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President James Michel has congratulated two Seychellois first officers, Paul Belle and Ronnie Ah-Shung upon their promotion to fully qualified captains on the B767 fleet of the national airline, Air Seychelles.

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission led by Jean Le Dem visited Victoria during March 4-17, 2011 to conduct discussions for the third program review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement with Seychelles. The mission met with His Excellency President James Michel, Vice President Danny Faure, Governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles Pierre Laporte, Principal Secretary of Finance Ahmed Afif, and other senior government officials as well as representatives of the private sector and parliamentarians.

Three Seychelles’ media professionals have this week returned from a two day conference focusing on the role and responsibilities of Africa’s media at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, organised and supported by the British and Canadian High Commissions in Pretoria and the British High Commission in Seychelles.

President James Michel has visited the Headquarters of Air Seychelles at the International Airport, where he met with the Acting Executive Chairman, Ambassador Maurice Loustau Lalanne and the staff of various departments to talk to them about their work, the change taking place at the national airline and as well as financial difficulties in its operation.

Seychellois will be able to ‘Touch the Future’ in two weeks time as the Seychelles 2020 Expo will pave the wave for the vision of the country as the Eco Capital of the world.

President James Michel visited the district of Baie Lazare this weekend, as part of a series of visits to various communities and businesses, in order to listen to people about their ideas and concerns in the social and economic development of their districts.

Three years ago, Seychelles President James Michel found himself in the uncomfortable seat of shepherding his country out of economic woods.

President James Michel was addressing the National Assembly, and the Seychelles nation via live radio and television broadcast on his address on the State of the Nation today.

To mark International Women’s Day tomorrow, Air Seychelles is flying out an all-female crew flight out of Paris this evening including six French ladies who are prizewinners of a week’s educational visit to Seychelles.

Seychelles has added its voice to the condemnation of the continued violence which has erupted in Libya.