South Africa edged New Zealand 12-11 to claim their record fourth Rugby World Cup, but the future for the Springboks looks problematical with coaches and leading players set to leave after the historic success. Crafty head coach Jacques Nienaber will depart for Irish province Leinster and highly-rated assistant Felix Jones will head to England, meaning [...]
Seychelles' Honorary Consul General in Bulgaria, Maxim Behar, premiered his first hip-hop song about public relations simultaneously in New York and in Bulgaria last week. The single "PR We Are" was aired on Hot 21 Radio in New York and BG Radio in Sofia and is being aired on all major radio stations all over the world including [...]
Around 61 young artists from Seychelles are paying homage to traditional fashion in this year's Zenn Artis Kreolofonn (Young Creolophone Artist) competition while the local arts council is seeking to get international participants for next year's edition. The Zenn Artis Kreolofonn is a competition held annually during the Creole Festival to showcase the artistic talents of [...]
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched in central London on Saturday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the deadly war between Israel and Hamas. It was the third consecutive weekend that the British capital had seen a large rally in support of Palestinians since the attack by Hamas on Israel earlier this month. Israel unleashed a [...]
Seychelles' Institute for Early Childhood Development (IECD) has been officially inaugurated as a Category 2 centre for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The inauguration ceremony took place on Friday evening at the Eden Bleu Hotel on Eden Island in the presence [...]
The Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Seychelles is mourning the passing of its longest serving member of the clergy, Father Gustave Lafortune. Lafortune, who was 86, died on Friday after dedicating 60 years of his life as a priest. He celebrated his diamond jubilee on June 30 this year, although he officially retired [...]
Four young boxers from Seychelles will leave the country at the beginning of November to participate in a youth tournament in Rostov-on-don in Russia. The boxers all aged 16 were presented with their air tickets in a ceremony at Victoria Mayor's office in the presence of the Deputy Mayor of Rostov, Yury Ovchinnikov, the Russian [...]
King Charles III embarks Tuesday on a four-day trip to Kenya, his first visit as monarch to a Commonwealth nation, where any comments he makes on Britain's colonial past will be closely scrutinised. Charles is expected to tackle "the more painful aspects" of the UK's historic relationship with Kenya -- namely the period of British [...]
Scientists in Brazil, the world's second-biggest consumer of cocaine, have announced the development of an innovative new treatment for addiction to the drug and its powerful derivative crack: a vaccine. Dubbed "Calixcoca," the test vaccine, which has shown promising results in trials on animals, triggers an immune response that blocks cocaine and crack from reaching [...]
Seychelles and the Food Agricultural Organisation (FAO) discussed the need to analyse scientific data regarding suitable food types for the Indian Ocean region and the concern about excessive imports during a recent visit of an FAO representative. According to the Department of Agriculture, Charles Boliko, the FAO representative for Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles, led a [...]
