As 2019 came to an end the Seychelles islands were once again bestowed with another welcome award: ‘Destination of the Year’. The award was announced during the KSA Arabian Business Awards at the Ritz Carlton hotel in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event was organised by the Arabian Business -- one of the most prominent business [...]
A provider of aerial limo services in Seychelles -- Zil Air -- has added a new plane to its fleet and will survey the domestic air travel potential in the next three years before it invests in another plane. The new plane, named Adam, is a Tecnam 2012 Traveller aircraft which landed in Seychelles on [...]
A hydrographic survey in Seychelles' waters by an Indian navy ship will allow the island nation to update its nautical charts and facilitate the implementation of national projects. The ship, INS Darshak, will carry out a hydrographic survey in the seas around the nation's three main islands of Mahe, La Digue, and Praslin. The survey consists of [...]
People who ordered Christmas gifts and other items from China for the festive season will receive their parcels early in the new year, said an official from the Seychelles Postal Services. The deputy chief executive of the Seychelles Postal Services, Alex Etienne, told SNA recently that there was a delay with the delivery of couriers from [...]
US President Donald Trump on Sunday vowed "major retaliation" if Iran tries to avenge the killing of its key military commander Qasem Soleimani and doubled down on a threat to bomb Iranian cultural sites. "If they do anything there will be major retaliation," Trump told reporters. Trump, speaking on Air Force One on his way [...]
If you were to be stranded on an island edged with coconut palms, consider yourself a lucky castaway: the "tree of life" will be close by. The coconut palm can save you from hunger and thirst, give you shelter, and provide fuel for a fire, timber, lines to fish, a hat, and a raft. As [...]
Australians on Sunday counted the cost from a day of catastrophic bushfires that caused "extensive damage" across swathes of the country and took the death toll from the long-running crisis to 24. Hundreds of properties were destroyed and one man died trying to save a friend's home in the severe conditions -- among the worst [...]
China on Friday appealed for restraint from all sides, "especially the United States", after top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US strike in Iraq. The Pentagon said President Donald Trump ordered Soleimani's "killing," after a pro-Iran mob this week laid siege to the US embassy in Baghdad. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali [...]
Seychelles College, originally an all-boys’ school, and the Regina Mundi girls’ school opened in 1947 and 1957 and are seen as the foundation of modern education on the island nation. Both institutions were closed in the early 1980s after a comprehensive review of the education system in Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, when education became free [...]
An idea born in Seychelles and developed in Miami, Florida in the United States is the story of Rikoko, a luxury haircare line inspired by the holistic way of the islands’ culture. Rikoko is based on rich natural ingredients - matured coconut oil, cinnamon bark, vanilla extract, vetiver and wild ginger - found in Seychelles. [...]
