Faced with images of turtles smothered by plastic bags, beaches carpeted with garbage and islands of trash floating in the oceans, environmentalists say the world is waking up to the need to tackle plastic pollution at the source. Stories on social media of giant seas of floating waste or a beached whale found in Indonesia [...]
Seychelles is hosting its first major international golf tournament from December 14 to 16 at the golf course at Constance Lemuria Resort on Praslin, the second-most populated island. The event is the second stage of the Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB) Staysure Tour Indian Ocean Swing, which started at the Constance Belle Mare Plage in Mauritius. [...]
South Africa has formally bid to replace Cameroon as hosts of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, a senior football official told AFP Thursday. "We have submitted our bid documents," South African Football Association spokesman Dominic Chimhavi said in reply to emailed questions from AFP. "(It) is now up to CAF to decide (who hosts [...]
The hearing in the case of the Seychelles-based Chagossian community against the government of the United Kingdom is taking place in the UK from December 10-15, the Chagossian committee said in a communique on Tuesday. The claimant in the case representing the community in Seychelles, Solange Hoareau, is arguing that the November 2016 decision taken [...]
Yemen's warring parties on Thursday agreed to a ceasefire on a vital port in a series of breakthroughs in UN-brokered peace talks that could mark a major turning point after four years of devastating conflict. If implemented, the deal on the Hodeida port, a key gateway for aid and food imports, could bring relief to [...]
Nine people were killed and nearly 90 injured after a high-speed train crashed into a locomotive in the Turkish capital on Thursday, officials said, becoming the latest rail disaster to hit the country. The accident comes less than six months after 24 people were killed in a train crash in northwestern Turkey in a series [...]
A tourism accommodation on the second-most populated island of Praslin, L’Archipel, has received for the first time the Seychelles Sustainable Tourism Label for integrating sustainability in its operations. L’Archipel -- located in the north-east region of Praslin at the end of the Côte d'Or Bay -- has 18 deluxe rooms, five superior rooms, seven senior [...]
A new toolkit to provide guidelines on how to complete a successful coral restoration project has been launched by Nature Seychelles, a not-for-profit environmental organisation. The launch coincides with the Reef Futures Symposium being held in Key Largo, Florida, in the United States from December 10-14. The toolkit is based on a ground-breaking large-scale coral [...]
Donald Trump's former lawyer apologized Wednesday for covering up the "dirty deeds" of his ex-boss as he was sentenced to three years for multiple crimes including hush money payments implicating the US president. Pleading for leniency in a packed Manhattan courtroom before US District Court Judge William H. Pauley III, Michael Cohen said he had [...]
AVANI Seychelles Barbarons Resort and Spa aims to enhance the experience of travellers going through the Seychelles International Airport after the recent opening of a new lounge. The chairman of the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority, David Savy, said that on average one million passengers pass through the airport of Seychelles each year on both domestic [...]
