A company managing Coral Strand and Savoy Resort and Spa, two tourism establishments in Seychelles, has been given a 48-hour notice to pay in full the basic salary of their Seychellois staff, a top employment official said on Thursday. The principal secretary for employment, Jules Baker, made the statement after a meeting with representatives of the staff [...]
Mauritius on Thursday announced that oil was leaking from a bulk carrier that had run aground in the southeast of the island, sparking fears among green campaigners of an environmental disaster. "The ministry has been informed... that there is a breach in the vessel MV Wakashio and there is a leakage of oil," the environment [...]
Seychelles' National Assembly has approved 17 amendments to the Election Act which seek to ensure a fair electoral process in the island nation. The Elections Amendments Bill 2020 was presented Wednesday by Vice-President Vincent Meriton, who said that the electoral commission conducted an exercise in 2017 to review the legal electoral framework governing elections in [...]
French President Emmanuel Macron was expected in Lebanon Thursday, two days after a monster blast sowed unfathomable destruction in Beirut and brought Paris's Middle East protege to its knees. The highest-ranking foreign official to visit the country since Tuesday's tragedy, Macron will visit the site of the blast that obliterated part of Beirut port and [...]
Seychelles’ international airport reopened for commercial flights on Aug. 1, the first regular flights since the country closed its borders in March to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 in the 115-island nation. The opening of the airport means that the country is re-launching its tourism industry and boosting the economy. Five airlines have confirmed that they [...]
British American Tobacco South Africa (BATSA) went to court on Wednesday for the first day of hearings in a case against a government-imposed ban on tobacco sales to limit the spread of coronavirus. South Africans have been unable to legally purchase cigarettes since the country went into a strict nationwide lockdown on March 27. While [...]
The Public Utilities Corporation (PUC) plans to connect every household and businesses to a sewage system to better manage wastewater that can be used for industrial and irrigation purposes, said a top official. The general manager of sewage, Mervyn Benoiton, said that the plan is to connect all structures on the three most populated islands [...]
Australia's worst-hit state of Victoria reported 15 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, including a man in his 30s, making it the country's deadliest day of the pandemic to date. An outbreak in Melbourne, Australia's second-biggest city and the capital of Victoria, has seen hundreds of new cases recorded daily in recent weeks, including 725 on Wednesday. [...]
The Seychelles Ports Authority will tender out the main aspects of the Port Victoria expansion project once the designing is completed, said a top officer of the Ports Authority. Thereafter, the project will be implemented in phases beginning in the south and then followed by construction in the northern part of Mahe Quay. Port Victoria, [...]
The Seychelles Ports Authority is now tendering out the main aspects of the Port Victoria expansion project and civil works which covers the south half of the port, said a top officer of the Ports Authority. Port Victoria, which is currently 270 metres long, will be extended by an additional 330 metres to accommodate two [...]
