An illegal arms and anti-terrorism case trial started Monday in Seychelles' Supreme Court. The persons charged in the case are prominent businessman Mukesh Valabjhi and his wife Laura, a lawyer. Also charged in the same case are Leslie Benoiton – a senior officer in the Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF), Leopold Payet - a former chief [...]
Kenyan President William Ruto announced Sunday the lifting of a near six-year ban on logging, despite the concerns of environmental campaigners. Ruto said the move was "long overdue" and was aimed at creating jobs and opening up sectors of the economy that rely on forest products. "We can't have mature trees rotting in forests while [...]
On a visit to spotlight violence and chaos in Haiti, the UN secretary-general on Saturday called for a robust international effort to help the country's beleaguered police in fighting rampant criminal gangs. For months, Antonio Guterres has raised the alarm bell about the situation in the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, which has been wracked by [...]
Father Gustave Lafortune, now 86 years old, celebrated 60 years of priesthood on June 30 for his service to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Seychelles. Hailing from the eastern district of Cascade, Gustave Charles Baromee Lafortune was born on November 3, 1936. From humble beginnings, Lafortune was a sickly child who at a young age [...]
President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday informed Berlin he was postponing a state visit to deal with the urban rioting that has rocked France for the last four nights, as the 17-year-old whose killing by police sparked the protests was laid to rest. Police arrested 1,311 people overnight Friday to Saturday, the highest figure since the [...]
Seychelles' National Library is expected to be fully operational by November this year. In a ceremony that coincided with Seychelles National Day, marking Independence Day, on Thursday, President Wavel Ramkalawan officially handed over the keys of the fully renovated National Library to the Seychelles National Institute for Culture, Heritage and the Arts (SNICHA). The library, which was constructed in the early [...]
Seychelles' national carrier, Air Seychelles, started operating twice weekly flights to Colombo after it made its inaugural flight on Tuesday, June 20th. The airline operates the twice-weekly flights from Seychelles to Colombo on Tuesdays and Saturdays and returns on Wednesdays and Sundays. The airline's inaugural flight on its Airbus A320, which landed at Bandaranaike International, had [...]
The fiscal performance of Seychelles in the first quarter of 2023 is much better than that of the same period last year, said a top official from the Ministry of Finance on Friday. The comptroller general for financial planning and control, Astrid Tamatave, revealed in a presentation, that in the first quarter of 2023, the [...]
Advancements made by Seychelles in the digital financial space were one of the topics of discussion between the executive director for the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), Alfred Hannig, and President Wavel Ramkalawan. Hannig, who met with the President on Friday at State House, told reporters that discussions with the President revolved around the digital economy, the [...]
With the imminent end of the UN's Mali peacekeeping mission seemingly no longer in doubt, negotiations at the UN are still foundering over the timetable for their departure, which Bamako wants "without delay", according to diplomatic sources. On June 16, taking everyone by surprise, Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop, while denouncing the "failure" of the [...]
