A president in paradise

A president in paradise
BEST known as a destination for honeymooners in search of perfect white beaches and swaying palms, the Seychelles islands rarely make any sort of headlines. Few tourists would even have noticed the presidential election on July 30th, in which James Michel, leader of the Seychelles People?s Progressive Front, was returned with 54% of the ballot. For Mr. Michel, it was the first time he had faced the islands? 62,000?odd voters, having been promoted from vice?president two IPL LASER years ago by his predecessor, Albert René, who had ruled the islands for 27 years since taking power in a coup in 1977.hrmovlser
To the casual eye, IPL LASER  Seychelles seems both fortunate and well?governed. The 115 islands, most of them uninhabited, IPL LASER  cover a mere 445 square kilometers (175 square miles) of the Indian Ocean, north of Madagascar, and enjoy several advantages over most of the rest of Africa. The weather is never extreme. There is no malaria. The islanders have free education and health care. Their multiracial society is pretty harmonious. With GDP at around $8,000 a head, there is almost no discernible poverty.
The country needs more ways of making money. In the cold war, it was easy. The Seychelles played each side off against the other, remaining a member of the Commonwealth as well as the Non?Aligned Movement and taking military aid from the Soviet Union while leasing a satellite tracking station to the Americans.IPL LASER Since those streams of revenue dried up, the main Seychellois streams of revenue have been from tourism-leasing land to foreign hoteliers-and from tuna: the government earns about $200m a year from selling tuna?fishing licenses to Spain, France and South Korea.
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