A renowned Belgian company, Jan De Nul, has won the bid to do the dredging of one of the components of the expansion project of Port Victoria in Seychelles but negotiations will be done for the costing and, if possible, reduce the scoping size, said a top official. The port expansion and rehabilitation project have [...]
Fifty-one Seychellois applicants for the return of land scheme have met the criteria to have their lands returned, said a top official on Tuesday. The return of land scheme was launched in 2021 in which the lands acquired or purchased by the state from 1977 to 1993 that are still undeveloped are returned to their previous owners. [...]
Lieutenant Colonel David Arrisol has been appointed as the Commander of the Seychelles Coast Guard by President Wavel Ramkalawan after having served several months as the Acting Commander of the maritime military service. Following a short ceremony at State House on Tuesday, Arrisol said that he will continue to deliver his work in accordance with [...]
Seychelles will introduce the Registered Exporter System (REX) as of July 1 for goods originating from the island nation destined for the European Union countries through which local exporters will complete their own self-certification. The manager of classification, valuation and rules of origin in the Customs Division, Gerda Cesar, told reporters that this is a system [...]
Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Mali early Tuesday for talks with its junta leaders seeking Moscow's help in battling an Islamist insurgency that remains entrenched despite years of fighting. Lavrov, who was in Iraq on Monday, was welcomed upon his arrival by his counterpart Abdoulaye Diop. The two men did not make any [...]
Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved freezing darkness, aftershocks and collapsing buildings Tuesday, as they dug for survivors buried by a string of earthquakes that killed at least 4,800 people. Disaster agencies said several thousand buildings were flattened in cities across a vast border region -- pouring misery on an area already plagued by war, [...]
The French parliament was on Monday to start debating a contested pension reform championed by President Emmanuel Macron a day ahead of new strikes and mass demonstrations against the plan. The reform is the flagship domestic policy of Macron's second and final term in office, with the president determined to implement it in the face [...]
The Supreme Court of Seychelles on Monday charged a Russian couple with involuntary manslaughter and cruelty against children under the Children’s Act section 70(1B) for the death of their 17-month-old baby, Emelyan Jandurl. The couple was charged following an autopsy on the baby and according to the police in the autopsy report from the police pathologist “the [...]
Sea cucumber fishers in Seychelles are being asked to submit their proposals to be part of the exploratory harvesting of the species under the joint management area (JMA) managed by Seychelles and Mauritius, said a top official. The JMA is the mechanism of joint jurisdiction between Seychelles and Mauritius over an area of the seabed and its [...]
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing more than 100 people, levelling buildings while many were still asleep, and sending tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus and Egypt. Emergency service officials in Turkey put the initial death toll at 76, although it threatened to climb substantially [...]
