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n Politics: Time to do away
with the system, says SUP
Disorder
Family feud escalates into violence
He thinks his brother
is behind a fire that destroyed his boat recently.
When the latter eventually went to the police on
Saturday after a never
ending spate of violence,
six men broke into the police station armed with a
machete to wreck havoc…
(page 2)
n Football: Third division
final: Anse Royale wins third
(page 4)
division Cup
n Blue economy: Ice, at
last!
(page 7)
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n a shocking incident that happened at
around midnight on Saturday, a group of
six men broke their way into the police station at Anse Boileau armed with a machete
and other weapons, to attack a family member
who was at the time, reporting an incident to
the police.
They threatened the two police officers who
were manning the station at the time, stole the
Occurrence Book, damaged the police station
and physically attacked their relative.
Three of the suspects are in the box and the other three just outside the box. This was in court yesterday afternoon.
Continued on page 3
Real life
A mother’s
battle
n
National Show 2015:
Preparations nearing
completion
(pages 8)
Roshara Gonthier is the mother of a
nine-year old boy who suffers from
multiple health conditions which
developed while he was growing up.
This is the story of a mother’s pain,
her struggle and her relentless determination to help her child lead a
normal live. But to go all the way, she
needs your help.
Read more on page 11
Roshara Gonthier, a mother who will not give up on her child.
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Tuesday 16 June, 2015
Politics
Time to do away with the system, says SUP
The party‘s Sunday meeting turned into a resolution for all opposition parties to unite to “take power”.
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The executive committee of the Seselwa United Party with leader Robert Ernesta, fifth from left and Deputy Leader Roy Fonseka to Mr Ernesta’s left.
nity was the word on Sunday at the STC conference
centre where the Seselwa
United Party (SUP) held a meeting to disclose its vision for the future of the country.
For the party though, national
unity goes through the unity of the
opposition and to show it meant
business, the leaders of three other
opposition parties were invited to
be part of the gathering.
The Seychelles National Party
(SNP) was represented by its leader Wavel Ramkalawan, Lalyans
Seselwa was represented by Patrick Pillay while recently created
Independent Conservative Union
of Seychelles (ICUS) was represented by its secretary general,
Mike Chadstone.
Mr Ramkalawan would later call
for the unity of the opposition, saying it was the only way the system
could be changed. A call that was
seconded by Patrick Pillay and subsequently supported by SUP leader
Robert Ernesta who said that the
time has now come for leaders to sit
down and discuss the way forward.
But before that, the SUP’s deputy leader, Roy Fonseka said the
atmosphere in the country had
changed and that he felt there was
a feeling of hope that was pervading. “This atmosphere of optimism will herald a new step in the
country’s history”, he said, adding
that “this year, we have realised
that people are not scared. People
have started walking with their
heads high”.
Mr Fonseka expressed his confidence that “things will change
soon” and he believes that this will
happen because “people now understand the power of freedom”
and the fact that “freedom is not
something that is given to you but
that must be taken”.
But he added, for this to happen, people must get involved.
“It’s easy to sit and be a spectator
and say things are not working in
the country. But it takes courage
for people to come out and speak
out. And people will ask you – why
bother if you’re doing ok. But you
cannot think like that”.
Roy Fonseka praised Wavel
Ramkalawan for his “consistency”
and Patrick Pillay for coming out
and said “it’s very important to
come together to change the situation”.
The problem, he explained was
that Seychelles was like a machine
with four engines but that it was
only using two of them. “Is it any
wonder that we are late in our development when before a Seychellois can do anything, it is asked
whether he or she is one of us or
one of them?”
For 38 years, he said, “we have
lived under the shadow of the
Zonm Lib, we’ve been divided”.
Sustainable development, he
added, “is not just about erect-
ing buildings. It means that there
must be Seychellois to work in the
country. Instead, we have a youth
that is regressing and that is being neglected. That’s why we need
foreigners because our own people
don’t fit”.
For this to change, the Deputy
leader of the SUP said, “we need
to give the same opportunities to
everyone so that they can help in
the country’s development. We
need our youth to work, we need
to train them otherwise they will
always work under the supervision
of a foreigner (…) We can’t make
our youth believe that its only
chance at a future lies in the hands
of the Jj Foundation!”
The SUP leader Robert Ernesta
also spoke of the need for a new
system. In fact, he says the very
system of government needs to
change, to have a government that
is derived from the National Assembly and a President whose role
would be to act as guardian of the
Constitution.
He posited that in the current
system, Members of the National
Assembly (MNA) were completely
disconnected with the reality on
the ground. He recounted how a
parent met with one MNA ahead
of the vote in the National Assembly on the toughening of the law
on drugs. “That parent had tears
in his eyes and said to the MNA
that he knew his child had made
a mistake but that sending him to
jail for more years is not going to
solve the problem. The MNA nodded and said she would bring the
matter up in her speech. But when
I listened, she said nothing”, he recounted. Another young mother,
Mr Ernesta explained, was sent to
prison for 21 years under the new
law. “She had a baby. So when she
comes out, the baby would have
grown into a 21 year-old without
a mother. But how can MNAs understand people’s sufferings when
they haven’t lived, when they are
too young to know anything about
anything?”, he asked.
Later, Wavel Ramkalawan said
that the only way to ensure that
the principles the SUP stands for,
have a chance of being of being
implemented “is to get together.
This is what will bring hope to the
country, this is what will allow us
to build a society where there is
meritocracy and where there are
equal opportunities for all”.
“So, let’s put our differences
aside and get together to change
the system”, he concluded.
All the parties present on Sunday said they were on the same
wavelength with regards to the
call for unity. The next step now is
choosing who will lead this united
opposition.
World Blood Donor Day 2015
Glaring shortage at blood bank
Do you give blood? Those who do – and who save lives by doing so - , were officially thanked on Saturday, on the eve of
the World Blood Donor Day.
PENSION TIPS COLUMN
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questions about the Seychelles Pension Fund on a weekly basis.
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Email: vdingwall@spf.sc
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Children’s Pension
Q: What is the objective of a Children’s Pension and Surviving Spouse Pension?
A: The above mentioned pension’s are aimed to ensure basic financial support to the children and the surviving spouse of the
deceased who has contributed to the Seychelles Pension Fund or
the Social Security Fund up to the 30th June 2010 for a continuous period of 10 years and an aggregate period of 20 years prior
to his/her death.
Q: How much of the pension is the children and the spouse
entitled to?
A: In the case where the deceased member has both surviving
spouse and children at the time of death, the spouse shall be
entitled to 50% and the child 40% of the pension in accordance
with schedule 4 and 5 of the Seychelles Pension Fund (Benefits)
(Amendment) Regulations 2011
Q: What is the pension payable when the children are living
separately?
A: Where the deceased children are living separately and being
maintained by another guardian or parent, the monthly children’s pension shall be payable to the guardian or parent if the
child is still a minor.
PS for Health, Peggy Vidot and Airtel’s managing director,
Amadou Dina.
By A. De Giorgio
T
he country needs about
3000 units of blood every year but last year,
only 1692 units were collected.
While the shortage is glaring –
and worrying – a thought was
spared on Saturday for those
who do give blood and literally
save lives.
An award ceremony which is
part of this year’s World Blood
Donor Day activities marked
took place on Saturday afternoon at the International Conference Centre of Seychelles
(ICCS) in Victoria. World Blood
Donor Day is commemorated
very year on 14 June. The conference room was packed with
proud blood donors from all
walks of life including 30 representatives from organisations
that helped increase the units in
the Blood Bank by encouraging
their employees to donate blood.
The event was also attended
by the Minister of Health, Mitcy
Larue, the principal secretary
(PS) for Health, Peggy Vidot and
the chief executive officer of the
Seychelles Hospital, Dr Suresh
Menon as well as representatives
from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
“Every year, on 14 June, countries around the world commemorate ‘World Blood Donor
Day.’ The theme for this year’s
commemoration is ‘Thank you
for saving my life’. This focuses
on thanking blood donors who
save lives every day through
their blood donations and encourage others to do so as well,”
said the WHO liaison officer, Dr
Cornelia Atsyor as she explained
that blood donation is a key element of Health care services.
She also mentioned that Seychelles happens to be amongst
the top national health system
in Africa that manage to fill its
blood bank on a regular basis.
“However, more can be done
and more should be done,” she
added.
But the reality on the ground
seems to be different if Minis-
Dr Menon (left) and the General Manager of
Seychelles Breweries Ltd, Patricia Berthelot.
ter Larue is to be believed. She
said that blood shortage is a reality and that demand for blood
continues to grow every year.
“Seychelles needs about 3 000
units of blood per year to met its
requirements but we only managed to collect 1 692 units last
year. Most of these blood units
we acquired came from relatives
of those needing blood whereas
the rest came from regular donors who give blood voluntarily
every three to four months,” she
said. Minister Larue urged those
present at the ceremony to continue to donate blood and to encourage others to join the cause.
The signing of a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) also
took place during the ceremony
between the ministry of Health
and the Red Cross Society. The
president of Red Cross Society,
Barbara Carolus Andre said that
the agreement will strengthen
the Red Cross’ numerous blood
awareness programmes and
convince more private companies to make donations as an
integral part of their corporate
responsibility programmes.
The award ceremony started
off with the individual calling of
the representatives of the 30 organisations that donated blood.
This included Seychelles Breweries Ltd, Airtel (Seychelles), Indian Ocean Tuna, Landmarine
and Seychelles Civil Aviation
Authority, to name but a few.
TODAY spoke with the safety
and security manager of PUC,
Darrel Benoit who was awarded
for regularly donating blood.
Mr Benoit stated that this was
the second time that he was
receiving an award. He also revealed that he regularly donates
blood three to four times a year
and has been doing so for the
past nine years. “I am of course
happy to receive this award but
my real satisfaction comes from
knowing that I helped someone
somewhere,” he said. Mr Benoit
also explained that it’s really not
a big deal for the one donating
the blood but it makes a huge
difference for those in need.
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Tuesday 16 June, 2015
African Union Summit
Sudan’s Bashir leaves South
Africa despite court order
The Sudanese President’s plane leaves South Africa as court continues to hear case on whether he
should be arrested on ICC warrant.
Source: Aljazeera
S
udan’s information minister
has said that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir flew out
of South Africa yesterday, defying
a high court order which banned
him from leaving the country until
an application calling for his arrest
had been heard.
“Yes, he has left,” Information
Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman confirmed to Al Jazeera, saying that
South Africa had always agreed
not to arrest the president while
he was in the country for the African Union summit.
“President Bashir is not a prisoner inside Sudan,” he added, saying that the president was due to
land back in Khartoum at about
6:30pm local time yesterday.
An interim order was made by
the high court in Pretoria on Sunday, barring President Bashir from
leaving South Africa, pending
an application from civil society
organisations calling for his arrest on an International Criminal
Court warrant.
Earlier on Monday, Osman said
the president would return to Sudan regardless of whether the high
court ordered his arrest.
“The [South African] judiciary...does not have policemen... No
one is going to arrest him.”
Prior to the president leaving the country, the high court in
Pretoria was expected to decide
whether to send Bashir to the International Criminal Court.
Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller, reporting from Johannesburg, said
that the Sudanese president’s plane
had been moved to a South African
military base late on Sunday night.
She said that the defence force
was not a party to the court case,
meaning President Bashir would
be able to fly from the base unobstructed.
If the plane has left as reported,
the home affairs department could
be held in contempt of court for
failing to implement the conditions of the court order barring the
president’s exit, our correspondent
reported.
Bashir, who is accused of war
crimes in repressing an armed uprising in the Sudanese region of
Darfur, appeared in Johannesburg
on Sunday for the AU summit.
The conflict in Darfur has killed
as many as 300,000 people and
displaced 2 million, the United Nations says.
South
Africa
on
Sunday
slammed the ICC for unfairly focusing its indictments on African
leaders and said the Hague court
was “no longer useful”.
The Hague-based ICC issued an
arrest warrant in 2009, but Bashir
denies the charges.
UN Secretary-General Ban Kimoon told reporters in Geneva on
Monday that the authority of the
ICC must be respected and its de-
cision implemented.
Before Sunday’s court ruling
was announced, the judge said
the court would decide whether a
South African government cabinet decision to host Bashir would
trump the ICC arrest warrant.
James Michel at the Summit
The question of whether
Bashir should be arrested or
not, does not seem to have
perturbed other heads of
State and Government attending the Summit that closed
in Johannesburg yesterday.
President James Michel spoke
yesterday of the importance of
women in society, saying Seychellois women have changed
Seychelles. “Without women,
we are trying to build a better
Africa with one hand tied behind our back”, he added. The
President also spoke of the
Blue Economy as well as peace
and security in the region,
saying that as the Chair of
Eastern Africa Standby Force
(EASF) “Seychelles will play
a lead role in helping to bring
about peace and stability in
the Eastern African Region”.
Maritime security, he added, “is our common good and
an element of our collective
human security”.
Family feud escalates into violence
Continued from page 1
All six men were duly arrested and
appeared before Magistrate Brassel
Adeline yesterday afternoon. Their
lawyer’s plea that they be released
was rejected by the Magistrate who
despite the fact that the police enquiry in the case, hasn’t been completed, remanded them to custody
until 22 June. Their conduct and
the crimes they are accused of having committed, are too serious, Mr
Adeline admonished.
The Occurrence Book, an important police document, was found
the next day, in a drain not far from
the police station.
Only one of the six suspects has
so far been charged with unlawful
wounding. The others should be
charged once the police complete
their enquiry.
This deplorable incident, a member of the family tried to justify to
TODAY, is the result of “the police
not doing their job”.
It seems it all originated a few
weeks ago when a boat was set on
fire at Anse Boileau. Three people
are suspected of having set fire to
the boat that belonged to one of the
six men who were arrested on Sunday. Two of them were apprehended
while the third one is said to be on
the run. But a family member told
this newspaper that the owner of the
boat was informed that his brother
was behind the fire.
“When we informed the police,
we realised they weren’t doing anything about it because the brother
has important connections”, the
daughter in law of the owner of the
boat, alleged.
The feud went on for a while before things escalated last weekend
when a car was smashed. According
to the brother suspected of being
behind the fire, it was his car that
was smashed but according to the
daughter in law of the other brother,
the car that was smashed belonged
to the sister of the two men.
Whatever the truth is, on Saturday night, the brother who said his
car was smashed went to the police
in Anse Boileau to report the incident. As he was doing so, six men
broke into the police station, presumably to stop him from reporting
them. But armed with a machete
and other weapons, they broke
down the door and proceeded to
take hostage the police station.
“This kind of behaviour will not be
tolerated”, police spokesperson Jean
Toussaint said. This was echoed by
Magistrate Brassel Adeline who told
the men that damaging government
property, threatening and assaulting
police officers in uniform and the utter
disregard they showed for the law, is
something that he will take “very seriously”. This was the reason the Magistrate denied bail to the six men.
The Taxpayers Charter
Notifying the SRC of any relevant changes in the business
Since January 2012, the Seychelles Revenue Commission (SRC) has published a charter for taxpayers.
The Taxpayer’s Charter simply explains what a taxpayer can expect from SRC and what SRC expects
from the taxpayer. The main objective of the charter is to nurture the relationship between the SRC and
the business community. The Charter, which promotes fairness, is based on mutual trust, respect and
acknowledgement of responsibilities. SRC believes that all taxpayers should be treated equally, without
bias or preference and at the same time they should honour their responsibilities with the Commission.
Taxpayers have several obligations under the Taxpayer Charter namely:
• Registering as a taxpayer.
• Submitting tax returns and making correct tax payments on time.
• Maintaining up-to-date and accurate records.
• Notifying the SRC of any relevant changes in the business.
• Notifying the SRC of any mistakes made.
• Providing appropriate facilities and documents to the SRC’s auditors.
• Lodging representations / appeal within the prescribed time.
Today’s article will look at one of the obligations that taxpayers have to fulfill when conducting business
with the SRC - Notifying the SRC of any relevant changes in the business.
What changes in the business should a taxpayer notify SRC about?
It is the taxpayers’ responsibility to notify SRC when:
• the business status changes;
• the business changes address (both postal or physical address);
• changes in other contact details (e.g. phone number, email address);
• the business seizes operation (closure of your business);
• changing the business representative (e.g. public officer or tax agent);
• changing the business name;
• changing the business ownership;
• changing business activity;
• there is a change (increase or decrease) in the number of employees (e.g. through recruitment, termination, resignation, etc).
Why is it import that taxpayers keep SRC informed of relevant changes in the business
It is important that SRC is kept informed of key changes that take place within your business at all
times so that the SRC’s taxpayers’ records are always up to date. This will ensure that SRC can:
• keep in touch with the business.
•
•
•
•
•
disseminate information /educational materials to the taxpayers in a timely manner.
inform taxpayers of any changes in laws, policies and procedures in a timely manner.
ensure that the business pays the right amount of tax at the right time.
better target taxpayer groups for the relevant meeting / workshop.
deliver its services in an efficient and effective way by avoiding the need to correct mistakes
How will you notify the SRC of changes in the business?
It is most preferable to notify the SRC of any changes before your next Business Activity Statement
(BAS) is due.
All changes should be communicated in writing, addressed to the Revenue Commissioner. If the change
is related to the business entity (e.g. changing from a sole trader to a partnership), the business has to
deregister the existing business first (e.g. sole trader) and then register the new business (e.g. partnership) with the SRC and provide the necessary documents for registration. These include:
a. The name of the business;
b. The date the business commenced;
c. The name and address of the owner and where the owner is a partnership, the name and address of
each partner;
d. The nature of the activities of the business;
e. An estimate of the net income the business is expected to derive in the first tax year of its operation.
The following information should be provided when registering as a:
Company
A copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Company
Registration, a list of all Directors and Shareholders and Business License.
Trust
A copy of the Trust Deed, a list of all Trustees.
Partnership A copy of the Partnership Registration, a list of all Partners and Business License.
Individual
A copy of Business License (if applicable).
All Employees
A list of all your employees.
For more information
You can contact Seychelles Revenue Commission on 4293737 / 4293726, email us at advisory.center@
src.gov.sc or visit any of our SRC Offices.
Tuesday 16 June, 2015
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Football: Third division final
Anse Royale wins third division Cup
Revengers register second win in Inner Island Cup.
By RR
A
nse Royale triumphed
3-0 in the third division
cup final against favourites Baie Lazare on Saturday
afternoon at the Unity stadium.
Defender Damien Sedgwick
opened the scoring in the 25th
minute for Anse Royale for a 1-0
lead and four minutes later, another defender Stephen Souris
made it 2-0 as he shot past Baie
Lazare goalie Tony Mondon for a
2-0 advantage and just past the
half hour mark, striker Stenio
Rigodon added a third for the
players of coach Eddy Naiken to
give his team a 3-0 lead at half
time.
Baie Lazare came out for the
second period trying to redress
the balance but they could not
Third division team Anse Royale won the cup final in style over Baie Lazare.
break down Anse Royale’s defence and referee Kerens Yocette
had to stamp out some rough
tackles as Baie Lazare’s frustration threatened to boil over in a
match they were expected to win
as they are second in the Barclays
league whereas their opponent
are in fifth position.
The Anse Royale players celebrated their victory at the final
whistle and coach Naiken was
really delighted with the cup triumph.
“We wanted a good start and
the players responded well as we
scored three times which helped
us. In the second half, we knew
they were going to come at us so
we had to preserve our advantage
and I’m really happy and proud of
this young team which has been
in existence for only one and half
years and I’m also a young coach
and this is a good encouragement
for me to win a cup,” Coach Naiken told TODAY Sports.
As for the Baie Lazare coach
Jose Ernesta, he was so disappointed that he did not talk to the
press and it was left to team captain Jude Hoareau to explain the
defeat to TODAY Sports.
“We were missing some of our
key players who are out of the
country and we made a poor start
and then it was difficult to recover in the second half though we
Anse Royale captain Marlon Adrienne accepts the trophy from
SFF Vice President Roch Henriette.
threw everything in attack. But
we will meet our opponent in the
league where we are unbeaten in
five matches and we will surely
get our revenge on them,” captain Hoareau said.
The SFF vice president, Roch
Henriette presented the cups to
the two teams and Marlon Adrienne lofted the winners’ trophy
for Anse Royale as they danced
in celebration in the grand stand
and on the pitch.
TODAY Sports would like to
congratulate Anse Royale football club on their achievement.
Inner Island Cup
Meanwhile in the second
round of matches in the Inner
Island Cup, Revengers registered their second win this week
as they edged Cote D’Or 1-0 on
Saturday in a bad tempered
match where both teams had a
player sent off. Steven Lesperance scored the only goal of this
encounter in the second half.
Cliff Cesar was sent off for Revengers for a rough tackle late
in the match whilst Cote D’Or’s
Marcus Labiche was also expulsed for having a go at referee
Jean Ernesta.
On Friday, La Passe beat Anse
Reunion 2-0 with a goal in each
half to secure their first win in
this tournament.
Ugandan Hussein Zzinda gave
La Passe a 1-0 lead and Collin
Bibi confirmed the victory with a
strike in the second half to give
them all three points in a season
where they are still unbeaten
and are in the final of the Airtel
Cup where they are the defending champions.
Basketball
SBF assists Hawks Fanchette
Mont Fleuri beat Hotshots.
By RR
T
he Seychelles Basketball
Federation has assisted
PLS Hawks player Neddy
Fanchette with a financial donation in a small ceremony at the
Victoria Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon.
Fanchette is suffering from a
knee injury and needs to be operated and as a result, the Basketball Federation (SBF) decided
this year to give all its proceeds
from their annual charity matches to help him.
On Saturday, the SBF chairperson, Sheila Ah-Kong donated
the money collected through the
sale of tickets to Fanchette before
the PLS Hawks match against
R.C Dynamics.
Fanchette expressed his gratitude to the federation when he
spoke to TODAY Sports after the
cheque presentation at the gymnasium.
“I’m thankful to the federation
for this donation which will help
a bit as I was injured whilst I was
on national team duty but I’m
more grateful to my club Hawks
who has been really helpful and I
will be leaving this coming week
for India for the operation,” the
Mont Fleuri (in red) had too much firepower for Hotshots.
30 year old Fanchette, who was
part of the 2011 gold winning
team, told TODAY Sports.
Hotshots suffer first loss
Meanwhile in the women’s
league, champions Hotshots suffered their first loss of the season as they went down 80-70 to
Mont Fleuri in a match marred
by poor officiating which did not
help the cause of the Anse Boileau based team.
Hotshots led 38-32 at half time
with 2014 player of the year Sheriffa Agathine helping them but
Mont Fleuri came back strongly
and they were led by Serah Rose,
Bernadette Songor as well as Tracy
Hetimier who contributed her fair
share for them to take the lead 5750 at the end of the third quarter.
Mont Fleuri continued to
dominate their opponent in the
fourth quarter and ran out easy
winners in the end to inflict a
first loss on Hotshots.
Mont Fleuri coach Tony Juliette said that his team made a
slow start but changed their style
of play to beat Hotshots.
The injured 2011 gold medallist Neddy Fanchette receiving a
cheque from the SBF chairperson Sheila Ah-Kong.
“We made a bad start as our
players have been out of action
but we used a press after half
time and it helped us and we
also defended better to stop our
opponents from scoring and I’m
quite satisfied with the result
though we were without our centre Lindy Morel,” coach Juliette
explained.
As for the Hotshots coach
Philip Arissol, he felt his team’s
fitness let them down.
“We played well in the first
half but our fitness level and over
confidence caused our downfall
but we also missed the presence
of Tina Agathine,” coach Arissol
said.
In the men’s league, PLS
Hawks easily disposed of RC Dynamics and Drifters continued
their good start to the season as
they edged Mont Fleuri Dawgz
in an exciting match on Saturday
evening at the Victoria gymnasium where some players were
complaining of being affected by
the hairy caterpillars, believed to
be present on these premises.
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Tuesday 16 June, 2015
FIFA Women’s World Cup
Brazil advance, Colombia
shock France at World Cup
E
x-champions Germany and
Norway join the scramble
to advance to the knockout
round at the Women’s World Cup
Monday along with hosts Canada
as the final round of group games
gets under way.
As champions Japan and Brazil
coasted out of Group C and Group
E respectively with a game to spare,
the battle will go down to the wire
in Monday’s Group A and Group B
ties.
Germany, winners in 2003 and
2007, are top of Group B with four
points from two games, ahead of
1995 champions Norway, who also
have four.
Asian newcomers Thailand have
three, while the Ivory Coast are already out of the running after two
defeats.
The Germans won their opening
game against Ivory Coast 10-0 but
were held 1-1 by Norway in their
second, with the Scandinavians
beating Thailand 4-0 in their opener.
Top ranked Germany play Thailand, ranked 29, in Winnipeg, as
group rivals Norway take on the
Ivory Coast in Moncton.
“We are lucky to meet the best
team in the world,” said Thailand
coach Nuengruethai Sathongwien.
“It is a great experience and we will
do our best to get a win.”
In Group A, Canada are top with
four points ahead of China and the
Netherlands, both on three, with
New Zealand still in the running
one one point.
The Canadians face a tough test
against the Netherlands in Montreal with China playing New Zealand
in Winnipeg.
China coach Hao Wei said his
young side, dubbed ‘The Steel Roses’, are holding up well under the
‘pressure’ of an international competition, following on from the 1-0
loss to Canada by beating the Netherlands 1-0.
“In Group A all the games are
even, we need to take every game
seriously,” he said.
“For different teams we have different strategies and will now focus
on the New Zealand team.”
New Zealand earned a point in a
goalless draw against Canada, after
falling 1-0 to the Dutch.
“We know China so well, we’ve
played them more than we’ve
played any other team,” said New
Zealand coach Tony Readings.
“We’ve beaten them three of the
last four times we played them, but
they beat us last time. It’s always going to be tight when we play them.”
Canada coach John Herdman
was confident of finishing top of the
group.
“We’re still in the driving seat
to finish top of the group. It just
means going into the Netherlands
game we have to be in fifth gear.
“It would have been nice to drop
down to fourth in that game. Canada always seems to do it the hard
way, that’s how we roll.”
The top two in each group advance along with the four best
third-place finishers out of the six
groups.
Copa America
Brazil beat Peru with
injury-time winner
Costa scores injury-time winner to beat Peru;
Venezuela beat Colombia in biggest shock of the
tournament.
A
n injury-time goal from
Douglas Costa gave Brazil
a barely deserved 2-1 win
over a plucky Peru side in the Copa
America.
Substitute Costa slipped the ball
past the keeper from close range in
the 48th minute of the second half to
break the deadlock and extend Brazil’s winning run to 11 matches.
Peru got off to a dream start after
just three minutes with an unexpected opener to Christian Cueva.
David Luiz failed to clear a long
ball and goal-keeper Jefferson
passed the ball straight to Cueva
who hammered it home from 10
yards out.
However, Peru’s lead lasted just
two minutes. Dani Alves stroked a
lovely cross into the box where an
unmarked Neymar headed home
his 44th international goal in 64
matches.
Earlier, Venezuela beat Colombia
1-0, the biggest upset of the tournament so far and their first victory
over their South American neighbours in the history of the competition.
Striker Jose Salomon Rondon
scored the only goal of the Group C
match in the 60th minute in the central Chilean city of Rancagua.
Midfielder Rafael Ocosta swung
in a deep cross from the right, Alejandro Guerra headed it back across
goal and Rondon buried a firm
header into the bottom lefthand corner of the Colombian net.
Colombia had beaten Venezuela
in four of their five previous encounters at the Copa America. The other
clash, back in 1979, ended in a goalless draw.
Results:
Brazil 2-1 Peru
Colombia 0-1 Venezuela
Costa is mobbed by his Brazil team-mates following his stoppage
time strike at Estadio Municipal Bicentenario German Becker.
NBA Finals
Curry lifts Warriors over Cavs, to brink of title
S
Season’s MVP Curry scores 37 points in Game Five win over the Cavaliers to go 3-2 up.
tephen Curry shot the Golden State Warriors within one
victory of winning their first
NBA championship in 40 years.
The reigning league MVP fired
in 17 of his 37 points in the final
quarter, and the Warriors withstood another herculean effort by
LeBron James to beat the visiting
Cleveland Cavaliers 104-91 victory
on Sunday for a 3-2 lead in the finals.
“Those are plays I’ve been making all year,” said Curry of his
fourth-quarter explosion that included a few nifty jaw-dropping
moves. “Obviously, once one goes
in it helps your confidence.”
“I called all those plays,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr joked. “Those
were my genius inventions. No,
that was Steph just taking over the
game. He took over the game down
the stretch. He was fantastic.”
Title-starved Golden State can
wrap up the series Tuesday in
Cleveland or back home in Friday’s
Game 7 and hoist their first Larry
O’Brien trophy since 1975.
“We fought hard all year to put
ourselves in a position to go to
Cleveland and close it out,” said
Curry, who shot 13-of-23 from the
floor and 7-of-13 from behind the
arc but was treated for dehydration following the game.
“We’re confident, we’re not getting ahead of ourselves but we
know the sense of urgency at the
moment. We know we can get it
done and know how to get it done.
We’re ready for the opportunity.”
James collected 40 points with
14 rebounds and 11 assists for his
sixth career NBA finals triple-double and second in the series, but it
wasn’t enough.
“I want to do whatever I need for
my team to win and I haven’t been
doing that the last two,” James
said. “Hopefully, I can do a better
job coming in Tuesday and force a
game 7.”
James expressed confidence despite facing elimination that the
Cavs can force a winner-take-all
game 7 and perhaps their first-ever
NBA Championship banner.
“I feel confident because I’m the
best player in the league,” he said.
Draymond Green had 16 points,
Brazil’s Leandro Barbosa added
13 off the bench for Golden State,
while Klay Thompson netted 12.
“We just had a flow,” said Warriors versatile swingman Andre
Iguodala, who finished with 14
points, eight rebounds and seven
assists. “We were all feeding off
each other and we know when it’s
crunch time we just give Steph the
ball.”
Tristan Thompson had 19 points
and 10 boards for Cleveland, while
J.R. Smith netted all 14 of his
points in the first half.
James buried a long 3-pointer
to beat the shot clock and give the
Cavs an 80-79 advantage with 7:47
left in the game before the Warriors responded.
Curry and Thompson splashed
down back-to-back triples to spark
a 17-6 burst. Iguodala hit another
before adding a put-back layup off
a missed shot after getting fouled
by Thompson.
Ahead 91-86, Curry made a
wide-open scoop layup and a triple
from the right wing, opening up a
10-point cushion with 2:44 left.
After a James 3-pointer drew
Stephen Curry celebrates with Draymond Green as the Golden State
Warriors beat the Cleveland Cavaliers.
the Cavs within 96-89, they began
to foul poor free throw shooting
Iguodala, who missed three of four
from the stripe.
But Curry connected on his final triple with 1:12 remaining and
added four free throws to seal the
victory, as the more than 19,500
fans wearing yellow T-shirts exited sold-out Oracle Arena roaring
their approval.
“We kept our poise and we were
patient on offence,” Thompson
said. “And Steph showed the magic
he’s capable of.”
James praised Curry saying, “I
thought he was great. He made
seven threes and I don’t know that
any of them were uncontested.
He’s the best shooter in the league.”
Kerr stuck with the same small
ball lineup largely responsible for
Thursday’s 103-82 game 4 blowout, as Igoudala again started over
7-foot centre Australian Andrew
Bogut.
The Cavs countered as the
6-foot-8 James replaced centre
Timofey Mozgov, just five minutes
into the game despite coming off a
playoff career-high 28-point effort.
“Small was the way we needed
to play tonight,” Cavs coach David
Blatt said.
The teams were squared at 22
apiece after the opening quarter but the Warrors led 51-50 at
halftime on a put-back dunk by
Harrison Barnes off a Curry miss
with 3.2 seconds left in the second
frame.
James had just four points in
the third period and the Warriors
closed on a 13-4 run to take a 7367 lead entering the fourth.
Euro 2016 Qualifiers
Spain grind out win, Rooney levels Lineker
record in England victory
R
England completed the season unbeaten for the first time in 24 years — 12 months after the team
exited the World Cup in the group stage with one point.
eigning European champions Spain closed in on
a place at Euro 2016 by
grinding out a 1-0 qualifying win
over Belarus on Sunday as Wayne
Rooney’s late goal gave England
victory in Slovenia.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic struck a
brace as Sweden beat Montenegro but Russia were the day’s big
losers, a defeat to Austria coming
as a blow to their prospects of
reaching the finals in France in a
year’s time.
England are on a fast track to
Euro 2016 having won six games
out of six in qualifying Group
E, although they needed an
86th-minute winner from Rooney to secure victory in Ljubljana.
Milivoje Novakovic gave Slovenia the lead in the 37th minute at
the Stozice Stadium before Jack
Wilshere broke his international
duck with a pair of brilliant, almost identical second-half goals
to put England ahead.
Slovenia substitute Nejc Pecnik appeared to have rescued a
point with an 84th-minute equaliser, but moments later Rooney
atoned for two glaring earlier
misses by scoring his 48th England goal, taking him level with
Gary Lineker and leaving him
one goal behind all-time leading
scorer Bobby Charlton.
“It’s great to score the winner,
but it was a great team performance,” captain Rooney told ITV.
England are six points clear at
the top of the section from Switzerland, who came from behind
to beat Lithuania 2-1 in Vilnius.
Fiodor Cernych put the home
side ahead in the second half but
Josip Drmic equalised soon after for the Swiss before Xherdan
Shaqiri of Inter Milan got the
winning goal six minutes from
time.
In the group’s other game, Sergei Zenjov scored two goals either side of half-time as Estonia
defeated minnows San Marino
-- England’s next opponents in
September -- 2-0 in Tallinn.
Meanwhile, Euro 2008 and
Euro 2012 winners Spain made
it five victories from six games in
Group C by beating Belarus 1-0 at
the Borisov Arena in Barysaw.
Manchester City’s David Silva
got the only goal of the game in
Vicente del Bosque’s 100th match
in charge of La Roja, controlling
a Cesc Fabregas free-kick at the
back post and volleying in.
It is Slovakia who top the sec-
tion, however, after they made
it six wins out of six by downing
Macedonia 2-1 in Zilina.
Kornel Salata and Napoli star
Marek Hamsik scored for the Slovaks, with Arijan Ademi getting
one back for the visitors, who had
forward Feran Hasani sent off
late on.
Spain and Slovakia meet in early September, while third-placed
Ukraine are not out of the running after second-half goals from
Artem Kravets, Denys Garmash
and the excellent Yevhen Konoplyanka secured a 3-0 win over
Luxembourg in Lviv.
- Capello critical In Group G, Russia’s hopes of
qualifying were dealt a blow as
Fabio Capello’s side slumped to a
1-0 defeat at home to Austria.
Giant striker Marc Janko
Wayne Rooney’s 86th minute goal, his 48th for England, handed
victory to Roy Hodgson’s side in Slovenia in a tough match
scored the only goal of the game
for the Austrians with a spectacular overhead kick in the 33rd minute at Spartak Moscow’s Otkrytie
Arena as they extended their lead
at the top of the section.
After six games, unbeaten Austria -- whose only previous European Championship appearance
came as co-hosts in 2008 -- are
top with 16 points, four points
clear of Sweden, with Russia a
further four points adrift in third,
which is likely to bring with it a
play-off place.
Fabio Capello, the coach of the
2018 World Cup hosts, seemed to
blame his team’s performance on
the “pedestrian” pace of the game
in Russia.
“It’s very hard to play at top
speed because my players haven’t
got into the habit of doing so in
Russian Premier League matches,” said the 68-year-old Italian.
“After the pedestrian football
which they play in the domestic
league it’s impossible to meet the
requirements of European football, where everybody plays much
faster.”
Sweden won 3-1 at home to
Montenegro with Marcus Berg
opening the scoring before
skipper Ibrahimovic, of Paris
Saint-Germain, netted twice in
four minutes just before halftime, with Dejan Damjanovic hitting a penalty consolation for the
away side.
Also in Group G, Liechtenstein and Moldova drew 1-1 with
Sandro Wieser’s brilliant strike
putting the hosts ahead in Vaduz
before Gheorghe Boghiu levelled.
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Blue economy
Ice, at last!
The problem of ice for fishermen had become such a problem that it was until last week being distributed at Providence on a first come first serve basis, resulting in a chaotic situation that affected production. News that the ice plant
donated by Oceana Fisheries is now operational is bound to be welcomed with relief. The Seychelles Fishing Authority
says that other plants will be operational within the next three months.
F
ishermen can breathe a
sigh of relief: the ice plant,
donated by Oceana Fisheries to the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), is finally up and
running, the SFA said yesterday
in a press release.
The eight-ton a day plant, situated at Providence Zone 6’s fishing port, had the first batch of ice
falling on Wednesday 10 June,
when it was operated for the first
time, the SFA claimed.
To ensure that there are no
glitches, Wednesday and Thursday were reserved for ensuring
that all technical hiccups were
resolved before the facility was
officially opened to the fishermen and the public at large.
Refrigeration System Services
(RSS) – a local company, undertook installation free of charge
and all necessary parts were provided by the SFA.
For the past six months, ice
shortages have been a major
concern for fishermen. This has
caused many hardships for them
when trying to maintain their
means of livelihood. According to
the SFA management, they have
been working hard over the past
four months to find a solution to
this problem. SFA goes on to say
in a press release that the “installation of this ice plant is part of
many actions that are being implemented by the SFA”. Further
actions will include installation
of another 8-ton facility at Baie
St Anne on Praslin, which is also
being donated from the sale of
Oceana Fisheries. This plant is
expected to be operational by the
second week of July 2015.
Fishermen on Praslin have also
been suffering from the ice shortage problem, something that has
First ice produced by the new ice plant at Providence.
prevented them from functioning at full capacity.
The RSS brought in an expert
from Holland to assist in a major
overhaul for the Bel Ombre and
Providence ammonia-based ice
plants. The work is expected to
be completed shortly. According
to the SFA, evaluations were also
conducted by a Japanese expert
from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), between
The ice plant installation at Providence has been completed.
26 May and 13 June. He also put
forward some recommendations
towards the different operating
parameters. As soon as work is
completed on the two plants,
the expectation is that produc-
tion will double from the current
50% production to full capacity.
Given that demand is highest
at Bel Ombre and Victoria, the
SFA is requesting of the ministry of Finance, Trade and Blue
Economy, that a ten-ton capacity
ice plant is placed at these two
locations.
Admitting that demand is currently higher that production
capacity in the North since the
current plant serves the majority
of fishermen in that region, the
SFA says that it is expected that
the plant will be placed in Victoria and that it will complement
the existing supply provided by
Oceana Fisheries and Sea Harvest.
This will presumably prevent
all fishermen from heading to
Providence and causing a congestion there. Completion of
these two plants is planned for
the beginning of September. This
will coincide with the beginning
of the North-West Monsoon –
when demand for ice rises, as
the weather is calmer and more
fishermen go out to sea. SFA anticipates that the ice production
issues will be resolved within the
coming three months.
SFA is also planning the refurbishment of three Freon-based
(R22 refrigerant) ice plants at
Anse à la Mouche, Anse Royale
and Baie St. Anne Praslin. They
are hope that the plants will
make use of more efficient and
environmentally friendly refrigerants, but this will be done in
phases so as not to disrupt ice
production significantly. Negotiations are also being held with
private individuals by SFA, who
have shown an interest in venturing into the ice production
business.
Construction of the concrete base for the ice plant at Grand Anse Praslin.
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National Show 2015
Preparations nearing completion
Vice-President Danny Faure escorted by members of the National Celebrations Committee visited the grounds where the National Show will take place from 27 to 29 June.
N. Dennis
T
he National Day will, as
from this year, be celebrated
on 29 June. This decision
was ratified last year by the National Assembly. It will take place
between 27 and 29 June at the National Sports Complex (NSC), and
the added element this year will be
a boat show held on 27 and 28 June
at Eden Island Marina B.
Vice-President Danny Faure, who
is also the Chairman of the National Celebrations Committee (NCC),
visited the sites at Roche Caiman
and Eden Island. Accompanying
him was the National Show Coordinator Michel Vielle, Principal
Secretary at the ministry Youth,
Alain Volcere, Principal Secretary
of Community, Development and
Sports, Denis rose, Principal Secretary of the Vice-President, Jeanne
Simeon and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Green Island Construction, Glenny Savy.
The NCC organizing committee
members welcomed Vice-President Faure to the NSC grounds
and Mr. Vielle explained the plan
for the National Show event. This
was followed by the NCC visiting
and examining the cubicles, some
of which are still under construction. It was noted that the cubicles
are being constructed by the Green
Island Construction Company. Despite the rain, the team continued
on to Eden Island to review the
preparations for the boat show.
Speaking to TODAY, National
Show Coordinator, Michel Vielle
explained that “the National Show
is part of wider celebrations to
commemorate the National Day as
it will, from this year, be celebrated
on 29 June. On that note, the NCC
members came up with a plan to
make the day a memorable one. As
a team, we have been working for
the past eight months and the site
visit gave us a glimpse of the organisation and mobilization needed.
So, we are now better positioned to
advise our registered clients on our
preparedness for the event.” Mr.
Vielle went on to explain that the
National Show will not be concentrated at Roche Caiman, but that
there will be a boat show on 27 and
28 June as well as a fishing competition on 27 June at Eden Island
Marina B.
According to Mr. Vielle, the site
was due to be handed over yesterday, Monday by the contractor.
This will allow the NCC to alert all
registered clients so that they can
begin mounting their stalls. On the
topic of stall rental, Mr. Vielle said
that “this year we have increased
the rent slightly because it had
to reflect the cost factor that has
risen within the last two years in
Seychelles. The spaces within the
NSC hall starts from SCR5,000 for
a three metre square area and can
Mr. Vielle explaining the NSC floor plan to Mr. Faure.
reach up to the SCR20,000 for a
ten metre squared areas whereas
the outdoor spaces are calculated
at a base rate of SCR110 per square
metre. The rent was really not an
issue but we have run out of space
inside the NSC hall.”
On 31 March this year, NCC officially announced that Switch (Pty)
Ltd would be the marketing agency
for the 2015 National Show. TODAY spoke to the director of Mar-
keting for Switch, Herve ChangYunn who said that “the marketing
strategy was aimed at generating as
much interest into the show by getting a large number of visitors. We
have given value to the exhibitors
by offering them advertising and
sponsorship opportunities during
the National Show events at Roche
Caiman and Eden Island Marina
B.”
To that end, added Mr. Chang-
Yunn, “we have offered marketing
opportunities in different formats
such as indoor and outdoor advertising. One of the most exciting
elements will be the LED television
on the main stage. The size of the
screen is 5 metres wide and 2.5 metres high with audio. Participants
will be able to broadcast their adverts on this big screen. This kind
of marketing has never been done
for the National Day celebrations,”
Mr. Chang-Yunn said before explaining that “for the show, we have
designed the logo and have produced the print and television adverts including for the social media.
Road banners, flags and flyers will
be placed everywhere”.
For her part, the Administration,
Public Relations and Marketing
Officer at Hunt, Deltel & Co. Ltd,
Isabelle Adrienne said that “Eden
Island Marina is one of Hunt Deltel’s subsidiaries. We manage the
marina for the proprietor, Vijay
Patel.” She also went on to say that
the boat show will have an international flavour as foreign yacht owners will be present with their yachts.
“Vijay Construction has provided
space and infrastructure for the
show. The boat show will be held
at the newly reclaimed marina at
the entrance of Eden Island. The
first floor in the building will be
used by disc jockeys and the media
as the marina will be hosting the
show,” said a representative of Vijay Constructions.
“All businesses, from small to
medium enterprises to large retail
corporations will be part of this
grand show. The National Show
will be held for three days and will
close at 5:00 pm on 29 June followed with the military parade,
the President’s speech and a cultural programme,” added Mr. Vielle.
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Tuesday 16 June, 2015
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US Presidentials
Jeb Bush In 1995: Unwed mothers should be publicly shamed
Soon to be Presidential candidate for the Republicans, Jeb Bush, the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and the younger
brother of former President George W. Bush said that public shaming would be an effective way to regulate the “irresponsible behaviour” of unwed mothers, misbehaving teenagers
and welfare recipients in his 1995 book Profiles in Character.
Source: Huffingtonpost
I
n a chapter called “The Restoration of Shame,” the likely
2016 presidential candidate
made the case that restoring the
art of public humiliation could
help prevent pregnancies “out of
wedlock.”
One of the reasons more young
women are giving birth out of
wedlock and more young men
are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there
is no longer a stigma attached
to this behavior, no reason to
feel shame. Many of these young
women and young men look
around and see their friends
engaged in the same irresponsible conduct. Their parents and
neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of
ridicule to this behavior. There
was a time when neighbors and
communities would frown on out
of wedlock births and when public condemnation was enough of
a stimulus for one to be careful.
Bush points to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel The Scarlet
Letter, in which the main character is forced to wear a large red
“A” for “adulterer” on her clothes
to punish her for having an extramarital affair that produced
a child, as an early model for
his worldview. “Infamous shot-
Despite his comments, Jeb Bush is considered to be less conservative than his peers...
gun weddings and Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter are
reminders that public condemnation of irresponsible sexual
behavior has strong historical
roots,” Bush wrote.
As governor of Florida in 2001,
Bush had the opportunity to test
his theory on public shaming. He
declined to veto a very controversial bill that required single
mothers who did not know the
identity of the father to publish
their sexual histories in a newspaper before they could legally
put their babies up for adoption. He later signed a repeal of
the so-called “Scarlet Letter” law
in 2003 after it was successfully
challenged in court.
Bush’s ideas about public shaming extended beyond unwed parents. He said American schools
and the welfare system could use
a healthy dose of shame as well.
“For many, it is more shameful
to work than to take public as-
sistance -- that is how backward
shame has become!” he wrote,
adding that the juvenile criminal
justice system also “seems to be
lacking in humiliation.”
In the context of present-day
society we need to make kids feel
shame before their friends rather
than their family. The Miami
Herald columnist Robert Steinback has a good idea. He suggests dressing these juveniles in
frilly pink jumpsuits and making
them sweep the streets of their
own neighborhoods! Would
these kids be so cavalier then?
It’s worth pointing out that the
kind of public shaming Bush
described has come under fire
recently in response to the growing trend of parents humiliating
their children on social media to
punish them. A 13-year-old girl
died by suicide last month after
her father posted a video of himself cutting off her long hair on
YouTube because she had disobeyed him.
YouTube and social media, of
course, did not exist when Bush
wrote his book in 1995. But the
former governor makes clear
that “society needs to relearn the
art of public and private disapproval and how to make those to
engage in some undesirable be-
havior feel some sense of shame.”
Bush did not respond to a request for comment.
UPDATE: 6/10 -- Steinback,
the former Miami Herald columnist, told HuffPost that “until
today, I was unaware that Governor Bush had cited my column
on public shaming of juvenile
criminal offenders in his 1995
book.”
“My column made reference
only to young offenders who often harbor a mistaken romance
about jail and prison, and might
consider incarceration a perverse badge of honor,” he said.
“I suggested that sentencing
them to wear frilly pink jumpsuits and performing a public
duty such as street sweeping in
their own neighborhood might
serve as more of a deterrent
than jail time. I made no mention of using such a tactic with
unwed pregnant teens. In fact,
I would consider such a policy
utterly horrific. Pregnancy is
not and should never be treated
as a crime. Unwed girls in such
circumstances are most likely
experiencing considerable personal and psychological stress
and anxiety that would only be
exacerbated by shaming them
publicly.”
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Tuesday 16 June, 2015
Real life
A mother’s battle
Roshara Gonthier is the mother of a nine-year old boy who suffers from multiple health
conditions which developed while he was growing up. This is the story of a mother’s
pain, her struggle and her relentless determination to help her child lead a normal live.
But to go all the way, she needs your help.
By A. De Giorgio
T
he definition of a mother is a woman who gives
birth,
protects
and
brings up a child with care
and affection whilst trying to
provide the best possible education within her reach. Roshara Gonthier does this and
more.
When Rojaysuns was born,
he was a normal and healthy
baby but after a few months, he
started to suffer from persistent fevers for which no clear
cause was diagnosed by the local healthcare authorities. The
little boy was also hospitalized
several times with recurrent
infections. In 2007, he was
treated for anaemia and later
sent to Réunion Island for
further tests and treatments.
By the time he reached three,
Rojaysuns was diagnosed with
Hydrocephalus, brain atrophy
and global development delay.
When he was four, he could
no longer walk or talk. He required multiple interventions
such as speech, physio and occupational therapy.
He also seemed to be having
problems with his eyesight.
Something that mum Roshara
suspected and was later confirmed by a local ophthalmologist. So Roshara saved up every penny she could find and a
few months later, managed to
take her son to Mauritius for a
second opinion at a renowned
Eye Surgery Clinic. Unfortunately, the doctors could not
diagnose what was wrong with
the little boy. Despite this, Roshara made several trips to the
neighbouring island, hoping
that one of the many specialists who examined her son,
would be able to save him.
“I felt lost, scared and I was
quickly running out of options
to help my child. And yet de-
Roshara Gonthier will leave for Sri Lanka with her son tonight.
there had to be a way,” Roshara told us.
And she was right. Roshara
said that her determination
and efforts started to pay off
since after several follow ups,
online researches and therapies. And also she had dug
into most of her life savings.
She started noticing that Rojaysuns’ condition looked like
it was starting to improve.
By the time the boy reached
five, he had started walking
by himself and a year later, he
could even speak clearly. And
little by little, Rojaysuns had
Rojaysuns’ eye condition could be the result of a damaged optic nerve
that can be treated with an operation.
spite it all, my fear and despair
would melt away whenever I
would see my son smile at me.
In those moments, I could see
him telling me through his
eyes that everything was going
to be alright. I don’t care what
all the medics and experts say.
I knew deep in my heart that
managed to overcome most
of his problems except for his
eyesight.
Another breakthrough occurred two years ago during her last trip to Mauritius
where her son was examined
by an ophthalmologist at the
Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital.
The eye specialist came to the
conclusion that Rojaysuns’
eye condition was a result of a
damaged optic nerve. However, nothing could be done from
their side and instead the doctor recommended monthly eye
testing to be conducted in Seychelles along with a prescription for glasses.
“It did not solve my son’s eye
condition but now at least, I
had a lead and I can’t recall
how many nights I stayed
awake conducting online researches about my son’s possible eye problem. I read everything I could find in an
attempt to explore the causes
and treatments that could be
done,” said Roshara. She then
found out that some eye hospitals in Sri Lanka cater for
such eye operations at an affordable cost. She then came
across a Sri Lankan Eye Hospital representative during
last year’s expo in Seychelles
and the man went through
her son’s documents and confirmed that their hospital can
conduct the necessary operation.
So now she had to find the
money to pay for her son’s recovery. Roshara took a SCR16
000 and received a donation
of SCR17 000 from the Seychelles’ Children Foundation
and the District Administration of Plaisance.
With this money, Roshara
and her son will be boarding
a plane this evening heading to Sri Lanka for a medical
test. Her fingers will be kept
crossed.
The problem is that the funds
she is travelling with will only
be enough to cover the costs
of the flights, accommodation
and just a part of the operation
if the test confirms that Rojaysuns’ eye condition is indeed
caused by the optic nerve. Her
funds are not enough to cover
the entire surgery and other
related expenses.
This is why she came to TODAY with her story, her numerous medical documents
and the photo of her little boy.
Roshara has done all she could
-and beyond – for her son
but she simply does not have
enough money to cover it all. Asked whether she had received assistance or support
from the local healthcare authorities, Roshara replied in
the negative and say that what
she got was one visit at the
Yellow Roof every six months.
“This is simply not enough to
diagnose a problem and follow
up on a child’s eye condition.
My son was only seen six times
in three years, which altogether is barely two hours of professional medical examination.
I do not think this is appropriate for children suffering from
such eye conditions and more
assistance should be given to
help mothers in such cases,”
she said.
The young mother is going
to Sri Lanka with contradictory feelings – one the one
hand, she is scared and on the
other, she is filled with hope.
Her only regret, she confesses,
is that she relied too much on
what one or two doctors had
to say during the early stages
of her son’s malady instead of
taking more initiative. In fact,
she attributes her son’s improvement to her own online
researches and her will to see
her son get better.
Can you help Roshara and
her boy? Please contact Roshara Gonthier on (248) 2521854
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Lifeline
Celebrity Profile:
Martin Sheen (1940–)
Pussy Riot activist held
in Moscow over prisoner
demo
Martin Sheen is an American actor best known for his roles in films Badlands (1973) and Apocalypse Now (1979). He has won numerous awards for
his role as President Bartlet on the TV series The West Wing.
Source: Bio.com
A Pussy Riot activist and another protester have been arrested in Moscow after staging a
brief street performance to support women prisoners.
Nadya Tolokonnikova, along
with fellow activist Katya Nenasheva, dressed as prisoners and
attempted to sew a Russian flag
before being dragged away.
Both were released after three
hours, Ms Nenasheva told the
BBC. Ms Tolokonnikova spent
21 months in jail after a Pussy
Riot protest against Vladimir
Putin in a Moscow cathedral.
The human rights campaigner
staged her new protest on Russia’s national day.
US actor John Stamos
arrested for drunk driving
Synopsis
Martin Sheen is an American actor who got his start on
the New York stage, earning a
Tony award nomination for his
role in The Subject Was Roses
(1965). After reprising his role
in the television adaptation he
moved on to TV and film, making his big screen debut in 1967’s
The Incident. He is perhaps best
known for his role as Captain
Willard in the highly-acclaimed
film Apocalypse Now (1979). In
1999, he landed the role of President Bartlet on the TV series The
West Wing, for which he won numerous awards. Sheen recently
starred in the Netflix series Grace
and Frankie.
Early Life
Actor and activist Martin Sheen
was born Ramón Estevez on August 3, 1940, in Dayton, Ohio.
During his impressive acting career, Sheen has played all types of
characters, from killers to world
leaders. He discovered his love of
acting while in high school. Never formally trained, he learned
from experience while performing on the New York stage.
Film Career
Sheen earned a Tony Award
nomination in 1965 for his work
in The Subject Was Roses (he reprised his role for the 1968 film
adaptation). After appearing in
such television shows as Route
66, The Outer Limits, My Three
Sons and The Nurses, he made
his film debut in 1967’s The Incident, playing a teenager thug
who takes over a subway car.
In the 1970s, Sheen gave several
great performances in such films
as the adaptation of Joseph Heller’s best-selling novel Catch-22
(1970), the spree killer Charles
Starkweather-inspired Badlands
(1973), and Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War masterpiece
Apocalypse Now (1979). He went
to give strong performances
in Gandhi (1982), Wall Street
(1987), The American President
(1995) and Catch Me if You Can
(2002).
TV Career
Along with his career in film,
Sheen found success on the small
screen with the political drama
The West Wing, which debuted
in 1999. He took on the leading
role of President Josiah Bartlet in
the critically acclaimed television
series, for which he received a
Best Actor Golden Globe Award
in 2001. Sheen was nominated
TODAY in History
US actor John Stamos was arrested for driving under the influence in Los Angeles on Friday.
Beverly Hills police said they
received calls about 19:45 local
time reporting a possible drunken driver.
Officers later stopped Stamos,
51, who was the only person in
the vehicle. He was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center but
later returned home.
Stamos is set to produce and
appear in a reboot of Full House
for Netflix, which is expected to
debut next year.
June 16th is the 167th day of the year
1884: First roller
coaster in America
opens
1903: Ford Motor
Company incorporated
for an Emmy Award six times for
his work on the show, including
for the show’s final 2005-2006
season. He picked up another
nomination that year for a guest
appearance on his son Charlie
Sheen’s hit comedy Two and a
Half Men.
Later Roles
Also in 2006, Sheen appeared
in the Academy Award-winning
film The Departed directed by
Martin Scorsese with Leonardo
DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack
Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg.
Activism and Personal Life
In addition to his acting,
Sheen is known for his social
and political activism. He has
campaigned against nuclear
weapons and for workers’
rights as well as many other
causes. Sheen has been arrested numerous times during
political demonstrations and
protests.
Sheen and his wife, Janet,
live in Los Angeles. The couple
has four children, all of whom
have followed in their father’s
footsteps from time to time.
Film
Jurassic World takes $511m in
record opening weekend
The fourth instalment in the Jurassic Park series has become the first film to take more
than $500m at the box office on its opening weekend.
Source: BBC
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Victims lawyer: Rolf Harris
“woodworm” prison song
“must affect parole”
Rolf Harris should be denied
parole after he reportedly called
his victims “slimy little woodworm” in a song he has penned
in jail, their lawyer says.
Victims’ lawyer Liz Dux said
the lyrics - contained in a letter
obtained by the Mail on Sunday
- showed he had “no comprehension” of his crimes. The “revolting” song had left one victim
“totally distraught”, she said.
Harris was jailed last year
for 12 indecent assaults against
four girls, one aged just seven
or eight. He was sentenced to
five years and nine months for
the crimes, which took place
between 1968 and 1986, and
is understood to be serving his
sentence at Stafford prison.
He also had a role in his son
Emilio Estevez’s film about the
Robert F. Kennedy assassination, Bobby (2006).
More recently, Sheen worked
with son Charlie on his latest
sitcom Anger Management.
He made several guest appearances during the show’s
run from 2012 to 2014. The
following year, Sheen took on
a starring role in the Netflix
sitcom Grace and Frankie. His
character, Robert, is leaving
his wife Grace (played by Jane
Fonda) for another man (Sam
Waterston). Lily Tomlin plays
Waterston’s wife Frankie on
the show.
On this day in 1884, the first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York.
Known as a switchback railway, it
was the brainchild of LaMarcus
Thompson, traveled approximately
six miles per hour and cost a nickel
to ride. The new entertainment was
an instant success and by the turn
of the century there were hundreds
of roller coasters around the country. Roller coasters and amusement
parks experienced a decline during
the Great Depression and World
War II, when Americans had less
cash to spend on entertainment.
Finally, in 1955, the opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, California,
signaled the advent of the modern
theme park and a rebirth of the
roller coaster. Disneyland’s success
sparked a wave of new parks and
coasters. By the 1970s, parks were
competing to create the most thrilling rides. In 2005, Six Flags Great
Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey,
introduced the Kingda Ka roller
coaster, the world’s tallest (at 456
feet) and fastest (at 128 mph).
At 9:30 in the morning on this
day in 1903, Henry Ford and
other prospective stockholders in
the Ford Motor Company meet
in Detroit to sign the official paperwork required to create a new
corporation. Twelve stockholders
were listed on the forms, which
were signed, notarized and sent
to the office of Michigan’s secretary of state. The company was
officially incorporated the following day, when the secretary of
state’s office received the articles
of association.
Ford had built his first gasoline-powered
vehicle--which
he called the Quadricycle--in a
workshop behind his home in
1896, while he was working as
the chief engineer for the main
plant of the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. He
made two unsuccessful attempts
to start a company to manufacture automobiles before 1903.
A month after the Ford Motor
Company was established, the
first Ford car was assembled at
a plant on Mack Avenue in Detroit .
urassic World was the most
popular screening in all 66
countries where it was released.
The film made $204.6m
(£131.4m) in the US, according to
the firm Exhibitor Relations.
It took $100m in China and
$29.6m (£19m) in the UK and
Ireland as part of the record global
total of $511.8m.
The Universal Pictures release
had the second-highest grossing
opening weekend in the US.
The record is held by Marvel’s The Avengers, which took
$207.4m in 2012.
Jurassic World was co-produced
by Steven Spielberg, who directed
the first two films in the series,
and directed by Colin Trevorrow.
Jurassic World has taken more than $500m globally in its opening
weekend.
Chris Pratt stars in Jurassic World.
It stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.
Jeff Bock, a box office analyst
with Exhibitor Relations, told Variety.com: “People should call dinosaurs the original superheroes.
They are just as big as Iron Man or
Superman or Batman right now.”
Jurassic Park was a major worldwide success in 1993, taking more
than $1bn globally.
It was followed by The Lost
World: Jurassic Park four years
later, and Jurassic Park III in 1993.
The third film got poor reviews
and made far less than its predecessors.
Analysts say the success of the
latest movie will vindicate the decision to reboot the franchise for a
new generation of dinosaur fans.
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Statement of Dissolution for Indian
Ocean Terminal Holdings Ltd. - IBC
No. 069388
Pursuant to Articles 92(6) of the IBC Act
we hereby confirm that effective the 11th
day of June, 2015, the winding-up and
dissolution process of Indian Ocean
Terminal Holdings Ltd., Seychelles
International Business Company No.
069388 of F20, 1st Floor, Eden Island,
Eden Plaza, Seychelles is completed
having met all criteria set forth under
the Seychelles International Business
Companies Act
1994, as amended.
Dated this 15th day of June, 2015
Mrs. Nigaar Abubaker-Esmael
Liquidator
21 Jan – 19 Feb
You should find it easier to
come and go as you please
over the next few days.
However, you still need to
be sensible and stay away
from places where tensions
are running high. There are
some areas where the people
just don’t agree with you.
23 July – 22 Aug
You will get another chance
to impress an employer
or senior colleague and
this time you will take full
advantage of it. But don’t
neglect your home life over
the next few days – loved
ones need to know they still
come first with you.
20 Feb – 20 March
Because you can sense that
major changes are coming
you may be a bit touchy
today. The best way to get
over it is to have fun with
your friends. If you sit at
home and dwell on your
fears your mind will play
tricks on you.
23 Aug – 23 Sept
It may seem strange that
a rival is now praising you
to the skies but there is no
need to go on the defensive.
Yes, they may be flattering
you for their own selfish
ends but it won’t do them
much good – you’re too
smart to be fooled.
21 March – 20 April
Saturn moves back into the
wealth area of your chart
today, which among other
things means you must take
extra care when dealing
with money and business
matters. You know the old
saying: neither a borrower
nor a lender be.
24 Sept – 23 Oct
If you are having doubts
about some kind of financial arrangement you must
speak up about it. With Saturn moving back into the
money area of your chart
today you probably have
very good reasons for having second thoughts.
21 April – 21 May
You may find that your
enthusiasm takes a bit of
a dive over the next few
days but it is nothing to
worry about. You are going through a period of
readjustment and come the
weekend you will be raring
to go again.
24 Oct – 22 Nov
If there is something important you need to tell a
friend or family member
then tell them today while
there is still a reasonably
good chance they will
understand. Later in the
week you may not find it
so easy to express yourself.
22 May – 21 June
Make sure your time is your
own today because if you
have to do things for other
people you won’t be happy
and you won’t be productive. If you feel the need, slip
away for a bit and don’t tell
anyone where you are going.
23 Nov – 21 Dec
Don’t push yourself too
hard over the next two or
three days. Whatever tasks
or duties you have to complete, either at home or at
work, they can quite safely
wait. Strangely, the harder
you strive the harder it will
be to get things done.
2. Which German city could lay claim to being Germany’s skyscraper capital?
22 Dec – 20 Jan
Find ways to combine business and pleasure today.
You are in a more fun-loving
mood but there are still some
serious things to be taken
care of, especially on the
work front. Aim to get the
best of both worlds at the
same time.
8. How many witches make up a coven?
1. Small slender gull
2. Downwind
3. Mob
4. Stuck-up
5. Pelvic bones
6. 1/100th of a dollar
7. Taro
8. A commander in the Ottoman
Empire
9. Disagree
10. Within
11. View as
13. Noisy party
14. Warning sound
20. Just right (2-1-1)
21. Travel through water
25. Chieftain
26. A type of semiconductor
27. Invariability
28. Viper or boa
29. Abuzz
30. Cripples
31. Definite article
33. Can
35. South-southeast
37. Fraud
39. Tales
42. Heroic
44. Ketch
47. Saline
49. Ancient Greek city
52. Change direction
53. Region
55. A polite way of interrupting
56. Location
57. Vexation
58. A northern diving bird
59. Fifty-seven in Roman numerals
60. Shout
62. Donkey
Yesterday’s solution
Across
1. Labels
5. Frozen water
8. Corrosive
12. Panache
13. Sleighs
15. Departed
16. City in Nevada
17. A language of India
18. Initial wager
19. Bargainers
22. A male cat
23. 2000 pounds
24. Pitcher
26. Wood nymphs
29. Beast
31. Neckwear
32. Hues
34. The golden touch
36. Pigs
38. Paces
40. Flanges
41. Elicit
43. Interlacing yarn
45. C
46. Pass by (time)
48. Bakes in an oven
50. Genus of the dogfish
51. Tear
52. Asphalt
54. In the manner of ancient
Greek culture
61. Murres
63. Your (archaic)
64. Wander
65. Drenches
66. Abominable snowmen
67. Work
68. Negatives
69. Encountered
70. Blue dye
1. What was the original name for Australia?
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5. In Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun?
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9. If you are suffering from Coryza what have you got?
10. What is the correct term for a female domestic cat?
Quick Quiz Answers: 1. New Holland 2. Frankfurt 3. Portugal 4. Criminal Investigation Department/Division 5. Icarus 6. Fight Infection 7. Deer 8. 13 9. Common Cold
10. Queen
22 June – 22 July
You will be both sociable and
aloof over the next 24 hours.
Conflicting aspects at work
in your chart mean you will
go from one extreme to the
other in the blink of an eye.
At least no one can say you
are too predictable.
Down
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