1.Culture, heritage and the arts gets new governing body
The Seychelles National Institute for Culture, Heritage and the Arts was created in 2021 to replace the defunct Department of Culture as the new institution of policy-making on the country’s culture, heritage and the arts. Mayor of Victoria David Andre ...»

Date:31 December 2021 | Category:Entertainment

2.Covid-19 response
WHO donates computer tablets to MoH   The Ministry of Health (MoH) has received 76 computer tablets from the World Health Organisation (WHO) for data management during the Covid-19 response. It was the WHO representative for Seychelles, Dr Susan Tembo, ...»

Date:28 December 2021 | Category:Health

3.HSI spreads festive season love to St Elizabeth’s convent
Insurance provider H. Savy Insurance yesterday made its annual donation to the St Elizabeth Convent, an orphanage which the organisation adopted 15 years ago. During a brief ceremony attended by officials of the company, a number of essential items including ...»

Date:23 December 2021 | Category:Domestic

4.Art:   Meet Camille, an abstract, mixed media artist fascinated by the human body, its form & complexity
Today we meet Camille Frichot, a Seychellois artist who shares with us the stories behind the paintings on her canvases.     Seychelles NATION: Tell us about yourself. Camille Frichot: I have spent most of my life, particularly my childhood, ...»

Date:23 December 2021 | Category:Domestic

5.Seychelles Meteorology Authority donates to charitable causes
Children from orphanages and members of two families who lost all their belongings in a fire incident at Les Cannelles, Anse Royale  recently, yesterday received  a variety of second hand as well as new  household and health sanitary items from ...»

Date:22 December 2021 | Category:Domestic

6.Rotary Coco de Mer donates water harvesting system to Grand Anse Praslin primary school  
The Rotary Club of Victoria Coco de Mer is continuing its quest to contribute to the community, living up to its mission of seeing a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change. Last month the club ...»

Date:22 December 2021 | Category:Domestic

7.Ile Persévérance gets temporary fish and vegetable market  
The Seychelles Fishing Authority has handed over a newly constructed temporary fish and vegetable market at Ile Persévérance to the district authorities as well as the fishing and farming communities. The market, which will also benefit the inhabitants and passers-by, ...»

Date:21 December 2021 | Category:Domestic

8.15th Fina Short Course World Swimming Championships 2021
Four represent Seychelles in Abu Dhabi   Four elite swimmers ‒ Khema Elizabeth, Aaliyah Palestrini, Simon Bachmann and Mathieu Bachmann ‒ have been selected to take part in the 15th Fina Short Course World Swimming Championships 2021 in Abu Dhabi. ...»

Date:17 December 2021 | Category:Sport

9.Delegation from Pentecostal churches call on President Ramkalawan
A delegation comprising members of the Pentecostal churches locally called on President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House yesterday morning, where they engaged in discussions with the head of state on matters of concern. The delegation was led by Overseer of ...»

Date:16 December 2021 | Category:Presidency

10.Delegation from Pentecostal churches call on President Ramkalawan
A delegation comprising members of the Pentecostal churches locally called on President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House yesterday morning, where they engaged in discussions with the head of state on matters of concern. The delegation was led by Overseer of ...»

Date:16 December 2021 | Category:Presidency

11.Seychelles National Library launches e-book lending service
The Seychelles National Library is now providing access to e-books and audio books to its registered members in the country. The e-book lending service was launched by Julienne Barra, director general for Culture, in a small ceremony held at the ...»

Date:16 December 2021 | Category:Domestic

12.Exclusive interview with Anti-corruption Commission of Seychelles (ACCS) chief executive May De Silva ‘Corruption is not only present in Seychelles, it’s everywhere’
On Thursday December 9, the world celebrated anti-corruption day and on the same day, Seychelles NATION was privileged to have an exclusive interview with Anti-corruption Commission of Seychelles chief executive May De Silva. Although Ms De Silva would not want ...»

Date:11 December 2021 | Category:Domestic

13.  Golf   Second consecutive Absa Mug win for Micock  
Winner of the November Absa Monthly Mug, Eddie Micock showed that his form wasn’t a fluke as it came down to his hard work throughout the year to get back in shape. The final Saturday competition at the Seychelles Golf ...»

Date:10 December 2021 | Category:Sport

14.Letter to the Editor   Answering your readers’ questions on Training Holistic Therapists
Following your editorial together with my advertisements in your esteemed newspaper, several readers have called me and asked me to explain in more detail the contents of the Holistic Therapist training course as advertised since an advertisement cannot carry all ...»

Date:07 December 2021 | Category:Domestic

15.NAC launches World Aids Day campaign
The National Aids Council yesterday morning officially launched the World Aids Day campaign. The launch of the campaign under the theme ‘End Inequality, End Aids, End Pandemic’, took place in the lobby of the Eden Blue Hotel. Present were the ...»

Date:04 December 2021 | Category:Health

16.Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission – Hearing Number 236
Ex-army lieutenant disassociates himself with the August 1982 rebellion   Ex-army lieutenant Roy Bristol was the first person to appear in open session of the Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission (TRNUC) hearing yesterday, giving an account on his alleged ...»

Date:30 November 2021 | Category:Domestic

17.Proteins for the body's building blocks
Hello faithful followers of this page, who have taken the decision to eat healthy and have been following the construction of ‘Our Healthy Plate’. For those who have just stumbled upon this page, we're now into the fourth quarter of ...»

Date:27 November 2021 | Category:Domestic

18.40 years since the mercenary attack ‒ November 25, 1981   Mercenary attack on the Seychelles International Airport, as recounted by historian Tony Mathiot
It was Wednesday November 25, 1981 at about 4.30pm when the Royal Swazi National Airways, a chartered flight, arrived at the Seychelles International Airport with 45 mercenaries onboard including their leader Mike Hoare, starts off historian Tony Mathiot. The ...»

Date:25 November 2021 | Category:Domestic

19.Fidel in the soul of the Cuban people  
When at the massive rally in his posthumous homage in 2016, in the Plaza de la Revolución, thousands of voices responded in chorus ‘I am Fidel’! to the question of where he was, they evidenced an unquestionable reality: Fidel Castro ...»

Date:25 November 2021 | Category:Domestic

20.Ongoing investigations into missing US $50 million   President calls for a stop to rumours and speculation   By Laura Pillay  
President Wavel Ramkalawan took to the main broadcasters yesterday night to issue a short message to the population, in which he assured peace and stability in the country, and said there is “no talk of a coup d’Etat, no plans ...»

Date:23 November 2021 | Category:Presidency