Sandra Esparon and Mercenary were named best female and male artists Saturday night at the Cable Tunes Awards 2018. The awards ceremony, held at the Berjaya Hotel on the northern side of the main island of Mahe, was a blue carpet affair. It dazzled guests with a colourful display of lights and lively performances by the winning [...]
Gabon's prime minister announced a new government in a video message recorded thousands of miles away in Morocco, where ailing Gabonese President Ali Bongo is recovering from a stroke. Recently appointed PM Julien Nkoghe Bekale gave details of the reshuffle in footage broadcast late Saturday on state television, less than a week after the country [...]
Lucy Hickerson-Luc, an American artist and opera singer who made Seychelles her adoptive home, was laid to rest on Saturday in her beloved district of Baie Lazare. Luc, 77, who arrived on the island nation in 1986, was originally from Odessa, Texas, United States of America. Luc is remembered as a vibrant and talented artist who [...]
The US government shutdown that has left 800,000 federal employees without salaries as a result of President Donald Trump's row with Democrats over building a Mexico border wall was set to enter a record 22nd day Saturday. The Democrats' refusal to approve $5.7 billion demanded by Trump for the wall project has paralyzed Washington, with [...]
The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) wants to minimize the use of cash and checks for payment of taxes and instead is encouraging the use of electronic transfers from both the government and the public, a bank official said Friday. In a press conference held on Friday, Liz Julienne, the Director of Financial Inclusion and [...]
The world's oceans are heating up at an accelerating pace as global warming threatens a diverse range of marine life and a major food supply for the planet, researchers said. The findings in the US journal Science, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, debunk previous reports that suggested a so-called pause in global warming [...]
The unemployment rate in Seychelles has dropped from 5 percent to 3.5 percent, largely due to the reintroduction of the unemployment relief scheme in 2017, officials said. “The relief scheme has played a huge role in getting people into employment. We have conducted a door-to-door exercise disseminating information, which has been very effective in pushing [...]
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro began a new term on Thursday with the economy in ruins and his regime more isolated than ever as regional leaders declared his re-election illegitimate and shunned his inauguration. The 56-year-old socialist leader was sworn in by Supreme Court president Maikel Moreno as an audience of hundreds, including a handful of [...]
‘Without Fear or Favor’ is the theme that the Seychelles' Supreme Court re-opened under for 2019 on Thursday, a theme that will focus on decisions made by the constitution. “For 2019 we are shifting our focus from the institutional and physical into how we make decisions. We are focusing this year on the fundamental tenet [...]
Former president Marc Ravalomanana has accepted defeat in Madagascar's presidential election, a day after the country's Constitutional Court confirmed Andry Rajoelina as the new leader of the Indian Ocean island nation. Ravalomanana had lodged a complaint alleging widespread fraud in the December 19 run-off vote in which he won 44.3 percent to Rajoelina's 55.7 percent. [...]
