The Government Party SPPF once again prevailed, although the main Opposition Party, Seychelles National Party ( previously known as the United Opposition Party ) headed by Rev.

Plantations were the main industry of the Seychelles until 1971, when the international airport opened.

The Seychelles President claims that this has opened the door to a new industry for his country and encouraged economic growth by further removing over-reliance on traditional trades like fisheries and tourism, which is now falling rapidly as the country's main income but nevertheless, has experienced significant growth in recent years.

In the Seychelles, the main television and radio network is operated by the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation which offers locally produced news and discussion programmes in the Seychellois Creole language.

ATLAS was formed by the three main computer companies in Seychelles: Space 95, VCS and MBM.

In terms of sea transport, the main port is Victoria, and Seychelles has no merchant marine.

Instead, CUBE supported operations at TCS / Oakhangar and IOS / Seychelles, where main processing computers could not be located.

Victoria ( sometimes called Port Victoria ) is the capital city of the Seychelles and is situated on the north-eastern side of Mahé island, the archipelago's main island.

* Mahé, Seychelles, the main island in the Republic of Seychelles

The main population of the Aldabra giant tortoise resides on the islands of the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles.

Platte Island is located south of Mahé, the main island of the Seychelles.

Coëtivy Island is in the Indian Ocean south of the main Seychelles group.

The Seychelles have a president and the main political sides are the PP and SNP.

The area of long-term eruption ( the hotspot ), known as the Réunion hotspot, is suspected of both causing the Deccan Traps eruption and opening the rift that once separated the Seychelles plateau from India.

The island is located off the Southeastern African coast, northwest from Seychelles, and its capital city was Hammer Bay.

International tourism is a significant factor in the local economy of Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Réunion, Hawaii and the Maldives, among others.

The only way to fly to Ascension is to fly with the RAF via RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England on an overnight charter, operated ( as of September 2010 ) by an Air Seychelles Boeing 767-300ER.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Seychelles, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Seychelles culture is a mixture of French and African ( Creole ) influences.

Politics of Seychelles takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, whereby the President of Seychelles is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.

Imports of all kind are controlled by the Seychelles Marketing Board ( SMB ), a government parastatal which operates all the major supermarkets and is the distributor and licensor of most other imports.

New five star properties and the devaluation of the currency by nearly 33 % by the Seychelles Government is having a positive influence on the tourism sector as well.

The decision to let the currency trade freely as part of the IMF rescue package means that Seychelles is the smallest country in the world that has a completely independent currency-one that is neither pegged, nor an adopted foreign currency, nor a common currency used within a larger monetary union.

In May 2010 an International Monetary Fund mission visited Seychelles and concluded the country is making progress.

The Seychelles International Business Authority ( SIBA ) is charged with overseeing the quickly growing offshore industry.

Seychelles is home to a number of offshore incorporation specialists which specialize in offshore company formation, mutual funds, hedge funds and captive insurance.

The Seychelles government is one of the proponents of the Indian Ocean zone of peace concept and it has promoted an end to the United States presence on Diego Garcia.

Seychelles is represented in Russia through its embassy in Paris ( France ) and an honorary consulate in Saint Petersburg.

The U. S. Ambassador to Mauritius also is accredited to Seychelles.

It is administered as a French overseas territory, as the result of an agreement with the United Kingdom in 1954, but sovereignty is disputed with ownership claimed by both Mauritius and the Seychelles.

Although foreign banks operate branches in Seychelles, the government owns the two local banks — the Development Bank of Seychelles, which mobilizes resources to fund development programs, and the Seychelles Saving Bank, a bank for savings and current accounts.

In the Seychelles, local and international telecommunications lines are operated by Cable & Wireless.

Bond is on an assignment in the Seychelles Islands ; through Fidele Barbey, his influential and well-connected local contact, he meets an uncouth American millionaire named Milton Krest, who challenges the two to aid him in the search for a rare fish, The Hildebrand Rarity.

Until the 1930s, Chinese migrants continued to arrive in Port Louis, but with the strain on the local economy's ability to absorb them, many found that Mauritius would only be their first stop ; they went on to the African mainland ( especially South Africa ), as well as to Madagascar, Réunion, and Seychelles.

Then, in 1995 when Norway rats reached Fregate Island, ( final refuge of the last natural population of Seychelles magpie robin and a number of other vulnerable endemic life-forms ), alerted the island ’ s owner, and local and international conservation agencies to the fact that without intervention ecological collapse and extinctions were inevitable.

In a move to revitalize the economy, he agreed with the plans of local politicians like ( later Sir ) James Mancham to promote tourism in the islands and was a staunch supporter to the construction plan of the new Seychelles International Airport.

There is also currently a satellite camp for the Seychelles branch of Global Vision International, a volunteer group that focuses on conservation of the island and surveys local fish, coral, turtle and coco de mer numbers.

There are no paved roads or local infrastructure on the island ; travel to-and-from the island is by boat and by helicopter which lands at the heli pad at Cerf Island Resort Seychelles.

Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossians, then numbering about 2, 000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to establish a military base on the island.

The DP and SPUP formed a coalition government in June 1975 to lead Seychelles to independence.

After almost sixteen years of one-party rule, President Rene announced a return to the multiparty system of government at an Extraordinary Congress of the ruling Seychelles People's Progressive Front ( SPPF ) on 4 December 1991.

The government of the Seychelles withdrew diplomatic recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on March 17, 2008, according to an official government source.

The Seychelles government in November 2011 offered China rights to establish a naval base to supply its anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden.

When the British exiled him in the Seychelles in 1896, along with the King of Asante Prempeh I and other members of the Asante government, Yaa Asantewaa became regent of the Ejisu-Juaben District.

Three million dollars were paid to President René and his government by South Africa for the return of the remaining mercenaries detained in Seychelles.

* Indian Ocean Station ( IOS ), Mahe Island, Seychelles ; callsign INDI ( closed in August 1996, after the government of the Seychelles attempted to " raise the rent " to more than $ 10 million / year ).

Since its independence in 1976, the government of the Seychelles has sought to develop the language, with its own orthography and codified grammar, establishing Lenstiti Kreol ( the Creole Institute ) for this purpose.

As the Seychelles is a small country with a population of about 90, 000 and that mass tourism is not welcomed by either the government or the people, the size of the airport is reasonably adequate for the country's needs.

The National Youth Service ( NYS ) was a heavily-criticized program implemented by the government of Seychelles.

The government acquired a truck for the use of the Ya Naa and organized the visit of Ya Naa Abdulai II to Kumasi in 1925 after the return of Nana Prempeh from exile in Seychelles.

In 1976, the government of the Seychelles took the British government to court.