council, you wouldn't necessarily think about the Seychelles. Yet as the Panama Papers, the biggest leak in global history, has shown, the idyllic archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean off East Africa has played its part in keeping Assad in the Presidential Palace in Damascus. What this demonstrates is that what appears from a distance to be an insular, authoritarian regime far more proficient in the tools of medieval warfare than modern capitalism, has actually used the leve...