Photo: Seychellois Once Bound, Gagged & Subdued!
Our Thoughts! Dear Mr. President you choose to spend but a moment with the nation on your well managed television sittings addressing your observations and putting out 'new' ideas every now and then. This time it is about Seychellois being business minded and creating wealth and employment. We wonder Mr. President what you call someone who for the past 30 years has crawled and dragged his or her way to keep themselves afloat under the repressive SPUP and later SPPF policies? The fact that these businesses exist today despite their hardships proves one thinq quite clear! And that is no lectures are needed from you on the subject of 'entrepreneurial spirit'! 'Jj Spirit' can not carry nor convince anyone that all of a sudden we need to discover ourselves and start contributing! Rather Mr. President and despite your political party's attempts to subdue, then re-invent the 'Seychellois psyche', our spirit remains to contribute and grow! What we need is to be unshackled! Your pronouncements help in many ways indeed. Eyes wide open! T.L. Laurence
"President James Michel has repeated his call for Seychellois to be innovative and to develop their entrepreneurial spirit so as to earn their living and also create employment.
Mr Michel said he is confident this will become an important sector in the economy of Seychelles in future.
The President was speaking last night in his monthly television programme entitled En Moman Avek Prezidan, in which he talks about topics of national importance.
The theme of his interview this month was employment, in line with his recent announcement that creating jobs and consolidating existing work is one of his three main priorities – the other two being finding ways to bring down the cost of living and putting in place mechanisms to help the most vulnerable in our society cope with the hardships brought about by the economic reform programme.
Noting that creating jobs is no easy feat, Mr Michel said that apart from employment that comes through investment or through the support that businesses in the private sector get, we should seriously look at how Seychellois themselves can use their innovative and entrepreneurial spirit to create their own businesses."
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