The Seychelles' Office of the Ombudsman registered 166 complaints in 2020, mostly related to malpractice within the public sector, a top official said on Friday. The Ombudsman, Nichole Tirant-Ghérardi, presented her office's annual report to President Wavel Ramkalawan, and told the island nation's leader that more work needs to be done inside government. "I have [...]
A new agreement between Seychelles and Reunion – a French department in the Indian Ocean – will give Seychellois more opportunities for exchanges and researches in the health field. The framework agreement for international cooperation was signed between the University Hospital Center (CHU) of Reunion, the Seychelles’ Ministry of Health and the University of Seychelles. [...]
Eritrean soldiers fighting across the border in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed hundreds of people in a massacre last year in a likely crime against humanity, Amnesty International said Friday. The rights watchdog spoke to survivors of the atrocities and used satellite images to piece together the bloody events of last November in the ancient [...]
The government in Seychelles is to increase efforts to adopt flexible working hours and develop a policy framework to evaluate workers' performance in the new normal of working from home, said a top government official. While presenting the 2021 budget to the National Assembly last week, the Minister for Finance, Economic Planning and Trade, Naadir [...]
President Joe Biden held a long-delayed first phone call Thursday with Saudi King Salman ahead of an imminent US intelligence report expected to link the Arab kingdom's powerful crown prince to the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Biden kept the king waiting in his long list of calls to US allies after being sworn [...]
Officials in Seychelles are working on a revised public health order concerning COVID-19 prevention measures as the previous measures expire end of February, said a top health official on Thursday. The Public Health Commissioner, Jude Gedeon, told a press conference that the review is not being done in a vacuum but based on the actual [...]
Air Seychelles on Tuesday began a voluntary redundancy in particular targeting older workers as part of its evaluation of its manpower plan in order to sustain the airline's long-term operations. The company said that the voluntary redundancy first targets staff members aged 55 and up, but that it is also available to other staff members [...]
Australia's parliament passed landmark legislation Thursday requiring global digital giants to pay for local news content, in a move closely watched around the world. The law passed easily after a last-gasp deal that watered down binding rules Facebook and Google had fiercely opposed in return for the tech giants agreeing to pay local media companies. [...]
Reviving the plantation industry through the exportation of cinnamon is one way that the Seychelles' government is looking to boost its economy. President Wavel Ramkalawan made this declaration recently as he spoke to the national broadcaster on his first 100 days as the head of state. Ramkalawan explained different ways that his government is working [...]
The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine proved 94 percent effective in a huge real world study published Wednesday that involved 1.2 million people in Israel, confirming the power of mass immunization campaigns to end the coronavirus pandemic. The good news came as Ghana became the first country to receive shots under the global Covax scheme, paving the [...]
