The sea, sun and natural environment are no longer sufficient on their own to sustain the Seychelles' tourism industry, the new Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism said Monday. Sylvestre Radegonde spoke after he was sworn in as minister at State House in the presence of President Wavel Ramkalawan. Another minister, Billy Rangasamy, now in [...]
UN-led talks aimed at appointing an executive to help lead Libya out of a decade of conflict ended Sunday without discussing names, the world body said."We have agreed to reconvene in about a week in a virtual meeting (to) agree on the selection mechanism for the coming authority," the UN's interim Libya envoy Stephanie Williams [...]
Entrepreneurship development in Seychelles will be in the spotlight this week as the island nation was chosen out of 170 countries to host for the first time Global Entrepreneurship Week. This is the second year that Seychelles is participating in Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative that started in 2008. To celebrate this event, the Department [...]
Visitor arrivals to Seychelles have dropped 70 percent this year compared to the same period in 2019, according to National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) figures, startling numbers that show how deep the COVID-19 travel crisis has his the island nation's tourism industry. Figures from NBS last Wednesday show that from January to November, 97,740 visitors [...]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is self-isolating after someone he was in contact with tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesman said Sunday."He will carry on working from Downing Street, including on leading the Government's response to the coronavirus pandemic," the Downing Street spokesman added.His confinement comes as negotiations with the European Union over Brexit [...]
Jerry Rawlings, who died Thursday aged 73, was a hulking figure who towered over West African nation Ghana for two decades first as military leader and then elected president. A former air force flight lieutenant, Rawlings twice overthrew governments through coups in 1979 and 1981 and stamped his authority on the nation of 30 million [...]
A South African national who helped set up a pottery centre in Seychelles in the 1970s has written a book about her days on the island nation. In the book, “Our Seven Years in Paradise,” Kathy de Smidt recounts how she and others from her group contributed to the setting up of the Ceramics [...]
Honduras and Guatemala announced evacuations Friday as a second major hurricane in days closed in on Central America with the region still reeling from deadly storm Eta last week. Eta killed more than 200 people across Central America, with heavy rain bursting river banks and triggering landslides as far north as Chiapas, Mexico. The US [...]
A Seychellois women's national football team that performs well at the international level and a player going professional are what the first elected woman on the executive committee of the Seychelles Football Federation envisions for the future. Shella Mohideen, who was elected on the Federation's executive committee in the general election last month, told SNA [...]
The governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) is continuing to raise the alarm about the demand for foreign exchange, demand that is pushing the value of the rupee down. Caroline Abel told a press conference on Friday that analysis on the foreign exchange situation for the month of October shows that "there has [...]
