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Editorials EDITORIAL: Control maize imports Tuesday, June 11, 2019 19:55 By EDITORIAL The government’s plan to import some 12 million bags of maize to bridge the current supply deficit should be implemented cautiously so as not to hurt the bulk of local farmers who grow the crop. While
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Columnists Entrench culture of whistleblowing Tuesday, June 11, 2019 20:14 By JENNY LUESBY It takes a special kind of person to blow the whistle on organisational wrongdoing. Indeed, what does that person look like? They have a deep and ingrained sense of right and wrong, so deep that it
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Columnists How aeromedical evacuation plays a very crucial role Tuesday, June 11, 2019 20:14 By DR STEVE MAINDA | In the modern day and age that we live in, the need for quicker, better medical solutions and emergency evacuation services is on the rise. More Kenyans are seeking and investing
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Letters LETTERS: Switzerland, Kenya take ties to new heights Tuesday, June 11, 2019 20:14 By DR RALF HECKNER | Today Kenya Airways will launch direct flights from Nairobi to Geneva. I will be on that inaugural flight. And although I have flown between Kenya and Switzerland many times over the
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News Parliament now cuts SRC budget by Sh126m Tuesday, June 11, 2019 20:36 By DAVID MWERE The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) suffered a setback Tuesday after the National Assembly passed the second supplementary estimates slashing its current budget by Sh125.6 million for incurring unconstitutional expenses. The commission
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News Witness says Kenya Power rejected faulty transformers Tuesday, June 11, 2019 20:36 By SAM KIPLAGAT A prosecution witness Tuesday told a Nairobi court that Kenya Power #ticker:KPLC did not receive any substandard transformers. Mr Joseph Oketch, a director at Energy Regulatory Commission said the company rejected the
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News CBK orders banks to file reports on new currency seekers Tuesday, June 11, 2019 20:37 By BONFACE OTIENO The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has instructed commercial banks to file weekly reports on persons exchanging old notes in part of strict measures seeking to curb circulation of illicit
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Economy Regulator rules out lower power bills, cites demand Tuesday, June 11, 2019 20:41 By PATRICK ALUSHULA The cost of idle capacity is set to wipe out nearly all the gains made as cheaper energy sources come on to the national grid, the energy regulator has said, dashing hopes
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Economy Regulator abolishes cooking gas cylinder exchange pool Tuesday, June 11, 2019 20:43 By EDWIN OKOTH Consumers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) are headed back to the old regime of having to exchange their empty cylinders for same brands, ending a decade of shopping convenience. The revised Energy (Liquefied
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Economy KNH wins round one in battle to hire contract staff Tuesday, June 11, 2019 20:44 By NASIBO KABALE Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) won round one of its battle with the doctors’ union after the Labour Court declined to stop the hiring of 22 doctors on three-year contracts. Justice
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Economy State now drafts law to unlock funding to bankrupt companies Tuesday, June 11, 2019 20:44 By CONSTANT MUNDA New loans advanced to firms in distress will be cleared ahead of other obligations, new Bill proposes, as the State moves to encourage lending to insolvent firms. The Statute Law
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