1.CBS board and management retreat focuses on the institution’s initiatives for the next strategic plan cycle
The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) hosted its board and management retreat as one of the final stages in developing its new Strategic Plan for 2024-2028. The retreat, held from November 8 to 9, 2023, aimed to provide valuable insights ...»

Date:11 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

2.Budget 2024  
New tax regimes to benefit employees and businesses   New tax regimes will be implemented as from next year to encourage better performance among employees and also encourage businesses to make substantial investments, Finance, National Planning and Trade Minister Naadir ...»

Date:10 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

3.Cabinet briefing  
New regulation to prohibit marketing of baby formula nationally   Seychelles is expected to introduce a Breast milk Substitute Regulation early next year that will enforce prohibition of the marketing of baby formula in the country. This was approved by ...»

Date:10 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

4.SIT showcases achievements through open day  
The Seychelles Institute of Technology (SIT) yesterday opened its doors to the general public, parents, secondary schools students, learners from other professional centres and its partners in industry. The open day at its campus in Providence was to showcase the ...»

Date:10 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

5.Erratum
Seychelles NATION would like to amend an information stated in the article ‘Budget 2024: Capital Projects to be funded are in line with the country’s development plan’ published on Thursday, November 9, 2023. The information stated that the construction of ...»

Date:10 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

6.Budget replies  
US deplores 2024 budget while LDS applauds ‘a blueprint for a modern Seychelles’   The leader of the opposition has said the United Seychelles party cannot accept the premise the budget 2024 is based on. Hon. Sebastien Pillay made the ...»

Date:09 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

7.Les Seychelles à la 44ème Conférence Ministérielle de la Francophonie à Yaoundé
L'Ambassadeur des Seychelles en France, Monsieur Georges Tirant s’est rendu à Yaoundé, au Cameroun, pour représenter du 4 au 5 novembre le chef de la diplomatie seychelloise, le Ministre Sylvestre Radegonde à la 44ème session de la Conférence Ministérielle de ...»

Date:09 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

8.2024 budget  
‘Capital projects to be funded are in line with country’s development plan’   Capital projects appearing in the 2024 budget for funding are in line with government’s development plan for the country. The deputy comptroller general in the Ministry of ...»

Date:09 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

9.2024 budget brings major cuts in vehicle taxes
            Excise and environmental levies slashed for twin cabs and hybrids   The Trade department within the Ministry of Finance, National Planning & Trade has elaborated on the recently announced reduction in excise tax and environmental levy for pick-up ...»

Date:08 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

10.No new levy to be implemented on hybrid vehicles, ministry clarifies
The Ministry of Finance, National Planning and Trade has denied there is a new levy being imposed on hybrid vehicles as from next year. In a communique issued yesterday, the ministry advised members of the public that a notice in ...»

Date:07 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

11.Budget Address 2024   Government announces increase in several social benefits  
● Outlines projects for priority sectors   The government has announced a revision in seven statutory benefits and the addition of a new benefit effective January 2024. The Minister for Finance, National Planning and Trade, Naadir Hassan, made the announcement ...»

Date:04 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

12.Seychelles captivates audiences at wedding and honeymoon exhibition in Sri Lanka  
A Tourism Seychelles team composed of Amia Jovanovic-Desir, the director for Israel, Turkey, Australia, and Southeast Asia, and Selma Magnan, the director for Customer Services, represented the destination at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall (B MICH) from October 6 ...»

Date:04 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

13.10-year Treasury bond, worth R75 million to be issued
  The government, through the Ministry of Finance, National Planning and Trade (MoFNPT), is issuing a 10-year Treasury bond for fiscal purposes as per its Q4 Issuance Plan. The 10-year bond is in line with the government’s strategy to lengthen ...»

Date:04 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

14.Tourism Seychelles to charm visitors from all corners of the world at WTM 2023
Tourism Seychelles returns to the World Travel Market (WTM) London to entice prospective travellers from all corners of the world. The highly anticipated global tourism event will take place at London’s ExCeL Exhibition Centre from Monday, November 6, to Wednesday, ...»

Date:04 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

15.Coupe du monde rugby à Paris  
L’Afrique du Sud sur le toit du monde   Les Springboks d’Afrique du Sud triomphent des All Blacks de Nouvelle Zélande par un petit point d’écart (12 à 11). Les Africains du Sud deviennent les premiers à remporter quatre fois ...»

Date:04 November 2023 | Category:Sport

16.Seychelles attends sixth session of the International Solar Alliance Assembly
Seychelles was represented at the sixth session of the International Solar Alliance Assembly from October 31 to November 2 in New Delhi, India by the Minister for Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Flavien Joubert; principal secretary for Agriculture, Keven Nancy; ...»

Date:03 November 2023 | Category:Domestic

17.  Appropriation Bill, 2024
A budget of more than R10.6 billion proposed for 2024   A sum of ten billion, six hundred and forty million, six hundred and twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty six (R10,640,628,966) rupees is being budgeted ...»

Date:02 November 2023 | Category:National Assembly

18.Ordinary general meeting of the Seychelles Football Federation
Three new clubs join football family   The Seychelles Football Federation has approved three new clubs as fully fledged members during its 44th ordinary general meeting on Saturday. Marverics, Rangers and Baie Lazare are the three new clubs and they ...»

Date:30 October 2023 | Category:Sport

19.11th Sifco Annual General Meeting
‘The spiritual wellbeing of Seychelles is a priority of Sifco,’ says chairperson Archdeacon Elizabeth   “Seychelles Inter-Faith Council (Sifco) is steadfast in its commitment to promoting peace, national unity, and the reconciliation of our nation. The spiritual wellbeing of ...»

Date:27 October 2023 | Category:Domestic

20.Alain St Ange - Simply the best!
In 1981 when 27-year-old Alain St Ange was deputy director of the newly established Seychelles Tourist Board, the logo of the Seychelles tourism industry was ‘Unique by a Thousand Miles’. A total number of 60,425 visitors arrived in Seychelles ...»

Date:26 October 2023 | Category:Domestic