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Columnists Kenya should protect KQ to beat its rivals Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By STEVE NYAMOTA | In territorial competition, preferential treatment at home has a bearing on the overall performance of a business. Kenya Airways (KQ) has, however, had to bear the brunt of a shortsighted system. The
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Personal Finance The right way to automate your business for efficiency Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By NDIRANGU NGUNJIRI Too often, repetition, waste, and unnecessary bureaucracy slow down business. Automation not only redirects staff and their skills to where they can provide the most value, but reduces the risk
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Editorials EDITORIAL: Internship plan noble if rolled out properly Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By EDITORIAL Reports that Parliament has included a Sh1 billion allocation in the budget for the year starting July for the hiring of interns are bound to spark mixed reactions from Kenyans. While the allocation
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Capital Markets Sino-US conflict puts NSE at risk of investor flight Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By CHARLES MWANIKI The stock market is at risk of a return to foreign investor flight that characterised the second half of 2018 should trade tensions between the US and China continue to
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Editorials EDITORIAL: Ban reprieve welcome Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By EDITORIAL The one-year reprieve handed to plastic manufacturers by the government to continue producing single use plastic such as disposable utensils and straws is a step in the right direction. The development will offer the manufacturers appropriate time
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Commodities Murang'a plans 10m Hass avocado trees Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By MWANGI MUIRURI Murang’a targets to plant 10 million trees of Hass avocado by 2022. Governor Mwangi wa Iria says the county already has six million trees and wouldprovide local farmers with a million
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Ideas & Debate Let’s package our labour to attract global attention Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By CAROL MUSYOKA At the height of the struggle for multi-party democracy which was in the early nineties, Kenya’s economy was also taking a beating from the Goldenberg scandal. In those
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Market News DPO launches EA payment card Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By JAMES KARIUKI Payment service provider DPO Group has launched a business-to-business payment card that holders can use to settle transactions in 10,000 business outlets in Kenya and Tanzania. Group chief executive Eran Feinstein said DumaCard
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Ideas & Debate Treasury should seize budget opportunity to infuse tax certainty Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By ROBERT WARUIRU | Commenting on the adoption of the new US constitution, Benjamin Franklin, said that “in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” This quote
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Market News Energizer cuts stake in battery vendor Eveready Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By PATRICK ALUSHULA Eveready East Africa #ticker:EVRD third largest shareholder, Energizer International, sold 485,900 shares last year, marginally loosening its grip on the loss-making battery selling firm. Shareholding details in the annual report
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Companies Safaricom says scanner rollout plan on course Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By JOHN MUTUA Safaricom #ticker:SCOM says an ongoing drive to arm its agents with currency scanners that identify fake money will not be affected by the unveiling of new notes by Central Bank of Kenya
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Companies Tycoon sells Sh80m Total Kenya shares shares Sunday, June 9, 2019 22:00 By VICTOR JUMA Billionaire investor John Kibunga Kimani has sold three million Total Kenya #ticker:TOTL shares worth Sh80 million, exiting the list of the oil marketer’s top shareholders. Mr Kimani had held the shares