Seychelles
The hot underground rocks in East Africa’s Rift Valley are thought to be a promising solution for energy production. The first results were recorded in Kenya, under the auspices of the United Nations and the expertise of the Icelanders.
In Africa, high-temperature geothermal resources – used to generate electricity – are usually found in areas of tectonic and volcanic activity...
Bar the occasional shock, in terms of arrivals numbers, there has been virtually uninterrupted growth in the tourism sector since the 1950s, according to the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), a specialised United Nations agency. The sector creates employment - especially in small island nations - and triggers development in other areas of the economy; construction, agriculture and...
Seychelles offers investors opportunities in its traditional sectors fisheries, tourism and offshore services as well as new ones such as waste management and recycling, high-tech agriculture, specialised medical services and investment facilitation, said Sherin Renaud, Chief Executive Officer of the Seychelles Investment Bureau. She was speaking at the country’...
Seychelles meets the fish quality challenge
Christopher Hoareau, Chief Inspector at the Seychelles’ Fish Inspection and Quality Control Unit, casts an eye over the country’s success in meeting the EU’s exacting import standards for fish and fishery products
Seychelles has taken big steps to meet quality standards over the years with donor backing including funds from the...
Three years after its launch, the initiative on a Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change is on track.
The GCCA intends to step up cooperation and dialogue between the EU and the developing countries that are hit earliest and hardest by climate change and have the least capacity to react. These are...
A more open European Union market for Zambia’s sugar exports is creating new investment and jobs and increasing the country’s export receipts.
Since last year, the duty and quota-free market is ushering in new investment opportunities for sugar in Zambia’s huge arable lands to supply new markets and new industries. It is predicted that Zambia’s sugar industry will grow...
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), meeting in Doha, Qatar, from 13 to 25 March 2010, did not decide on a bluefin tuna fishing ban in the Atlantic from 2011, as sought by the European Union, which believes over fishing of tuna in the Atlantic has already gone far beyond the required limit for species survival. There are also concerns...
Such cultural dynamism, so many artists of every discipline – musicians, sculptors, playwrights in a country with a population of just 90,000 – that’s extraordinary, as is the success a number of them enjoy abroad. This artistic vigour covers many artistic fields and the Creole Festival, a cultural and intellectual event held at the end of October every year, is both a...
When the Seychelles National Party (founded by Wavel Ramkalawan by merging three minor political movements) fielded candidates in the 1998 elections it won just one per cent of the vote. In 2006, less than a decade later, Ramkalawan, an Anglican priest and charismatic speaker, won 45.7 per cent of the vote. Although this did not make him the outright election winner, it did make him the...
Alessandro Mariani , the newly-appointed Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros, presented his credentials to the President of the Republic of Seychelles on Tuesday 6 October 2009. He gave an exclusive interview to The Courier on the occasion.
Ambassador AM - I came here to present my credentials to the President of Seychelles. Moreover I...
The hot underground rocks in East Africa’s Rift Valley are thought to be a promising solution for energy production. The first results were recorded in Kenya, under the auspices of the United Nations and the expertise of the Icelanders.
In Africa, high-temperature geothermal resources – used to generate electricity – are usually found in areas of tectonic and volcanic activity...
Bar the occasional shock, in terms of arrivals numbers, there has been virtually uninterrupted growth in the tourism sector since the 1950s, according to the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), a specialised United Nations agency. The sector creates employment - especially in small island nations - and triggers development in other areas of the economy; construction, agriculture and...
Seychelles offers investors opportunities in its traditional sectors fisheries, tourism and offshore services as well as new ones such as waste management and recycling, high-tech agriculture, specialised medical services and investment facilitation, said Sherin Renaud, Chief Executive Officer of the Seychelles Investment Bureau. She was speaking at the country’...
Seychelles meets the fish quality challenge
Christopher Hoareau, Chief Inspector at the Seychelles’ Fish Inspection and Quality Control Unit, casts an eye over the country’s success in meeting the EU’s exacting import standards for fish and fishery products
Seychelles has taken big steps to meet quality standards over the years with donor backing including funds from the...
Three years after its launch, the initiative on a Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change is on track.
The GCCA intends to step up cooperation and dialogue between the EU and the developing countries that are hit earliest and hardest by climate change and have the least capacity to react. These are...
A more open European Union market for Zambia’s sugar exports is creating new investment and jobs and increasing the country’s export receipts.
Since last year, the duty and quota-free market is ushering in new investment opportunities for sugar in Zambia’s huge arable lands to supply new markets and new industries. It is predicted that Zambia’s sugar industry will grow...
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES), meeting in Doha, Qatar, from 13 to 25 March 2010, did not decide on a bluefin tuna fishing ban in the Atlantic from 2011, as sought by the European Union, which believes over fishing of tuna in the Atlantic has already gone far beyond the required limit for species survival. There are also concerns...
Such cultural dynamism, so many artists of every discipline – musicians, sculptors, playwrights in a country with a population of just 90,000 – that’s extraordinary, as is the success a number of them enjoy abroad. This artistic vigour covers many artistic fields and the Creole Festival, a cultural and intellectual event held at the end of October every year, is both a...
When the Seychelles National Party (founded by Wavel Ramkalawan by merging three minor political movements) fielded candidates in the 1998 elections it won just one per cent of the vote. In 2006, less than a decade later, Ramkalawan, an Anglican priest and charismatic speaker, won 45.7 per cent of the vote. Although this did not make him the outright election winner, it did make him the...
Alessandro Mariani , the newly-appointed Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Mauritius, Seychelles and Comoros, presented his credentials to the President of the Republic of Seychelles on Tuesday 6 October 2009. He gave an exclusive interview to The Courier on the occasion.
Ambassador AM - I came here to present my credentials to the President of Seychelles. Moreover I...
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