Protea Hotels Ryalls on Friday donated relief items to about 200 disaster victims living in camps in Blantyre City’s Bangwe area. Receiving the items on behalf of the victims, Blantyre City Mayor Noel Chalamanda warned the beneficiaries against the temptation of selling them. Chalamanda also appealed for love among the victims saying those that have […]
Airtel Malawi Limited in partnership with the Evangelical Church of Malawi Youth in Action Organisation on Friday challenged Bangwe residents to take the tree planting initiative seriously to restore the broken environment in the area. Airtel Malawi Head of Enterprise Business Rachael Majiga said her company which provided 850 indigenous seedlings, takes pride to partner […]
The youth from Blantyre will be amongst those to benefit from the just ended two weeks TEVETA television production training. The training, held at Blantyre City Council civic offices, aimed at decreasing the high youth unemployment rate in the city. One of the learners, Aaron Kampweka said the training has come at the right time […]
Blantyre City Mayor Noel Chalamanda has asked the Chinese community to utilise the investment opportunities available in the City. Chalamanda was speaking on Wednesday evening during the New Year festival celebrations by Blantyre based Chinese community at Robins Park. “Allow me to make use of this opportunity to appeal to potential and existing investors to […]
Champions Big Bullets will face old time rivals Mighty Wanderers in a Mayors Charity Shield dubbed ‘Keep Blantyre City clean and green’ with Multi-Choice Malawi as sponsors. The game will take place on 13th December at Kamuzu Stadium. The main aim of the shield is to create awareness on keep Blantyre clean and green campaign championed by […]
Mayor for Malawi’s Commercial City, Blantyre Noel Chalamanda, together with his councillors, will officially roll out ‘Clean and Make Blantyre Green’ campaign on November 1. The campaign, according to Chalamanda, will start with a whistle-stop tour in some Wards in the city where the Mayor and the councillors would be introduced to the constituents before cleaning […]
Malawi’s Commercial City of Blantyre in collaboration has introduced sports day in a move to inculcate sports culture in the youth. Sylvester Mitini Nkhoma, Director of Leisure, Culture and Environmental Affairs for Blantyre City Council said the Sports Day to be launched September 27 would help to improve the standards of the sporting disciplines in […]
Vendors in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre have ‘adamantly’ gone ahead to display and sell their merchandises in the streets despite the order to relocate to designated selling points.Blantyre City Councilors gave the vendors until Friday to relocate to designated selling points or they will be chucked out.The order was made during a meeting between a special committee […]
Members of Parliament and Ward Councilors from Blantyre City have elected renowned private practice lawyer Noel Chalamanda, independent councilor for Blantyre City Centre Ward as the new mayor for the city. Chalamanda floored former MP Alinane George Chipwete with 23 votes to 7. The only female candidate Gertrude Chirambo got one vote. The new Mayor said […]
Vendors are slowly but steadily returning to the streets in the commercial city of Blantyre owing to Blantyre City Assembly’s (BCA) inconsistency with their sweeping exercise. Vendors who have gone back in the streets are those selling second hand clothes and shoes, agriculture produce, groceries and phones and related accessories. Most of them were plying […]
Top night clubs and drinking joints within Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre risk losing their liquor licences for supplying and selling alcohol to under age and for acting as hub of teen prostitution, contrary to set by-laws, Nyasa Times has established. Popular clubs such as Chez Ntemba, Sterio, Grand and Grill, Pa Station among others are […]
In what could be described as scoring a double, Emmanuel Ted Nandolo, got some massive praises on his first municipal appearance in his second term of office as Blantyre City Council (BCC) Chief Executive Officer. Nandolo’s contract with BCC, offered to him on 8th January 2011 by the former President late Bingu wa Mutharika, officially […]
One of children homes in Blantyre city, Chimwemwe Children’s Centre has been earmarked for closure due to its continuous violation of child rights as it has turned into a breeding place for prostitutes and drug peddlers, Nyasa Times can reveal. However, Blantyre City Council, despite recommendations from Blantyre District Health and Social Welfare offices to […]
Representatives of the newly formed Blantyre Vendors Union (BVU) say union is set to strengthen the good working relationship between Blantyre City Assembly officials and vendors. The BVU Chairman, Thomson Banda, said the formation of the union is among other things aimed at making sure that Blantyre city remains an admirable place to stay and […]
The sensation tabloid,Weekend Times on Friday reported that the increasing number of hostels in the residential areas of Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre is causing havoc in some families as wives complain that their husbands are cheating with the hostel occupants, mostly females college students. “These students are all over the place hunting for men. I have […]
The District Health Officer for Blantyre, Dr Owen Malemya has blamed the death of 16 cholera patients in the city this year on his staff members’ negligence. During a postmortem meeting held on Tuesday at the Blantyre City Assembly, Malemya said there was poor case management of cholera patients as they had all the required […]
The Blantyre City Council (BCC) has been rocked in a dispute with an event decoration firm it committed to engage as the country was celebrating its 48th Independence last month at the COMESA Hall in Blantyre, Nyasa Times can reveal. The council, according to our source, picked KAMA Florists to decorate the COMESA Hall for the […]
Reeling from accusations of sugar coating its revenue base after failing to meet its projections, the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) has launched investigations on Blantyre City Council (BCC) for some tax-free payments to its top management. A source close to the issue confided in Nyasa Times that the tax collection body has been interviewing some […]