Seychelles will celebrate the 36th edition of the Creole Festival this year on a smaller scale in view of the restrictions on large gatherings amid COVID-19, said the Mayor of Victoria. The event is making a return to the islands one year after it was cancelled due to the pandemic, though many events will be by [...]
The Seychelles Anti Narcotic Bureau (ANB) made 91 arrests in the month of September including the arrest of a Kenyan national. In a communique on Friday, ANB said that in total it seized 1.2kg of cannabis, 100.09g of cannabis resin and 15 cannabis plants in September. The officers also seized 19.11g of heroin and 864g [...]
New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal warned of a looming power crisis in the Indian capital, saying on Saturday that some of the major coal-fired stations supplying the city barely have a day's stock left. Several states in eastern and southern India have been hit by supply shortages, with utility providers resorting to unscheduled power [...]
Taiwan will not bow to pressure by Beijing and will defend its democratic way of life, President Tsai Ing-wen said Sunday, following a spike in incursions by Chinese warplanes into its air defence zone. Self-governed Taiwan's 23 million people live under the constant threat of invasion by authoritarian China, which views the island as its [...]
In the hope of inspiring younger Seychellois to relaunch the island nation's vanilla industry, the Department of Culture held a history talk about the plant recently in commemoration of the 155th anniversary of its introduction in Seychelles Introduced in 1866, vanilla was one of the first agricultural industries in the island nation and the basis of [...]
Seychelles' Desroches island is consuming 90 percent less fuel thanks to the installation of a 2.5-megawatt solar farm commissioned by the Islands Development Company (IDC). The solar farm on Desroches was inaugurated on Saturday by President Wavel Ramkalwan and chairperson of the IDC board of directors, Patrick Berlouis. The farm is the second-largest solar plant [...]
Tanzanian-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah on Thursday won the Nobel Literature Prize for his unflinching portrayal of the effects of colonialism and the trauma of the refugee experience. Gurnah, 72, who grew up on the island of Zanzibar but arrived in England as a refugee in the late 1960s to escape revolution, is the fifth African [...]
Seychelles' first skydiving event, originally scheduled for last year but postponed due to COVID-19, will now take place in October from 17 to 23. Around 50 skydivers are scheduled to participate in the 'Innhop Experience' which is an event being organised by Fly Seychelles Skydiving. Francesco Drosi, one of the two people behind the company, [...]
Seychelles will organise a women's sailing festival for the first time to encourage women and girls to take up water sports. The event is part of World Sailing's global festival called "Steering the Course." In Seychelles it will take place Sunday starting at 9 am at the Sail Training Scheme in the central district of [...]
Travellers from the United Kingdom may once again visit Seychelles starting Monday after the island nation was removed from the UK's red list, said the Department of Tourism. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism, Sylvestre Radegonde, welcomed the move which comes ahead of the half term and winter holidays. "We are delighted to welcome [...]
