Youth and Society (YAS) and Development Communications Trust (DCT) on Friday engaged the media in the northern region in a project aimed at influencing effective implementation and enforcement of regulatory framework that guarantees right to information.
The project is being co-funded by OXFAM and European Union (EU).
Briefing the journalists at Grand Palace Hotel in Mzuzu, Aubrey Chikungwa of Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)-Malawi said Access to information was a human right that helps one to enjoy other human rights.
The media orientation revealed that Malawi as a country had a weak score of 4 out of 10 on the Open Government Partnership Index for its access to information environment. The project therefore seeks to redress this situation.
University of Livingstonia (Unilia) has said it would be imperative if government considered taking more interest in making sure that online and open distance learning (ODL) becomes more affordable. Vice Chancellor, Professor Yohane Nyasulu, said during the university’s 14th congregation held virtually at Grand Palace Hotel in Mzuzu that courtesy of the Covid-19 pandemic online […]
Published April 13, 2021, 8:56 AM
Max K (not his real name) sat nervously as he waited for his Covid Test results. He works as a security guard in a Butuan realty corporation. He was one of the 14 close contacts of a previously confirmed case. He did not want to be tested. He claimed that he had not been in contact with the previous case for the last 6 months. He feared being quarantined as he is the family’s sole breadwinner. Max was not incentivized to self-report or self-quarantine. Max is a typical case.
Unfortunately for Max, he tested positive for covid. What happened next for Max can shed light to a mystery. You see, Butuan bested some of the Philippines more prosperous cities in terms of quarantine efforts. DOH data as of April 11, 2021 shows that Butuan was able to quarantine 77 out of every 100 positive covid cases in the last 30 days. (Capture5.jpg)
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Iqbal Ahmed was born in Srinagar, lives in London and is the author of four memoirs which draw on this dual inheritance to illuminate the immigrant experience, combining travel, discovery and daily life alongside reflections on memory, literature and history.
His new book, An Open Book and an Empty Cup: London Regained, is a lyrical, multi-layered exploration of London, interwoven with his Kashmiri heritage. His narrative is enlivened by anecdotes about the places he sees and the people he encounters, and the cafés he discovers and where he lingers with “an open book and empty cup” words derived from W.B. Yeats’s poem ‘Vacillation’, a philosophical meditation on life and its binaries.
that his staff went back and remembered the name matched this guy who had applied online and they found out that this is indeed the guy who applied online to join their gun range and had this very, very odd message machine at his home. it s just bits and pieces but we now know that james holmes was at least trying or attempting to get to a gun range to practice perhaps with the guns that he was using allegedly to kill all of these people. drew griffin reporting from denver. tomorrow morning this crime moves to the court. suspect james holmes makes his initial court appearance. what are the expectations, ed? reporter: it will be his first court appearance and the judge in this case is allowing a camera into the courtroom. it will be the first glimpse that anyone has gotten of james holmes since he was taken into custody in the early hours of friday morning. in the meantime investigators continue to do their work. they have wrapped up most of their work here. we are just