Beekeepers in Seychelles and those wishing to join the field can now receive proper training through a new agreement signed with the Beekeepers Association of Seychelles and the Ministry of Agriculture. Under the new agreement, the Association is leasing a small building from the National Biosecurity Agency to use as a training ground for beekeepers. [...]
Hundreds of people were unable or afraid to return home in central Croatia Wednesday as rescue workers sifted the rubble of a deadly earthquake that claimed at least seven lives. A series of morning aftershocks jangled nerves in towns south of Zagreb, the day after Tuesday's 6.4-magnitude quake crumbled village homes, tore off slabs from [...]
Public gatherings in Seychelles are prohibited under new measures put in place Wednesday to help bring a COVID-19 outbreak under control, said a top health official. The measures, in place until midnight on January 13, also mean that families can only hold gatherings at home and with members of their households, including holiday parties. The public [...]
Seychelles is putting in place new restrictions with immediate effect for the next 14 days following critical developments in the COVID-19 situation in the island nation, President Wavel Ramkalawan announced on Tuesday. In a television and radio broadcast, Ramkalawan said that Seychelles is experiencing community transmission. Consequently, churches, bars, gyms and schools will be closed. [...]
EU member states gave political backing to Brussels' planned investment pact with China on Monday, clearing the way for a deal between the world's biggest economic blocs. At a meeting of ambassadors, the German EU presidency noted that no member had "raised a stop sign and the way for a political endorsement was thus cleared", [...]
The Seychelles Anti-Narcotics Bureau (ANB) has seized 30kg of suspected herbal cannabis, the second-biggest seizure of the substance this year, the Bureau said on Monday. The cannabis, together with 96 grammes of heroin, was seized on Saturday when the ANB went to view suspected drugs at a warehouse in the eastern Mahe district of Pointe [...]
South Africa banned alcohol sales and made masks mandatory in public from Tuesday after a surge in coronavirus cases, as the World Health Organization warned that pandemics far more deadly than Covid-19 may lie ahead. Nations around the world are struggling with winter spikes in infections that have pushed the global caseload close to 81 [...]
The status of five endemic species that have been classified as endangered in Seychelles is stable, but conservationists want a more comprehensive study to better protect these species. Each year the Biodiversity Conservation Section of the Ministry of Environment organises a census for the Seychelles scops owl (Syer), Seychelles cave swiftlet (Irondel), Seychelles white eye (zwazo [...]
South Africa logged its millionth case of Covid-19 and South Korea on Monday became the latest country to detect the new coronavirus variant, as the pandemic showed no signs of letting up. Global infections have raced past 80 million with nearly 1.8 million deaths, even as vaccination drives gather pace in North America and Europe, [...]
Britain and the European Union on Saturday published the full text of the post-Brexit trade agreement aimed at governing their relationship when the UK definitively leaves the bloc's single market in just five days. The document, which is more than 1,200 pages long, lays out detail on trade, law enforcement and dispute settlement among other [...]
