A proposed budget of SCR 11 billion ($519 million) was presented to Seychelles' National Assembly for approval on Tuesday that gives more attention to the fisheries sector and jump-starting the dormant tourism industry. The budget also reviews the tax collection process -- reserving some categories of business for only Seychellois -- and promotes the agriculture, [...]
Russia is soon going to help Seychelles in the fight against COVID-19 through the donation of $500,000 to the relief fund and a shipment of Russian-made vaccines, Sputnik V, said the country's resident ambassador on Tuesday. The Russian Ambassador to Seychelles, Artyom Kozhin, spoke during a courtesy call to President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House, [...]
Zimbabwe on Monday received its first batch of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses from China as the country, already struggling with a deepening economic crisis and scant health resources, geared up to begin inoculations. Wrapped in white tarpaulin, the shipment of 200,000 doses, a donation from the Chinese government, arrived early Monday aboard the country's only [...]
Britain is aiming for a "cautious but irreversible" plan to exit coronavirus lockdown, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, as the country greeted the first arrivals subject to a new hotel quarantine regime. With more than 117,000 Covid deaths, it is one of the world's worst-hit countries. Johnson has been criticised in the past [...]
The Anse à la Mouche hotel development project will continue in its current form, the president of Seychelles said Monday after providing clearer information after objections made by concerned citizens. The Seychelles' vice president highlighted the $250 million project will bring the island nation a needed injection of investment during the downturn brought about by COVID-19. "The government [...]
The Seychelles' courts opened for 2021 and for the first time without the usual formal ceremonies on Monday in compliance with the COVID-19 prevention conditions imposed by the health authorities, said a top official. Traditionally, the annual reopening of the courts in Seychelles is done with a church service, procession of judges and magistrates on [...]
A Seychellois who studied forensic accounting in the United Kingdom has been awarded the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Prize for coming top in her class. Hillary Baron, who was a recipient of the first-ever Central Bank of Seychelles’ Guy Morel High Achievement Scholarship, graduated with a distinction in Masters of Science in Forensic Accounting [...]
Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala looks set to be confirmed Monday as the first woman and first African leader of the beleaguered World Trade Organization, a near-paralysed institution desperately needing a kick-start. The WTO has called a special general council meeting at which the former Nigerian finance minister and World Bank veteran is expected to be formally [...]
At the initiative of Britain, which boasts of having an effective vaccination program, the UN Security Council on Wednesday will debate the problem of global access to Covid-19 vaccines, raising issues likely to underscore sharp differences between council members. How, for example, can vaccines be distributed fairly -- without, as has been the case, going [...]
New research conducted on Seychelles' warblers has shown that the bird's offspring fare better if elderly parents have helped to raise them. According to the research paper -- ‘Helpers compensate for age-related declines in parental care and offspring survival in a cooperatively breeding bird’ -- this collaboration within the colony can compensate for a decline [...]
