Treasury boss backs plan to cut wage bill
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 13:10:23 -0700 | business-news
The Treasury Principal Secretary nominee has pledged to support the Salaries commission efforts to harmonise wages of public servants. Dr Kamau Thugge said on Wednesday that harmonising salaries of public servants should be consistent with fiscal sustainability to help Government...
Second ‘woman' fights in a man's world
Source: Daily Nation
Thika :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 13:10:22 -0700 | political-news
Those were Alexander Ngungu Nthungi's words after Lady Justice Mumbi Ngugi declared that police violated his rights and dignity by stripping him naked to ascertain his sexual identity. The judgment has given me renewed hope; I will no longer have...
Graft claims raised in sale of textbooks
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 13:10:17 -0700 | political-news
A row has erupted between booksellers and headteachers over payment of supplies to schools under the free primary and subsidised secondary education programmes. The government should release funds through County Directors of Education and not headteachers to save the Kenya...
Police probe death of girl bound with wires
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 13:10:16 -0700 | allnews
Police are investigating the killing of a 15-year-old girl whose body was found stuffed in a gunny bag at a Nairobi estate. The unidentified victim whose legs and hands were bound with wires is thought to have been strangled using...
Teachers shun calls to down their tools
Source: Daily Nation
Kericho :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 13:10:16 -0700 | political-news
The secondary school teachers' strike has had little effect as most instructors continue to ignore calls by their union to down their tools. A spot check on Wednesday revealed that most teachers continued with their work even as Kenya Union...
Heads caution against hasty laptops roll-out
Source: Daily Nation
Kisumu :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 13:10:13 -0700 | technology-news
Pupils should not be provided with laptop computers, secondary school headteachers have said. Instead, the government should set up computer labs in the schools for use by all pupils, secondary schools headteachers association chairman John Awiti said on Wednesday.
Law proposed to protect hurt workers
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 13:10:10 -0700 | political-news
Employers will have to compensate employees who get injured in the course of duty or be liable to a fine not exceeding Sh500,000 or one year imprisonment or both. A draft Bill also proposes that dependants of an employee be...
Strikers told to give room for dialogue
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 13:10:07 -0700 | political-news
The salaries commission boss has urged striking teachers to give dialogue a chance. Speaking at St George's Girls Secondary School in Nairobi on Wednesday, Salaries and Remuneration Commission chairperson Sarah Serem asked the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Teachers (Kuppet) to...
Kenya Power to give out free green bulbs
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 11:36:04 -0700 | green-news
Kenya Power said Friday it would distribute 3.3 million free energy-saving bulbs in a countrywide exercise set to begin later this year. The project, implemented under Clean Development Mechanism's (CDM) efficient lighting programme, will see the firm and the government...
HELB wants you to pick up your clearance certificate
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 11:36:20 -0700 | political-news
I took a study loan from 1977 to 1980 when I was a student at the University of Nairobi. After graduation, I was employed by the Ministry of Tourism and repaid my loan in full during the 1990s. But to my...
Entrepreneurs are price-sensitive and buy ordinary brands
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 11:36:12 -0700 | technology-news
Rating In Summary I have met two categories of people in my career...They are usually dressed to kill on a normal day, drive status cars, and cut an image of class in virtually all aspects Then there is the simple-looking...
To avoid losing all your cash, start small and grow
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 11:36:12 -0700 | business-news
I am at a loss as to what kind of business to start to generate money to support my family. I was thinking of buying a 14-seater caravan to start a matatu business, but someone told me that the government...
Put down your goals against the projected costs
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 11:36:11 -0700 | political-news
Rating In Summary Acquiring a plot of land is equally expensive and therefore requires planning. Last week's question: Savings plan I am a 26-year-old man, recently I got a job with a basic pay of Sh33,000 a month. I also...
Insurers target women because they are careful drivers
Source: Daily Nation
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 11:36:06 -0700 | technology-news
I have always enjoyed reading your educative articles demystifying insurance. Once in a while, I note advertisements of motor insurance policies specially designed for women and was wondering if you could comment on these products. Can you, for example, use...
Why few take mortgages
Source: Daily Nation
Mombasa :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-19 11:36:04 -0700 | political-news
The 2012 Wealth Report by Knight Frank ranks Nairobi and Mombasa as the two areas that have witnessed the highest growth in property value in the world in recent times, while the 2013 first quarter Hass Property Index shows that tenants...
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