President Danny Faure chaired a scheduled meeting of the Cabinet today, Wednesday 17th June at which a number of legal and policy memoranda were considered.

Cabinet approved amendments to the Government Exchange Policy for Houses and Land.

Cabinet approved for the undertaking of emergency coastal restoration and rehabilitation works along the 150 metres shoreline of Amitie, Anse Kerlan, Praslin.

Cabinet approved amendments to the Companies (Amendment of Seventh Schedule) Order, 2020.

Cabinet also approved the Companies (Prescribed Forms) Regulations, 2020.

Cabinet approved for the gazetting of the Authorisation and Publication Bill, 2020.

Cabinet approved the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Bill, 2020.

Cabinet also approved the Broadcasting and Telecommunications (Records of Customers of Prepaid Mobile Services by Operators of Public Land Mobile Network) Regulations, 2009.

Cabinet approved for the Ministry of Environment Energy and Climate Change and the City of Victoria via the Office of the Mayor, to enter into an agreement with the Syndicat Interdépartemental Pour l’Assainissement de l’Agglomération Parisienne (SIAAP) and the ECOGLOBAL Foundation Tanzania for the treatment of Victoria waste water.

Cabinet also approved for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation in Science and Technology between the Government of the Republic of South Africa and the Government of the Republic of Seychelles.

Cabinet was briefed on a number of innovative projects conceptualized by NISTI that will prove beneficial in tackling the effects of COVID-19 on the country.

Cabinet approved the setting up of the National Structure of the African Peer Review (APRM) mechanism for the Republic of Seychelles.