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The assembly has issued a 14-day ultimatum for the executive to submit essential information regarding all pending bills.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
Two years later, the country banned the use of all single-use plastic in conservation areas which took effect on June 5, 2019.
The ban on single-use plastic came just over two years after President Kenyatta’s government banned plastic carrier bags and flat bags on August 28, 2017.
The ban affects use of plastics in beaches, national parks, forests and other areas.
The ban forbids visitors to a forest or a national park from carrying plastic plates, cups, spoons, forks and straws.
Environmentalists praised the ban on plastic carrier bags and single-use plastics arguing it will help to minimise pollution of urban spaces, forests and water bodies.
There appears to be consistent evidence that exposures to natural environments have a positive effect on pain, stress, anxiety, blood pressure and heart rate.
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[Nation] Key agencies and departments under the Ministry of Trade and Industrialisation are staring at a major cash crunch in the coming financial year as budget estimates show that the docket will get only a third of its resource needs.
Despite a criminal charge and inflating invoices, Crocia Events continues to score government contracts.
The Department of Social Development in the Western Cape is offering a vast range of services for those with disabilities.
An investigation into the Beitbridge border fence project has found that the government paid R17 million more than the market-related cost for a controversial fencing project that has been mired in controversy.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted today to approve a $3.9 million settlement of a federal lawsuit brought by the family of Ryan Twyman, an unarmed 24-year-old Compton man shot to death in his car by sheriff's deputies in Willowbrook.
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The Government has set out a series of actions and plans that it will implement to accelerate technology and innovation in the country amidst the novel coronavirus pandemic, or COVID-19.
In an economic recovery plan approved by the cabinet recently, the government said it will increase spending on digital infrastructure, adopt data-driven approaches in response to economic recovery interventions, and leverage technology solutions to inform Covid19 containment strategies.
Government intends to improve the quality of mobile broadband services, increase fiber to the home (FTTH) services, particularly the city of Kigali, scale up telemedicine infrastructure, and increase availability of high computing infrastructure and hosting services.
Government is also targeting full implementation of digital identity and trust service, improving cybersecurity resilience across all sectors, as well as on the current systems in the agriculture sector to track food productivity across the whole country.
To promote e-commerce, a plan has been agreed upon to extend waivers for transaction fees to encourage contactless methods of payment, and revise Merchant Discount Rates (MDR) to encourage digital payments adoption.
You would expect to find him bubbly and dusting his suit to attend a manufacturing industry sales party, now that the Covid-19 pandemic has taken away the cheap imports nightmare that has hurt the sector for decades.
But after the lockdowns in Uganda and Rwanda and the customers stopped orders due to the uncertainty that came with the cessation of movement, our sales dropped by about 40 per cent,” Mr Rao says.
Last week, the beer manufacturer — the largest in the — gave a peek into what is really happening from a sales perspective after it issued a profit warning, which means that it expects its profits to shrink by at least one quarter in its current financial year.
“Consequently, the Board of Directors of the Company hereby informs its shareholders and the general public that EABL’s current performance forecast, indicates a decline in profit after tax of approximately 25 per cent for the financial year ending June 30, 2020 in comparison to the previous,” the company said in a public notice signed by its chairperson, Mr Martin Oduor-Otieno, in a press statement over the weekend.
A survey by Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) in the first quarter of this year revealed that 77.97 per cent of its members source their inputs or export to China.
Africa’s first COVID-designed dining experience has arrived and can be found in the heart of Cape Town.
Nairobi — The swimming pool area at the Nyayo National Stadium is set to be completed in the coming weeks, while the basketball court has also been earmarked for rehabilitation, Sports Kenya Director General Pius Metto has said.
\"The swimming pool and basketball areas will take slightly more time than the main complex.
The tender of the main complex was different from that of the basketball court and we are working to start refurbishment on a different contract,\" Metto told Capital Sport.
However, for the swimming pool area, work looks on course and the facility might be opened as early as next month.
\"We have completed the warm-up and baby pool areas and the renovation for the main pool is almost completed and they are doing the final touches.
De Lille says transparency is the best deterrent to root out corruption.
Government promises to spend less on state funerals, state visits and other functions.
But after the lockdowns in Uganda and Rwanda and the customers stopped orders due to the uncertainty that came with the cessation of movement, our sales dropped by about 40 per cent,\" Mr Rao says.
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Last week, the beer manufacturer -- the largest in the -- gave a peek into what is really happening from a sales perspective after it issued a profit warning, which means that it expects its profits to shrink by at least one quarter in its current financial year.
\"Consequently, the Board of Directors of the Company hereby informs its shareholders and the general public that EABL's current performance forecast, indicates a decline in profit after tax of approximately 25 per cent for the financial year ending June 30, 2020 in comparison to the previous,\" the company said in a public notice signed by its chairperson, Mr Martin Oduor-Otieno, in a press statement over the weekend.
Raila Odinga , in full Raila Amolo Odinga (born January 7, 1945, Maseno, Kenya), Kenyan businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Kenya (2008–13) following the contentious presidential election of December 2007.
Of Luo descent, Odinga was the son of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the first vice president of independent Kenya. After earning a master’s degree in mechanical engineering in East Germany in 1970, Odinga returned to Kenya to become a lecturer at the University of Nairobi. During his time at the university, Odinga also engaged in engineering-related business ventures, including one that would later become East African Spectre, Ltd. He left the university in 1974 and was soon employed by the Kenya Bureau of Standards, where he attained the position of deputy director in 1978.
In the 1970s and ’80s Odinga was politically active and supported government reforms in Kenya. In 1982 he was accused of plotting against Pres. Daniel arap Moi and was imprisoned without trial for six years. After Odinga’s release, he was twice arrested for campaigning against one-party rule, and in 1991 he sought refuge in Norway. He returned to Kenya in 1992, however, and was elected a member of the National Assembly that year under the banner of the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy–Kenya (FORD–K), the party led by his father. After his father’s death in 1994, Odinga became embroiled in a leadership struggle within the party and in 1996 left FORD–K and joined the National Development Party (NDP).
In 1997 Odinga stood unsuccessfully as the NDP’s candidate for election as president of Kenya but was able to retain his seat in the National Assembly. He and the NDP thereafter gave their support to Moi and the ruling Kikuyu-dominated Kenya African National Union (KANU). Odinga joined Moi’s cabinet as energy minister in 2001, and the NDP was absorbed into the ruling party the following year, with Odinga becoming secretary-general of KANU.
Odinga’s hope of succeeding Moi as KANU’s candidate for the presidency in the
During his tenure as the AG, between November 6 2015 and January 31 2018, Justice Masaju engineered establishments of 21 Bills and Amendments of more than eight laws.
Others were Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2017, the Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 3) Bill, 2017 the Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act (No.4) 2017, as well as the Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 5) Bill, 2017.
Serving as the AG, Prof Kilangi has so far tabled 13 Bills and Amendments of Eight Acts including the Land Transport Regulatory Authority Bill, 2018, the Finance Bill, 2018, and the Microfinance Bill, 2018.
Again others are the Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.3) Act, 2019, the Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.5), Bill, 2019, the Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.6), Bill 2019 as well as the Written Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 8) Bill, 2019.
The most recent Bill that was tabled by Prof Kilangi is the Proposed Written Law Miscellaneous Amendment Number 3, Act 2020 that among other things give the President and other top leaders \"absolute immunity\" from both civil lawsuits and criminal prosecution in any court of law during their term in office.
[Nation] A section of Migori MCAs on Wednesday stormed out of a plenary session to discuss the Sh8.8 billion 2021/22 budget claiming that it was inflated.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The government should adapt financial inclusivity when it comes to post-COVID-19 economic stimulus program for the next financial year.
ZANU PF Mberengwa North district executive member and prominent businessman, Tinashe Shumba has torched a tribal storm after he reportedly insulted members of the Lemba (VaRemba) community who refused to chant ruling party slogans as well as denigrate MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa.
Southern Eye is reliably informed that on Sunday, Shumba also known as Goga, had several meetings at Takarangana, Magavakava, Rusvinge and other areas in Mberengwa North where those who attended said he was canvassing for support to become the constituency MP in the next elections on a Zanu PF ticket.
Sources said when he reached Masarira Business Centre, he met a small group of people belonging to the Lemba tribe and tried to force them to chant Zanu PF slogans, but they refused.
Shumba defied lockdown guidelines by conducting meetings with Zanu PF supporters at Takarangana Business Centre as well as Magavakava area in Mberengwa where such supporters did not observe social distance nor wear masks.
The Lemba community is peace-loving but would not tolerate Goga’s thuggery and attempts to divide it by trying to force any of its members to chant Zanu PF slogans and denigrate Nelson Chamisa.”
With an economy battered by coronavirus, locust invasion and floods, Kenya's Finance Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yatani on June 11 tabled a Ksh2.79 trillion ($27.9 billion) budget for the 2020/2021 fiscal year that seeks to revive almost every sector of the economy as quickly as possible and still keep the government running.
This year's budget comes against a backdrop of weakening global economy, shrinking domestic revenue collections and a surge in public expenditures to address targeted interventions designed to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic whose level of infections in the country has surpassed the 3,000 mark.
The government has revised the country's growth prospects for 2020 to as low as 2.5 per cent from 6.1 per cent compared with last year's growth of 5.4 per cent.
\"Going forward the government will scale up efforts to boost the tourism sector by promoting aggressive post Covid-19 tourism marketing and providing support for hotel refurbishment through soft loans to be channelled through the Tourism Finance Corporation,\" said Mr Yatani.
Mr Yatani said the government is also working on the post-Covid-19 Economic Recovery Plan, which among other things will focus on adequate local and foreign resource mobilisation to ensure sustainable funding of development programmes.
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BY MIRIAM MANGWAYA Members of Parliament have demanded that they be allowed control over use of devolution funds in accordance with the Constitution in order to enhance accountability and transparency by local authorities. The issue was raised in Parliament by Norton MP Temba Mliswa (Independent) last Thursday, where he said corruption was rampant within local authorities, hence the need for proper monitoring and evaluation of the devolution funds and resources allocated. He said failure to properly implement devolution resulted in the former late President Robert Mugabe being forced out of power. Mliswa said section 264 of the Constitution stipulated that there should be transfer of responsibilities and resources from central government to provincial councils, but the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No 2) Bill sought to exclude MPs from overseeing usage of the devolution funds. “The biggest game changer in this country is devolution, but the monies are not being monitored according to the Constitution because the provincial councils are not in place,” he said. “This is also one of the reasons that led Mugabe out of power. It was because of the issue of devolution and that he was not following the Constitution. “Mr Speaker Sir, I do not know how best we can deal with this, but it has become a source of corruption in a big way. The local authorities as you would appreciate have been the talk of poor service delivery, yet money is going there through the very same tenets of the Constitution. Your guidance and ruling is critical because we cannot as Parliament sit and watch the law not being followed.” Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda said Constitutional Amendment (No 2) Bill would soon be tabled before the National Assembly to address the challenges raised by Mliswa. Mudenda said Finance minister Mthuli Ncube had already acknowledged the need for a legal framework to be in place in order to ensure that devolved funds were accounted for in terms of the structures that would be in place. “Indeed, there has been some conversation between the Minister of Local Government and Public Works (July Moyo), as well as the Minister of Finance and Economic Development (Mthuli Ncube) in consultation with the Attorney-General (Prince Machaya),” Mudenda said.
Daylin Mitchell has been appointed Transport and Public Works MEC.
It’s that time of year again -- the impending start of hurricane season, when everyone becomes a meteorologist, and the bane of Ernesto Morales’ existence.
[The Herald] Senior Reporter
[Nation] President Kenyatta and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga face a litany of demands from constituencies key to the passing of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Referendum Bill and who have threatened to reject it if their demands are not met.
Ramaphosa announced several amendments to the disaster management act and level 1 lockdown during his address to the nation n Wednesday.
[Namibian] THE Windhoek city council management committee has come up with a N$5,1 billion budget for the current financial year, almost equivalent to the national budget allocated to the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare.
A Congolese judge handling the graft case against Vital Kamerhe, former top aide to President Felix Tshisekedi, has died.
Judge Raphael Yanyi was pronounced dead Wednesday morning on arrival at a hospital in the capital Kinshasa after he fell ill at his home at around 2am, police confirmed.
\"The judge was a victim of a heart attack.
A day before his death, Judge Yanyi had directed the public hearing of Kamerhe's trial in $50 million graft case.
Kamerhe, once a close ally of Tshisekedi, is accused of embezzling the funds allocated to public works during Tshisekedi's first 100 days in office.
