Likoma District Council is strengthening efforts to prevent and respond to stroke through collaboration with StrokeAfrica.org, with a focus on improving awareness and response to the condition. The initiative will provide health workers and communities with stroke-related educational materials, help identify warning signs and appreciate the importance of seeking medical attention early. Director of Health […]
Expectant and breastfeeding mothers in Likoma have commended Invest in Early Years Project for supporting them with goats as one way of improving their nutritional status. Speaking during the distribution of 184 goats on Friday, Hazel Ng’ombe, a beneficiary, said the goats will supplement six food groups. She said: “I am pleased to receive two […]
Ministry of Transport and Public Works spokesperson Andrew Mthiko says dredging works at Chipoka Bay in Salima will delay construction of Likoma jetty. In an interview on Sunday, the official said they had to dredge Chipoka Bay to increase the depth of the harbour to allow the use of barges. Dredging started in December 2020 […]
People of Likoma have said the absence of banks has crippled the district’s economic growth as tourists and businesspeople fail to utilise their money once they visit the island. Since Likoma was declared a district a decade ago, it has never had formal banking services. Likoma District Council chairperson Ernest Gulu said in an interview that the banks will […]
Meeting Hub (mHub), a technology and innovation hub, has advised youths in Likoma to venture into entrepreneurship to survive amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In an interview on Tuesday, mHub chief executive officer Vincent Kumwenda said many youths lack solutions to their economic problems. He said: “So, through Likoma Youths Incubation Programme, we will engage the […]
Family members of a patient who died from coronavirus (Covid-19) on Friday in Likoma on Monday assaulted health workers who went to collect blood samples from them. The 60-year-old woman died at St Peters Anglican Hospital hours after she tested positive fro the virus. However, when health workers requested family members for blood samples, they […]
Likoma District has registered a second positive Covid-19 case within a week with the latest being a female health care worker . According to Likoma District Medical Officer, Mathias Londo, a 26 year- old developed mild symptoms over the past week when she was in Mzuzu. Londo said the new case has been advised to […]
Youths in Likoma have bemoaned lack of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services at the district’s hospital. In an interview, Chimvu Youth Club chairperson Yamikani Chindebvu said there was no special room for the youth to access SRH services at the facility. “The youth are shy to go to hospital to access condoms and contraceptives […]
A four-year-old boy is in hospital at St Peter’s mission in Likoma Island after his step father burned him for allegedly eating relish meant for lunch. The victim, whose name we cannot reveal on ethical grounds, suffered the punishment after he admitted that he committed the crime because he was not given breakfast on Friday […]
Hope and expectations for meaningful social and economic livelihoods have been re-ignited among residents of Likoma and Chizumulu Islands following the installation of the modern hybrid power plants. Clifford Kawinga, a youthful entrepreneur and the Chief Executive Officer of Creck Hardware and General Supplies, is the man that has ended an era of persistent power […]
Clifford Kawinga, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Creck Hardware and General Supplies, a company which was contracted by the Government of Malawi to supply and install the four diesel powered electricity generators on Likoma and Chizumulu islands, says the successful completion of the project shows the high level capabilities indigenous individuals and companies […]
Malawi government on Monday commissioned four diesel-powered generators that will be generating electricity on Likoma and Chizumulu Islands, effectively ending a dark era of prolonged power blackouts and load shedding on the two islands. The supplier of the gensets, Clifford Kawinga of Creck Hardware, installed the generators that will produce 1.760 megawatts (MW), under the […]
Four diesel powered gensets for generation of electricity on Likoma and Chizumulu Islands have been finally delivered on the two islands with an assurance that the installation and commissioning of the generators will be done by mid of December, 2019. Creck Hardware and General Supplies is the company which has been awarded the MK952 million […]
Ulendo Airlink, proprietors of the light Cessna C210 aircraft which has cras-landed at Likoma says the pilot has been discharged from hospital. The pilot and two Egenco officials who wer in the plane were rushed to St. Peters Hospital at the island soon after the plane crashed at 10:30 am. Ulendo Link says the plane […]
Electricity Generation Company (Egenco) officials and a pilot en-route to Likoma Island has made an emergency landing at Likoma Airport on Thursday morning. Egenco spokesperson Moses Gwaza, who was on the plane said the plane was carrying two officials from Egenco, including him. Gwaza said the pilot has sustained a cut above one of his […]
Clifford Kawinga, who is the chief executive officer of Creck Hardware and General Supplies, a company which has been awarded a MK952 million Malawi Government contract to supply, install and commission power generators on Likoma and Chizumulu islands, has dismissed a “smear campaign” against his company that it was given the contract because he is an […]
As scores of Malawians elsewhere demonstrate in protest of May 21, electoral results, Likoma Island residents Friday marched against prolonged power blackouts. The protestors were led by Public Affairs Committee (PAC) and Likoma Pastors Union. “We are marching as concerned citizens against these prolonged power cuts so that decision makers at the Ministry of Natural […]
Hundreds of enthusiasts stood ashore of the Nkhatabay port to witness onloading of heavy and high valued earth moving equipment destined for Likoma Island. Every step of loading the equipment which included a bulldozer and an excavator onto a pontoon (barge) was carefully done. Across the mainland shores, hundreds of people at the island were […]