The top five list for Seychelles sportsmen and sportswomen of the year has been announced by the award's selection committee while for the first time a 'People's Choice Award' will also be included in this year's ceremony. The winners in both of the categories will be crowned the Best Sportsman and Best Sportswoman in a ceremony [...]
The top five list for Seychelles sportsmen and sportswomen of the year has been announced by the award's selection committee while for the first time a 'People's Choice Award' will also be included in this year's ceremony. The winners in both of the categories will be crowned the Best Sportsman and Best Sportswoman in a ceremony [...]
Nearly every day since her school in east Ukraine was reduced to rubble by two Russian missiles last month, Lyudmila Polovko has walked its grounds to dream of a time when children could return. Stepping over glass shards and torn text books, the teacher and administrator recounted how her thoughts had turned from planning to [...]
Seychelles remains a country that will always advocate for peace and prosperity in the world, and will not take sides in any conflict, according to the foreign affairs and tourism minister, Sylvestre Radegonde. He said in an interview with the media on Friday during the annual diplomatic cocktail at the Laila Resort, Anse Royale, that [...]
Brazil criticized the "paralysis" of the UN Security Council on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine as it opened a G20 meeting Wednesday where the international community's deep divisions were on display. The outlook is bleak for progress on the thorny agenda of conflicts and crises gripping the planet as foreign ministers from the world's [...]
Seychelles got a "narrowed" rating for 2023 from the CIVICUS Monitor, a global civil society alliance, and the chief executive of Citizens Engagement Platform Seychelles (CEPS) said the country has not done too badly. The latest CIVICUS Monitor country rating update, which came out in December 2023, indicates when civil society faces an increasingly hostile [...]
The wetland sanctuary of the Nature Seychelles located at Roche Caiman is in need of funds following an incident in December where the place was flooded due to heavy rains and high tides, said a top official. The flood damaged most of the boardwalks available for visitors at the sanctuary and the chief executive of [...]
US President Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin a "crazy SOB" at a reelection fundraising event, earning a sarcastic response Thursday from the Kremlin leader. Biden, 81, has regularly had harsh words for Putin since Moscow's invasion of neighboring Ukraine two years ago, including calling him a "butcher" and a "war criminal." And [...]
A bill for the 11th amendment to the Constitution of Seychelles pertaining to elections and presidential immunity will be presented to the National Assembly this year, said President Wavel Ramkalawan in his State of the Nation Address on Thursday. Ramkalwan started his address by saying that the State of the Nation Address "is a moment to [...]
The Beau Vallon Promenade project in the north of Mahe, Seychelles' main island, will begin on Thursday, February 22, with the felling of several trees in the area, in the first phase, to make space for the planned development. The development spearheaded by the government and financed by the construction company Laxmanbhai will give a facelift to [...]
