Seychelles once again shone at the World Travel Awards 2023 claiming the Indian Ocean's Leading Honeymoon and Cruise Destination awards. Seychelles won the awards at the World Travel Awards Africa & Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony, held on October 15 and 16 at Atlantis The Royal, Dubai. Tourism Seychelles, the marketing branch of the tourism department, said in a press [...]
Seychelles has called for a review of the European Council listing criteria for its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes after the island nation was added to the EU's blacklist, as this can have a negative impact on foreign direct investment. The Council added Antigua and Barbuda, Belize and Seychelles to the EU blacklist [...]
Russia on Thursday sent 27 tonnes of humanitarian aid for civilians in the Gaza Strip to be transported from Egypt, Moscow's emergency situations ministry said. "A special plane has taken off from the airport at Ramenskoye near Moscow for El-Arish in Egypt. The Russian humanitarian aid will be handed over to the Egyptian Red Crescent [...]
Around one hundred sympathisers of cancer patients in Seychelles defied the bad weather and gathered on the Beau Vallon beach in the north district of Mahe in front of the Sables D'Or Apartments on Wednesday in an awareness march for breast cancer. The annual activity formed part of the action plan of the organisers, Soroptimist [...]
Discussions have started in Seychelles to address gaps and regulatory systems for the first GEF-financed Blue Economy project to be implemented in the Indian Ocean. An inception workshop on the project entitled "Prioritising Biodiversity Conservation and Nature-based Solutions as Pillars of Seychelles' Blue Economy" took place on Wednesday. The project is being funded by the Global Environment [...]
US President Joe Biden on a solidarity visit to Israel Wednesday backed the ally's account that Palestinian militants caused a devastating hospital strike in Gaza, adding Hamas had brought "only suffering." "I was deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday. And based on what I've seen, it appears as [...]
Seychellois citizens travelling to Saudi Arabia can now apply for visas through an online portal after the island nation was included in the eVisa programme of the southwestern Asian country. The Saudi Tourism Ministry announced on Tuesday that it has expanded its electronic visa programme to six new countries, including Seychelles, where the nationals of [...]
The Seychelles Foreign Affairs Department welcomed the new Chargé d’Affaires of the United States, Adham Loufti, on Tuesday. Loufti was formally presented to the acting principal secretary for foreign affairs, Ambassador Selby Pillay, by the U.S. Ambassador to Seychelles and Mauritius, based in Mauritius, Henry Jardine, during his working visit to Seychelles. The appointment of the [...]
Chinese leader Xi Jinping welcomed his "dear friend" Russian President Vladimir Putin to Beijing on Tuesday, kicking off a multilateral summit overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war. Beijing this week hosts representatives of 130 countries for a forum on Xi's vast trade and infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). At the top of the [...]
A masterplan on the redevelopment of the Seychelles International Airport at Pointe Larue is expected to be presented to the Cabinet of Ministers before the end of this year, said the Minister for Transport, Antony Derjacques, on Tuesday. Derjaques was answering a question from Johan Loze, a proportionate member of United Seychelles, the main opposition [...]
