The Seychelles Supreme Court has convicted a Sri Lankan national to a fine of SCR 550,000 ($41,000) after being found guilty of illegally fishing in the island nation’s territorial waters, the police said on Wednesday. According to the police, Makavita Liyanage Dilesh, 43, was the person in charge of the vessel Rankurulla 4 that was intercepted [...]
The European Council on Tuesday removed Seychelles along with Bahamas, Belize, and Turks and Caicos Islands from the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. Seychelles was placed back on the EU blacklist in October 2023, two months after the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes maintained the [...]
For the year 2024 over 200 students are joining the Seychelles Tourism Academy, a training centre that develops and upgrade school leavers and tourism employees to ensure a highly competent tourism workforce. Joining the cohort and following in her family's footsteps, Delia Thelermont joined over 200 other students selected to join the Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA) [...]
The village of Kangani is the last stopping off point on the Comoros before a perilous ocean crossing for would-be migrants trying to reach the French island of Mayotte. But in recent weeks, the kwassa kwassa -- small wooden fishing launches inadequate for the 70-kilometre (43-mile) Indian Ocean journey -- have remained tied up on [...]
A Haitian judge has indicted dozens of people over alleged involvement in the 2021 assassination of president Jovenel Moise, including his widow, a former prime minister and an ex-police chief, according to court documents seen by AFP. Moise, 53, was gunned down in July 2021 at his private residence by a group of about 20 [...]
The Seychelles national beach soccer team has learned a lot from their recent training camp in Dubai, which included some tough test games and watching some World Cup games, said the head coach Herald Kowlessur. The team returned to Seychelles recently after the training in Dubai, aimed at testing the level of the squad against [...]
Seychelles and Rwanda will continue working in the areas of health, tourism, and agriculture, said the newly accredited High Commissioner of Rwanda, Fatou Harerimana. The new high commissioner presented her credentials to President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House on Tuesday. State House said that Ramkalawan congratulated the new high commissioner and said that her accreditation [...]
Seychelles and the World Health Organisation (WHO) signed another two-year work plan worth nearly $3 million (SCR40 million) to improve the quality of universal health in the country. The agreement for the biennial programme of work for 2024-2025 was signed by the Minister for Health, Peggy Vidot, and the WHO representative for Seychelles, Rex Mpazanje, on Monday [...]
Dozens of bloodied bodies have been found along a remote stretch of road in Papua New Guinea's highlands, police said Monday, a gruesome escalation of long-running violence between warring clans. Police said as many as 64 tribal fighters had been killed in an ambush by a rival group in the early hours of Sunday, although [...]
A host of European governments Monday summoned Russian diplomats following the prison death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne said during a visit to Argentina that Russia's ambassador in Paris would be summoned, while Norway's foreign ministry issued a statement that it was calling on its top Russian diplomat "for [...]
