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Monday, June 1, 2015

Immediate Press Release


The Seychelles Chamber of Commerce sub committee on Praslin has held another milestone meeting with the Government of Seychelles Ministry of Environment this week.

The meeting was attended by Chairman of SCCI Mr. Marco Francis,  Praslin Subcommittee  Chairperson Christopher Gill, Adrian Uzice, Secretary and Minister of Environment Principal Secretary Mr. Allan De Commarmond, representatives of the Seychelles Tourism Board, and numerous hotel owners on Praslin.

The meeting involved numerous site visits to Grand Anse, La Pointe, Anse Madge, Au cap, Anse Takamaka, Côte D'Or , Raffles Oil spill site to assess the magnitude of the budget needed to clean these areas, keep them clean, and propose a course of action to deal with seaweed and trash. 

The Principal Secretary has ask for Thirty (30) days to assess options and chart a course of action.

Mr. Paul Roullion and Therese La Blache, hotel owners have proposed the use of the Barber self propelled seaweed remover as an option to clean and maintain beaches in a cost effective manner.


Seaweed can then be processed into health soaps, high in demand in the beauty industry, as well as health teas, and food products. Seaweed is also ideal for fertilizer for farmers and can be processed into 50 kg bags shipped to Mahe.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

GILL often the powebooster behind those forward looking initiatives,Marco,St Ange and others,guys you are doing a. great job.Thr team work is good examples of how we should get along to get things move.This initiative is genial,it is a good example of sustainable developmrnt.As stated above,of how seaweeds ,an abandone natural resource could be a intillengrntly use and genrate wealth instead of discarding tons of this raw material we have for free,and exploit without much effort in to licrative products.
From fertilizer ,cosmrtic products,why not as we progress ,even convert it into highly demand generic medications,another lucrative products no that expensive to produce.Great initiative guyd.Bravo!

Anonymous said...

Farmers by using seaweeds as fertizer would reduce,their cost on animal manure,or combined animal manure with seaweed for certain plants.....in other words....you can have only seaweed fertilizer for crrtain crops,mixed fertilizer for other crops,why not make even mixed with fifferent doses according to types on plantd,vegetables,and also forchouseholds use,r.g garden,indoor plants.DRIED ,or recidues left,as proccessed to make cosmetic products,or dried seaweed can be used as animal meals.Good for farmers ,it helps reduce their production cost.The potrntial of seaweeds is immrense.

MrRoullion solution ,is perfect,the right tool to make collectong and cleaning fast,and less costly,.go for it guys,u on the right path.

Anonymous said...

Animal meal producer exist already.They woild no go collect seaweeds,get them dried and then vonverted into anomal meals.Hence,zhe collecting and drird could be done by the already collrting gang of workers,dried then pacted in bags,send over to Mahe ,at the animal feed factory to then beconverted into animal feeds.There is a lot og posibility of creating many small and medium businesses,related to the use of seaweeds,,from cosmrzic profuction,fertilizer,animal feeds,but in future producting the most lucrative seaweed product medications from cancer,biabet,and many more,for this it must be a national project and seychelloiscwill need to be trained in this field before we can even start thinking of producing medications.

Anonymous said...

The two pictures above say it all. What government will opt for the seaweed picture?

Anonymous said...

Dr Rupert,maybe u should keep taxes money create by Praslinois on Praslin,for development of Praslin by Praslinois instead of monopolists.