Parents and teachers told to confirm authenticity of text books
The addendum contains approved books for Pre-Primary 1 and 2 and Grade 1, 2 and 3. Last January 2, Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed directed education officers to confirm that only KICD approved are used in schools.
Kenya develops legal framework to manage waste
The existing legislation on waste management, he said, continues to experience bottlenecks making it important to develop the three instruments.
ICT ministry installs high-speed internet at Mombasa waterfront
Information, Communication, Technology Principal Secretary Jerome Ochieng said the provision of reliable and high-quality internet was critical for the project, which is expected to attract more international and local visitors to the coastal city.
Kirinyaga County embarks on modernisation of fresh produce markets
The county during the last financial year acquired road improvement equipment worth over Ksh250 million (US$2.5 million) which has been used for the improvement of many of the access roads in the rural areas.
Kenya targets 20 million pairs of shoes as leather industry gets boost
Safari Boots was the signature footwear when Limuru-based Bata Limited, the Kenyan shoe manufacturer, was thriving in the 1970s through to the early 1990s. After the country became flooded with second-hand shoes from Europe and the United States, it set in motion the slow-death in the manufacturing of the footwear...
Kakamega braces for an industrial park
The Kakamega County Government has set aside 48 acres of land at Matawa in Mumias West Sub-county for establishment of an industrial park. County Executive for Trade, Industrialisation and Tourism Kassim Were said the county government is looking for strategic investors to set up agro-based factories to add value to...
Task force calls for overhaul in maize value chain
Trans-Nzoia Governor Patrick Khaemba says restructuring of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority (AFFA), the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) and the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) is critical in helping maize farmers access extension services, post-harvest management, financing and competitive free markets.
No time for half-hearted noise or waiting games Kenya needs a revolution – US agency report
After three elections in which the opposition appeared to have won convincingly only for the electoral body and some foreign observers to give the verdict to the governing party, there are questions about whether Kenya can be the standard bearer in Africa, having held elections periodically since independence in 1963....
Kenyan voters are still reluctant to change ‘rules of the game [that] have rigged elections against them – report
New information points to the possibility of foreign powers having had a hand in propping President Uhuru Kenyatta as fears mounted that Kenya was ceding its primacy as regional economic, military and technological staging ground for the war against terrorism and money-laundering to the new kids on the block – Ethiopia, Tanzania and Rwanda.
Central Kenya man with over 500,000 medicinal herbs on his farm seeks help
He spends over Ksh100,000 (US$1,000) per year on laboratory tests before he is allowed to administer on humans and animals.
