FACE BOOK HEADS... First lady amai Grace Mugabe has called for conservation programmes to eradicate poaching. Amai Mugabe was speaking during commemorations held in Lupane. Last year, over 100 elephants in the Hwange National Park died after drinking water with cynanide . === Health and child care deputy minister Dr Paul Chimedza says government will monitor management salaries in all medical aid societies to ensure that public funds are not mismanaged. Meanwhile....four medical aid societies face collapse following nonpayment of gazetted tariffs backdated to May. The herald reports that out of the 23 registered medical aid societies, Cimas, First Mutual Life, Masca and Sovereign Health have failed to comply with government tariffs. === Mines and mining development minister cde Walter Chidhakwa says the pull out by big diamond buyers caused low prices on the local tender resulting in the gems being sold for half the price on the international market. Cde Chidhakwa told star fm yesterday that the big buyers pulled out after Belgian authorities seized Zimbabwean diamonds worth $45 million dollars. Cde Chidhakwa however said Zimbabwe would go ahead with another local sale soon. === Zimbabwe Tourism Authority spokesperson Mr Sugar Chagonda says 96 foreign exhibitors have confirmed their participation at this years Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo. Mr Chagonda said this years expo will also include workshops that will run con currently with the exhibition. The expo that will be held at the Harare International Conference Centre begins tomorrow ending on Saturday. ==== Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has approved the construction of a 600 mega watt Gwayi thermal. ZERA chief executive officer Gloria Magombo says the agreement between Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission And Distribution Company (ZETDC) and a Chinese energy company, China Africa Sunlight Energy worth over 2 billion dollars was signed by president Robert Mugabe in august and has since been reviewed to check compliance with the countrys tariffs and international standards. === Head of the aids and tuberculosis unit in the health ministry Dr Owen Mugurungi says they have launched a know your child status campaign- which seeks to encourage parents to get their children tested for hiv . The campaign which will run until December will offer free HIV testing and counselling services in Mashonaland West and Midlands and in Chiredzi, Goromonzi, Chipinge and Marondera districts . ==== Harare city council says is planning to engage private debt collectors in recovering more than 250 million dollar debt owed by various ratepayers. Speaking to star fm, Harare mayor councillor Bernard Manyenyeni says this will help council improve service delivery. ==== Harare city council says it has completed the registration of vendors in the central business district which began on the 23rd of September this year. City councils spokesperson Mr Leslie Gwindi said the council will soon begin allocating vending places to registered vendors. Mr Gwindi said the purpose of this exercise is to legalize vending. He however said those selling perishable foods such as meat will not be given vending places as this is a health hazard. === In regional and international news Kenyas government has dismissed allegations made by the countrys catholic church that a tetanus vaccine being administered can cause sterility in women. Catholic priests have been telling their congregations to boycott a campaign that begins on Monday to vaccinate women against tetanus. However the countrys health minister James Macharia said it is a safe certified vaccine, adding that the vaccine is necessary in the prevention of deaths amongst new babies due to tetanus infection. === The who says the death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak has risen to 4,447. World health organization assistant director-general Bruce also said there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week within two months if efforts are not intensified. Meanwhile, international aid organisation doctors without borders (MSF) says 16 of its staff members have been infected with Ebola and nine of them have died. Speaking at a press conference in Johannesburg yesterday, head of doctors without borders in South Africa Sharon Ekambaram said medical workers have received inadequate assistance from the international community. ===== Parents whose daughters were abducted by Boko Haram at a school in Nigeria six months ago are accusing the government of focusing more on political issues and not on finding the girls. BBC says a few girls were able to escape their captors since the kidnapping, but despite promises from the Nigerian government that they all will be rescued, and offers of help from around the world, most are still missing. == Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is currently engaged in a tightly-contested runoff to decide if she will win a second term. Press TV says however, she has been forced to step aside from the campaigning to address some serious allegations which have put her workers party and state-run oil company Petrobras at the center of a massive embezzlement and bribery scandal. == United states health officials have said five passengers removed from a flight at Boston airport, after showing flu-like symptoms do not have infections of public concern. The emirates flight from Dubai was quarantined while emergency responders donning protective hazmat suits boarded the plane at Logan international airport and escorted the five people off. ==== Pizza hut Singapore has launched an investigation and apologized to a customer described as a pink fat lady in a handwritten note on her receipt after she ordered a take away. Reports say the receipt had a handwritten note at the bottom that read pink fat lady, apparently to identify her as she waited for her order. France 24 reports that Aili Si posted on pizza hut Singapores face book page a photo of the receipt, saying she felt insulted at the description. Meanwhile pizza hut has issued an apology saying, this incident goes against their corporate values and that the company will not condone behavior or actions that offend people.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:43:17 +0000
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