Britain was on Monday widely expected to delay the full lifting of coronavirus restrictions due to a surge of infections caused by the Delta variant. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to announce the government's next step of its roadmap out of stay-at-home measures, after easing began in March. He is expected to announce a [...]
Sri Lanka is seeking $40 million in damages from the operator of a ship that left massive pollution when it caught fire off the country's west coast, officials said Saturday. Ports and shipping minister Rohitha Abeygunawardena said an interim claim had been lodged with X-Press Feeders, which controls the Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl. The vessel [...]
New research conducted on the coconut crab found on Seychelles' remote Aldabra Atoll shows that the population of the species is stable because the atoll provides a good refuge. The research on the population dynamics of the coconut crab, whose scientific name is birgus, confirmed that Aldabra Atoll hosts a large population of the species. [...]
Achievements by Seychelles in the conservation and protection of its natural environment will be featured in the Expo 2020 in Dubai set to begin in October. The island nation, working under the theme 'Preserve Nature', will feature in the sustainability pavilion of the world event to be held from October 1 to March 31, 2022. Expo [...]
Tens of thousands of malnourished children risk dying in hard-to-reach areas of Ethiopia's conflict-wracked Tigray region, now hit by famine, the United Nations said Friday. "Without humanitarian access to scale up our response, an estimated 30,000-plus severely malnourished children in those highly inaccessible areas are at high risk of death," UNICEF spokesman James Elder told [...]
Seychelles has new dietary guidelines that emphasise more fruits and vegetables and less processed foods full of salt and sugar. The guidelines, released two weeks ago by the Ministry of Health, are an update on the island nation's original guidelines released in 2007. "It is hoped that the new guidelines will help to sensitise and raise [...]
The Ministry of Employment has confirmed the approval of Gainful Occupation Permits (GOP) for 82 Mauritians to work in two hotels in the Constance group in Seychelles. The director general for Labour Migration, Benilda Cupidon, told a news conference Friday that the Constance group made an application for 112 vacancies, but after reviewing their position, [...]
South Africa's government announced Friday it would sell a majority stake in cash-strapped flag carrier SAA to a consortium that includes the operator of a local budget airline. The airline, which is emerging from a rescue plan, will effectively be privatised as investors will hold a majority stake. "Having evaluated the current environment, government has [...]
G7 leaders meet on Friday for their first in-person talks in nearly two years, with an expected pledge to donate one billion Covid vaccine doses to the world's poorest countries, as part of a show of Western democratic unity against the planet's most pressing issues. The club of leading economies -- Canada, France, Germany, Italy, [...]
Seychelles has put an immediate ban on the importation of balloons and their use on beaches while restrictions on their other uses, distributions and sales have been postponed to September, said a top environment official. The decision to postpone some of the planned restrictions was taken on Wednesday in a virtual cabinet of minister's meeting [...]
