By Angwanda Powerman
Comment & analysis
Negotiations about international trade tend to have relevance for large firms or formal enterprises. But, asks Agwanda Saye what about the rights of the large number of workers in Kisumu town involved in informal trade?
When one hears the word trade what comes to mind is the large-scale formal traders, and international [...]

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By Angwanda Powerman
 Kisumu Municipal Council has embarked on an effort to rid off illegal structures put by the road sides within the town centre. The council town clerk Daniel Ole Ekere has given the owners of such structures a 21 days’ notice to pull down the structures.
In a circular notice, the clerk noted that council [...]

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Left is Dr Bishop Ngede (Nyanza Churches Chairman) Right is Dr Prophet Owour -filed photos
PRESS STATEMNET:
AS Members of the Nyanza Council of Church Leaders our attention has been drawn to utterances made in a section of the press by Bishop Dr. David Owuor.We would therefore like to take this early opportunity in condemning the Church Leader [...]

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BRANDING OF PARKS.
By Agwanda Jakorandoh.
THE Kenya Wildlife Service [KWS] has now embarked on a massive branding exercise of its parks within Nyanza province which is currently covered under the western Kenya tourism circuit.
A Senior KWS  Warden William Sang’ disclosed that the exercise which also  includes putting up of new offices and renovation of existing facilities  [...]

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By Agwanda Jakorandoh.
MUHORONI Member of Parliament Ayiecho Olweny has questioned the source of money that a group of leaders opposed to Prime Minster Raila Odinga are pouring in the tune of millions in funds drives. Olweny, the assistant Minister for education said that even cabinet Ministers and their assistants do not have that kind of [...]

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By Alphayo Otieno
Tension and discontent is high within the Lake Victoria South Water Services Board (LVSWSB) over what stakeholders describe as “high level graft” among the top management.
And it is now feared that that unless the contentious issues at the board that covers an area of 23000 Km2 comprising 18 administrative districts in Nyanza and [...]

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By Shem Kosse
Top echelon officials of the Kisumu based Non Governmental Organization(NGO) TUUNGANE ,that is tasked with fighting the spread and creating HIV/AIDS awareness among the youth have allegedly turned the organization into a cash cow as the Kenya National NGO council watches the other way.
The NGO officials under the tutelage of Ken Ongengo programmes [...]

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By Alphayo Otieno in Kisumu
About 20 minutes drive from the Kisumu Airport lie some 10 units of self catering tented single and double bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms suspended on short pillars erected from well manicured lawns on the shores of Lake Victoria.
The five-year old Kiboko Bay Resort situated in an old quarry at the Dunga [...]

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By Alphayo Otieno
Petty corruption in various forms is on the rise at Kisumu district hospital according to recent research.
The trend should raise concern about the quality of health care offered at the medical institution, the research study pointed out.
The findings were drawn from a survey involving 200 households. The study was jointly conducted by Transparency [...]

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By Shem Kosse
 
One of the daughters of Prime Minister Raila Odinga Rosemary Adhiambo Odinga is embroiled in a serious property tussle with a wealthy Kisumu asian tycoon Karim Surani.
 
At the centre of the controversy is a hotel operating under the flagship New Rozy Lodge which is home to over 20 rooms said to be worth [...]

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