INTRODUCTION Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is a great pleasure to be here this morning to preside over the opening of the 2013/2014 Budget Meeting and deliver the State of the Nation Address. This occasion is very significant because, as is tradition, we reflect on the past year and set out…
Lilongwe, May 15: Twenty- one- year- old Jestina dropped out of form one when she was 19 due an unplanned pregnancy. Today, she deeply regrets that she conceived by “accident”. With that pregnancy, Jestina’s ambition to become a nurse got shattered. She married the man who had made her pregnant,…
Blantyre, May 14: Agnes Pakhomo, 42, from Chimbona village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Somba, Blantyre says caring for harvested maize over the years has been a toll order for her. For five years or so, Pakhomo has had to grapple with luck of insufficient stocks of the staple grain exposing…
Saturday, 11 May 2013 11:39
Corruption must not destroy Malawi's education system - Maneb
Written by Linda Likomwa
Lilongwe, May 11: The country must not allow its education system to crumble due to malpractice, says Malawi National Examination Board (Maneb) Executive Director, Roy Hauya. Hauya says examination malpractice is a form of corruption, and that it is a social cancer “eating into the national education system.” In response…
Friday, 10 May 2013 17:28
THE IMPROVING ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT IN MALAWI - PRESS RELEASE
Written by MANA
Ministry of Industry and Trade THE IMPROVING ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT IN MALAWI The Ministry of Industry and Trade would like to inform Malawian businesses and the general public that it has noted, with delight, the improvements on the economic situation in the country. More notable are the appreciation in value of…
Government would like to re assure the media that it is still committed to ensuring respect for media freedom and freedom of expression in the country. Furthermore, the current leadership highly values the constructive checks and balances that the media provide towards decision making processes by those in authority. The…
Lilongwe, April 23: It was towards the end of 1988 when a group of newly recruited Assistant Information Officers reported for duties at the Malawi News Agency (MANA) Headquarters, which was then in Blantyre. Among the group was a lad who must have been in his late teens or early…
Monday, 22 April 2013 13:37
Fare thee well, Anthony!-Tribute to PS Anthony Livuza
Written by Isaac Cheke Ziba
I had just been in office as Director of Information for just a little more than 5 months when Principal Secretary (PS) Anthony Livuza was posted to Ministry of information from Ministry of Energy and Mining. I had not yet, to say the least, captured all the nitty-gritties of what…
Chiradzulu, April 15: When she got pregnant three years ago, Merry Yakobe of Maoni Village Sub/T/A Maoni in Chiradzulu walked a distance of almost 5 to 8 kilomitres to access antenatal services at Nkalo Health Centre in the district. This was the case because the whole area of Maoni had…
Mzuzu, April 2, Mana: About two years ago, Foster Mwakiyoka, a rice farmer in the mosquito-infested area of Kaporo in Karonga District saw his family frequently suffering from malaria. However, visits to Kaporo Rural Hospital for treatment yielded nothing because the facility rarely had drugs. Since his village is in…
