Upmarket Feliz Guest House in Lilongwe offers special rates for long stays and group bookings

* Also offers special rates for group bookings and is ideal for guests who like to live in a quiet and peaceful environment * All rooms are self-contained added with hot showers, mini fridges and DSTV with own decoders * Guests coming by coach are provided with transport to the guest house at no extra cost By Caroline Nyekanyeka For frequent travellers to Lilongwe, who stay longer to conclude their businesses and require affordable but elegant and exquisite accommodation,…

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Forum for National Development asks new MERA Board to remove court injunction against Ombudsman

Forum for National Development’s national coordinator, Fryson Chodzi * You have an enormous task to bring back the confidence of the public towards MERA * What the previous board did was wrong and an abuse of office in stopping the Ombudsman * She was carrying out the constitutional mandate in order to protect an individual By Duncan Mlanjira Forum for National Development has asked the new board of the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) Board to remove the court…

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Gavi applauds Malawi’s implementation of COVAX CoVID-19 vaccination drives

* As of Friday, 892,414 were fully vaccinated with 1,142,421 having had their first jab while 766 have had the Booster dose * New cases are also not escalating as 10 new were registered as of Friday evening * There were 324 new recoveries and no new related deaths * Cumulatively, Malawi has recorded 85,650 cases including 2,626 deaths at case fatality rate of 3.07% * A total of 80,654 cases have now recovered at the rate of 94.17%…

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Government for growth of media industry—Information Minister Kazako

Kazako during the interface meeting.—Picture by Arkangel Tembo, MANA By Brenda Nkosi, MANA Minister of Information and Digitalization, Gospel Kazako says the media is an important partner that government cannot do without, adding that its growth was of utmost importance. Kazako said this on Friday after meeting with media owners and top managers from the Southern Region at Ryalls Hotel in Blantyre to address the challenges they face “We need to see to it that the media industry is…

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Standard Bank’s Be More wellness marathon returns to celebrate the resilience of a nation due to CoVID-19

Madinga at the launch with some of the stakeholders Tamara Chafunya, Miriam Matola and Jayne Nyirenda * The main race will be on June 4 in Lilongwe and a warmup scheduled for Blantyre in May 7 * This year’s race aims to highlight the Bank’s leading role in facilitating the country’s CoVID-19 recovery efforts * Since 2017, the Be More Race has has created lasting relationships with different stakeholders locally and internationally * This underscores that Standard Bank is…

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Petroleum Importers support Nsanje flood victims with K6m worth of relief items

PIL General Manager, Martin Msimuko presenting the donation  By Victor Singano Jnr, Correspondent As people in the Lower Shire continue to struggle with their livelihood after the effects of Cyclone Ana and Gombe, Malawi’s Petroleum Importers Limited (PIL) reached out to them with assorted food and non-food items worth K6 million in three evacuation camps in Nsanje. The assistance was supported by the company’s shareholders — Puma, Total, Petroda and Vivo that included maize flour, beans, Likuni Phala, buckets…

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Pride Initiative equips 202 Blantyre youths in sustainable business-oriented vocational skills

The youths being trained on cellphone repairing By Victor Singano Jnr, Correspondent In its endeavour to reduce unemployment rate and improving economic empowerment among the youths, local non-governmental organization, Pride Initiative equipped 202 youths from various townships in Blantyre — through a 5-day sustainable business-oriented vocational skills workshop. Courtesy of its Youth Arise project, which focuses on offering psycho-social trainings for mindset change, Pride Initiative — in conjunction with Global Youth Mobilization Fund — brought together the youths from…

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RBM’s Export Development Fund’ Board defends credibility of Fletcher & Evance as forensic audit experts

* There are concerted efforts by certain individuals to use the media and abuse state institutions to fault the process * To discredit the forensic report, and distract unsuspecting members of the public from the real issues at EDF * Fletcher & Evance were selected competitively in full compliance with the Public Procurement and Disposal of Assets Act By Duncan Mlanjira Directors of the Board for Export Development Fund (EDF) has issued a public statement, strongly defending their selection…

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FDH Money Bureau invests K2m to re-equip science labs for Bangwe Day Secondary School

Khamula presents the cheque to headteacher Kamlete and headgirl Patuma Mbewe and headboy Gift Mwango * A good lab inspires students to love science subjects—headteacher Kamlete * I am sure as soon as we renovate and re-equip the labs, our students would do well in their science studies By Duncan Mlanjira As part of the on-going ‘FDH Mentor a Child’ programme, FDH Money Bureau invested K2 million to Bangwe Day Secondary School on Wednesday to re-quip its science laboratories, which are in…

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EGENCO distances itself from ESCOM’s claim of loss of revenue through prepaid electricity units

* Electricity units tokens for EGENCO employees are paid for by the company every single month * Therefore, the question of loss of revenue from these fully and duly paid for units does not arise * ESCOM to carry out door-to-door countrywide meter account verification and revenue protection exercise * Also to appreciate the challenges its customers face with such accounts and enhance service delivery By Duncan Mlanjira Electricity Generation Company (EGENCO) has distanced itself from claim by its…

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