More Hocus Pocus on Taxes

Ex Minister of Finance Jean Paul Adam has left his bouncy policies hanging about, that show he has no understanding of how/ what makes a economy work, what will make it grow.
President Danny Faure I am sure means well, but he surrounds himself, with these quasi professionals that wear Lacoste tight shirts, tight pants, and sound good, but dish out a lot of non sense. I will clearly, outline the nonsense for Mr. President, dished out by Minister Jean Paul Adam at Finance. Here it goes.

I. Minister is proposing before he goes to Ministry of Health (Hell) the following:

  Presumptive tax shall go from 1.5% straight to 5%.

Here Minister, the defender of Small Medium Enterprises, instead of reducing their tax exposure, he increases it. This is non sense because Minister does not take into account how difficult it is to run a small business in Seychelles. Most Employers cannot pay themselves. Additionally, most small business under the SME schemes and SENPA have traditionalLy been employment substitution schemes. Now Minister wants to gauge this group of 5% on turnover, before deducting expenses. May as well dish them some lanet. They will die an easier death, Minister.

II. Minister is proposing to raise Business at as on sole traders, to a whopping 20% , just like that, inclusive will be partnerships.

What has the government done more to merit 5% more in taxes? When you work out the numbers, the amount is astronomical, what will MOF do with all this money? Taking these funds from business, that must replenish stocks, re invest, take loans at 15% interest which is a crime in itself to compete, is again more Nonsense, dozed in lack of practical experience by a theoretical Minister, who has turn Ministry of Finance up,side down, and turn the Public against Le Pep.

III.  The Minister and his tight shirt Principal Secretary Patrick Payet who has a fixation for blue cocktails and long straws, want to curb abuse of the system. More Non sense. Abuse can only be determined on a case by case basis, that is why you have AUDITS. Minister treats turnover as income, without regard for stock maintenance and the need to meet operational expenses. In taxation, it is like Minister is on Uppers and Downers or at least his principal Secretary is.

Mr. President, blood test these "dudes", you will never know what you find.

What is clear, is the reaffirmation that the Minister lacks a firm footed position in understanding how a economy works and how businesses function. He also attempts to pass on his own ministries failure to adequately staff to deal with the challenge we face. A double standard tax system is what he has created. A system where some must pay, others do not have to pay. A system where operators can scam the fine lines of concessions and make millions in some cases. All and all, he has advance an unfair and overly complicated system that has gone beyond his ability to reasonably Police and monitor.

National Assembly Must Draw The Line

When this bogus nonsense comes before the National Assembly, they must bin it. Simple. After that, let Adam go sort through the expired medications Mitcy Larue administration ordered, while she was at Health.

Mr. President, heads up, Adam is pulling a fast one so people laugh at you.

Sesel Pou Seselwa!

May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois!

Le Pep Losing Praslin As Support Base

The ruling party, Le Pep is losing ground heavily, and quickly in Praslin, a former stalwart strong hold. In the last election, they lost Grand Anse, Praslin as a seat in the Parliament.  Baie St. Anne seat saw the largest and most significant degradation of votes by near -500 votes, making it now a district within reach of victory by the Opposition. What is causing the fall out?

Mitcy Larue Family Becoming Richest Family 

Minister Mitcy Larue, Ex Le Pep supporters say has become the richest family on Praslin over night. It is being noted they drive in brand new Lexus SUVs and a public servant should not be taking on such opulence, particularly, if you are a cc member of the People's Communist Party. Naturally, her children have defended this new acquisition and others such as yachts, speed boats, etc... But the impact on the rank and file of ordinary Le Pep supporters has been profound. It is rumored that one of her Sons will now bring in a FERRY to compete with William Rose and Joe Albert. Free market you want, free market you get, he says. Recent appointment of Minister Larue to Internal Affairs has not gone down well on Praslin. Residents say, if she failed so badly at Ministry of Health, why is she kept at Internal Affairs? Well, probably to keep James Michel informed of internal developments, watch over the file of the skull at Beau Vallon, keep a eye on Claude Monnaie file , Ryan Lesperance, and my file on the burning of my shed in 2011, amongst others.

Le Pep Forgets Praslin Exist

No sooner then elections were over, the road improvements on Praslin stopped. The Tarmac disappeared, roads were left undone, incomplete, with pot holes over running volume of good roads. The road to Anse La Blague daily is congested and tourist run into the gutter daily, as they try to pass other cars in a one way lane being used by oncoming traffic. The situation is alarming, causing damage to rent a cars, hence costing the country hard currency in parts when it could be avoided.

Since elections, NOT a single minister has turned up to discuss the pending issues of Praslin, which is very unique to Mahe and La Digue. Ministry of Employment held a meeting on the amendments to the Employment Act, the Minister, Eddith Alexander, failed to attend her own schedule meeting. She promised us statistic on Employment and unemployment in January, to be available in May, for Praslin, and now in November, we still have no statistics made available. Alexander has now been transferred to Youth, Sports, Culture. If she promised you uniforms and footballs in 2016, expect delivery in 2020.

Minister of Finance Monopoly Practice

The Ex- Minister of Finance Jean Paul Adam, has been demoted to Ministry of "Hell" Health. After making a mess of the tax system, not replying to e mails, text, phone calls for two years for a simple letter, I could not seriously expect this young man to handle vertical - horizontal Integration in the Tourism Industry.

Minister Adam brought in the World Bank, they filed a Report, he kept it and do not share it with us. Now I suppose, he will wear the AIDS Epidemic  Report under his hat, along with the Heroin Addiction Report. He promised us three legal advisors and legislation to allow SME businesses a fighting chance on Praslin while we face huge Creole and Big Mason's.

Minister Adam spoke a lot, bounced around a lot, but in reality, Adam delivered nothing, except solicit support for his own presidential campaign. If you do not have the decency to write a letter you promised to write, how can we trust you to be a President? In Praslin, action speak louder then words.

The issue of Monopoly practice on PRASLIN was an issue presented to the now President Mr. Danny Faure, in December 2015, because Minister Adam was sleeping on the file.

He promised the community that by January 2016, first order of business in the New Year, he will deal with this issue, for Praslin and the whole country. Until today- Nil By Mouth!

Mr. President, this issue needs urgent attention. As I said to your Ministers before the last election, it will cost Le Pep to sleep on this issue. They seem to have dropped this message in the Vallai De Mai, it never reached your table. Now it will really cost you.

LDS sends people to Praslin every week to eat Le Pep alive! All you can say if you do not get moving fast is.........Bye, Bye, Praslin............for life!

When you lose Praslin, you will lose all! No joke!

Sesel Pou Seselwa!

May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellios!

SEYCHELLES Embraces National Reconciliation

The National Assembly of SEYCHELLES has approved a motion tabled by Leader of the Opposition W. Ramkalawan to create a Committee on National Reconciliation intended to address past wrongs, victimization, political murders of the past since June 5 , 1977 wherein Seychelles entered the One Party State era.

This era brought with it isolationism, internal strife, educational system was turned upside down, alliances were forged with rouge states such as North Korea, Cuba, Communist Vietnam, and Socialist Tanzania. Catholic primary and secondary schools were closed down, and students were offered only State Education. The private bus operators were nationalized, private immovable property was confiscated or acquired in the name of Socialist Redistribution of wealth.

As the strife build up internally, resistance to an unelected government of France Albert Rene grew. After 48 detainees at Union Vale shanty prison dubbed : " Chateau Vallon" were detained for 14 months without charge, many were then exiled to United Kingdom, where a resistance to the dictator France Albert Rene was built up. Numerous coups were planned, many were the back drop for soliciting funds from foolish benefactors. Key politicians of the time benefited from this over seas. But one coup attempt almost worked. Mike Hoare with his band of Rhodesians and South African ,mercenaries, almost succeeded. 

On the home front, France Albert Rene faced down a Military Mutiny, of Seychellois soldiers against Tanzanian occupying officers. He succeeded in quashing them, killing them, those that were not killed, were jailed,The quality of their lives, forever compromised because they opposed Rene. Rene in turn used their presence to demonstrate his might. Look at them, look at those who resist me, look at those who support me. See where they are. The politics of" Ek Nou Pa Ek Nou" was born and took deep roots in SEYCHELLES. En suite, the murders, victimization followed to stamp out resistance.

You Cannot Kill Freedom

Rene try to break the will of his people who opposed him. He failed badly. In 1991, he announced multi party politics for the following year. When he made this announcement, one young party stalwart, fresh off the boat from Cuba said to him:" you tell us to go up the kill, we go. Then you tell us to walk back down and walk in our own shit." Walk in the shit he did, and Rene cunningly invited the resistance overseas, to come back to SEYCHELLES without conditions. As they came back, Rene had new stock of political food to stock for bad times ahead. The economy was flagging. Property values destroyed, hotels in a deplorable state. Seychelles, a Five star destination had a Two star communist product. With the arrival of Freedom loving Seychellois, with their sense of free speech, intellectual know how, the island nation entered a new period of dynamism, which Rene could never have imagined, but he held his fingers on the trigger of AK-47 all along.

Facebook Revolution and Blogs

The suppression of the press, access to media, is a critical component of ruling by FEAR FACTOR. So long as the public does not have information, access to free independent ideas, FEAR FACTOR reigns. With the advent of the Internet, access to information became second nature to the people,of SEYCHELLES. Within a few years, half of the population had become active journalists posting, commenting, editing on Facebook, blogs. A new revolution of information liberty had engulfed the power of the STATE to control access to information, the state had lost control to information dissemination. It was now the people power of information that exposed ideas, murders, victimization, disappearances, and who did what. Fear Factor had been neutralized, the people revolted, sent Le Pep into a minority position in the legislature, while holding on to the Executive Branch by merely a judicial ruling.

Seychelles On Road To Reconciliation

The SEYCHELLES is on the road to reconciliation. It is a welcome move that merit the credit of all sides. What merits demerit, is that it took so long to move in this direction, because two key Le Pep leaders and coup plotters had to be protected: Rene and Michel. Mancham for his part, has been a historical door mat since the advent of multi party democracy.

As word hit the business community of this passing motion, markets were robust and encouraging. Investors were delighted that SEYCHELLES was on the right path.

As markets rocked, murderers and killers had a sleepless week. 

Now they will know what it is like to have sleep less nights.

Congratulations to W. Ramkalawan for giving the speech I have been waiting to hear for over 40 years. 

Congratulations to Honourable Simon Gill for raising your hand in support of the motion....you have come a long way from those early days at the bottom of that mountain.

Stay focused, do the right thing!

Seselwa Pou Seselwa!

May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellios!

Seychelles Democracy on Steroids

What a week in the National Assembly. Oh, what a week for a Nation coming to grips with it's neglected past, and coming to grips with the reality, that Le Pep, the neo communists of the region, are no longer in full and absolute control. What a week, the Public could not keep up. People carried small portable radios in the market, and stuck it to their ears as a list of Ministers, Vice President, Designated Minister was tossed about.

Vice President
The Vice President Nomination went to Vincent Meriton, after all. Speculation was rife that Jean Paul Adam would be nominated. Then Patrick Herminie was rumored ( " Once a Speaker....always a Speaker" [ ok, whatever].
President Faure with mandate no matter what anyone says chose Meriton as his vice to keep the peace in his fledging party. The LDS was gracious enough to pass him, in spite of telling us that his Party is supreme, and his president James Michel is supreme, over the President of the Republic. LDS did not ask Meriton is Le Pep has a party to party protocol with the Communist Party of People's Republic of China, it does, so that makes it a fellow Communist party until Danny Faure lives up to his promise to change course. .Naturally, his other appointees who did not make it, are Communists, Faure may not have noticed, after a challenging cocktail and ambassadorial schedule, not to mention a meeting with the aloof Seychelles Chamber of Commerce, which Praslin Business has described as now rouge.

Macsuzy Scrapes By

LDS passed Macsuzy Mondon, in spite of the huge failure in education under her watch as a designated Minister. Minister Mondon also advise us that she believes in the principle of " collective responsibility". This is a pure communist principle. In the world, we are born into, we come in one by one. Register our births one by one. We do not register births or deaths collectively. Perhaps Le Pep has something else in mind. This matter of collective responsibility is rooted in the one party state when Rene imposed the idea on his ministers, after Gerard Hoarau was gunned down in London. If you touch the ministerial salary, then you are collectively responsible, communism at its best. The sad thing about Le Pep, is they do not even realize they are communists.

Dr. Patrick Herminie Blocked!
The speaker Dr. Patrick Herminie was blocked by LDS for a ministerial nomination. The banter on this nomination came from Ramkalawan himself, alleging Herminie did all sorts of nasty things in the campaign at English River. Perhaps he did. I will not say no. But if Herminie was a Tamil Hindi, Ramkalawan would certainly have supported his nomination, treated him with kindness like God Ramchandra would. But he is not Tamil, so Ramkalawan drew a little blood on his career and dreams.
We need doctors at the hospital anyways. While on the subject, can all nurses in politics please get back to nursing as well, with exception of Clive Roucou, who has been fired as a nurse, duly elected as a MNA.
The process of nomination for Dr. Herminie showed us the dark side of Ramkalawan: " Revenge". Strange coming from a priest who has vowed to walk in Jesus foot steps, strange. Maybe it was just words, to fool a pay check, get access, you never know these things, only the person knows.

Potter Bored Me To Death
I listen carefully to Marie Lise Potter. I listen, waited for the thunder, to show she is solid and Ministerial material. It never came. Hon. Afif ask her:" what is the most pressing economic issue facing Seychelles?" Her answer was social welfare-" wealth redistribution". Most of he wealth in Seychelles under Michel has been Foreign direct investment or FDI. Are we going to " redistribute that" ? If so, it means we will have to steal it, then give it to the 40% living below the poverty line, which she questioned. For the amount of time she spent in New York, her focus must have been on shopping, sight seeing. Her presentation showed very little by way of knowledge of what makes a country run well: " the ECONOMY". All and all, on this vote, LDS did the Faure Administration a big favor. They should not take it too badly.

Ambassador Dick Esparon

I was shocked LDS dumped Ambassador Dick Esparon. I am not sure why they did that. Perhaps he was over confident, and being away from the micro phone and the opposition for so long, he mis handle his nomination. He was a little brash. But that did not represent his abilities. His contacts for FDI are indispensable for poor Seychelles who has been buried in external and domestic debt which now approaches $ 1 Billion in all, according to the last FITCH Ratings. For the good of the Nation, Mr. Faure should find a post for Ambassador Esparon, wherein his talents, abilities, experience can be put to use for the Nation.

After all, we are all Seychellois, NOT just Ramkalawan ( he said he is Tamil en route through Mauritius, maybe if Esparon said that, he would be confirmed, tough being a creole these days).

Sesel  Pou Seselwa!

May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois!