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La Digue gets building material sale outlet |20 November 2015

Residents of La Digue as well as Praslin will no longer have to travel to Mahe to purchase essential building material and go through the process of transporting them to the island now that the Seychelles Trading Company (STC) will be selling these items on the island itself.

The STC yesterday opened a building material sale outlet at La Passe, La Digue and this is adjacent to its wholesale outlet.

The new sale outlet will make available a selected range of items such as corrugated iron sheets, plywood, welded mesh, masonite hard board, timber as well as a certain variety of tiles, gardening tools, kitchen and sanitary wares.

A spokesperson for the STC said this facility will benefit the islanders enormously because the prices will be the same as on Mahe with only transportation costs added but these again still very affordable.

Chantal Ghislain, member of the National Assembly for La Digue and the Inner Islands, had the honour of cutting the ribbons to open the shop and this was in the presence of the chief executive of the STC Veronique Laporte, STC board members, contractors, staff of the STC, potential clients and Father Simon Fred from Praslin Anglican church who also blessed the facility.

A short communiqué from the STC noted that opening such a facility on La Digue forms part of the STC’s objective to continue to decentralise its services and to further reach out to all its customers across the country including those living on the other islands.

While most of the items will be available directly for sale, other construction goods will only be purchased on orders before those are transferred from the main depot on Mahe.  

At present only two staff members run the outlet which is open from 9am to 12 noon and from 1pm to 4pm Monday to Friday and from 8am to 12 noon on Saturday.


Some of the materials available in the new outlet (Photos courtesy Romano Laurence)

 

 

 

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