Seychelles has sentenced 11 Somali pirates to a ten year jail term sentence each for attempting to hijack a coast guard patrol boat Topaz in December 2009. ‘The ruling by the Supreme Court in Victoria, the first of its kind in the Indian Ocean archipelago, was delivered on Monday’ said Andrew Mwangura, the East Africa Coordinator of Seafarers Assistance Program (SAP).

A tsunami is a phenomenon caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean. The repercussions can be disastrous if proactive procedures are not in place. This scenario is a real menace to the political landscape in Seychelles. Beneath the calm, tropical-holiday luring landscape-an economic crisis is threatening the near communist police-state political control of the Government of President James Michel. The economic crisis caused by the relentless greed of the party hierarchy now threatens the survival of the country.

I always considered The Universal Declaration of Human Rights to be a good document and, on the first reading of it, I have noticed an interesting correlation between its first and last articles.