Category: National

The car in question when it was being rehabilitated  * CEO Kumwenda also clarifies that the official Land Cruiser that he inherited is an accident-rehabilitated car and is 5 years old * After some members of the public attacked ESCOM, with some accusing that the CEO drives an expensive vehicle By Duncan Mlanjira When Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) does not utilise power provided by Energy Generation Company (EGENCO) and private independent power producers (IPPs), it is still…

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Kumwenda with some members of his management team at the press conference  * EGENCO and the IPPs charge K140 per kilowatt/hr, yet ESCOM charge the same kilowatt/hr at K104 from the consumer * MERA should Parliament to increase power tariff to over K140 per kilowatt/hr * Or ESCOM faces a bleak future since it will forever be making losses to the extent that it shall even fail to pay its staff’s salaries By Duncan Mlanjira Since Electricity Supply Corporation…

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* E-waste includes fridges, TVs, fluorescent lamps, large telecommunication equipment, mobile phones, computers * Some discarded equipment contain some high levels of contaminants, which can harm people and the environment By Duncan Mlanjira Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) is in the process of developing an E-waste strategy to address issues of management involving any electrical and electronic equipment that is discarded or is intended to be discarded or is required to be discarded after use. Such include temperature equipment…

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Minister of Information & Digitalisation, Gospel Kazako * At first-of-its-kind ‘MACRA Open Day’ held on Monday launched by Minister of Information Kazako * Second session tomorrow at BICC in Lilongwe and in Mzuzu on Friday at Grand Palace Hotel * All public institutions such as MACRA must always accountable to the public—Kazako By Duncan Mlanjira Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) has established the first-of-its-kind, ‘MACRA Open Day’, as a hub where where every year it will be engaging its…

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Zamba, appointed as SPC in June * The report could be provided against each austerity measure wherever possible * How many parastatals have made significant savings with these measures * Size of delegations travelled and how many Ministers have travelled during the past three months By Duncan Mlanjira Consumer Association of Malawi (CAMA) has written Secretary to the President & Cabinet (SPC), Collen Zamba to brief Malawians on the effectiveness and gains made from the austerity measures that President…

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