President appoints social renaissance committee |02 July 2011

“We will hold debates and find the cure to the diseases gnawing away at our communities. This national debate is the first priority on my agenda for the next five years. It will provide the basis for all the decisions that government will take to enable all of us together to find strategies to fight the social ills in our country,” said the President during the address on June 18.

Minister Vincent Meriton has been appointed the chairman of the new committee, together with fifteen other members.
 
“I believe that the National Committee should reflect a wide spectrum of society and its members, appointed either in their official or private capacity, as the case may be; the prime consideration being the contribution they can make to this all important exercise accordingly,” said the President.

The full composition of the committee is as follows:

Designated Minister Vincent Meriton (chairman)
Minister Joël Morgan
Minister Bernard Shamlaye
Minister Macsuzy Mondon
Marie-Pierre Lloyd, former minister
Fredric Egonda Ntende, Chief Justice
Ronny Govinden, Attorney General
Germaine Michaud (Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry-SCCI)
Bernard Elizabeth (Lungos)
Bernard Georges, Seychelles National Party member of the National Assembly
Joevana Charles, Parti Lepep member of the National Assembly
Marie-Claire Elizabeth (media expert)
Mr. Patrick Victor (artist)
Mr. Andy Jean-Louis (secretary to the committee)
The Inter-Faith Committee has been invited to propose its representative on the steering committee, and is expected to do so shortly.
The committee held its first meeting yesterday afternoon.