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Indiscipline
Newsline Rogue police officer dismissed from force
n News
n Sports
n Business
n Life
n Funeral: 17 year old Savannah Moodley laid to rest
(page 2)
n Boxing: Good start for
Allisop
(page 4)
n Regards from Seychelles:
Florent Beusse, travelling
artist
(page 7)
Roger Teeroomooljee was terminated by a disciplinary board last year after at least one suspension and his alleged involvement in the
disappearance of gold at the CID but he was subsequently exonerated by the Public Service Appeal Board. He was rehired but his second stint was also marred by scandals.
R
oger
Teeroomooljee,
a controversial Lance
Caporal against whom
many complaints have been
made by members of the public,
has been dismissed from the police force.
The course of action was recommended to the Commissioner
of Police (CP) by a disciplinary
board chaired by Chief Superintendent Guy Roucou at the end
of July. Mr Teeroomooljee had
seven days to appeal the decision, which he did but Ernest
Quatre rejected the appeal, confirming the officer’s dismissal
from the police force.
The disciplinary board consisted of Mr Roucou who was
assisted by Assistant Superintendent Wilson Denis and
Inspector Danny Mondon in
the presence of the Internal
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Judiciary
Skeleton staff at
Magistrates’ Court
O
n Interview with Anandan
Padayachy, freelance artist
and painter
(page 10)
Police officers must respect the uniform and the police force, the board said.
Affairs Sub-Inspector, Maxime
Payet.
This decision follows two different complaints against the
former officer. The complaints
were heard on 16 and 19 June
and the first one relates to the
fact that the Lance Caporal
threatened a member of the
public in court.
The second complaint has to
do with abuse of power and intimidation. On 6 May, the man
together with two other officers,
allegedly broke into the house of
a woman at 10pm to arrest her.
According to the woman, Roger
Teeroomooljee was a former employee (he worked for the woman after he had been dismissed
by the police force before being
re-hired) and he had a score to
settle.
nly one Magistrate is
currently on duty at the
Magistrates’ Court. As a
result, four of the five tribunals
at the Magistrates’ Court will
remain empty until next week
when Magistrate N’ghwani,
who is currently on sick leave,
will resume work.
But even then, only two tribunals will function – Court E
presided by Senior Magistrate
Laura Pillay and Court D presided by Magistrate N’ghwani.
Brassel Adeline, who was recently appointed Senior Magistrate and who heads Court
B, is on leave until Monday 31
August while Magistrate Kishna
Labonte (Court C) will resume
work on 1 September.
Court A, which was previously
chaired by Justice Samia Govinden, has remained empty since
Mrs Govinden’s appointment to
the Supreme Court. Attempts to
bring in additional Magistrates
seem to have been vain.
The lack of staff decried by
Registrar Juliana Esticot in the
wake of Mrs Govinden’s appointment to the bench in February has still not been resolved.
As a result, a backlog of cases is
being created, hindering the efficiency of the system.
Justice Samia Govinden still hasn’t been replaced at the Magistrates’ Court.
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Friday 21 August, 2015
Nichole’s take on …
Education is the key
By N.Tirant
I
t was interesting to note that this year’s career week started out under
the theme “My education is the key to my future”.
It was equally surprising to hear, 23 years into our Third Republic where education is a fundamental constitutionally-recognized human
right to which the state has undertaken to provide free and compulsory
access for at least ten years, that government officials are still talking of
plans to “redefine” the education programmes to ensure that our youth are
educated for the jobs we are creating!
It’s been one whole generation since we restored democracy in 1993 and
adopted a constitution in which we “solemnly declared unswaying commitment to develop a democratic system which would ensure an adequate
and progressive social order in which all Seychellois were guaranteed
food, clothing, shelter, education, health and a steadily rising standard of
living. Under that same constitution ‘we the people’ obliged the state to
ensure that educational programmes in all our schools were aimed at the
‘complete development of the person’. We also made it promise to make
available to every citizen, depending on his intellectual capability, equal
access to educational opportunities and facilities beyond the period of
compulsory education.
Why then was this week’s symposium, organised jointly by the education, employment and human resources ministries in conjunction with the
chamber of commerce, reminding itself that education is “the foundation of
a good career” and that the education ministry remained true to its engagement to make sure that every child left school well prepared for work?
That statement, read alongside the opening line of a speech by some
education top brass to the effect that the ministry also had the mandate to
give the youth “talent, knowledge, attitude and values needed to prepare
them for the world of work”, leaves me wondering at simple facts and statistics! Far too many of our young school leavers are being left out of our
‘world of work’!
Check the unemployment statistics produced by our statistics bureau and
you can’t fail to notice that in the first quarter of 2015 alone a staggering
17.7% of our 15 to 25 age group were unemployed. A full 5% more than in
2014! The picture is blackened further when you consider that girls represent 22.3% of these unemployed whilst the boys amount to 13.2% - all on
the rise! The ‘coup de grace’ comes from the percentage of unemployed in
relation to their educational levels, which incidentally the NSB doesn’t give
in its latest report. In the unemployment statistics for Quarter One 2014,
the NSB reported that 4.9% of unemployed youth had ‘no schooling’, whilst
54.1% had only “secondary or below” education levels. Simply put, too many
of our youths are unskilled and unprepared for the world of work.
And that could partially explain why so many expatriates fill the 48,247
jobs available in our country at the end of the first quarter of 2015.
Cautioning students to take their studies seriously may be but one very
minor part of the national debate on education and jobs. The education
official pointed to the various technical programmes introduced into secondary schools, which she said, responded to the needs and expectations
of potential employers.
But does what students learn at school today really respond to the country’s future needs in education, health, business and the new developing
sectors? Or are we sending our youth on a wild goose chase for the proverbial Holy Grail with the wrong key which will not open the door once
they get there?
Becoming writers and journalists is not just a matter of being good at
composition. Our students need to acquire a good grounding in general
knowledge, they need critical and analytical judgment too and most of all,
an excellent capacity to express their thoughts, views and opinions in at least
one of the two international languages that we proudly claim as our own.
Meanwhile, the officials say they have plans to redefine the education
programme to include more practical subjects which would better respond to the demands.
But where exactly are those demands and who is creating the new jobs?
From an average of 51,426 people employed across all sectors in 2012, job
creation can hardly be on the rise when in the first quarter of 2015 there
were 48,247 people employed. Consider too that over that same period
the employment figure includes an increase of 3.6% in employment numbers in the parastatal sector and 3.5% in government. Employment in the
private sector remained flat! Hardly a promising start for school leavers!
Statistics
Seychelles population rise
T
he latest estimates from
the National Bureau of
Statistics (NBS) suggest
the Seychelles population as at
the end of June this year stood
at 93,419 people, representing a 2.2% increase in one year
(91,359 as at end of June 2014).
This is largely attributable to the
“rate of natural increase” (births
less deaths) which stood at 2.3%.
Paternity leave incentive
working?
It would appear that the new
paternity leave laws, entitling
fathers who recognise their children to five days paid leave and
which were in part designed to
increase the number of men ac-
The Lance Caporal had the
woman forcefully removed from
her home in her nightdress and
made her spend the night in a
cell. The next day, he also forced
her to appear before the Employment Tribunal in her nightdress.
But this gross case of abuse of
power was not what convinced
the disciplinary committee, for
the simple reason that the woman never appeared before it to
give evidence against the Lance
Caporal.
Instead, it was the fact that he
swore at and threatened a member of the public in court that
sealed his fate.
Speaking to TODAY, Chief
Superintendent Guy Roucou
said that the case was straightforward. “A police officer cannot
insult members of the public
especially during his working
hours”, Mr Roucou said, adding
that police officers needed to respect the uniform and the police
force.
Joel Camille, the lawyer who
represented Mr Teeroomooljee
at the disciplinary hearing, confirmed that his client had been
dismissed by the force but refused to comment further.
It is not known if the former
Lance Caporal will appeal to the
Public Service Appeal Board.
In fact, last year, Roger
Teeroomooljee was dismissed
from the force after allegations
that he had been involved in the
disappearance of an undisclosed
amount of gold from the CID office of Bois de Rose. He was then
re-hired after the Public Service
Appeal Board (PSAB) ruled that
he was not at fault.
But a few months later, he
was suspended after the aforementioned complaints were
knowledging their children, are
yet to have a dramatic effect.
Of those children born outside
of wedlock (defined by the NBS
as “illegitimate”), 19.1% were not
acknowledged by their fathers,
Funeral
17 year old Savannah Moodley laid to rest
Throngs of people turned up at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception yesterday to bid farewell to the much
loved Savannah Moodley.
T
he Immaculate Conception Church was yesterday filled to capacity with
people who turned up to accompany Savannah Moodley on her
last journey in this world. The
crowd consisted mostly of bereft
students from Belonie Secondary School and different post
secondary institutions in the
country, who turned up to bid
farewell to the deceased. The 17
year old girl who was born on 20
February 1998, was found dead
by her mother, Noella Moodley,
11 days ago in her bedroom. The
police has ruled the death a suicide by hanging.
A close friend of the family told TODAY that Savannah’s
death could only be described as
“sad , hard, a life altering occurrence that is difficult to grasp for
everyone who knew her especially her family”.
“I am very sad and still cannot
believe what happened. Savannah was a very energetic person.
She looked fine and happy the
last time I saw her. There was
no sign that she was not happy
but deep inside you never really
know someone I guess,” a friend
of the deceased told this newspaper.
Her teachers described her as
Rogue police officer dismissed from force
Continued from page 1
The rise in the number of people is attributable to “natural
increase”.
down slightly on the whole year’s
figures for 2014 which were
20.1%. However in 2013 the figure was even lower, with 18.8%
of newborns not acknowledged
by their fathers. So it is too early
to claim the policy change has
had the desired effect, although
the figures are at least heading in
the right direction.
However, in terms of actual
numbers, this means that 118
children born this year do not
have a father who has formally
acknowledged them as their
child. That is in addition to the
243 last year, 232 the year before and 302 in 2012. That’s 895
children born since January 2012
without fathers that have formally acknowledged them as theirs.
made against him. He was also
suspended on more than one
occasion prior to his first termination. In one of the incidents
he was alleged to have been involved in, Roger Teeroomooljee
was accused of having slapped a
woman in a police station.
No case to answer in sexual
harassment case
In a separate disciplinary
case, an inspector at the police academy has been found
not guilty of sexual harassment against a new recruit.
The members of the disciplinary board agreed with
the inspector’s lawyer that
there was “no case to answer”. It’s not the first time
such allegations have been
made against the inspector,
sources tell this newspaper.
a “vibrant young leader”. Savannah Moodley’s body was taken
to the Cathedral for a religious
ceremony before proceeding to
the Surya Memorial Hall to be
cremated.
We offer our condolences to
Savannah’s parents, family and
friends.
The Church was filled with mourners yesterday.
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Friday 21 August, 2015
Letter to the Editor
Disclaimer
The views and comments expressed are those of the writer and not necessarily those of this newspaper
Why can’t the register of voters be provided in electronic form?
Dear Editor,
Allow me some space in your
paper to raise the issue of the
refusal by Hendrick Gappy,
Chairman of the Electoral Commission, to provide all political
parties with the register of voters in electronic format despite
a ruling by Judge Renaud directing him to do so on July 31st
2015.
Three weeks later, Mr Gappy
is in contempt of court for his
refusal to comply with Judge
Renaud’s “writ of mandamus”
which means “a court order to
an inferior government official
ordering the government official
to properly fulfil their official
duties or correct an abuse of discretion”.
What is baffling with Mr Gappy’s refusal to obey directives
is that the court took very little
time to debate the issue with
Judge Renaud hinting even before the hearing on this matter
that he thought it was straight
forward and that the whole saga
by Hendrick Gappy not to issue
an electronic copy was frivolous and that it was wasting the
court’s time.
Why do political parties need
an electronic list?
The answer is that it would
make their lives easier in cross
checking, for example, potential
errors such as duplicates across
their respective districts, establishing different age groups they
may wish to target in their cam-
paign strategies as well as accurately monitor the movement
of voters every time the lists are
updated given population dynamics. A database would speed
up not only statistical analysis
but help in spotting potential
errors or irregularities that may
arise as lists are updated over
time and particularly the final
list used on the day of the elections.
In the absence of an electronic
list, the above exercise can still
be carried out manually by political parties but would require
a massive data input exercise
that would divert precious resources from political parties
and thus impact on their chances of competing with the ruling
party which, by all accounts, has
already received an electronic
copy of the voters’ register and
receives regular electronic updates to the register.
Not only is this practise unfair
but displays a clear bias of Mr
Gappy towards the ruling parti
Lepep. Political parties must
contest Hendrick Gappy’s impartiality and refusal not only to
be fair and just but to show no
respect for the judiciary.
Inside sources suggest that
Mr Gappy is being given political directives and is now facing
difficult questions from his own
commission members for balking at what appears to be a reasonable and straight forward
request from political parties
and a ruling from the country’s
Supreme Court.
The latest we have learnt is
that Hendrick Gappy is appealing against Judge Renaud’s decision and has even applied for
a stay of execution of the order.
In other words, he is asking that
the court should allow him time
not to implement the order until
the appeal is heard.
Mr Gappy’s refusal to comply
and provide an electronic list of
voters begs a lot of questions.
Why does he feel so threatened
if political parties are able to
swiftly process data pertaining
to nearly 75,000 voters? Is it because the final list has been manipulated by his office and that
when it will be issued, all parties except the ruling Lepep will
have insufficient time to compare the final list against the list
given earlier which would have
been verified for correctness by
ground and home visits?
Is there some major manipulation exercise engineered by
Lepep and Hendrick Gappy to
include fake names on the final
list in order to rig the forthcoming elections by having people
chosen by Lepep vote more than
once (with effective solutions
found to quickly remove the liquid used for finger dabbing) or
use non Seychellois brought in
with fake names and issued with
local ID cards and to then vote
for Lepep?
Why is Hendrick Gappy’s office informing the public that
the only identification docu-
ment that will be accepted on
election day will be the national
ID card, not a Seychelles passport? A passport is a much better proof of one’s ID as not only
does it show who you are but
also that you are also a national
of Seychelles. A Seychelles passport check would be a deterrent
against a non-Seychellois voting using a national ID card as
one would assume that in such a
case the foreign national would
not have a Seychelles passport.
Why is a passport check not
mandatory throughout the registration, vetting and election
process?
The questions must be raised
NOW because the stakes are
high at this point in time with
Lepep dwindling massively in
support from the population following recent public revelations
of large cases of corruption and
fraud by Lepep and its predecessor SPPF.
Could it be that the only way
out now is rigging the electoral
list, printing fake ID cards and
stuffing the ballot boxes with
Lepep votes from selected people by Lepep who vote more
than once or non Seychellois
brought in to vote using fake ID
cards under the guise of being
Seychellois voters? Is Hendrick
Gappy plotting with Lepep and
working against democratic
principles and the desire of the
people of Seychelles and its constitution?
The people have a right to
his behaviour which is totally
out of line with his position of
being impartial and his responsibility to ensure democratic
practises and the rule of law are
adhered to in Seychelles.
This case must be taken to the
highest levels of justice as Seychelles and its people will be the
biggest losers if we are to surrender to such an immoral and
corrupted practise.
The people await the judiciary’s
next move with bated breath …
know the truth and Hendrick
Gappy must be brought under
the spotlight by the judiciary for
Patrick Pillay
Party Leader, Lalyans Seselwa
Fraud
ATM Cards blocked
pre-emptively
C
ertain ATM cardholders were informed by SMS yesterday that their cards were being blocked as a precautionary
measure. The decision to block these cards was made after
it was discovered that certain ATMs had been illegally equipped
with fraudulent data detection devices, also known as skimming
devices. “Certain ATM cards used on these machines may have
been compromised”, the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) and
Seychelles Bankers’ Association (SBA) warned in a joint communiqué yesterday. According to our information though, the
skimming devices were detected early enough to prevent any real
damage being done. Affected cardholders will have to present
themselves to their bank to withdraw money until they are issued
with new cards. The CBS and SBA will be holding a press conference to elaborate further on this fraudulent practice, today.
Friday 21 August, 2015
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Athletics
SOCGA hosts athletics course
By RR
An IAAF instructor will animate the weeklong programme.
I
t was the SOCGA president, Antonio Gopal, who
officially opened the course
at the Olympic House offices
at Roche Caiman on Thursday
morning. He expressed the desire that the participants will
help the sport grow locally.
“My wish for this course is
for you coaches to help develop this sport in schools and in
your respective clubs to help
promote it. I would also like
you to work not only to train
athletes but to help keep them
in this sport; there is a need to
have a lot of athletes for the future of this discipline,” Mr Gopal told the participants before
declaring the coaching course
officially open.
Joel Severe, who is on his
second visit in Seychelles,
after coming here in 1988,
will be the course facilitator.
The IAAF Instructor told the
coaches that he wants them
to share the knowledge they
acquire during this weeklong
session.
“It is important for the International Association of Ath-
letics Federations to organize
such courses for small States
such as Seychelles to help their
development. I therefore hope
you will be able to share the
knowledge you gain here with
other coaches for the progress
of this sport here,” the IAAF
instructor said.
Mr Severe, who is a Mauritian national, will be assisted
during the course by local
coach Giovanni Fanny and
there are expected to be 23
participants in this coaching
course which will conclude on
Football
Cote D’Or sneak past Dynamo
Ahmed Abdou’s players held on to secure a slim victory, which propelled them to second in the
Premier League standings.
By RR
T
he 2013 league champions registered their
second win in as many
matches as they sneaked past
Northern Dynamo on Wednesday afternoon at the Unity stadium on a 1-0 score line. This
result ensured that St Louis,
who thrashed Lightstars on
Tuesday, are the early leaders
of the 2015 Barclays League
with six points and a better goal
difference than Cote D’Or. The
former champions though had
to dig deep to collect all three
points in this match. Dynamo,
who had started off the season
with a good 4-0 victory, gave
them a run for their money and
will be cursing themselves for
not taking their chances when
they came along, a deficiency
acknowledged by the Cote D’Or
coach, Ahmed Abdou, after the
match.
Dynamo had three decent
chances in the first period with
their Gambian striker Musa
Njie guilty of a bad miss midway
through the half as he shot wide
when clean through.
As for Cote D’Or, they struck
what turned out to be the winner in the 20th minute from former La Passe winger Rick Bibi
who fired past goalie Jules Monnaie for a 1-0 lead at the break.
Dynamo came all out in the
second period to level matters in a very physical contest
which was well handled by referee Emile Fred. Gerald Basset
though threatened to go all the
way if not for a timely intervention by goalie Monnaie six minutes in the second half.
Cote D’Or’s new Malagasy
recruit and former St Michel
striker, Fulgence, came on as
a substitute and should have
scored in the 69th minute from
an inch perfect cross by Marcus
Labiche but he made a meal of
the chance.
Dynamo had their moment
late on as substitute Yannick
Norah hit the crossbar in the
81st minute allowing Cote D’Or
to ride their luck. In the dying minutes of this entertaining match Norah had another
chance to make a name for himself on his debut but he headed
Cecile Ted Cupidon’s floated free
kick straight at goalie Kitson.
Cote D’Or held on for all three
points to put them in good stead
for their tough home match
next Saturday when they host
the 2014 Barclays League champions, St Michel, at the Amitie
playing field.
As for Dynamo, they travel to
Praslin this Saturday for their
away match against Revengers.
The defeat against Cote d’Or
disappointed coach Cliff Nolin.
“It was a very tight match. We
Cote D’Or edge out Dynamo.
had a few decent opportunities to break the deadlock but
we did not take them and were
punished in the end. This is the
reality of football. We will now
have to prepare for our next
match,” Coach Nolin lamented
to TODAY Sports.
As for the Cote D’Or trainer,
Abdou, he was relieved they
had done enough to secure all
the points. “We expected a very
difficult match but we took our
chance when it came while they
wasted the various opportunities that came their way. It was
important to collect all three
points in this match though
and we are pleased with the result,” the Cote D’Or coach said
as his team lie second on the
league standing behind leaders St Louis who have a tough
encounter on La Digue tomorrow against the 2015 Airtel Cup
champions.
Boxing
Good start
for Allisop
By RR
T
he 2014 Sportsman of the Year Andrique Allisop made a
good start at the African Boxing championship in Casablanca, Morocco.
Allisop won his preliminary bout against Ghanaian Jessie Larty
on points and will meet Algerian Reda Banaziz today in the quarter final.
Keddy Agnes and Kevin Kilindo, our two other participants at
this competition, were in action last night.
Andrique Allisop with his silver Island Games medal.
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Friday 21 August, 2015
Champions League play-offs
Celtic in Trouble, Sofiane Feghouli
Puts Valencia in Driver’s Seat
Valencia beat Monaco 3-1 while Shakhtar Donetsk, Celtic and Dinamo Zagreb also won
and Maccabi Tel-Aviv drew at Basel as Wednesday’s first legs saw plenty of late drama.
C
eltic may come to regret not
making Jo Inge Berget’s loan
a permanent move as his
double for Swedish side Malmo saw
them only lose 3-2 away in their
Champions League play-off first leg
match on Wednesday and leave the
Scottish champions hopes of a place
in the group stage in the balance.
Elsewhere Valencia’s hopes of a
return to the lucrative group stages
after a three year hiatus look more
assured after beating last season’s
quarter-finalists Monaco 3-1 in
Spain, the impressive Algerian international Sofiane Feghouli creating one and scoring the crucial third
goal.
Ukrainian
giants
Shakhtar
Donetsk also look nicely-placed for
the group stages - they have reached
it on every occasion since the
2009/10 campaign - after coming
away with a 1-0 win against Rapid
Vienna, who were last in the group
stages in 2005/06.
Skenderbeu’s chances of becoming the first Albanian side to make
the group stages of a European club
competition look slender after losing 2-1 at home to Dinamo Zagreb,
the Croatian side coming from behind with Algerian El Arabi Hilal
Soudani getting the equaliser and
then in the dying second Josip Pivaric scored the winner.
Berget made Celtic pay badly for
failing to keep their concentration
both times after they had a seemingly comfortable two goal advantage a bad habit that has been a feature
of their recent play and the players
had been warned about correcting
by Celtic manager Ronny Deila.
The Norwegian - who has lost
just once in seven meetings with
Malmo counterpart and compatriot
Age Hareide - could not have hoped
for a better response as his side
stormed into a 2-0 lead within the
opening 10 minutes.
However, as in previous matches this season Celtic took their foot
off the pedal and spurned several
chances which came back to hurt
them seven minutes into the second-half as Berget, who was on loan
at Celtic last season, reduced the
deficit with a superb goal, curling
the ball past Craig Gordon.
That, though, appeared to be the
kick in the pants Celtic needed for
shortly afterwards they restored
their two goal cushion as the alert
Griffiths nipped in to lob the ball
into the net after the visitors failed
to clear their lines.
However, Berget struck again as
Celtic failed to clear a corner and
left the tie intriguingly balanced.
Deila, though, tried to look on the
positive side.
“Of course you get disappointed
when you concede a goal in the last
second but we are one goal ahead
and they have to beat us now in
Malmo,” he said.
Feghouli lifts Valencia
Valencia also took an early lead
at home to Monaco as Rodrigo was
on hand to tap home after Feghouli
had stolen in ahead of a Monaco defender to set up the goal.
Monaco - who had a goal in the
first-half ruled out - levelled early
in the second-half as Croatian midfielder Mario Pasalic, on loan from
Chelsea, scored but 10 minutes later
Daniel Parejo gave ther hosts the
lead once again converting substitute Pablo Piatti’s cross.
Pasalic looked to have restored
parity only for Australian goalkeeper Matthew Ryan - signed earlier
in the close season purposefully
because the club wanted a ‘keeper
equal to Champions League level
football - to produce a stunning save
to keep the hosts noses in front.
Indeed they should have gone two
clear but Feghouli’s brilliant set up
was not rewarded as Parejo missed
the target - the impressive Algerian
decided it was better to try it on his
own when he next had a chance and
he made no mistake to give Valencia
a 3-1 lead.
Valencia coach Nuno Espirito
Santo, who had to field a side without influential defender Nicolas
Otamendi who appears set for a
move to Manchester City, was delighted they had come out on top.
“It is a very important victory,” he
said.
“Difficult, workmanlike but deserved.
“In the pre-season this is the
tie we had based all our planning
around and to win it is fundamental
for us.”
Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Eran Zahavi
netted his second of two goals six
minutes into added time to snatch
a 2-2 draw at Basel, which lost Marc
Janko to an apparent leg injury
early. Breel Embolo had put Basel
ahead 2-1 as late as the 88th.
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Friday 21 August, 2015
Transfer Talk
W
ith five weeks left to
go until the summer
transfer window slams
shut, TODAY rounds up the latest stories dominating the gossip
pages around Europe.
Bayern Munich star Thomas
Muller interested in Manchester
United move?
Bayern Munich star Thomas Muller is reportedly keen on joining
Manchester United this summer,
but will need to lodge a transfer
request in order to force the move.
Manchester United pull out of
Pedro deal as Chelsea pounce?
Manchester United end their interest in signing Barcelona forward
Pedro as Chelsea close in on a deal
for the Spaniard.
Report: Nicolas Otamendi
agrees personal terms with Manchester City
Nicolas Otamendi will be confirmed as a Manchester City player
in the next 24 hours after agreeing
terms on a five-year deal.
Manchester United, Tottenham
Hotspur interested in Aleksandr
Kokorin?
Manchester United and Tottenham
Hotspur reportedly pursue Dynamo Moscow forward Aleksandr
Kokorin.
Agent: ‘Jason Denayer could
leave Manchester City’
Jason Denayer could leave Manchester City before the end of
the transfer window as the club
prepare for the arrival of Nicolas
Otamendi, according to the Belgian’s agent.
Kenny Jackett confirms Benik
Afobe bid
Kenny Jackett warns Premier
League side Norwich City to table
their interest in Wolves hitman Benik Afobe.
Chris Ramsey hopeful of keeping Matty Phillips at Queens
Park Rangers
Chris Ramsey admits that he is still
hopeful of keeping Matty Phillips
after his brace led Queens Park
Rangers to a 3-2 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Steve Bruce: ‘We must keep key
players’
Steve Bruce believes that Hull
City’s promotion bid could hinge
on whether they can avoid losing
key players late in the transfer window.
Nottingham Forest: ‘Henri Lansbury will not be leaving the club’
Nottingham Forest confirm that
midfielder Henri Lansbury has
stated his intention to remain at
the club, amid speculation linking
him with a move to Burnley.
Report: Marseille enter Younes
Belhanda talks
Marseille reportedly hold talks over
a deal for Dynamo Kiev’s Younes
Belhanda.
Bayer Leverkusen want Mamadou Sakho?
Bayer Leverkusen are lining up a
£7m bid for Liverpool defender
Mamadou Sakho, according to a
report.
Cincinnati Masters
Serena Williams, Djokovic win Cincinnati openers
S
Stanislas Wawrinka earns 3-6, 7-6, 6-3 win against Borna Coric despite admitted the controversy was still on his mind
erena Williams pumped her fist
after each important point and
screamed as she smacked another emphatic shot. The defending
Cincinnati champion wasn’t going to
ease into the tournament.
Williams put a lot of emotion into
her opening match at the Western &
Southern Open on Wednesday, a 7-5,
6-3 victory over Tsvetana Pironkova that made her the first of the top
seeds to advance.
Novak Djokovic won his rain-delayed opening match, beating Benoit
Paire 7-5, 6-2 in 1 hour, 39 minutes.
Williams won the Cincinnati tournament for the first time last year,
getting one of the few titles that had
eluded her. This year, she’s using it
as a final tuneup for the U.S. Open,
where she’ll be the focus as she tries
to complete a rare Grand Slam
sweep.
For her, this week is about getting
her game ready to take a swing at
history.
“I think it could be a lot better,” she
said. “It’s not where I would want it
ideally, but, you know, I’m going to
have to fix that more mentally than
anything. I think once I lock in there
I will be OK.”
She’s already starting to get locked
in on New York by limiting her responsibilities away from the court.
“I’m really trying to stay away from
stress and stay away from press,” Williams said. “But, you know, that’s a
little difficult.
“I don’t necessarily want to hear
about, ‘Oh, this history and that history,’ because I just want to be able
to do the best that I can. I want to
be able to win and I don’t want any
distractions. That’s how I’m going to
handle it.”
The top-ranked Williams was
coming off a loss to Belinda Bencic
on Saturday night in Toronto in the
Rogers Cup semifinals.
The start of the day’s matches was
delayed 35 minutes because of rain,
which fell again shortly after Williams completed her win.
Her sister, Venus, dropped out of
the tournament Tuesday night with
deep to beat Borna Coric at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati
on Wednesday and conceded his
thoughts had been far from tennis
over the past few days.
French Open champion Wawrinka said he had yet to receive an
apology from Nick Kyrgios for the
Australian’s incendiary comment
during their match last week.
Kyrgios, 20, drew the ire of the
tennis world in Montreal after he
insulted Wawrinka at the Rogers
Cup, saying that another Australian player, Thanasi Kokkinakis, had
slept with Wawrinka’s girlfriend.
Though Kyrgios later apologised
Serena Williams celebrates after defeating Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova in straight sets.
Oscar Pistorius
via Twitter for his comments, he
was slapped with two separate fines
by the ATP who also raised the possibility the Australian could be suspended.
Wawrinka did not hear the comment at the time, only learning later
that it had been audible on television. He admitted after his victory
on Wednesday that the past week
had been difficult.
“For the past few days for sure my
head was not really into the tennis,”
Wawrinka told Sky Sports television after his 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-3 win
over Croatian teen Coric.
“What happened people don’t see
exactly what the consequences are
for everybody so I’m trying to put
away.
“Today I’m happy with the way I
fight. I was playing really bad tennis
but most important is the win.”
Wawrinka was then asked if he
was happy with the way that Kyrgios, who lost his opening match in
Cincinnati, had apologised for the
incident.
“He didn’t apologise so no, but I
prefer not to talk about him, thank
you,” said Wawrinka.
Twelfth-seeded Richard Gasquet
survived a first-set tiebreaker and
advanced with a 7-6 (5), 6-2 win
over qualifier Thanasi Kokkinakis.
Gasquet will face seventh-seeded
Marin Cilic in the third round.
Tommy Robredo beat Sam Querrey 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 after the third set
was delayed by rain.
Athletics
Oscar Pistorius’s release Pressure on Bolt to win in Beijing
The World Championships begin in Beijing on August 22
from prison halted by
South Africa’s justice N
minister
Paralympian, serving five-year sentence for killing
Reeva Steenkamp, was due to be moved to house
arrest but parole board is ordered to review case
O
scar Pistorius’ release
from prison has been put
on hold by South Africa’s
Department of Justice, which
said his case must be reviewed
again by a parole board because
he was approved to be moved to
house arrest too early.
Pistorius was due to be released on Friday after serving 10
months of a five-year sentence
for manslaughter for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Justice department spokesman
Mthunzi Mhaga told South African broadcaster eNCA it was uncertain if the parole board would
be able to meet to consider Pistorius’ case again before Friday.
Pistorius should have served
one-sixth of his jail sentence - 10
months - before being considered
for release, Mthunzi said. However, he was considered and approved for release to correctional
supervision in June, only eight
months into his sentence.
“It is apparent therefore that
the decision to release him on 21
August 2015 was made prematurely on 5 June 2015 when the
offender was not eligible to be
considered at all,” the justice department said in a statement.
Spokesman Mhaga said “the
decision of the parole board will
have to be suspended”.
Justice
minister
Michael
Masutha had earlier warned he
was taking legal advice on if he
had the authority to “intervene”
and prevent Pistorius’ early release.
Galatasaray reject West Ham
United bid for Burak Yilmaz
West Ham United see their offer
of €5m [£3.5m] for Turkey international Burak Yilmaz rejected by
Galatasaray.
Report: Paris Saint-Germain
start Thiago Motta contract
talks
Thiago Motta is reportedly in discussions to sign a new contract
with French champions Paris
Saint-Germain.
an illness. Maria Sharapova also
dropped out with a lingering injury
to her right leg.
On the men’s side, Djokovic waited
out a long rain delay before his match
started, and then wasted chances to
close it out quickly. He converted
only 5 of 15 break points during the
match. The first set lasted 64 minutes.
Djokovic has never won in Cincinnati, losing the finals to Andy Murray in 2008 and 2011, and to Roger
Federer in 2009 and 2012. A title this
week would make him the first player
to win all nine ATP Masters events.
Stanislas Wawrinka had to dig
The Olympian was due to be released under house arrest on Friday
but the Parole Board has been told to reconsider its decision.
ot for the first time, sprint
king Usain Bolt - arguably
world sport’s most recognisable figure - is shouldered with the
burden of not only racing against and
beating proven doping cheats, but
also bringing a much-needed ray of
sunshine to the track.
Can the pressure ever have been
higher on the Jamaican showman
to perform? To go out and execute
his race well enough to ensure gold,
enabling him and the IAAF to snub
their noses at the doping scourge that
has cast a thick cloud over athletics
ahead of the August 22-30 world
championships.
And, as if track and field’s governing body had penned the script itself,
where better for Bolt to perform than
at the very venue where he made his
name.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve
seen you my friend. We will be meeting soon #Beijing2015,” Bolt recently
tweeted alongside a photo of the Chinese capital’s iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium. It was there during the 2008
Beijing Olympics as a 21-year-old
that Bolt kicked off his sparkling career, blasting to a memorable double
gold in the 100 and 200m before anchoring the Jamaican 4x100m relay
team to glory.
Since then, Bolt has gone on to win
every Olympic and world sprint and
relay title on offer, save the 100m in
Daegu in 2011 when he was disqualified after a false start.
“In the period since I have been
president, Usain Bolt’s outstanding
performances across many competitions stand out,” outgoing IAAF president Lamine Diack gushed to AFP.
“His fame has transcended athletics.”
Sebastian Coe will succeed Diack
following a vote by the IAAF’s 214
member federations on Wednesday,
and the victor will know they need
a lot more than one stand-out, clean
athlete to fight the doping problem
the sport faces.
For one, the sprinter most favoured to knock Bolt off his perch
is Justin Gatlin, the American who
finds himself in the form of his life
at the age of 33 having served two
doping bans, including one from
2006-10 after wrapping up the 2004
Olympic 100m title and the 2005
world sprint double,
And recent media revelations have
also rocked athletics, the Sunday
Times publishing a report earlier
this month on a leaked database of
12,000 blood tests from 5,000 athletes that revealed “extraordinary”
levels of doping.
The IAAF hit back at those allegations describing them as “sensationalist and confusing” and rejected
later claims it had supressed publication of research into elite athletes at
the 2011 Daegu worlds that between
29 and 34 percent of the 1,800 competitors at the championships had
violated anti-doping rules in the previous 12 months.
It has left a sour taste in the mouth
ahead of what should be one of the
most whetting of experiences for athletics fans. “All athletes have the right
to try and help the sport, to keep the
sport in a good light. I think it’s all our
responsibility,” Bolt said at the London Diamond League meet, his last
outing before Beijing.
“I just do my best and try to run
fast. I do it clean and I think that’s
what I have to continue doing. I’m
not going to say I’m the only saviour of athletics, but I just try to do
my best to stay focused on the goal I
have.”
Aside from Bolt, eyes on the track
will focus on the Jamaican’s close
friend Mo Farah, the Briton who will
be seeking a third consecutive world
10,000m title and second in the
5,000m, distances over which he is
also reigning Olympic champion.
Farah has also found himself at the
centre of a doping row amid allegations his coach Alberto Salazar administered testosterone to American
distance runner Galen Rupp in 2002
when Rupp - a training partner of
Farah - was only 16, and encouraged
misuse of prescription drugs.
There is no suggestion however
that Farah has violated anti-doping
rules, although he came under pressure after it emerged he missed two
drug tests in the lead-up to the London 2012 Olympics.
Farah will again face a tough challenge from the east African powerhouses of Ethiopia and Kenya, the
latter having finished fourth in the
medals table at the 2013 Moscow
worlds behind winners Russia, second-placed the United States and Jamaica in third, while Ethiopia were
sixth behind Germany.
Usain Bolt looked in relaxed mood as he addressed the media during
a press conference on Thursday.
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Regards from Seychelles
Florent Beusse, travelling artist
An upcoming book of illustrations entitled Regards from Seychelles will be aimed at tourists and Seychellois alike. TODAY spoke to the artist behind this magnificent tome to see
what makes him and his work tick.
By NR
O
Florent Beusse, artist.
ne senses that time matters to Florent Beusse.
He believes in taking
time as opposed to dilapidating
it. When he draws, it both slows
down and accelerates and his every fibre is focussed on the task
at hand, whether he’s reproducing the contours of a pirogue,
the foliage of a flamboyant or the
brickwork of a colonial building.
For the illustrator of Regards
from Seychelles, a magnificent
coffee table book to be published at the beginning of next
year, setting down his easel is a
way of “taking the time to look
at people and places” in a world
where instant gratification has
become the norm. And although
he’s always loved drawing, it’s
only relatively recently that this
advertising executive started
taking the pursuit seriously. It all
started a few years ago when an
old friend invited him to Madagascar to participate in a rally
for 2CV, the vintage front wheel
drive Citroens that continue to
capture the imaginations of car
lovers the world over. But how
does one go from drawing cars
in the Malagasy bush to scenes of
daily life in Seychelles?
For this “neo-Mauritian” as
he describes himself (Florent
travelled to the neighbouring
Indian Ocean island in the mid
1990s to complete his French
civil service and has lived there
ever since), the trip to Madagascar represented a sea change in
his life. Indeed, the experience
and resultant book – Madagascar en Deuche [Ed’s note, 2CV]
– prompted him to take a step
back from the advertising industry’s rat race in order to dedicate
Recognise this?
more of his time to art. In 2014,
he published Regards from Mauritius, a magnificent book of watercolours and black and white
drawings published by Edition
VIZAVI detailing ageless scenes
of daily life on the island reminiscent of a gentler age when
people weren’t in so much of a
hurry. The success of the book –
both the drawings and texts by
Amal Seetohul – and Florent’s
desire to revisit Seychelles with
his easel convinced him to repeat
the experience here. Over two
visits to the archipelago, in April
and June 2015, he completed one
hundred watercolours and black
and white drawings for what will
become Regards from Seychelles.
He describes the book which
will include texts by Gilbert
Pool as a way of “promoting
Seychelles in a different way. All
tourism destinations have the
same images that all look the
same to tourists. At trade fairs,
hotels compete with the same
tools. People are saturated with
images thanks to the internet.
This is a way of offering something unique”, he explains. The
paintings and drawings were created during his rambles across
Mahé, Praslin and La Digue.
Interestingly though, they don’t
restrict themselves to the most
tourist friendly sites. For every
drawing of Anse Source d’Argent
and other instantly recognisable
tourist sites there’s another one
depicting a more typical scene
like people crossing the road in
the centre of Victoria or a young
man accompanying his fiancée to
work on La Digue.
“People are looking for something different, for more sensi-
The bazar in Victoria.
tivity. It’s about allowing their
imaginations to wander, about
sharing a moment or a place”,
he observes. And like his artistic explorations of Madagascar
and Mauritius before, his travels here provided him with a
unique experience. “I first came
to Seychelles ten years ago and
I’ve always wanted to come back.
I’ve spent a lot of time in the Indian Ocean – Madagascar, Reunion, Mauritius and even the
Comoros. I wanted to reintegrate
Seychelles into my vision of the
region today.” What struck him
about Seychelles was “the strong
Creole identity” and its tributaries, such as the local architecture
and what he calls “the aesthetic
approach” to things. Technically,
reproducing the islands’ luxuriant vegetation was a welcome artistic challenge. “I didn’t want to
repeat Regards from Mauritius.
Every book presents its own dif-
ficulties and drawing Seychelles
helped me progress as an artist.”
Although the book will only be
published a few months from
now, Florent has already ap-
proached several hotels on Mahé
with what are known as artist
portfolios of Regards from Seychelles. Comprising four watercolours and four black and white
drawings, these sets of selected
illustrations are a wonderful gift
for their guests who can frame
them once they return home.
But he insists that the upcoming
Regards from Seychelles will appeal to Seychellois too as it will
allow them “to rediscover familiar places and scenes”. To conclude, the artist confides that
he tries to “draw everything”, an
endeavour which naturally takes
a lot of time. And that’s the point
really, isn’t it?
The book, which will be published by Editions VIZAVI, will
be on sale in libraries and hotel
shops in early 2016.
For more information, you can
contact the illustrator directly:
florent@atoba.mu
La Digue and three young Diguois.
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Friday 21 August, 2015
OUT & ABOUT - Your weekend guide
Deepam Cinema
This week’s features are
Insurgent and Minions
Mission:
Impossible
Rogue Nation
Watch “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation”, as
Ethan and team take on their
most impossible mission yet.
CIA chief Hunley (Baldwin)
convinces a Senate committee to disband the IMF (Im-
possible Mission Force), of
which Ethan Hunt (Cruise)
is a key member. Hunley
argues that the IMF is too
reckless. Now on his own,
Hunt goes after a shadowy
and deadly rogue organization called the Syndicate in
order to eradicate them. The
Syndicate is an International
rogue organization as highly
skilled as the IMF and are
committed to destroying it.
Catch it on the big screen
at Deepam Cinema in Victoria and Deepam Pradiso
on Praslin. Call them on 432
2585 to book your seat early
or you can log onto their
Facebook page at www.facebook.com/DeepamCinema
Restaurants
Bravo
Tuck into Bravo’s Friday
Lunch Special of fresh seared
tuna steak and a glass of
wine, all for SCR295 (including VAT). With some of the
best cocktails and the tallest
burger on the island, Bravo
has all the right ingredients
to make your dining experience a memorable one. This
includes the ambiance of
the chilled and elegant Eden
Island marina and live entertainment throughout the
weekend. Bravo also opens
for lunch and dinner on
public holidays and has live
music every Friday and Saturday. Contact them on 434
6020 for further details or
reservations and book early
to avoid any disappointments.
Chilli Bar
The new Chilli Bar, which
specialises in traditional
Creole and oriental cuisine,
is concocting a sumptuous buffet this Friday for
SCR380 per person. The
feast includes smoked fish
salad, pasta salad, Chinese
spring rolls, sweet and sour
fish, braised meat balls, salt
and pepper prawns, steamed
vegetables, vegetable fried
rice, vegetable chow mein,
fried breadfruit, golden cake
and cream Caramel. There
will also be a buy-two-getone-free offer on cocktails
and a special offer on house
champagne. The accompaniment to your sumptuous meal will be a live band
whose chill vibes will seep
into you as you enjoy the at-
mosphere. For more information or bookings contact
2544563 or 2756518.
Coral Strand Hotel
With the Island Trader
serving a Creole buffet on
Friday, Asian on Saturday,
International on Sunday;
the Mahek providing Indian fine dining; the Ocean
Deck serving light meals and
cocktails; Coral Asia offering Asian and Japanese fusion with delicious sushi, you
might be spoilt for choice at
the Coral Strand Hotel.
Get your loyalty card and
you will be eligible for at
least 10% off your bill. Visit
www.coralstrand.com/dining or call the specific restaurants for more. Plus, you
can now opt to enjoy your
meal at home with takeaway
available for pizza, sushi or
Indian food.
La Plaine Saint Andre
The backdrop of La Plaine
Saint Andre is without doubt
one of the most romantic
spots in Seychelles. On Saturdays from 7.30 pm, join
the boys - Shamir, Brandon
and Collin - and let their
chilled out live music in this
relaxed setting set the mood
for an evening of great food
and delicious cocktails. For
reservations, contact 437
2010 or reservations@
laplaine.sc
News Café
On the first floor of Trinity
House, the News Café is open
Monday to Friday 8:30am to
5pm and on Saturdays from
8:30am to 3pm. Serving delicious cuisine, great coffee,
traditional breakfasts and
freshly made local fruit juices so that you can start your
day the right way. Or head in
for lunch where you’ll find
a variety of sandwiches and
wraps, paninis made with
fitness bread, salads with
homemade dressings and
hot dishes. Call 432 2999 for
more.
Takamaka Bay
Every day from 11am to
6pm the Takamaka Bay/
Banyan Tree Rum Shack is
open at Intendance Beach.
On a lazy afternoon, you
can drop by to try out a Sega
Sundance Sling or a Paradise
Pina Colada. Special Promotions
Dynamics Wine & Spirits
Distributors
Attention wine lovers, Dynamics’ clearance sale on selected wines and spirits at its
warehouse in Providence is
entering its last week. Everything must go so don’t miss
out on the bargains! For
more information contact
441 6253
Bravo Bar and Restaurant
Looking for a place to head
to for a delicious business
lunch? Bravo has got you
covered with a set offer for a
delicious starter of fried calamari and creamy rosemary
lamb chops for your main
meal along with a glass of
wine to top it off, all for only
SCR 495.
Savoy Spa
Have you ever felt like
heading over to the Savoy to
just check out their sports
facilities? Well this is your
weekend, Savoy Seychelles
is offering free visits to the
gym, water area, and to the
Russian Banya and Hammam [steam baths]. To
top it all off, you can have
15% discount on your meal
at the Pescado restaurant.
But it keeps getting better
with a 25% discount on
all spa services, which in-
cludes a 50 minute detox
and silkening back treatment at only SCR 800 and
a superb 50-minute detox
and slimming treatment
for only SCR 1600. The spa
is open from 9am to noon
and 1pm to 4pm. For more
information or reservations contact 439 2000 or
email spareception@savoy.sc
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Friday 21 August, 2015
Interview with Anandan Padayachy, freelance
artist and painter
“I expected more interest from the hospitality
industry”
Anandan Padayachy, a local artist of Seychellois-Indian origin, is a very confident amateur painter who is currently
exposing his art at the Carrefour des Arts. The art exhibition is open Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 am to 4.00 pm and
from 8.00 am to 1.00 pm on Saturdays until the end of this month. Although the interest in his exhibition hasn’t been
overwhelming so far, he says he would like to have a permanent exhibition so that potential clients know where his
work can be found and bought.
By Jean Luc Louise
W
hat is your artistic
angle? What do you
focus on in your art?
I am not particular. I like to
paint any subject that I visualise
or come across in my daily life.
However, I find that I sometimes
focus on painting portraits and
natural sceneries.
What motivates your art?
All I’ve wanted to do since I
was a child was draw and then
paint. If I see something or I go
to a particular place and I find it
appealing then I will paint it. I
work in a shop, so whenever I get
the time, I try to paint.
Is your work, in your opinion,
appreciated by the public?
Yes, of course! There are lots of
Seychellois who have helped me
get this far. When I used to draw
in the shop, where I work, clients
would see my work and they truly appreciated my art. Some even
advised me to consider having an
exhibition.
Have you had a lot of clients
since you have been here?
Not as much as I would have
expected. My expectation was
that hotels and restaurant owners or management would at
least come to see my paintings
because a lot of what I have
painted is really for tourists. My
artworks mostly depict scenic locales in Seychelles and they are
what attract people to come to
Seychelles. Since the beginning of
this month, only one restaurateur
has come by to buy some paintings for her restaurant. I expected
more attention from the hospitality industry as I think it is important for visitors to our islands to
experience local artists’ work.
Is it easy being an artist in
Seychelles?
I believe that this depends
on the artist and also what
the public finds appealing.
For now my work is based on
what I like and what I see as
beautiful. If it’s beautiful...
then I will paint it! This exhibition, however, has given
me the opportunity to experiment and study what people
like and appreciate. It has
also given me the chance to
experience an exhibition and
hear from the clients about
their preferences first hand.
The exhibition will be open
until the end of the month
and I would like to interact
with more people. For example, if someone has a picture
of something that they would
like to have painted, then I
will do it.
Would you do it again, the exhibition?
Of course! This is my life and
even if I do not sell any paintings
now…it won’t de-motivate me.
Do you look up to any artist?
No, I don’t look up to any artists and I don’t follow any artists.
I just go according to my own
style and I try to create my own
pieces of art.
What do you aspire to?
I would like to have my own art
gallery where I would be able to
expose my art so that it reaches
more people - like tourists-, all
the time. As this exhibition will
only last a month, I would prefer
to have somewhere more permanent to expose my work so that
people will know that my art is
being sold there. Right now people have no clue where I am
Anandan Padayachy painting a canvas at Carrefour des Arts.
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people to use Facebook and all,
so maybe I will take advantage of
this in order to move forward.
Where do you see yourself in
ten years?
I see myself having my own art
gallery and still painting.
A Hindu goddess oil painting on canvas.
and where they can buy my art.
So I would like to rent a place for
myself.
Tell us more about yourself ?
I was born in India to a Seychellois mother and IndianSeychellois father. I came to Seychelles in 1998. At the age of 13,
I quit school to help my family
as we had financial constraints. I
am the oldest of three with two
younger sisters. I am the only
one who holds the paint brush
and have not been trained in the
art of painting. In fact it is a talent that comes from my heart
and soul. I would say it is God’s
gift, for which I am very grateful.
When I am not painting, I help
my family at the grocery shop
at Maldives. I am married and a
proud father to my son.
painting is, essentially my hobby.
Do you feel like the government is doing enough to help
artists in Seychelles?
I wouldn’t know, because I have
never really gone through the
government. However, I have recently sent in an application for
a studio at Providence and I am
still waiting for the answer.
What is your message to
younger artists?
Well, I feel that young people
should continue and have confidence in their work. They should
not be de-motivated by lack of
money, they should continue
their work and if getting another job and painting in their free
time helps then they should do it,
but they should not give up.
Apart from painting, what
other projects do you have?
I work in a grocery shop full
time, which limits the amount
of time I have for painting. So
Have you ever considered using the internet to advertise
your work?
I do not use the internet, but
I have been advised by a lot of
This painting depicts L’Archipel hotel.
A painting of the Bicentennial monument.
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Friday 21 August, 2015
Lifeline
Cilla Black funeral: Fans
turn out in Liverpool
Celebrity Profile:
Demi Lovato (1992–)
Demi Lovato is a singer and actress who starred on Disney
Channel’s original series Sonny with a Chance.
Source: Biography.com
Fans, friends and family have
turned out to pay their respects
to singer and TV star Cilla Black
as her funeral takes place in Liverpool.
Crowds applauded her funeral
cortege during its two-mile journey to St Mary’s RC Church in
Woolton.
Sir Cliff Richard told mourners the journey to the church
had made him realise “how
much people loved her”.
TV stars Paul O’Grady, Jimmy
Tarbuck and Christopher Biggins joined her sons Robert and
Ben in giving readings. Sir Cliff
delivered the opening words
and performed the song Faithful One.
He said: “I’m not sure what to
say because these last few weeks
I cannot think of Cilla in the past
tense. There are certain people
you believe will always be there,
and of course she’s been taken
from us.
Synopsis
Born in 1992 in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, Demi Lovato started out as a child actor on Barney
& Friends. In 2007, Demi Lovato got a part on a short Disney
Channel show called As the Bell
Rings, and then she landed the
starring role of the movie Camp
Rock. While filming Camp Rock,
Demi Lovato began also recording three songs for the film’s
soundtrack and has had several
solo releases since. In 2009, Lovato got the lead in the series
Sonny with a Chance, another
Disney Channel show. She later
became a judge on the television
competition show The X Factor
from 2012 to 2013.
Early Life
Singer and actress Demi Lovato
was born on August 20, 1992, in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lovato’s mother, Dianna Lovato,
was a former country music recording artist and Dallas Cowboy
Cheerleader. Lovato is the middle
child of three sisters. Her older
sister, Dallas, is also a singer and
actress, and her younger sister,
Madison, was born in 2002.
Growing up, Lovato won several talent contests and performed
in famous venues, including the
Eismann Center and the Dallas
Cowboys’ Thanksgiving Day Half
Time Show with LeAnn Rimes.
She started her show business
career in earnest at the age of 10
when she became a series regular
on the children’s television show
Barney & Friends. After her stint
on Barney & Friends, Lovato
also guest starred on television
dramas Just Jordan (2007) and
Prison Break (2006).
Disney Star
In 2007, Demi Lovato began
working with the Disney Channel. First she got a part on a short
television show called As The
Bell Rings. Her role on that ended, however, when Lovato was
cast as Mitchie Torres in the starring role of the Disney Channel
movie Camp Rock. While filming
Camp Rock, Demi Lovato began
also recording three songs with
the pop group the Jonas Brothers
for the film’s soundtrack.
In 2008, Lovato covered the
Academy
Award-nominated
song, “That’s How You Know”
from Enchanted on the DisneyMania 6 album. Later on in
2008, Demi began filming her
second Disney Channel Original Movie, Princess Protection
Program. The film was made
in Puerto Rico and Lovato costarred with her then-good friend
Selena Gomez.
Demi Lovato was the star of
her own Disney Channel television show called Sonny with a
Chance. The series debuted in
2009, becoming one of the channel’s most popular programs and
making Lovato one of its brightest stars. Sonny with a Chance
ran until 2011.
Music Career
On September 23, 2008, Lovato released her debut album,
Don’t Forget. Several of the songs
on the album were co-written by
the Jonas Brothers. The album
debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart. In promotion
of this album, Lovato went on
tour with the Jonas Brothers on
their 2008 Burning Up Tour as
the opening act.
On July 21, 2009, Demi Lo-
vato released her second studio
album, Here We Go Again. She
went on tour again with the Jonas Brothers the following year
and was romantically linked
to Joe Jonas around this time.
While on tour, Lovato got into
an altercation with a dancer. The
fight made headlines, and she
sought treatment after the incident. According to People magazine, the singer sought help for
“emotional and physical issues.”
Some of these issues were later
revealed to be an eating disorder
and self-harm through cutting.
Months after completing treatment, Lovato released the 2011
album Unbroken, which featured the hit “Skyscraper.” She
put out her next record, Demi,
two years later.
Other Endeavors
Outside of music, film and television, Lovato was also the national Hasbro “Hit Clips” spokesgirl. She has also done several
successful voiceovers for radio
and television for companies like
Denny’s, Radica and Hasbro.
In 2012, Lovato took on a new
role. She joined The X Factor, a
popular singing competition, in
its second season as a judge.
Lovato, Simon Cowell, music
industry titan L.A. Reid and
pop star Britney Spears worked
together to review the contestants and helped determine
who would win the $5 million
recording contract. The show
was cancelled after its third
season.
Lovato made a return to acting in 2013 with a recurring
role on the hit musical series
Glee. Around this time, she became more candid about her
earlier personal struggles, acknowledging that she also battled a substance abuse problem.
Lovato has also gone public with
her diagnosis for bipolar disorder. According to Cosmopolitan
for Latinas, she uses medication
to help manage her condition.
Recent Projects
In 2015, Lovato put out a new
single entitled “Cool for the
Summer.” She has also tackled a variety of TV projects recently. Lovato appeared as a
guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag
Race that year. She mixed her
professional and personal sides
to shoot a guest appearance on
boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama’s
show From Dusk Till Dawn:
The Series.
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21 Jan – 19 Feb
You are holding on too
tightly and strangling the life
out of a situation that needs a
lighter touch. Your main aim
today must be to convince
yourself that you don’t have
to be master of all you survey. You only have to master
yourself.
23 July – 22 Aug
Aim for your highest ideal
and refuse to accept second
best. That applies to all areas of your life but especially to relationships. If you
forget everything else over
the next 24 hours at least
remember the three Ls:
Love, Laugh and Learn.
20 Feb – 20 March
You will be generous toward
other people today and they
in turn will be generous toward you. Look past superficial differences and realize
that, no matter how much
people may seem to vary,
we are all much the same
under the skin.
23 Aug – 23 Sept
Travel plans could be disrupted today but there
is no point getting angry
about it. If you find yourself
stranded midway between
where you are coming
from and where you are
going to just look around a
bit and admire the scenery.
21 March – 20 April
You may not change your
point of view often but when
you do you go all the way – it’s
more a transformation that
an adjustment – and that is
what will happen today. You
will be a totally different, and
better, person come tomorrow morning.
24 Sept – 23 Oct
You may find a work colleague unusually obstructive
today, but don’t cross them
off your friendship list just
yet because the planets suggest it is not their fault. They
too are coming under pressure from people further up
the hierarchy. Stay cool.
21 April – 21 May
Is it possible to have too
much of a good thing? No
way! The planets indicate
that friends and family
members will give you everything you desire today,
plus a few things you did not
know you desired. It rarely
gets better than this.
24 Oct – 22 Nov
There is no point trying to
run away from your problems because they will only
chase after you. The more
constructive part of your
nature knows it must face
them head on. Life may be
tough at the moment but
you can be tough too.
22 May – 21 June
No matter how much you
want to help other people
you will help them more if
you help yourself first. What
good will you be to others if
you are constantly worrying
about paying the bills and
making ends meet? Financial security must come first.
23 Nov – 21 Dec
Someone will come to your
rescue over the next 24
hours and do what has to
be done with no questions
asked and no thought of reward. You should be grateful to have friends as good
as this – make sure you
don’t take them for granted.
2. What is the third major Balearic island with Majorca and Minorca?
22 June – 22 July
22 Dec – 20 Jan
You need to make up your
mind and choose between
equally appealing alternatives. Don’t fall into the trap
of thinking that you can
have it both ways because
most likely you will end up
with nothing. If in doubt,
stick with what feels safest.
8. Which guitarist is known as Slowhand?
25. Native American tribe
27. A break in school
28. Unlocks doors
30. A square block
31. Symbol
32. Gave temporarily
33. Part of a chromosome
34. Baking appliance
35. Excavates
36. Massacre
37. Double-helix molecules
41. Identity cards
44. Tormentors
46. Beige
50. 2 in a quart
51. Escargot
53. Proof of innocence
54. Summoned sufficient courage
55. Make amends
56. Leases
57. Net
58. Wings
59. A large brass instrument
61. Chocolate cookie
62. Vesicle
Yesterday’s solution
Across
1. Requests
5. The zodiacal sign for Cancer
9. Hardwood, carpeted or _____
floors
14. Marketplace
15. Polynesian dance
16. Intense
17. Found in some skin lotions
18. Knowing a secret (2 words)
19. Pertaining to prisons
20. Growing old
22. Exhilarate
23. Not big
24. A wild dog of South America
26. Irritate
29. Writing tool
33. A successful journey
38. Provide evidence
39. Wicked
40. Faultfinder
42. Black
43. Nullify
45. Disciple
47. Results
48. Second (abbrev.)
49. Sharp intakes of breath
52. Detection device
57. Arithmetic
60. Immunize
63. Rinse with a solvent
64. Not one
65. Press laundry
66. A type of sword
67. Neckwear
68. Crooked
69. Listens
70. A small slit
71. Mid-month days
1. What is the word used to describe an animal/plant that is both male and female?
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Today’s cosmic influences
mark an ending of some sort,
but the good thing about
endings is that they make
new beginnings possible, so
don’t get upset if you have
to say goodbye to something
you cherish. Something even
better will soon take its place.
Down
1. Gather
2. Where they burnt witches
3. Swedish monetary unit
4. Metal
5. Fashionable
6. Magical symbol
7. In accompaniment
8. A family of African languages
9. Gradually narrowed
10. Citizen of Reykjavik
11. Goddess of the moon (Roman
mythology)
12. French for “State”
13. Expunge
21. Slide
How To Play
The objective is to fill the blank squares with the correct numbers
•Every row of 9 must include all digits 1 to 9 in any order
•Every column of 9 must include all digits 1 to 9 in any order
•Every 3 x 3 sub-grid must include all digits 1 to 9 in any order
Fill the other empty cells with numbers between 1 and 9
A number should appear only once on each row, column and 3 x 3 region
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