Children and adults can express themselves freely and discover or better understand their own creative processes through recreational drawing and painting classes being offered by a former art teacher. The creative workshops for children and adults of all ages are being offered by 'ZuriSeychelles' -- a company of Julie Johnston, a returning resident of Seychelles, [...]
The Seychelles' ruling party, United Seychelles, approved the nomination of its Vice Presidential candidate, Maurice Loustau-Lalanne, during the party's extraordinary congress on Saturday. Loustau-Lalanne was presented to the over 200 members of the congress, the party's supreme organ, by the incumbent President Danny Faure, and his nomination was approved unanimously through acclamation. In his keynote address, [...]
One hundred and seventy passengers -- both visitors and Seychellois -- landed in Seychelles on Saturday onboard the first commercial passenger flight since the COVID-induced travel shutdown. Emirates flight EK705 from Dubai touched down at 6.30 a.m., the first plane to arrive after Seychelles reopened its borders on Aug. 1. The Seychelles International Airport was [...]
The scale of economic devastation from the pandemic was laid bare on Thursday as Western economies recorded historic slumps, just as resurgent caseloads forced many countries into agonising new trade-offs between health and financial stability. Six months after the World Health Organization declared a global emergency, the novel coronavirus has infected more than 17 million [...]
Opposition parties in Seychelles on Friday said they are ready to contest the presidential and legislative elections at the same time later this year as announced by President Danny Faure a day earlier, though one leader expressed mild criticism of the decision. President Faure's decision - which he said is intended to save Seychelles money [...]
A subsidiary of the State Bank of Mauritius in Seychelles is closing down after a review of its operations and performance amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official said on Friday. The governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS), Caroline Abel, told a press conference that CBS has approved a formal request from SBM [...]
A subsidiary of the State Bank of Mauritius in Seychelles is closing down after a review of its operations and performance amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official said on Friday. The governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS), Caroline Abel, told a press conference that CBS has approved a formal request from SBM [...]
Six months after sounding its top alarm over the new coronavirus outbreak, the WHO's emergency committee meets for a fourth time Friday to assess the raging pandemic. The World Health Organization grouping, comprising around 20 members and advisers, can propose new recommendations or amend existing ones. However, there is little doubt that the WHO will [...]
The unemployment rate in Seychelles jumped to 4.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020, a sharp rise from the last quarter of 2019 when it was 2.3 percent, said a government official. The principal statistician at the National Bureau of Statistics, Maria Payet, told a press conference on Thursday that the rise was "largely" [...]
Up to 800 million children around the world are being poisoned by lead from water and air pollution, the United Nations warned Thursday in a special report on the "massive and previously unknown" health crisis. One out of every three children is estimated to have levels of lead -- a potent neurotoxin -- in their [...]
