Daily Life

In Seychelles a nice and fruitful garden is the dream of every gardener, but achieving a perfectly growing and flourishing plant and bountiful harvest requires many hardworking days, fine warm weather, and experience in tackling many basic problems. These problems can be very frustrating when you are unaware of handling them properly. Here are some problems that most of you face if you want to start a...

Seychelles, an island located on the Indian Ocean and has fewer than 100000 people, is now free of corona cases after dealing with it for nine tough months. Initially recording 11 cases, it was reported that the last corona infected patient finally came out negative after having been tested continuously for many days. The first two covid 19 cases detected have reached the country on March 14,...

The 2018 environmental performance index ranks Seychelles as the first country worldwide in the category « climate and energy”. This index is a biennial record from searchers of Yale and Columbia, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. Latest data indicated that Seychelles became the country with the biggest advances. This record ranks 180 countries in 24 different categories : air...

The government of Seychelles plans to start taxing sugary drinks in efforts to curb the rising obesity levels. The new tax system set to begin in 2019 has not yet been set. The World Health Organization (WHO) advocates for taxation of sugary beverages as the most effective measures of reducing sugar caused diseases and conditions. According to Barathi Biswanathan, the cardiovascular unit program manager...

Victoria is a city in Seychelles which is the smallest island in the world. Victoria has a population of 25000 people considered to the city with the lowest population in the world. The 25000 are of mixed origin both Indians and Africans. Seychelles separated from Mauritius and became a colony in 1903. Victoria is referred as a tropical island paradise by tourists and visitors who visit the place yearly to...

The president’s office announced that in 2018 there will be no elections for district council in Seychelles. Instead, the island nation will have seven regional councils. The decision was made after consulting with the public on the subject of local government elections as well as bipartisan consensus at national political level and after taking into account all the costs of running councils in each...