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A man of substance...McKenzie saddened by passing of Dunstan Whittingham
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, says he is saddened by today’s passing of Lionel “Dunstan” Whittingham, President of the Jamaica Higglers, Vendors and Markets Association. McKenzie says...
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Maseno gets education hub status as new town
Maseno is set to be launched as a town this Thursday as Kisumu County is eyeing to unlock the untapped potential of the urban centre.
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Watchdogs call for INSPORTS probe
With the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS) failing since 1992 to file audited financial statements annually as mandated by law, there are calls for the relevant authorities to launch investigations into the state agency to see whether billions of...
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South Africa: Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Highlights Minister Barbara Creecy's Budget to NCOP
Press Release - Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy on Tuesday outlined a number of initiatives being implemented by the Department in collaboration with the provinces and the district and local municipalities to ensure environmental services reach all sectors of
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BCC disconnects govt departments
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is disconnecting water supplies to government departments over outstanding bills running into several millions of dollars. By NQOBANI NDLOVU Recently, the local authority switched off water supplies at Tredgold Building which houses the magistrates court, Labour
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Kenya Power Expecting Reduced Profits Owing to Coronavirus Impact
Nairobi — Kenya Power and Lightning company has issued a profit warning for its financial earnings closing on June 30, 2020, saying its earnings will be much lower than those of the previous
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At least 20 killed by suicide car bomb near restaurant in Somalia capital | News24
At least 20 people have been killed and 30 wounded by a suicide car bomb just outside a restaurant near the port in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
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Straughn: Gov’t hasn’t given up on Four Seasons project - Barbados Today
The $124 million invested in Four Seasons by Government was not written off because Prime Minister Mia Mottley was the lawyer involved in the project. This was made clear by Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Ryan Straughn, who has maintained that Mottley had no say in whether that money would
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Mayor Garcetti Appoints Brenda Shockley As L.A.'s First-Ever Chief Equity Officer In Efforts To Promote Racial Equity
Mayor Eric Garcetti today called for affirmative action in the City government and signed an executive directive to study and promote racial equity in City
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Uganda: Report Cites Procurement Flaws in Districts
[Monitor] A new report has indicated that there is lack of appropriate checks and balances in procurement processes and award of contracts in districts.
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Somalia: Federal-Style State Module Revisited as Somalia Votes
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Tanzania: Zanzibar Injects 8bn/-in Ports Infrastructure
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Portmore not ready for parish status, say mayor and MP
MAYOR of Portmore Leon Thomas and Member of Parliament (MP) for St Catherine Southern Fitz Jackson say the idea of making Portmore a parish is premature at this time as the municipality has far too many issues that must be addressed before putting that proposal on the table.
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Kenya: Nairobi Water Company Losing Millions of Shillings Due to Faulty Billing System
[Nairobi News] Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company continues to lose millions of shillings due to faulty water billing system despite promise to upgrade the system.
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Power cuts push Econet losses
BY Kudzai Kuwaza DIVERSIFIED telecommunications group Econet Wireless suffered exchange losses in excess of $6 billion in its financial year and reeled under rolling power cuts that hit the country last year. In the company’s financial statement for the year ended February 29 2020, Econet chairman
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Uganda Focuses Spending on Defence, Energy and Transport Sectors
[East African] Defence, energy and transport sectors ate big while allocations to fiscal stimulus programmes and settlement of domestic arrears received "humble pie" in Uganda's budget blue print for financial year 2021/22 in an attempt to steer economic recovery through additional investments in
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Kwale and Mombasa to reap big from titanium - The Kenya News
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Rwanda: Government Moves to Reform Water Sector
[New Times] The Government has embarked on a comprehensive assessment of persisting mismanagement issues in the Water and Sanitation Corporation (WASAC) in order to make an evidence-based reform of the institution, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Infrastructure has said.
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Lesotho: 'We Need Political Stability for Economic Revival'
Lesotho must anchor her economic turn-around plans after the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on empowering domestic investors, the recently appointed Minister of Trade and Industry, Thabiso Molapo, has
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Australian House Prices Score Lofty Gains In 2020/21 – The Wilmington Journal
CANBERRA, Australia — Australian residential property prices rose 13.5 percent over the 2020/21 financial year, the highest annual growth rate since 2004 and when the market was unwinding from the housing boom of the early 2000s. [...]
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Somalia leaders in emergency talks over election crisis | Africanews
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Municipalities' finances managed in ways contrary to recognised accounting disciplines - AG
With the exception of municipalities in Gauteng and the Western Cape, Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu painted a grim picture for municipalities in other provinces as he presented the local government audit results for the 2018-19 financial
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'A man of substance'...McKenzie saddened by passing of Dunstan Whittingham
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, says he is saddened by today’s passing of Lionel “Dunstan” Whittingham, President of the Jamaica Higglers, Vendors and Markets
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Kenya: Big Chunk of Budget Earmarked for Servicing Rising Debt
The National Assembly has adopted a report of the Budget committee that will see the government spend Sh1.887 trillion in the 2020/21 financial
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Critical staff shortage hits Gweru
BY Stephen Chadenga THE Gweru City Council finance department is failing to efficiently discharge its obligations due to shortages of staff in critical positions, mayor Josiah Makombe has said. In his recent presentation on the state of the city, Makombe said the local authority had been failing to
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Ashes instead of soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 fight
COVID-19 has worsened the underlying structural and perennial problem of water shortages in Matabeleland North, South and Bulawayo provinces, said Dumisani Nkomo, chief executive officer for Habakkuk Trust, a nonprofit
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Bigger police budget welcome, but delivery overdue - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
On Wednesday, Finance Minister Colm Imbert announced that the Government would increase funding to the TT Police Service by an additional $57 million to pay creditors. Piloting the Finance (Supplementation and Variation of Appropriation) (Financial Year 2021) Bill, 2021, Mr Imbert promised tha
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NSFAS R500m irregular expenditure: AG, Nzimande butt heads over gazetting of bursary scheme | News24
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Uganda: The 2021/2022 National Budget - Between a Rock and Hard Place
[Monitor] Next week is Budget week. For the last six months, our planners and policy honchos have been plotting how to raise revenues and also spend in a manner that fosters economic growth. This is not an easy or enviable task, because of the several competing economic demands and fluid
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St Vincent to make COVID vaccination mandatory for frontline workers - Barbados Today
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