Seychelles

NEW SHIPPING COMPANY

The Seychelles' government has announced the creation of a new shipping company, Seychelles Shipping Line, which will operate between the [...]

PARLIAMENT UNHAPPY WITH SBC

The thirty-three members of the Seychelles' national assembly interrupted the parliamentary session on April 17 after the Speaker of the [...]

CARL B. STOKES

According to reports in US media but not confirmed by [...]

JACQUES HODOUL

The Seychelles' former tourism minister (later leader of a small opposition party and currently practising as a lawyer in Mahe), [...]

STATE OF COOPERATION WITH PARIS

The government daily Seychelles Nation recently published large extracts of the official record of meetings of the Franco-Seychelles joint cooperation [...]

The fishing vessel Pêcheur Breton belonging to the private shipowner [...]

A WIND OF PRIVATIZATION

Following the sale of state-owned hotels to the Malay group Berjaya Leisure (ION N° 598), privatization is to continue in [...]

The Seychelles government has set up a special task force, [...]

TOUGH NEW REAL ESTATE RULES

The Seychelles government has proposed new rules for allowing foreigners to acquire real estate. At present, 3.4 percent (representing 680 [...]

FRANÇOIS AYRAUD

Recently appointed the International Labour Office representative on The Seychelles, François Ayraud has just taken up his duties and will [...]

MARY MACCARTER

Australia's new high commissioner to The Seychelles recently presented her [...]

ENTERPRISE TO DRILL IN 1995

Enterprise Oil's first well on its maritime permit near Mahe [...]

SELWYN GENDRON

The chairman of Seychelles National Oil Company says he has [...]

Some officials on Mauritius fear that a diplomatic row may [...]

TUNNY DISPENSATION

According to the government publication Seychelles Nation of February 2, The Seychelles' foreign affairs, planning and environment minister, Danielle De [...]

CONTESTED PRICE HIKES

United Opposition (UO), an opposition movement which has only one MP in the national assembly, attracted several thousand people (3,500 [...]

COENRAAD VAN WYK

The South African government has promoted Coenraad Van Wyk to [...]

VIVEKANAND ALLEAR

The Seychelles' head of state, France Albert Rene, has appointed Vivekanand Allear for a period of five years as chief [...]

GERT MEINTJES

The newly-appointed MD of Seychelles Public Transport Corporation is a [...]