Seychelles will host the 2023 IFBB International Grand Prix for the first time with the participation of over 20 athletes vying for the top prize. The competition, which is being done in collaboration between the International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation (IFBB) and local body Seychelles Elite Pro Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation, will take place [...]
The Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS), the Seychelles ruling party, is equipping its campaigners with additional skills in how to hold effective campaigns with the help of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF). The two-day youth campaigners workshop is taking place at the L'Escale Resort and Spa from October 20 to 21. The workshop opened on Friday [...]
The Seychelles Supreme Court has remanded five foreign nationals and two Seychellois for 14 days, who were arrested on suspicion of importation of controlled drugs, the police said on Friday. According to the police, the five foreign nationals, two men and three women were intercepted and arrested upon their arrival at the Seychelles International Airport [...]
A recent study conducted at the remote Aldabra Atoll, one of Seychelles' UNESCO World Heritage sites, has shed light on the profound effects of coral bleaching on reef fish abundance, biomass, and assemblage structure. According to a press communique from the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF), which manages the Aldabra Atoll, the research, published in Frontiers in [...]
The University of Seychelles (UniSey) will be organising a series of activities to raise funds for its 15-year celebration in September next year and to continue to provide quality education, according to a top official. The UniSey’s marketing and communications director, Dolivette Chang-Ko, told SNA that the university is committed to providing quality education and [...]
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 [...]
