Thursday, June 26th, 2008 | ||
| • | Vision 2030 Well Articulated, But Overcoming Hurdles is No Easy Task: After much waiting during which economic growth rate shot up and nose-dived in almost equal measure, Kenya released its long-term socio-economic blueprint in a ceremony coloured by pomp and graced by President Kibaki. | |
| • | Consult On Teachers' Performance Contract Plan: It is understandable and perhaps expected that a Government plan to introduce performance contracts for teachers should generate so much heat, obscuring the more pertinent issues in the education system. | |
| • | Country Needs External Help: The decision on Sunday by Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to pull out of the presidential run-off election slated for today was unfortunate. | |
| • | Knowledge Must Make Poverty History: A debate is raging on the place of research in Africa. | |
| • | Taxes Should Hit Their Target: Taxation is an important means for the government to raise fund meant for poverty eradication programmes like education, healthcare, and infrastructure development. | |
| • | Planners And Architects Lined Up for State Jobs: Fifty seven town planners will be employed this year as the Local Government ministry moves to enhance its technical capacity. | |
| • | Crowded Shares Market Fails to Spur Business: Two weeks have elapsed since Kenya's largest IPO debuted at the Nairobi Stock Exchange. And for many investors holding slices of the mobile telephony company Safaricom's shares, the hesitant rise in the firm's share price still holds a promise to... | |
| • | Sl 350 Delivers the Goods: It's no good. I can't sit here any more pretending that there's nothing wrong. Because there is. | |
| • | Consumers to Pay More for Electricity: Kenyans will pay more for electricity starting next week after KPLC approved new charges in a move expected to fuel the run away inflation. | |
| • | NSE Waives Rule to Let Safaricom Join Index: The Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) has broken with tradition to enlist Safaricom into the prime index used to gauge activity at the mart hardly three weeks after it started trading. | |
| • | Fertilizer Imports Bring Relief to Tea, Maize Farms: Bulk fertilizer imports aimed at making inputs affordable to cereal farmers are set to arrive in the country today ahead of the weeding season in the grain basket region of North Rift. | |
| • | Nema Clarifies On Mumias Project in Tana: Only a fraction of the Sh24 billion sugar project along Tana River that has attracted opposition from the community has been given the go ahead. | |
| • | Home Grown Audio Book Set to Be Launched: Talk about life becoming increasingly technology-dependent and you have a new addition on your list. | |
| • | M Regional Expansion: The star that once shone over City Trust Ltd at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE) in 2007 seems to have dimmed, put out by low volumes of tradable shares that have led to stagnation of its share price at the local bourse. | |
| • | High Costs Force Call Centres to Close Shop: High operational costs and limited access to international contracts are forcing Kenya's few call centre operators to close shop, industry players said. | |
| • | The High Graft Charge in Your Water Bill: Corruption in the water sector is costing Nairobi residents more than their counterparts in New York, London and Rome in utility bills. | |
| • | Malaria Rises to Highland Areas: The end of June marks the start of the malaria season in East Africa. After the long rains, conditions in lowland swamps and coastal regions are more conducive for mosquito breeding. But in recent years malaria has also appeared in the highland areas... | |
| • | Displaced Return Home in Uncertainty: ’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are finally returning home. | |
| • | Solar Energy the Way to Go - Report: African electricity companies need to develop solar energy to meet growing demand for power, according to a report by audit firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. | |
| • | Human Error Might Have Caused Plane Crash: The verdict over the plane crash in which Roads minister Kipkalya Kones and assistant minister Lorna Laboso died was delivered in Parliament on Wednesday. | |
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