Seychelles has pledged to protect 100 percent of its mangroves and seagrass ecosystem and reduce greenhouse gas emission by 24 percent by 2030 in its climate action plan submitted ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November. The climate change and environment ministry said in a press statement on Wednesday [...]
Nepal has restarted visas on arrival for vaccinated tourists as South Asian nations attempt to revive tourism businesses devastated after 18 months of the pandemic. A near travel shutdown has been in place in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka for more than a year as successive waves of coronavirus took a deadly toll. [...]
A Seychellois hotelier is being remembered for her contributions to the hospitality industry and for retaining the colonial era characteristics of her family-owned hotel. Myriam St. Ange, the owner of the Chateau St. Cloud on the third most populated island of La Digue, passed away last weekend. Aged 74, she was laid to rest on [...]
The Seychelles’ health ministry has vaccinated over half of the island nation's estimated 7,000 adolescents aged 12-17 in a COVID-19 vaccination campaign that started September 10, a top official said on Friday. Officials also announced that some islanders -- those with advanced health issues and older residents at the North East Point complex-- are eligible to [...]
The US special envoy to Haiti resigned Thursday two months after his appointment, denouncing the Biden administration's deportation of Haitian migrants from the US-Mexico border back to their poverty-stricken homeland. The stunning resignation came as tensions built up after Mexican police showed up in force at a Haitian migrant camp in Ciudad Acuna, where thousands [...]
The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, highlighted in a virtual address on Thursday the need for leaders attending the 76th United Nations General Assembly to reflect on how to address pressing issues amid the global COVID-19 pandemic. Ramkalawan listed the pressing issues as effective and equitable access to health care, glaring inequalities, climate change and environmental [...]
The two candidates running neck-and-neck to replace Angela Merkel as German chancellor called for a stronger European Union on Thursday, in a final TV debate that did little to shake up a race expected to end in lengthy coalition negotiations. With days to go before the general election on Sunday that will see Merkel step [...]
The outgoing ambassador of Cuba expressed satisfaction on Thursday with the collaboration between his nation and Seychelles, particularly in the field of health, a critical profession made even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic. Juan Humberto Macias Pino paid a farewell visit to President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House on Thursday. Pino has been ambassador since [...]
Seychelles on Thursday examined ways to help visitors minimise their carbon footprint when staying in the island nation during a "Green Recovery of Tourism" symposium. The symposium was organised by the British High Commission in partnership with the local ministries of tourism and environment and included the participation of the tourism sector. The principal secretary [...]
US President Joe Biden and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron had a "friendly" phone call Wednesday to defuse a deep row over submarine sales to Australia, promising to meet in person to repair the transatlantic relationship. The call, which the White House said lasted about 30 minutes, was the first between Biden and Macron since [...]
