Back Bencher
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Health crisis calls for desperate measures
Honourable Folks, Kamuzu Central Hospital director, Dr. Nordeen Alide must be a bureaucrat to boot. When 15 doctors from the…
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The economy and 2014 polls
Honourable Folks, there’s no denying that JB has a much greater stake in the 2014 presidential election than any other…
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Demos aren’t the end, just the beginning
Honourable Folks, protests over rising costs of living took place without so much of an incident on Thursday. To me,…
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Some senseless law, indeed!
Honourable Folks, the benefits of the president as stipulated in chapter 2:02 of the laws of Malawi include “duty-free importation…
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Flotation or suicide, make your pick
Honourable Folks, if Cama demonstrations slated for January 17 are meant to protest the flotation of the kwacha, then there…
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Will they know it is Christmas?
Honourable Folks, come Tuesday and it will be Christmas Day, the climax of the festive season which also heralds the…
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Let go of Fisp while it’s day time
Honourable Folks, last year K17.4 billion (about $52.7 million) was invested in Farm Input Subsidy Programme (Fisp) which targeted 1.4…
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Jail is not for sinners
Honourable Folks, the Malawi Council of Churches (MCC) has of late been in the news, unfortunately, all for the wrong…
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How entrenched is poverty in Malawi?
Honourable Folks, in 2000, rich and developing countries made a declaration to work together, under the umbrella of the United…
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When Obama becomes open book
Honourable Folks, one of the many lessons to learn from Barack Obama’s victory in the US presidential race on Wednesday…
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Will Atupele be daddy’s good boy?
Honourable Folks, Atupele Muluzi had no serious contender for the UDF chairmanship. No wonder it was a walkover for him…
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What needs addressing in Chasowa case
Honourable Folks, by swooping on those implicated in the murder of Robert Chasowa, government is by no means making political…
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Sorry, no relenting on bashing mediocrity
Honourable Folks, six months after the change of government, dust is now beginning to settle and the true colours of…
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Need for Cabinet to die a little
Honourable Folks, since JB and the Vice-President slashed 30 percent off their salaries, the view gaining currency nowadays is that…
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Over my dead body
Honourable Folks, sometimes sharing something personal helps the listener to get the picture, polished to gem-like brightness, of emotions buried…
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The good thing out of economic mess
Honourable Folks, they say once bitten twice shy. The Joyce Banda administration shouldn’t be surprised that more and more people…
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Thoughts on the recovery plan
Honourable Folks, the delineation of MDGS II in the name of economic recovery plan may be the prudent thing to…
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Malawi Govt should lead by example
Honourable Folks, last week we said to fellow citizens that Cheetahs don’t push the buck and, as citizens, we have…
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Cheetahs don’t push the buck!
Honourable Folks, while strikes appear to be everybody’s easy answer to the runaway inflation rocking Malawi’s economy, we should bear…
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Hippos and cheetahs
Honourable Folks, George Ayittey, a Ghanaian professor of economics and author of Africa Unchained, holds no punches in his prognosis…
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