Seychelles is to launch large-scale production of onions, ginger and garlic for local consumption involving low-risk convicts from the prison. The redevelopment of agriculture on the outer islands is supporting national efforts to relaunch the sector and it forms part of a rehabilitation project between the Montagne Posee Prison and the Islands Development Company (IDC). [...]
Although a decade has passed, New Zealander Gordon Cullen still vividly recalls his daring escape from a high-rise tower block during the deadly Christchurch earthquake on February 22, 2011. Trapped in a fifth-floor office after the 6.3-magnitude shake that would claim 185 lives in the South Island city, Cullen exited in dramatic style, dangling a [...]
A United Airlines plane suffered a fiery engine failure Saturday shortly after taking off from Denver for Hawaii, dropping massive debris on a residential area before a safe emergency landing, officials said. A video shot from inside the aircraft -- which had 231 passengers and 10 crew onboard -- showed the right engine ablaze and [...]
A Seychellois entrepreneur is seeking to build a dropshipping business as well as promote self-confidence among women through her bikini line. Soley Swim is an e-commerce platform which swimwear and other beach accessories using the dropshipping business model through its website – www.soleyswim.shop. Diane Rose, the mompreneur and founder of the brand, told SNA that when the [...]
A scheme set up in Seychelles to help businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will now cater only for businesses directly connected to tourism for the months of February and March, said a top official. The Financial Assistance for Job Retention (FA4JR) scheme was set up in March last year to guarantee salary payments for [...]
NASA on Friday released stunning new photographs from Perseverance, including one of the rover being gently lowered to the surface of Mars by a set of cables, the first time such a view has been captured. The high-resolution still was extracted from a video taken by the descent stage of the spacecraft that had transported [...]
The two leaders in the Seychelles' National Assembly responded on Friday to the budget address made by the finance minister earlier in the week. A budget of SCR11 billion ($519 million) was proposed by Minister Naadir Hassan in his address on Tuesday. In his response, the Leader of the Opposition, Sebastien Pillay, said the Minister [...]
Joe Biden will make his presidential debut on the world stage on Friday as America's G7 partners re-focus their collective heft on pandemic recovery and climate change after the psychodramas of the Trump era. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, this year's G7 chairman who hopes to host the grouping's leaders in Britain in June, will [...]
Africa on Thursday recorded more than 100,000 deaths from Covid-19, a grim milestone likely to understate the real toll, as the continent of 1.2 billion people battles a second wave of infections. The 54 countries in the region have a death toll of 100,000 from 3,793,660 reported cases, according to an AFP tally. The continent, [...]
Seychelles has adopted new legislation to reform its tax regime to ensure it is removed from the European Union's list of non-cooperative jurisdictions later this year, a top official said on Thursday. The new legislation will ensure that the exemption from tax for foreign income and large companies is suitably targeted. "Basically with our territorial tax [...]
