The construction of a K10 billion port in Likoma Island will commence, Minister of Transport and Public Works Jappie Mhango has said after he officially launched the start of the project. Mhango laid a foundation stone for a permanent jetty at Likoma saying “it is all about development” and not another campaign tool for the […]
Over 70 officials of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) are stranded in Nkhata Bay after a vessel they had hired to go to Likoma for party activities developed a fault. Nkhata Bay DPP governor Golden Chikanda said the party officials were to be led by party Treasurer General Jappie Mhango for a political rally […]
Six year old Tadala Kabefu from Kabuthu village in the area of Traditional Authority Mkumpha in Likoma district was on Tuesday found dead after being defiled and murdered by unknown assailants. According to Chizumulu Police Public Relations Officer, Mcliff Nguluwe, the deceased and her mother went to her grandparents to pay a visit. “At her […]
Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Kondwani Nankhumwa, on Sunday, February 25, 2017 led a delegation of members of the Parliamentary Committee on Rural Development on a familiarization tour of Likoma District, an island on Lake Malawi. Members of the delegation included Malawi Congress Party (MCP) MP for Dowa South East, Harry Chipeni, MCP MP for […]
Traditional Authority (TA) Mkumpha of Likoma Island has asked government to consider replacing MV Ilala saying there are fears that the aged ship may cause disaster. The aged ship, which has a capacity of 360 passengers and 100 metric tons of freight, has been sailing on Lake Malawi since 1951 and is the only reliable […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works Jappie Mhango has touted a revolutionary infrastructure development with a National Transport Master Plan in roads, ships and airports . Mhango said apart from the roads infrastructure projects President Peter Mutharika’s government has recently embarked on, his ministry has procured a consultant to undertake a full feasibility and design study for the construction […]
Malawi Red Cross Society on Monday donated a K4 million speed boat to Likoma District Red Cross Society Division to assist the district in disaster response. Speaking in an interview after the donation, Malawi Red Cross Society Youth and Resource Mobilization Manager, Leonard Maganga said his organization decided to donate the speed boat because Likoma […]
Likoma District will soon have its first ever mortuary courtesy of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) that has enabled the construction of the facility. The development has already excited many islanders who say they will now accord decent burial to their dead loved ones. For years, lack of a mortuary in the district forced families to […]
Malawi Police on Likoma Island are keeping in custody a 64-year-old polygamous man for setting on fire the house in which his first wife and children were living. Michael Lembalemba, father of six, shocked everybody at Madimba area, Chamba Village in Traditional Authority Mkumpha when Tuesday 12 noon he set the house on fire. Lembalemba, […]
Malawi government has finally granted the go ahead for Likoma Island airport to start operating international flights in an attempt to increase revenue generated through tourism. Speaking at an event organized to handover the airport to the Airports Developments Limited (ADL) on Tuesday, Minister of Transport and Public Works Jappie Mhango said granting Likoma an international […]
People at Likoma Island, whose district health officer is stationed at Nkhata Bay boma are demanding answers from the government why the senior medical officer is not stationed at his place of work. District health officers shun Likoma island because it lacks many services as it is a small island on Lake Malawi and they […]
The managing director of private owned Zodiak Broadcasting Station, Gospel Kazako, has offered an apology the people from Likoma and Chizumulu Islands who protested about a demeaning advert carried by Zodiak radio. The advert was insinuating that the Islanders have not been part of Malawi and were officially declared to be part of Malawi following […]
The construction of Likoma Jetty, which has been a song since time immemorial, might soon be under construction after Likoma District Council and stakeholders recently agreed unanimously to construct a permanent jetty. General Manager of Malawi Shipping Company and Malawi Ports Alcides Pessoa and his technical advisor Austin Msowoya has since commended the council for […]
Member of Parliament for Likoma Island Olivia Thundu says people of Likoma Island, an exclave of Malawi are grateful to President Joyce Banda as the MV Ilala ship is back on the Lake Malawi waters Thundu told parliament that people of Likoma Island were facing transport problems due to the absence of the ship because they mostly […]
Member of Parliament for Likoma sland Olivia Thundu wanted to know when the Ilala ship will sail again on the waters of Lake Malawi. She asked the minister of transport and public works in parliament Thursday, adding that people of Likoma Island are facing transport problems due to the absence of the ship. “I just […]
Malawi Vice President Khumbo Kachali has said Likoma district needs urgent attention in mobility to ensure that people on the Islands have access to basic necessities. Kachali was speaking on the Islands on Saturday when he attended a Centenary celebration service at St. Micheals Anglican Church. The Vice President acknowledged that wheneever the Illala is […]
Hundreds of families at Likoma and Chizumulu Islands on Lake Malawi breathed a collective sigh of relief after they finally reunited with their family members who had been stranded at the mainland since November 27, 2011. Over 200 people destined for the two islands had been stranded at Nkhata Bay Jetty for about two weeks […]