* It is a growing concern with most utility companies with BWB being the most culprit * They are expected to seek permission from City Council dig up a road to repair their underground systems Blantyre Water Board (BWB) as well as most utility companies have been faulted of negligence at their disregard of reinstating […]
Asks residents to comply as according to the Law Blantyre City Council is notifying all property owners and residents of the city that it has engaged officers from the Malawi Polytechnic to update its register of private properties in the city. In a public statement, Blantyre City Council says the Malawi Polytechnic officers will be […]
The Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Limited joined hands with the Blantyre City Council in a tree-planting exercise on Tuesday, March 2 2021 in Blantyre. The official ceremony kick-starting the planting of 7,000 tree seedlings across the country took place at Naperi Community Ground. Guest of honour, Blantyre City Deputy Mayor, Councillor Joseph Makwinja, […]
The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) and the Blantyre Small Scale Business Operators have filed a fresh application for permission to the Blantyre City Council to hold peaceful demonstration on January 13 2021. Cdedi and the business operators had initially planned to hold the protests on January 8 2021. But according to CDEDI […]
Members of the public are questioning where the money goes that Blantyre City Council collects from Mibawa minibus terminal and other bus depots if not for maintenance of these vital socio-economic facilities. This follows a picture post on Facebook from social critic, Onjezani Kenani that he forwarded from another source that went with the following […]
Blantyre City Council on Monday night demolished structures for vendors in Limbe town specifically for those who ply their trade in areas deemed illegal for vending. Vendors plying their trade in the demolished stalls reacted with shock when they reported for the days’ business and more police officers were deployed within the city with some […]
Listed National Bank of Malawi (NBM) plc Wednesday donated face masks worth K2 million to Blantyre City Council (BCC)’s ‘Donate a mask’ campaign to protect vulnerable school pupils in the city from Covid-19 pandemic. Making the donation in Blantyre, Chief Executive Officer for NBM Development Bank Limited, a subsidiary for NBM plc Lucious Mandala said […]
The Ministry of Civic Education and National Unity has order the Blantye City Council (BCC) to apologize to Muslims, Christians and the entire Malawi nation for risking the country a civil strife between co-existing religious communities. The council is being accused of failing to resolve a misunderstanding between the Muslim community and the Evangelical Association […]
Islamic Information Bureau says it has instructed its lawyers to take legal action against Blantyre City Council over the vandalism of its billboard which caused friction with a Christian body. An official from the Islamic Information Bureau which erected the controversial billboard said Muslims were surprised that the council vandalized the billboard even before hearing […]
Several organizations from Blantyre have donated tap buckets to Blantyre City Council to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus. The items included 80 buckets, 40 tap buckets and small tap buckets, among others. The organizations which came together to donate the items worth close to K300,000 Inspire Marketing Group, Ecoride, Afrimax Limited, League4change and Nest […]
Blantyre City Council has sprung up to categorically deny social media reports that it was charging K10 000 for coronavirus special permits. In a statement, the council says the permits, to allow residents move from one point to another, are free of charge. “We would like to inform residents especially the business community that the […]
Despite modifying two of the busiest streets in Blantyre’s Central Business District (CBD), the Haile Selassie and Glyn Jones, into one way, traffic congestion seems to have even been made worse and not just during peak hours. However, the City Council assures the general public that the modification measures to decongest traffic flow is still […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) has closed one of the famous Blantyre’s night clubs of Chez Ntemba for not complying with the council’s terms and conditions. BCC’s Public Relations Manager, Anthony Kasunda confirmed the development. “I should confirm that Blantyre City Council has indeed closed Chez Ntemba for operating without a renewed business license from the […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) have been given a seven-day ultimatum by Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Ben Phiri to clean up wastes dumped in Limbe River. Phiri gave the ultimutum on Wednesday after a surprise visit to Limbe and Kachere markets in the cit. He said poor waste disposal in the markets is […]
Blantyre City Council (BCC) has with immediate effect banned holding of commercial activities in residential areas and appealed to the business community to go to places designated for such activities (commercial areas) to avoid noise pollution. According to the Council, they want to curb noise pollution in the city emanating from commercial events that are […]
Blantyre City’s sewerage system, set up in the 1960s, is in badly need of a major overhaul if sewage waste management is to be properly effected. This was what Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Ben Phiri was appraised with when he was invited by the City Council for a familiarization tour of Manase […]
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Ben Malunga Phiri, on Monday made a tour of Blantyre District and one of the areas visited was the City Council’s badly managed waste dump facility in Mzedi Ward along the road from Limbe to Zomba and Chiradzulu. The area around the dumpsite at Mzedi, which is just […]
Wild James Ndipo of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) who on Friday retained as Mayor of City of Blantyre while Joseph Nyson Makwinja also of the DPP was entrusted with the post of deputy mayor, said his re-election is enormous privilege as the first term was for the laying of a foundation and now it’s […]