1.Switzerland gets a dose of sunny Seychelles
As autumn sets in in Europe, the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) partnered with one of Switzerland’s largest tour operators, Manta Reisen, to showcase the pristine beauty of the islands. The first major campaign in the Swiss market for the year ...»

Date:14 September 2020 | Category:Tourism

2.Tourism and maritime academies team up for the benefit students
The Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA) and the Seychelles Maritime Academy (SMA) have teamed up to work on programmes for the benefit of the students at both institutions. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to formalise this partnership was signed between the ...»

Date:12 September 2020 | Category:Domestic

3.Ephelia national winner of 2020 Energy Globe Award
Constance Ephelia Resort Seychelles has been named the national winner of the 2020 Energy Globe Award thanks to its community based management of the Port Launay mangrove Ramsar site project. The mangrove conservation initiative will now go on to represent ...»

Date:10 September 2020 | Category:Tourism

4.Revival of tourism industry?
$31m in foreign exchange earnings from 2006 visitors   By Laura Pillay   A total of 2006 visitors, excluding residents and Gainful Occupation Permit (GOP) holders, have entered the country since the reopening of the Seychelles International Airport to commercial ...»

Date:09 September 2020 | Category:Domestic

5.Covid-19 update
‘No new cases reported from hotel,’ says Dr Gedeon   Public Health Commissioner Dr Jude Gedeon has quashed allegations that there are 15 new cases of Covid-19 in a hotel in the South. Dr Gedeon noted that the health ...»

Date:09 September 2020 | Category:Health

6.‘Electoral Commission on track for October elections’
“The Electoral Commission (EC) is on track for the October elections to be held from October 22-24, 2020 on Mahé, Praslin and La Digue, including on the outer islands. This was said by the chief electoral officer, Manuella Amesbury, during ...»

Date:08 September 2020 | Category:Domestic

7.Meet Seychelles’ young local artists:
A cross-stitcher makes the oldest form of embroidery come to life     In the following interview, we meet 26-year-old Sandy Willecke, to learn more about cross-stitching, a unique and interesting type of hand embroidery which is also an uncommon interest ...»

Date:07 September 2020 | Category:Domestic

8.Health authorities respond to new Covid-19 case
A 43-year-old visitor was admitted to the isolation and treatment centre in Perseverance on Saturday night after testing positive for Covid-19. The new positive case was detected by the Public Health Authority after routine exit screening of passengers travelling outside ...»

Date:07 September 2020 | Category:Health

9.Beach soccer
One Stone win SFF Cup final   One Stone defeated MLUH 5-2 to claim the Seychelles Football Federation (SFF) Cup at the Roche Caïman beach soccer arena on Saturday afternoon. One Stone had dumped league champions Real Maldives in the ...»

Date:07 September 2020 | Category:Domestic

10.Waso welcomes concession on housing
The Women in Action and Solidarity Organisation (Waso) has welcomed government decision for a 25% reduction on housing loan or rent payment. Commenting on this move, the chairperson of Waso, Rosemary Elizabeth, says: “We are pleased with this decision because ...»

Date:05 September 2020 | Category:Domestic

11.Chat with this year’s Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA) President’s Cup recipient Sheriffa Amisse
‘I am keeping myself busy while I wait for a permanent job’   Eighteen-year-old Sheriffa Amisse was the ecstatic recipient of this year’s President’s Cup from the Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA) cohort of 187 students who had successfully completed their ...»

Date:04 September 2020 | Category:Domestic

12.Health department urges compliance with quarantine facility rules
Around 925 persons have thus far been admitted to one of the three quarantine facilities established to limit and stop the propagation of Covid-19, since the establishment of the first facility in February. Of the 925, six tested positive for ...»

Date:02 September 2020 | Category:Health

13.Hospital continues to receive donations to fight Covid-19
The department of health yesterday accepted donations from various partners aimed at fighting the spread of Covid-19. The donations came from the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) and Cable and Wireless who partnered together to donate a PCR machine, Gran ...»

Date:02 September 2020 | Category:Health

14.Ceps supplements government’s response to Covid-19
The Citizens Engagement Platform (Ceps) has launched two programmes aimed at raising public awareness in caring for their health and to better manage their budget in this time of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. It was Ceps’ chief executive, Michel Pierre, ...»

Date:01 September 2020 | Category:Domestic

15.SNPA helps develop environmentally literate citizens
The Morne Seychellois National Park on Mahé provided the perfect setting for 10 future teachers to learn how to conduct field trips with their classes. On Tuesday August 11, the trainee teachers from the Seychelles Institute of Teacher Education (Site), ...»

Date:01 September 2020 | Category:Domestic

16.Work on new centre for the deaf nears completion
Some services to be operational as from this month   Work to refurbish the ex-Maritime School at Mont Fleuri to transform it into a centre for the deaf, the first of its kind here, is nearing completion and some services ...»

Date:01 September 2020 | Category:Domestic

17.Second farmers market a huge success
The second farmers market held at Espace building on Saturday was again a huge success, drawing in more vendors and shoppers. Organised by owner of Wildflour Café Elza Frichot-Dahoo, the second farmers market was put up following popular demand after ...»

Date:31 August 2020 | Category:Fisheries and Agriculture

18.Regis and Noemie Godley celebrate their Golden anniversary
Family, relatives, friends and church-goers on Saturday joined Regis and Noemie Godley to celebrate the joyous occasion of their Golden wedding anniversary. The overjoyed and emotion-filled couple celebrated the milestone anniversary with an intimate ceremony at the Saint John Baptist ...»

Date:31 August 2020 | Category:Domestic

19.Football: Interview with league and cup double winning coach Harold Hoareau
‘I have proved myself at all levels’   League and cup double winners with Foresters, head coach Harold Hoareau has said he now has won all the honours at all levels of local football after his latest success in the ...»

Date:31 August 2020 | Category:Sport

20.The salubrious savour of our fruits
During the early months of the coronavirus pandemic it was being recommended that consumption of vitamin C could be a prophylactic measure against the disease. On behalf of the National Heritage Research Section Tony Mathiot goes back to the days ...»

Date:29 August 2020 | Category:Domestic