Make a make this year

A new year offers an opportunity for a fresh start for you and your family.

My hope is that every Seychellois can enjoy a 2013 that is peaceful and fulfilling in terms of the attainment of personal goals as well as the goals of organisations – community, social, educational, cultural and artistic, faith based, civil society, labour, co-operative and businesses both small and large – in which citizens participate in and contribute to.

Given the realities we experienced in 2012, 2013 is promising to be indeed another challenging year. I hope that collectively we have the courage and decency to take our elected leaders to task in the months ahead so that they address the issues that arose in 2012 along with all of the other baggage from prior years.

We have heard enough promises and we have complained for long enough in silence. Now is the time to make your voice heard and of course count. 

2013, like 2012, will see ongoing citizen dissatisfaction with their quality of life. Issues such as roads, drainage, flooding, poor conditions at our schools and health care facilities, the absence of adequate, quality community facilities and the continuing rise in violence and crime will continue to be part of our lives. So what are you going to do about it?

Let us reject the complacency of saying that things cannot change. Let us instead re-imagine our future and start thinking outside the box. Learn about your rights, write protest letters to your representatives and start boycotting activities, products or venues that you are dissatisfied with. Only then will you as a citizen will be taken serious. Only then will the rules of the game change fundamentally for you and your family.