The Catholic Diocese of Port Victoria is seeing an increase in young Seychellois males willing to take vows to join the church. Romeo Bonne was ordained as a deacon earlier this month, the first Seychellois to join the clergy since Father Collin Underwood in August 2009. In addition to Bonne, three other Seychellois are studying for the [...]
Owners were boarding up their shops and evacuations were underway Saturday as Hurricane Ida was on a path to hit New Orleans 16 years to the day the southern US city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. A handful of people were still on New Orleans streets, but many businesses had closed up ahead of what [...]
Suicide bomb threats hung over the final phase of the US military's airlift operation from Kabul Sunday, with President Joe Biden warning another attack was highly likely before the evacuations end. More than 112,000 people have fled Afghanistan via the massive US-led airlift since the Taliban movement swept back into power a fortnight ago, and [...]
The mangrove coverage area on the remote Aldabra Atoll has increased by around 60 hectares since 1997, the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) said recently. A study compared satellite imagery captured over Aldabra from 1997 to 2018. While mangrove habitats across the world are in decline, the study found that the protected mangrove forest on Aldabra has [...]
The island nation’s largest coconut oil producer – the Island Development Company (IDC) - is back in business after acquiring a new oil mill which is producing up to 600 litres of oil per day with the majority being exported. After a few months of no oil production, in July last year, IDC acquired new machines [...]
Seychelles' minister for transport will lead a committee formed to hold talks with the creditors of Air Seychelles, who have filed a petition against the airline, officials said after a high-level meeting Friday. President Wavel Ramkalawan chaired a meeting with Minister of Transport Anthony Derjacques and the Air Seychelles' board of directors at State House to discuss [...]
The United States is shipping more than two million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Algeria, Ghana and Yemen, the White House said Thursday, boosting efforts to combat a third wave of the pandemic across Africa. The shipments, which a White House official told AFP would land before the end of this week, will be the [...]
Seychelles will administer the Pfizer vaccine to adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 at schools next month, a new phase in the island nation's COVID-19 vaccination programme. The new consignment of a little over 31,000 vaccine doses is expected to arrive in the country around September 5. The authorities are predicting it will [...]
Mauritius has welcomed the UN postal agency's decision to ban British stamps from being used on the Chagos archipelago, calling it a victory for the island nation in its decades-long dispute with London. The vote by the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a United Nations agency focusing on the mail sector, follows a longstanding spat between [...]
President Wavel Ramkalawan and relevant government ministers will meet with the board of directors of Air Seychelles to discuss a petition filed against the airline over debts owed to the EA Partners Bondholders, State House said on Thursday. According to a press release by the Noteholders Committee acting on behalf of the bondholders, "a petition [...]
