Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) Executive Director, John Kapito has agains warned his warning of civil unrest over economic hardships unless government abandon Automatic Pricing Mechanism (APM) following the recent fuel price hike. Kapito said on Tuesday that the increased fuel price announced by Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) would push up costs across the […]
Barely a month after the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) hiked fuel pump prices, motorists will again have to dig deeper into their pockets following another increase effected Tuesday. MERA has released a statement announcing the new fuel prices upward adjustments effective March 12, 2013. According to the energy regulator the new fuel prices are […]
President Dr. Joyce Banda has expressed optimism that 2013 will be the year when farmers will earn decent incomes from their labour and that indeed the Malawi economy is on the road to recovery. The agriculture sector, one of the five priority sectors of ERP, prioritizes tobacco as one of the pillar cash crops besides […]
Malawi’s headline inflation skyrocketed by 0.5 percent points in January to hit 35.1 in December as prices of food and non-food items continued to surge, the National Statistical Office (NSO) indicated . The rise in inflation signals continued erosion in purchasing power by most average Malawians as both disposable income and savings are drastically reduced, throwing many into […]
A 33 year-old man from Chakanza village, Traditional Authority Nsamala in southern district of Balaka hanged himself to death upon learning that his wife and children went to bed on empty stomach. The deceased, Wisky James committed suicide by hanging himself last Thursday near Jehovah’s Witness camp site along Magalasi-old Chileka road in Blantyre. The […]
A Malawian lawyer has observed that opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) acting president Peter Mutharika shopping spree at Malangalanga and Chinsapo markets in Lilongwe on Saturday where he boarded a commuter minibus, is cheap political gimmick ahead of next year’s polls. Mutharika stormed the public market to appreciate the pinch of the current economic crisis […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Sunday repeated her claims that administration policies are producing a robust economic recovery. Speaking at the Martyrs’ Day commemoration in Nkhata-Bay district on Sunday, March 3, President Banda said her government was sleepless over turning around Malawi’s economy. She said her government is implementing an inclusive and participatory economic reform […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has vowed to get the country’s economy growing again and to do more to end hardships which she noted were caused by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Speaking at a “development rally” in Chintheche, Nkhatabay district in the northern Malawi, the Head of State assured that her government will work tirelessly […]
The Malawi Law Society (MLS) says it will revise fees lawyers charge claiming that they have also been affected by the devaluation of the Kwacha while judges have pushed for “respectable salary” and a better retirement package. The demand for judges pay hike comes close on the heels of government committing to increase salaries for […]
The Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) has started consulting the general public on the next action to be taken against government’s reluctance to implement measures raised in its seven-point petition presented on January 17 2013 in the wake of flailing economy. Government a fortnight ago rejected most of the demands Cama had presented to it […]
The influential Catholic church in Malawi has expressed gratitude for the end to a strike by more than 100,000 government employees but rued the plight of the nation’s poor. The Church has since urged President Joyce Banda and her government to show serious responsibility in proactively dealing with economic hardships that face the country from […]
Malawi’s prominent human rights activist Billy Mayaya has drafted a petition which Malawians are signing online denouncing demands from members of Parliament (MPs) to get K10 million (about $27 777) each as fuel allowance arrears. The National Assembly has 193 MPs, which means the total amount paid would add up to K1.9 billion (about $5.3 million). But […]
President Joyce Banda has said she will not be stampeded into accepting demands by Members of Parliament (MPs) for the implementation of their 2008 request to have their fuel allowances pegged at 500 litres a month. The MPs also want all their arrears dating back to 2009 when the late Bingu wa Mutharika’s regime challenged […]
In the wake of spiraling economic malaise coupled with rising inflation, the government of President Dr. Joyce Banda is very much focused on addressing all thorny issues the country is facing, presidential aide Rev. Malani Mtonga told a rally in Chileka, Blantyre on Friday. Mtonga said the Joyce Banda administration has scored highly on responding […]
Former First Lady, Calista Chapola Mutharika, came out of her cocoon and took a swipe on President Joyce Banda, blaming her for ‘grossly’ failing to rule the country and putting Malawians in deep misery beyond reach. She was guest of honour at Pastors Voices Fraternal conference at Assemblies of God Church in Chemusa, Blantyre on Saturday […]
Malawi’s opposition People’s Progressive Movement (PPM) president Mark Katsonga has called for an immediate resignation of President Joyce Banda and her administration to make way for early elections. Katsonga told a news conference in Blantyre on Friday that President Banda could not go up to next year’s polls at the rate she was going, saying she should […]
Malawi’s Civil Service Trade Union (CSTU) and government of President Joyce Banda on Thursday night agreed a 61-percent pay hike for the lowest paid public-sector employees and a five-percent rise for high earners effective January 1 2013. CSTU president Elia Kamphinda Banda, reading a communiqué during a joint news conference with the Government Negotiating Team […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has rejected a move to start printing new portraits for her to accommodate her new doctorate title, to save the struggling southern African country millions of money. South Korea’s University of Jeonju awarded Banda an honorary doctorate degree in economics. The initial portrait of President Banda has a ‘Mrs’ on its title; however, Ministry […]