1.Assembly gives seal of approval for budget of numerous entities
The National Assembly of Seychelles yesterday approved the budget appropriations for a number of entities.   Local Government and Community Affairs The Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs was the first to present its R140,024,000 budget, which ...»

Date:01 December 2022 | Category:Domestic

2.New charter flights to present better access between Sofia-Mahé in early 2023
Enthusiastic Bulgarians are now getting ready to bask under the sunny skies of the Seychelles Islands as three new direct flights will link the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, to the main island, Mahé, starting in January 2023. This is part of ...»

Date:01 December 2022 | Category:Domestic

3.Assembly continues examining budgets of MDAs
The Office of the President was the first entity whose proposed budget was examined yesterday morning after the Assembly resumed its considerations of budgets for ministries, departments and agencies in committee stage. Vice President Ahmed Afif was in the National ...»

Date:22 November 2022 | Category:National Assembly

4.2023 tax revenues expected to exceed 2022 projections by R1.4 billion
Tax revenues for the year 2023 are projected at R9.21 billion, representing around 86 percent of the country’s total revenue. Taxes, a direct function of the country’s economic performance, are projected to exceed this year’s projected collection by R1....»

Date:17 November 2022 | Category:Domestic

5.Positive economic performance expected to carry through 2023 and medium-term
By Laura Pillay   Government expects to make a primary surplus over the next year and in the medium term despite the proposed 2023 national budget of R10,495,149,665.00, thereby, serving to stabilise the country’s debt. The ...»

Date:16 November 2022 | Category:Domestic

6.Capital projects, a highlight of the 2023 budget
Among the highlights of the 2023 budget are the distribution of economic wealth and increased spending in capital infrastructure, the Ministry of Finance, National Planning and Trade said yesterday. Officials from the organisation – director general of the Macroeconomic Forecasting ...»

Date:15 November 2022 | Category:Domestic

7.Basketball: SBF extraordinary general meeting
Jana Malbrook takes SBF’s hot seat   Jana Malbrook is the new chairperson of the Seychelles Basketball Federation, replacing Jean-Guy Alphonse who had been in the position for the past three years. Malbrook was unanimously voted in to the post ...»

Date:14 November 2022 | Category:Sport

8.EC attends 24th Annual General Conference of SADC Electoral Commission Forum
A delegation from the Electoral Commission of Seychelles recently attended the 24th Annual General Conference of the Electoral Commission Forum of SADC Countries held in Swakopmund, Namibia. The Electoral Commission of Seychelles’ delegation at the October 26 forum comprised its ...»

Date:10 November 2022 | Category:Domestic

9.Budget Address delivered by Naadir Hassan, Minister for Finance, National Planning and Trade, on Friday November 4, 2022
‘Let us get up and work hard for our own wellbeing, for our families, our communities, our country’   Mr. Speaker, Honourable Leader of the Opposition, Honourable Leader of Government Business, Honourable Members, My fellow Seychellois.   Good morning.   ...»

Date:07 November 2022 | Category:National Assembly

10.IECD presents findings of the pre-pilot study on data management in ECCE in the Social Affairs sector
The second phase of the data management project, which started with a situational analysis last year, was completed last month. This phase relates to the pre-pilot implementation of around 35 indicators related to child health, well-being and development, home environment ...»

Date:07 November 2022 | Category:Education

11.Continuation of Budget Address delivered by Naadir Hassan, Minister for Finance, National Planning and Trade, on Friday November 4, 2022
11.1.      The agricultural sector Mr. Speaker, we are also placing a lot of emphasis on extending the services our officers can offer to farmers, to bring about the transformation we want in the agricultural sector, whereby our farmers ...»

Date:07 November 2022 | Category:National Assembly

12.Budget Address 2023
Government announces several relief and support measures   A series of measures which are expected to bring support and some relief to our people following the harsh economic challenges we have been faced with during the past two years were ...»

Date:05 November 2022 | Category:National Assembly

13.Seychelles submits notification to participate in CORSIA
Seychelles submitted its notification to participate voluntarily and support the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme in International Aviation (CORSIA). It made Seychelles the 117th State to make this commitment in support of the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) climate work. ...»

Date:03 November 2022 | Category:Domestic

14.  ‘Theatre Des Palmes’ pe al demolir pour fer nouvo batiman  
Serten eleman ansyen batiman pou ganny garde   Demars in konmanse pour rekonstrir batiman ‘Theatre des Palmes’, ki sitie Mont Fleuri, olye fer renovasyon lo sa vye batiman. Yer bomaten direkter egzekitif Konsey Nasyonal pour Lar ek Artizana, Jimmy Savy, ...»

Date:29 October 2022 | Category:Domestic

15.Du 25 octobre au 6 novembre 2022
La Normandie débarque aux Seychelles   • Les pêcheurs et les agriculteurs tendent les bras à leurs confrères de l’archipel   Une nouvelle fois depuis douze ans, une trentaine de ressortissants Normands, Picards et même de l’Océan Indiendébarquent dans l’Archipel ...»

Date:28 October 2022 | Category:Domestic

16.Cabinet approves a number of policy and legal memoranda
President Wavel Ramkalawan chaired a scheduled meeting of the cabinet yesterday, Wednesday October 26, at which a number of policy and legal memoranda were considered and approved. Cabinet approved an amendment under the Income and Non-Monetary Benefits Tax Act, 2010. ...»

Date:27 October 2022 | Category:Presidency

17.Football: National Premier League
Defence Forces FC, Pointe Larue Bazar Brothers FC and Anse Reunion FC early leaders   Defence Forces FC, Pointe Larue Bazar Brothers FC and Anse Reunion FC are the early leaders of the three National Premier League groups ‒ Mahé ...»

Date:27 October 2022 | Category:Sport

18.Chinese embassy hosts farewell reception for Seychellois students
● Presents air tickets and allowance    The Chinese embassy yesterday hosted a farewell reception at its headquarters in St Louis for Seychellois students on Chinese government scholarship, who are returning to their universities for further studies. So far 19 ...»

Date:26 October 2022 | Category:Domestic

19.Outcome of 41st ICAO Assembly means more in Seychelles  
The Seychelles delegation who attended the 41st International Civil Aviation Organisation assembly under the theme ‘Reconnecting the World’, are content with the outcomes, of benefit to the domestic civil aviation sector, and country in general. As noted by Minister for ...»

Date:21 October 2022 | Category:Domestic

20.  Visite de suivi d’une équipe de l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF)  
Conception d’un plan d’action sur la promotion, la visibilité, la présence de la langue française aux Seychelles   Une équipe de l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) composée de l’Ambassadeur de l’OIF pour l’Océan Indien Léonard Emile Ognimba, la déléguée ...»

Date:19 October 2022 | Category:Domestic