Henry Mussa’s path back into public office has not run through the front benches he once occupied as a stalwart of the Democratic Progressive Party. Instead, after years on the political margins, he has been handed a role rather less glamorous than the ones he held at the height of his career — but one […]
Classes came to a halt at Malawi Institute of Tourism following a sex scandal involving two first year students who were caught red handed having sex in a broad daylight behind the Reserve Bank of Malawi. Photos of a naked female student romping Shadreck Majamanda, a Guillever residence in Lilongwe have gone viral on social media. A student […]
Chief Secretary to the Government George Mkondiwa has said tourism remains one of the pillars for the country’s economy despite a few challenges rocking the sector. Mkondiwa said this when he paid an impromptu visit to the Malawi Institute of Tourism (MIT) training school in Blantyre. He said Malawi has several attraction sites such as […]
Mzuzu University (Mzuni) plans to have its own modern hotel which will be used for its hospitality students as a teaching and research hotel to be financed by the World Bank, according to Mzuni vice chancellor Dr. Robert Ridley. Ridley said the plan to have the teaching hotel so that Mzuni o students in the […]
Malawi’s anti-graft body, the Anti-corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday arrested Leonard Kalonga, Chief Tourism Officer in the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife for allegedly conniving with different people to defraud government. This is one of the many arrests the ACB and fiscal police have made since September in relation to the famous cash-gate scandal, which […]
Lecturers at Malawi Institute of Tourism (MIT) in Blantyre have gone on strike demanding a 120 percent pay rise following the increase in cost of living. However, management has instead counter-offered with across-the-board 30 percent hike, which the training officers have rebuffed as too little. The lecturers started their indefinite strike on Thursday last week, […]
Police have arrested a third and supposedly last suspect in the rape and murder cases of an 18-year-old Malawi Institute of Tourism (MIT) student and her boyfriend respectively. The suspect, Willy Nanthambwe, is believed to be part of a three-member squad that repeatedly gang-raped the girl and murdered her boyfriend Victor Kokoma on January 17, […]
Classes are suspended at the Malawi Institute of Tourism (MIT) because training officers are staging a strike asking for a salary hike. Students are crying foul following the strike because they are simply wasting their time at the school. “The training officers are demanding a salary hike but management is refusing to grant them. The […]