Nearly 1,100 people people have lost their jobs in Seychelles since the beginning of the year, mostly in the tourism sector due to the COVID-19 pandemic, figures from the Ministry of Employment show. The latest statistics of approved redundancies released by the ministry show that 713 Seychellois nationals are amongst those who were made redundant. [...]
Seychelles and UK-based blockchain specialists Chainvine have entered into a strategic partnership to develop a platform to ease the process of doing business in the fisheries sector in the island nation. According to the Department of the Blue Economy, the agreement for the Seychelles National Assets Management System, which was signed in a virtual event [...]
Saudi Arabia failed in its bid to become a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday as China and Russia were elected to three-year terms. Human rights groups hailed the snub to Riyadh, which deals a blow to the kingdom's attempts to improve its image in the international community. "The #HRC elections [...]
Prison officials in Seychelles now have improved surveillance capabilities after the introduction of a drone at the prison at Montagne Posee. Called 'Eyes in the Sky,' the drone will act as a backup for security and complement security features such as the CCTV cameras already in place. The superintendent of the prison, Raymond St Ange, [...]
An Environment Impact Assessment conducted on a proposed plan to develop a new quarry at Montagne Posee by a local company facing a shortage of raw materials is now in the public domain for inspection, a top environment officer said on Tuesday. The United Concrete Products Seychelles (UCPS), one of the biggest construction material suppliers [...]
With extreme weather and natural disasters surging, experts called Tuesday for more efforts to forecast looming disasters and early action to mitigate their impact. Ask not "what the weather will be but what the weather will do": that is the message in a fresh report by more than a dozen UN agencies and financing institutions [...]
More than three million swabs have been taken in a matter of days in Qingdao, the Chinese port city where a minor coronavirus outbreak elicited a sweeping health response. Queues for testing stretched deep into Monday night across the eastern city, which detected six virus cases the day before but swiftly swung into action to [...]
Air Seychelles will operate a one-off combined flights to Madagascar and Mauritius starting from Thursday, October 15 to provide nationals of the two island nations the opportunity to go home, the airline said on Monday. The flight -- HM1755 -- will leave Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, on Thursday at 9:00 a.m. [...]
Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo, who also heads the West African economic bloc ECOWAS, arrived in Mali on Sunday for an official visit after the group lifted sanctions placed on Bamako following an August military coup. The 15-nation ECOWAS ended its sanctions after Mali agreed to a transitional government on October 5 in the wake of [...]
Most airlines that were operating flights to Seychelles before the COVID-19 pandemic are expected back in the country by December, should the global situation continue its positive trajectory, a high official said. The chief executive of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB), Sherin Francis, told SNA on Thursday that "airlines are key in the relaunching of [...]
