18.05.2009 The head of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) review mission Paul Mathieu on Saturday commended the government and the Central Bank saying the programme is achieving its goals. He was speaking after IMF’s second two-week review of the reforms whic...
Tovább16.05.2009 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has been responsible for coordinating global forest resource assessment for many years now. The assessment is carried out by more than 800 people, including national correspondents, advisory gr...
Tovább16.05.2009 Sipay is a locally-produced poetry magazine launched recently as a collaboration between Seychellois poets and French poet Fabien Le Dizes. A classical Latin and Greek scholar, and a teacher of philosophy as well as French classical literature in Seych...
Tovább16.05.2009 Seychelles will host a roadshow around the Middle East countries in November to promote our archipelago as a tourism destination. Alain St Ange, director of tourism marketing at the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB), said this on Monday after taking part i...
Tovább16.05.2009 Seychelles has Africa’s highest percentage of mobile phone users – 89.23 per 100 inhabitants, says the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) on its website www.itu.int. We are followed by Gabon with 87.86%, South Africa 87.08, Tunisia 75.94 and Bo...
Tovább16.05.2009 Russian businessmen have invested more than US $200 million in Seychelles’ tourism, Ambassador Mikhail Kalinin said yesterday after presenting his credentials to President James Michel at State House. Mr Kalinin, who became Russia’s eighth ambassador, ...
Tovább15.05.2009 External auditors are now in Seychelles to review the country’s seven major public bodies, assessing their financial performance and the integrity of their financial reporting. The review, by Ernst and Young Paris, will look at the Seychelles Petroleum C...
Tovább15.05.2009 After talks with President James Michel, the American government has sent a specialised mission to help Seychelles in its efforts to strengthen safety and security at sea. The President has welcomed the move by the US – through its embassy in Mauritius...
Tovább12.05.2009 Seychelles has been ranked 22nd among 165 nations – ahead of several European countries and the US – judged on their economic distress indicators. In a special report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the world’s leading compiler of economic data...
Tovább12.05.2009 South Africa will continue support for our reforms President James Michel has said Seychelles can expect more support from South Africa, both from a bilateral point of view and within the framework of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). ...
TovábbISLAND CONSERVATION - 11.05.2009 There must be very few people left who actually witnessed the scene, but for a long time the story of the mass stranding of whales at Beau Vallon was told to children by parents and grandparents. It was in the evening of Saturday Ja...
Tovább11.05.2009 Swearing in of new leader paves way for stronger ties President James Michel has highlighted the strong historical links between the African National Congress (ANC)-led government of South Africa and his own as the basis for enhanced future collaboration b...
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