School children from three primary schools in Seychelles are creating artwork to be used to sensitise and raise more awareness about reef protection and conservation. The students are creating sculptures as well as a song as part of a regional project - Pareo - to highlight the rich heritage of coral reefs and children as [...]
A fire-stricken oil tanker was pushed away from Sri Lanka's coast and into deeper waters on Saturday, rescuers said, after successfully containing the blaze during a 36-hour operation. The Panamanian-registered New Diamond carrying 270,000 tonnes of crude had drifted dangerously close to the eastern shores of Sri Lanka since issuing a distress message on Thursday [...]
Seychelles’ national airline – Air Seychelles - is operating two repatriation flights to neighbouring islands of Mauritius and Reunion on September 8 and 9. Air Seychelles said that the airline will operate the first special flight to Mauritius “to provide Mauritian citizens the opportunity to return to their home.” Passengers wishing to return to [...]
Brazil surpassed four million coronavirus cases on Thursday, as an international panel looking into the global response to the pandemic vowed to uncover how it was able to spread worldwide. "This is a strong panel poised to ask the hard questions," said former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, co-chair of the Independent Panel for Pandemic [...]
Praslin’s Fond Ferdinand Nature Reserve – an area where Seychelles’ endemic coco de mer grows in its natural state – is now under the responsibility of the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF). The foundation already manages Vallee de Mai – the main reserve for the coco de mer, on the second-most populated island of Praslin. Vallee [...]
At least 7,000 health workers worldwide have died after being infected with the coronavirus, including more than 1,300 in Mexico alone, the most for any country, Amnesty International said Thursday. "Every health worker has the right to be safe at work, and it is a scandal that so many are paying the ultimate price," said [...]
A top court in Seychelles on Thursday heard an appeal of a previous judgment ordering Vijay Construction to pay Eastern European Engineering Limited (EEEL) almost $24 million as compensation for breaking the terms of a contract for the construction of the Savoy Hotel. The lawyer for Vijay Construction, Bernard Georges, told the press that he has [...]
In normal times, Bruneau Laurette spends his days providing armed escort to ships dodging pirates as they head through the Indian Ocean.But in recent weeks, the maritime security expert has surged into a new role: the voice of a nation's anger after an oil spill soiled the coast of his native Mauritius.The disaster occurred after [...]
Foreign owners of private yachts will no longer be able to lease out their vessels in the waters of Seychelles following recent revisions made to the Liveaboard and Yacht Charter Policy. The principal secretary for tourism, Anne Lafortune, told the press last week that there are a lot of people with money coming to Seychelles [...]
Germany said Wednesday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent, leading Chancellor Angela Merkel to demand answers from the Kremlin and sparking widespread condemnation in the West. "It is certain that Alexei Navalny is the victim of a crime," said Merkel. "He was meant to be silenced and I [...]
