The Seychelles Attorney General's Office has launched its strategic plan 2024-2029, which is described as one that charts the course to elevating the office into a centre of excellence for legal services provided to the government and the criminal prosecutions. A copy of the plan on a pen-drive was presented to President Wavel Ramkalawan by [...]
Sixteen young local environmental activists are set to embark on an enriching experience at a week-long environmental camp on D'Arros, one of the Seychelles' Outer Islands, next month. According to the Save Our Seas Foundation(SOSF) in a communique on Wednesday, the young people were chosen after their remarkable achievement of securing top scores in the [...]
A slow-moving cyclone that unexpectedly turned towards Madagascar has killed 18 people, washing away homes and displacing thousands, officials said Friday. High winds ripped down trees and torrents of water gushed through villages after the cyclone, which was initially projected to skim the Indian Ocean island, changed course and made landfall in the north on [...]
December 2023 was a special month for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Victoria in Seychelles – 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean. This was when two young Seychellois men were ordained as deacons. The new deacons are Christian Toulon and Emmanuel Boniface, with Toulon ordained in Victoria and Boniface ordained in France. Their ordination [...]
Entrepreneurs looking to join the value chain in waste management in Seychelles can now apply for a grant under the Challenge Fund, a financing programme developed by the Joint Sustainable Development Goals Fund launched on Thursday. During her address at the launching ceremony, the United Nations resident coordinator for Seychelles and Mauritius, Lisa Simrique Singh said, "The Challenge Fund [...]
Students in Seychelles who want to pursue higher education but have not qualified for fully-funded scholarships for university studies can now do so through a student loan under the new Educational Loan Scheme. The statement was made in the National Assembly on Wednesday by the Minister for Education, Justin Valentin, who also announced that [...]
Russia and Mali agreed to strengthen their cooperation over counterterrorism in a telephone call on Wednesday according to both parties, following the attack in Moscow that killed at least 137. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to the head of the Malian junta, Colonel Assimi Goita, and the President of Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso, the Kremlin [...]
The governing council that aims to oversee a political transition in Haiti vowed Wednesday to restore "public and democratic order" in its first statement to the Caribbean nation wracked by a worsening security crisis. Impoverished Haiti, which has long grappled with spiraling violence, has been rocked by an uptick in clashes since late February when [...]
Some 16 percent of children aged 11 to 15 were cyberbullied in 2022, up from 13 percent four years ago, a WHO Europe report covering 44 countries said on Wednesday. "This report is a wake-up call for all of us to address bullying and violence, whenever and wherever it happens," WHO regional director for Europe [...]
In a significant stride towards bolstering its efforts against money laundering, Seychelles has unveiled a groundbreaking judicial manual crafted in collaboration with the European Union (EU) Global Facility on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF). Speaking at the unveiling ceremony held at the Eden Bleu Hotel on Tuesday, Chief Justice Rony Govinden described the manual as "a pivotal moment" in the nation's ongoing fight [...]
