Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 | ||
| • | Catholic Bishops Mourn Ministers Killed in Plane Crash: Catholic bishops today joined other Kenyans in mourning two cabinet ministers, a security official and the pilot of a light aircraft that crashed Tuesday afternoon killing all on board. | |
| • | Vision 2030 Silent On Land: As far as launches of government blueprints go, Vision 2030 got its fair share of pomp and ceremony on Tuesday at Nairobi's Kenya International Conference Centre. | |
| • | Leading Accounting Firms Intensify Turf Wars: Intense competition in the auditing and financial advisory market is pushing multinational accounting firms to turn to marketing and public relations to boost their visibility in the market place. | |
| • | Mega Gearing Up for Money Lending: After failing to open a commercial bank last year, a welfare society that has been raising capital from the public is preparing to launch a microfinance institution next month. | |
| • | A Tough Act for Kimunya As Economy Faces Storm: House No 586 on Runda's Glory Road is little known. The tall trees dwarf the splendid building and apart from the armed sentry, there is little pointer that the leafy residence belongs to Finance Minister Amos Muhinga Kimunya. | |
| • | New Sugar Factory Planned for Region: Sugar cane farmers in Nyando sugar belt are set to benefit from a new sugar factory with a crushing capacity of 30,000 metric tonnes per day. | |
| • | Lewa Offers Adventure in the Wilds: The race in the wild returns this month. Having earned the reputation of being one of the toughest marathon events in the world, Lewa Marathon is an event worth attending, either as a participant or a spectator. | |
| • | Vision 2030 Proposes Route to Decent Housing: The housing market is set to be transformed by making finance more easily available to developers and buyers as well as halving the number of days it takes to approve housing plans. | |
| • | Regulator Set to Raise the Bar for Insurance Firms: Board members of insurance companies will now be required to go through corporate governance training before they are allowed to transact business for their companies. | |
| • | Fertiliser Subsidy Welcome: It may look outdated, but the decision by the Government to subsidise the cost of fertilisers can only be positive. | |
| • | Country Needs to Focus On New Medicine: Leaders in Kenya and other African nations must embrace the scientific and technical approaches that will help the local people to exploit the benefits of nanotechnology in the diagnosis, targeted delivery systems of medicine, and regenerative medicine. | |
| • | Involving Police in Civil Matters is Against the Law: There is a trend that is gaining momentum lately. This is the practice of using the criminal judicial system as a means of settling mundane contractual and civil disputes. | |
| • | The Folly of Raising Taxes to Fight Runaway Inflation: The total of the electricity bill is the highest that I have paid yet and in some people's view, a reflection of the inflationary times that we are living in. | |
| • | Strathmore Student Wins Facebook Award: A Strathmore University student has won the inaugural Kenya Facebook Developer Garage award, boosting the institution's standing as a centre of innovation. | |
| • | Kimunya Targets Rising Inflation in Sh760 Billion Budget: Finance minister Amos Kimunya will this afternoon unveil a Sh760 billion budget for the 2008/2009 financial year amid challenges that pose threats to the country's economic outlook. | |
| • | Spending On Police, Teachers Pushes Budget to Sh760 Billion: The country will this afternoon listen to Finance minister Amos Kimunya as he states how he intends to fund the new budget that proposes public spending amounting to Sh760 billion. | |
| • | Aids War On the Right Track: The report produced by the Commission on HIV/Aids and Governance in Africa is critical to helping Africa sharpen its response to the Aids pandemic. | |
| • | Weather to Blame for Crash: Preliminary investigations into Tuesday's tragic plane crash in which a minister and an assistant minister perished indicate that the ill-fated aircraft was flying in poor visibility at the time of the accident. | |
| • | Four Dead in Black Fever Outbreak: Four people have died in an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease also known as kalazar or black fever, in Isiolo and Wajir in northeastern Kenya, according to a senior health official. | |
| • | Polls Open in Fight For Parliamentary Majority: The polls have opened in five constituencies to fill vacancies in the latest fight for parliamentary supremacy between political rivals and coalition partners, the Party of National Unity (PNU) and the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). | |
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