Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
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| • | College Staff to Get Pay Raise: Lecturers and other workers serving in job groups A to N at Kenya Medical Training colleges Wednesday received a 16 per cent pay increase.
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| • | ODM-K Meets Kriegler Team: ODM-Kenya wants the team set up to investigate last year's General Election to focus on the integrity of the country's electoral process.
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| • | Matatus in No-Pay Threat Over Ruined Stage: Matatu operators have given Malindi council a seven-day deadline within which to repair the battered stage or else they stop paying parking fees.
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| • | Warders Threaten to Go On Strike Again: Prison warders plan to go on strike again after the failure by the Government to pay all the 16,000-plus warders Sh10,000 for their role in quelling the post-election violence in January.
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| • | End Succession Talk, Leaders Told: Hoteliers in Mombasa have dismissed presidential succession debate as untimely and warned that it could further damage the struggling tourism sector.
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| • | Amnesty Rift Widens As Cabinet Meets Again: The explosive debate on whether thousands of youths arrested over the post-election violence should be pardoned goes before the Cabinet on Thursday.
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| • | KFF Feud Unacceptable: That man does not learn from history is an adage that aptly captures what is happening with our football administration.
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| • | Blanket Amnesty Wasn't On Talks: The issue of whether or not to free persons held for their roles in the violence that followed the disputed presidential election has presented a fresh stage for increasingly bitter confrontation within the grand coalition Government.
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| • | Leaders Embrace Change to Boost Regional Union: The days when the East African Legislative Assembly was just a talking shop are numbered, thanks to the enthusiasm of its 45 new members.
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| • | Tennis - Otula Eyes Big Prize At Itf: Top seed Evelyn Otula is among the 70 semi-professional tennis players who will battle for a cash prize of $4,500 (Sh279,000) in the International Tennis Federation CAT Money Circuit that starts at Nairobi Club Thursday.
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| • | Athletics - Squads Wind Up Training: Two squad that have been camping in Nyahururu to prepare for this weekend's Armed Forces Athletics Championships concluded training Wednseday.
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| • | It's On the Walls of Kigali; Region Needs to Read It: THERE'S A HEATED RACE going on in East Africa, but most of us go about our lives oblivious to it.
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| • | Regional Firm in Kenyan Deal: Sanlam Limited has moved to set its footing in Pan Africa Insurance Holding following appointments of two board members to represent its interests.
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| • | Uncertainty As 200 Leave Naivasha Camp: The first batch of 200 internal refugees who had been camping at Naivasha left for their respective homes Wednesday, uncertain of what lay ahead.
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| • | Kimunya Dismisses Budget Crisis Claim: The Government Wednesday dismissed reports that the country was faced with a budget crisis and said indicators were that it will achieve higher growth than planned.
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| • | Illegal Law Firms' 40 Days Finally Over: The Law Society of Kenya Rift Valley Chapter has turned the heat on laymen who have been masquerading as lawyers and fleecing citizens.
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| • | Law to Handle 600 Post-Poll Chaos Cases: As calls for amnesty for perpetrators of post-election violence mount, police reveal that more than 600 cases can be conclusively prosecuted if the suspects are arrested.
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| • | ODM Braces for Explosive Meeting: All is set for Thursday's ODM meeting to iron out thorny issues that have threatened to split the party.
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| • | Stop This Talk About Succession Now: Barely two years after the National Rainbow Coalition whitewashed Kanu during the 2002 General Election and took over power, the country was in full campaign mode, and public rallies were all about the quest for power.
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| • | The Grand Regency Not Sold: Finance minister Amos Kimunya Wednesday appeared before a parliamentary committee and denied that the Grand Regency Hotel had been sold.
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