Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | ||
| • | Live House Coverage Welcome: The move by House Speaker Kenneth Marende to allow State-run Kenya Broadcasting Corporation to cover parliamentary proceedings live on television beginning today is laudable. | |
| • | New Tool Set to Benefit Lending Institutions: Lenders in the banking sector will soon be able to assess the repayment capability of potential borrowers after the launch of a credit-scoring tool. | |
| • | Arbitration Cuts Backlog in Courts: When arbitration is fully embraced as an alternative solution to resolving intriguing commercial disputes, a great deal of workload in the Judiciary will be eased. | |
| • | Parliament Ushers in the Era of Live TV Coverage: Parliament is set for yet another milestone this afternoon when national broadcaster KBC brings live pictures of parliamentary debates into homes and offices countrywide. | |
| • | Farmers Panic Over Falling Global Prices: Falling wheat prices in the international market will spell doom for local growers under the new taxation structure announced by Finance Minister Amos Kimunya. | |
| • | Unpleasant Changes in Country: Today Kenya is a country that has experienced pain and is agonizing over its failures. | |
| • | Safaricom Gives Back Airtime to 57,000 Customers Over Error: With more than 10 million subscribers, the company's network system has been under great pressure especially during promotions and Friday evenings. | |
| • | State Finally Opts Out of KCB Rights Issue: The Government will not take up any more shares entitled to it in the Kenya Commercial Bank rights issue, which opened yesterday. | |
| • | NSE to Transform From Private to Public Body: After a year beset with governance challenges, the Nairobi Stock Exchange is fast tracking a process that will see its ownership separated from management, affording investors a chance to own the bourse by year end. | |
| • | Hire Managers On Merit: As we enter the season of hiring top managers to man our State corporations to replace those whose terms have expired, the hiring process is set to come under close scrutiny. | |
| • | Plans for Tech Park Nearing Completion: An Sh8 billion project that promises to change the face of Athi River town and create over 10,000 jobs begins next month. | |
| • | High Fees And Secrecy Blamed for Slow Growth of Pooled Funds: High upfront fees and inadequate disclosures in collective investment schemes (CIS), otherwise called pooled funds, are hindering their growth with penetration at only Sh20 billion. | |
| • | Airline Adds One More Flight to India: Qatar Airways has launched direct flights between Doha and the southern Indian coastal city of Kozhikode in the state of Kerala. | |
| • | Reforms in Country's Business Climate Win Global Praise: A new World Bank report says producing goods in Kenya has become cheaper and that the country could compete with the more industrialised China and India for labour intensive manufacturing businesses. | |
| • | Property Owners Face Losses As City Hall Moves to Restore Order in Construction: Hezron Mutuku, 52, a shop owner in Umoja Innercore Esatae in Nairobi has a distraught look on his face. | |
| • | Lighting Up the Continent: Over the past 10 years that the economies of many African states have been growing steadily, generating electricity that is needed to power this growth has become one of the biggest challenges facing governments. | |
| • | Russian Premium Beer Brand to Hit Kenyan Market: Russian beer brand, Baltika, will hit the Kenyan market next month, targeting high-end consumers including tourists. | |
| • | Ministries Seek Sector Credits to Boost Reforms: Two ministries have started discussions with the Treasury on how they can complement their allocations through flotation of debt instruments in the international financial market. | |
| • | Courts Could Do More to Speed Up Cases: Faced with the challenge of delivering a new constitution in a year, the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, Ms Martha Karua, has found herself embroiled in divisive issues such as calls for granting amnesty to suspects... | |
| • | Self-Medication Blamed for Drug Resistance: A recent admission by Ministry of Health officials that the domestic market is awash with counterfeit malaria drugs has once again brought the pharmaceutical industry under the spotlight. | |
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