A work permit for foreigners working in Seychelles – known as a gainful occupation permit (GOP) – for management positions in the island state's tourism industry will become more expensive to encourage more locals to be employed in managerial posts, President Wavel Ramkalawan said on Thursday. He made the statement while addressing students at the [...]
Oil exploration in Seychelles' territorial waters is set to restart after the island nation signs an agreement with a British oil company before the end of the month, said a top official. Patrick Joseph, the chief executive of PetroSeychelles, the state-owned hydrocarbon exploration regulator, told SNA that "the signing will depend on the availability of [...]
A petition filed in August last year by the Apex Trustees Bondholders to recuperate investment made in Air Seychelles has been withdrawn, the national airline said on Tuesday. Air Seychelles said that the petition was withdrawn after the airline was able to provide the settlement funds of approximately $28m in escrow, which means being held [...]
Seychelles and Mauritius have agreed to appoint a new multi-national company to survey its jointly managed Mascarene plateau area after the contract of the previous company was discontinued. The decision was announced prior to the 22nd meeting of the Mauritius-Seychelles Joint Commission of the Extended Continental Shelf in the Mascarene in Seychelles' capital of Victoria on Tuesday. [...]
Sri Lankan police have been ordered to go on the offensive and use live ammunition to prevent "anarchy", a top official told AFP Wednesday after another night of sporadic arson attacks. Police say eight people have died since Monday, when frustration at a dire economic crisis erupted into violence between backers and opponents of President [...]
Discussions have started between Seychelles' public and private sectors and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to identify new investment opportunities under the Investor Map Project. In the first working mission to Seychelles for this project, UNDP representatives met with an advisory committee on Tuesday. The objective was to start to validate data and information collected online [...]
Russian troops are being pushed away from Ukraine's second city Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, but sounded a note of caution as Washington said Vladimir Putin won't stop with the east and is ready for a long war. Following that bleak prediction, and after President Joe Biden warned that Ukraine would likely run out of [...]
Seychelles has overachieved in its macro-economic reforms and is an example for other developing countries, said an executive director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday. Chang Huh, who is an executive director on the IMF executive board representing a group of 16 countries including Seychelles, made the statement to reporters after meeting with the President [...]
An alarming increase in the number of activities using drones has been sighted within the flight path of the international airport at Pointe Larue during weekends and public holidays, the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA) said on Monday. SCAA said in a press statement most sightings are within the flight path leading to the [...]
A French court will open hearings Monday in the case of the 2009 crash of a Yemenia Airways flight that killed 152 people but miraculously left a 12-year-old girl alive. The Yemeni national airline, whose representatives will not be in the dock due to the country's still-raging civil war, faces a maximum fine of 225,000 [...]
