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Constance Ephelia Seychelles was recently awarded gold status by Green Globe after the resort was certified as an environmentally friendly tourist establishment for five consecutive years. The establishment’s health, safety and environment project manager, Markus Ultsch-Unrath, said that the gold status is a testament to the time, efforts and financial sources invested over the past years towards [...]

Nov. 2 is the day when Christians commemorates All Souls Day when holy souls are remembered. In Seychelles – an archipelago of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean – all cemeteries come alive on Nov. 2 as families and relatives clean, paint and put fresh flowers on graves of their loved ones. This week [...]

Pakistan's beleaguered Christian community rejoiced Wednesday at the acquittal of Asia Bibi, who spent years on death row for blasphemy, saying their prayers had been answered after years of begging for justice.Christians make up around two percent of the country's 210 million population and have long been discriminated against in Muslim majority Pakistan, often living [...]

Australia is committed to working in partnership with Seychelles and other countries in the region to tackle maritime security challenges including drug trafficking and illegal fishing, the Australian High Commissioner to Seychelles said. Following a courtesy call to President Danny Faure at State House, Victoria on Tuesday, Jenny Dee told the press that the Australian alumni [...]

A proposed law to counter money laundering in Seychelles will be presented to the National Assembly early next year.   The director of the Financial Investigation Unit (FIU), Philip Moustache, announced the bill last week at State House. The bill has already been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. Moustache said that when the anti-money laundering [...]

Education, tourism, fisheries and exchange of specialists are areas of cooperation that Seychelles and Ghana will enhance to deepen existing relations, said the newly accredited high commissioner. The new high commissioner of Ghana to Seychelles, George Ayisi-Boateng, spoke Tuesday after presenting his credentials to President Danny Faure at State House, Victoria. “I know that the fisheries [...]

A former president of Seychelles, James Michel, was appointed as a founding member of the Pew Bertarelli Ocean Ambassadors on Monday. Michel’s appointment was announced on the sidelines of the ‘Our Ocean Conference' in Bali, Indonesia, according to a communiqué from the James Michel Foundation. The Pew Bertarelli Ocean Ambassadors is a small group of global leaders who will work [...]

Indonesian search teams Tuesday recovered more remains at the site of a crashed Lion Air jet that plunged into the sea with 189 people aboard, as a report said it had suffered an instrument malfunction the day before. The Boeing-737 MAX, which went into service just months ago, crashed into the Java Sea moments after [...]

Yellowfin tuna stock is the focus of discussion as Seychelles hosts the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission’s (IOTC) 20th session of the Working Party on Tropical Tuna from October 29 to November 3. The session is part of a series of meetings organised by the commission’s secretariat every year where scientists of member countries along with international experts analyse and discuss [...]

Pressure mounted on Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena to reconvene parliament Monday after his shock dismissal of the prime minister and suspension of the assembly triggered a power struggle and clashes that claimed one life. The US State Department on Sunday urged Sirisena to "immediately reconvene parliament" to allow legislators to quell the constitutional crisis [...]