President Wavel Ramkalawan said Friday that it's important to take action to counter corruption in the island nation as he appointed members of the advisory council of the Anti-Corruption Commission. The new advisory council, which replaces the former board of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Seychelles (ACCS), is comprised of accountant Bernard Pool as the chairperson [...]
The governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles has a message for the island nation's banks: Businesses and individuals in Seychelles need access to capital if the economy is to move forward. Caroline Abel told a press conference that despite the fact that a few improvements have been seen within financial institutions, the Central Bank [...]
Students training to become nurses and social workers were among the first Seychellois to take the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Friday. Students of the National Institute for Health and Social Services (NIHSS) -- a post-secondary school that trains future health workers and social workers – took their first dose at the Mont Fleuri vaccination centre [...]
West African foreign ministers will arrive in Guinea on Friday to evaluate the situation after a military coup in the country, Burkina Faso's foreign minister Alpha Barry said Thursday. The foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo will visit as representatives of the West Africa bloc ECOWAS, said Barry, a member of the [...]
US President Joe Biden talked with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for the first time in seven months Thursday, urging they ensure that "competition" between the two powers does not become "conflict," the White House said. During the call, Biden's message was that the United States wants to ensure "the dynamic remains competitive and that [...]
Illegal logging, charcoal production and poaching in and around Virunga National Park, the famed sanctuary of mountain gorillas in eastern DR Congo, are enriching armed groups in the troubled region, local NGOs say. "The majority of armed groups active in North Kivu (province) have set up bases in and around the park," raking in hundreds [...]
Children in Seychelles between the ages of 12 and 17 will begin receiving their first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, said a top health official. The Public Health Commissioner, Jude Gedeon, told a press conference Thursday that "parents should have already received a consent form with which all information is also [...]
The IOC punished North Korea's Tokyo Games no-show by suspending their National Olympic Committee until the end of 2022, Olympic chief Thomas Bach announced on Wednesday. The suspension covers the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. "The NOC of the People's Republic of Korea was the only NOC not participating in the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. The [...]
As we write above, all the world’s nationalities are normally visa-exempt for this splendid East African country. This makes arranging your trip here far more convenient than for destinations that oblige you to go to an embassy to apply for your entry paperwork. Equally, though, you do require some travel documents to enter Seychelles: A [...]
The construction of a new dam in Seychelles is once again being seen as a threat to one of the world's rarest trees unique to the islands. Environmentalists say the impact of the construction of the dam in the western district of Grand Anse Mahe may lead to the extinction of the critically endangered jellyfish [...]
