The publishing company behind "Today in Seychelles" has added a Sunday publication to its schedule with the unveiling of "Ozordi Dimans," or "Today Sunday." The Sunday publication, a digital magazine, was launched on Sunday October 10. It is produced by an entirely different team of journalists than the Monday-through-Saturday paper, said Veronica Maria, the managing [...]
A fruit tree sale was organised Thursday alongside World Food Day activities in the hopes of improving food security in Seychelles. The sale, organised at the Anse Boileau Research Centre, was one of several activities scheduled during the week to mark World Food Day on Saturday, October 16. This year the day is being commemorated [...]
An amendment to remove the requirement that spouses and household members of high level government holders must declare their assets should not take effect, said an official from Transparency Initiative Seychelles. The National Assembly, Seychelles' legislative body, approved the amendment in the Public Persons Declaration of Assets, Liabilities and Business Act 2017 on September 22. [...]
Queen Elizabeth II has taken aim at world leaders who "talk" but "don't do" enough about climate change, in an apparent jibe at those not attending the upcoming COP26 summit. The 95-year-old monarch was overheard making the remarks on a microphone as she opened the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff on Thursday. She told Elin Jones, [...]
A cricket team from Seychelles will participate in the T20 World Cup Africa qualifier tournament in Kigali, Rwanda from October 16 to 17. Team Seychelles left the country on Wednesday for the seven-day tournament in which the island nation will play in the sub regional Africa A qualifier alongside Rwanda, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Eswatini and Uganda. The [...]
Former president Bill Clinton has been hospitalized with a non-Covid-related infection, a spokesman said Thursday evening. Clinton's doctors said it was a blood infection. Clinton, 75, was admitted to a hospital in Irvine in southern California on Tuesday evening, Angel Urena tweeted. He gave no details other than to say the infection was not Covid-related. [...]
Two weeks into the Expo 2020 event in Dubai, the Seychelles' pavilion has welcomed 7,800 visitors, three-fourths of whom were researching holiday destinations, the Creative Industries and National Agency (CINEA) said Wednesday. Participating under the theme 'Preserve Nature', Seychelles Expo 2020 is featuring a sustainability pavilion in the world event which started on October 1 [...]
Record-breaking Kenyan distance runner Agnes Tirop was found dead Wednesday with stab wounds to her stomach in a suspected homicide, athletics officials said. Police said they were on the hunt for her husband over the incident at Tirop's home in the high-altitude training hub of Iten in western Kenya. Tirop, 25, was a fast-rising athlete [...]
All commercial banks in Seychelles have implemented the monetary policies announced by the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) in June after they were given an ultimatum to do so by October 1, an official said. The chairman of the Seychelles Bankers Association, Phillip Moustache, told SNA that although not all banks have published their [...]
Even if humanity beats the odds and caps global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, seas will rise for centuries to come and swamp cities currently home to half-a-billion people, researchers warned Tuesday. In a world that heats up another half-degree above that benchmark, an additional 200 million of today's urban dwellers would [...]
