Monday, June 23rd, 2008 | ||
| • | State On the Spot Over Key Parastatal Jobs: Government policy on recruitment of top managers of State corporations has come under the spotlight as appointing authorities embark on the search for replacements for those whose terms have expired. | |
| • | Bioenergy Debate Bad for the Third World: As the minibus bumps down a narrow, unpaved road on the outskirts of Dar- es -Salaam in Tanzania, I feel rather anxious. | |
| • | Cement Firms Gear Up for Battle As Import Duty is Cut: After a long history of enjoying protection behind a steep tariff wall, the Kenyan cement industry is worried about tough competition from low cost importers. | |
| • | Health Tourism Can Be Healthy: As food and oil prices rise all over the world, consumers are getting a crash course in economics: when demand increases, prices shoot up. | |
| • | Ministry Moves to Fight Mobile Phone Fraudsters: Mobile phone subscribers will be required to disclose personal details to be kept in a register by mobile providers under an existing law that the government wants to enforce. | |
| • | State Suppliers to Pay 1.5 Per Cent of Bid Value for Capacity Building: The cost of supplying goods and services to the government is set to rise following the introduction of a new fee on purchases made through the public procurement system. | |
| • | Tax Measures Must Produce Gains in Equity: I was rather struck by the themes of "equity" and "competitiveness" in this year's budget. | |
| • | Losses Reveal Cost Pressures On Tea Companies: The tea industry could be headed for a fresh round of restructuring in operations, aimed at cutting down on cost, as two more firms reported losses over last year. | |
| • | Consumers Get Marginal Reprieve On Retail Prices: The prices of consumer goods declined marginally, reflecting the difficulty that manufacturers and retailers are facing in making the transition to a new tax dispensation arising from this year's budget. | |
| • | Loop Operators to Launch Tool for Cheaper Phone Calls: Internet Service Providers and local loop operators are mapping out strategies for uploading a new technology to offer services at local rates to subscribers outside the country. | |
| • | Saccos Diversify Membership Ahead of Bill: Sacco societies in Central Kenya are changing their structures ahead of the Sacco Bill, which is expected to restrict their membership to their core areas of operation. | |
| • | Retired MPs Don't Need Any Extra Pay: We indeed live in strange times. Slightly over a year back, retired Members of Parliament trooped into Kenyatta International Conference Centre and recounted their yesteryear stories, openly sulking over their woes. | |
| • | Treasury Begins Fresh Recruitment of Chief Privatisation Officer: The search for the country's chief privatisation officer is to begin afresh after the board of the newly- created Privatisation Commission said it found the shortlisted candidates inadequate for the job. | |
| • | New Scheme for Low-Cost Health Insurance Launched: A newly introduced cover is forcing a rethink of premiums charged for medical insurance in the country, as more players seek to extend the intake below the traditional upper middle class niche. | |
| • | Accountants Back Kimunya Proposal to Tax MPs' Perks: Accountants have come out strongly in favour of taxation for MPs, saying it would help to improve the management of tax revenues. | |
| • | Economies of Scale Hurdles That Small Companies Endure: Against every small business is ranged a set of challenges so fierce that many just don't make it. | |
| • | Treasury Should Make Known Its Plan for KCB: As the KCB rights issue opens this morning, one question that is on the minds of the many shareholders is whether Treasury - the holder of the government's 26 per cent stake in the bank - will take up its rights. | |
| • | KWS Builds Eco-Lodges to Woo Locals: National parks and reserves in the country will soon be boasting new eco-lodges in a campaign to encourage domestic tourists to go on safaris. | |
| • | Disarmament Won't End Cattle Rustling, Says Report: A scholar in East Africa says forceful disarmament of pastoral communities will not stop cattle rustling, but instead the implementation of a comprehensive policy framework on pastoral lifestyles will. | |
| • | Kenya, Tanzania at Last Break Silence Over Zim Polls Rerun: Kenya and Tanzania last week became the first countries in East Africa to express concern about the risk of political instability in Zimbabwe, adding to an unprecedented chorus of disapproval by African states on the political situation in Zimbabwe. | |
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