There's hope despite the dry high season
I was looking at my diary for 2014, and I thought I was not impressed by the look of my bookings for the high season. I was not impressed because I have very few bookings. By any standard, and going by...
View ArticleDay In The Life: Nellie Thiong'o
How’s the day like for a mother who has to juggle housework, weaving door mats, taking care of two children and managing two businesses? Doing all these things in a day seems impossible but that’s how...
View ArticleHow Machakos Can Develop Better And Faster
Machakos is on a roll, literally. However, I can already see the danger signs ahead, from where I sit. Alfred Mutua’s vision, though grand, is all over the place. He needs to identify just three or...
View ArticleIs EAC A Community Or ‘Conmmunity’
Something is very wrong this side of Africa, for it seems that the spirit of brotherhood, camaraderie and good neighbourliness that was the hallmark of the people of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania is at...
View ArticleThere's hope despite the dry high season
I was looking at my diary for 2014, and I thought I was not impressed by the look of my bookings for the high season. I was not impressed because I have very few bookings. By any standard, and going by...
View ArticleHow Machakos Can Develop Better And Faster
Machakos is on a roll, literally. However, I can already see the danger signs ahead, from where I sit. Alfred Mutua’s vision, though grand, is all over the place. He needs to identify just three or...
View ArticleDay In The Life: Nellie Thiong'o
How’s the day like for a mother who has to juggle housework, weaving door mats, taking care of two children and managing two businesses? Doing all these things in a day seems impossible but that’s how...
View ArticleIs EAC A Community Or ‘Conmmunity’
Something is very wrong this side of Africa, for it seems that the spirit of brotherhood, camaraderie and good neighbourliness that was the hallmark of the people of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania is at...
View ArticleLocals’ land rows flare up
Disputes in various parts of Mombasa have emerged over the title deeds issued by President Uhuru Kenyatta in August. County Lands executive Francis Thoya said some of the residents, who received the...
View ArticleOfficial warns over drought
KILIFI county Drought Management Authority has warned of a looming resource-based-conflict following inadequate rainfall. DMA coordinator Aden Mohamed called for immediate intervention to address the...
View ArticleMan, 60, killed in Kinango
A 60-year-old man at Nzovuni village was killed on Tuesday night. Witnesses said Juma Mazera was attacked at his homestead by unknown assailants who were armed with crude weapons. Area chief Amani...
View Article30 cars seized in traffic swoop
THE National Transport and Safety Authority conducted an impromptu inspection and mobile court sessions on public service vehicle operators in Likoni yesterday. More than 30 vehicles were abandoned by...
View ArticleCalls for new fishing law
THE Seafarers Union of Kenya has appealed to the government to urgently ratify "the Work in Fishing Convention of 2007". Andrew Mwangura, the union’s secretary general yesterday said the convention...
View ArticleUhuru’s Arab Trip Is Not Ideological But Reactionary
Since Africa was partitioned in 1884, the continent turned into a source of cheap labour for the western world. Yes, Europe fought to end slavery but the materialistic cadre worked for an accepted...
View ArticleNairobi Park Diary: The sneaky secretive serval
When driving in the Nairobi National Park, always be prepared for those 'suddenly' moments when you see something rare or special. It is good to drive with your camera on and ready. If you have...
View ArticleMombasa to halve its HIV rate by 2015
Mombasa county is working towards reducing new HIV infections by at least 50 per cent by 2015, county Health executive Joab Tumbo has said. By 2011, there were about 4,300 new adult infections in the...
View ArticleUhuru’s Arab Trip Is Not Ideological But Reactionary
Since Africa was partitioned in 1884, the continent turned into a source of cheap labour for the western world. Yes, Europe fought to end slavery but the materialistic cadre worked for an accepted...
View ArticleNairobi Park Diary: The sneaky secretive serval
When driving in the Nairobi National Park, always be prepared for those 'suddenly' moments when you see something rare or special. It is good to drive with your camera on and ready. If you have...
View ArticleHow would Kenya be if JFK wasn't killed 50
If you weren’t aware of it already, yesterday was 50 years since the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States of America. Through his ties to the Kenyan trade...
View ArticleAre We Jumping From The Frying Pan Of Hunger Into Fire Of GMOs?
The introduction of genetically modified foods may be the most premature application of scientific work for the use by humans, advocated by a corporation with one of the worst track records of safety...
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