The High Court sitting as a Constitutional Court in Blantyre has dismissed a petition brought by privately owned Pacific Limited challenging the constitutionality of provisions within Malawi’s land laws, in one of the country’s most closely watched land cases in recent years. Pacific Limited had sought to challenge amendments to the Land Act and the […]
Parliament has resolved to form an ad-hoc Privileges Committee to summon the management of Pacific Group of Faizal Aboo to explain the statement the private company issued on Blantyre City South East member of Parliament (MP) Sameer Suleman who commented about race, land ownership and economic opportunity. MPs from both the government and the opposition […]
Managing director of Pacific Group of Companines, Faizalo Aboo has reacted to remarks made by Blantyre City South legislator Sameer Suleman that 80% of the whole of Limbe is currently owned by two individuals and that one of them owns over 50 hectares of land where he is fish farming, saying the remarks were unfounded and […]
Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) has, with immediate effect, suspended operations of four food and beverages production companies for non – compliance to minimum hygiene standards. The four food production companies are Universal Industries at Ginnery Corner in Blantyre, Pacific Hotel and Conference Centre, Stary Puffs and Vrushadri Spirits Limited in Lilongwe. Speaking in an […]
Member of Parliament for Salima Central Felix Jumbe has commended Pacific Group Limited, a local investment company owned by Malawians of Asian origin, for loaning out 20 motor bikes to 20 bicycle taxi operators – Kabaza – from Salima. Jumbe thanked Pacific for bailing out the taxi operators and appealed for prudence on the part […]
Pacific Limited has launched its fish farm along the Thyolo Road under its subsidiary Chambo Fisheries which is producing about 800 tonnes of fish for sale per annum and expect to produce at least 20 000 per year in the next 25 years. The compnay’s Chief Executive Officer, Muhammed Ismail Aboo explained that the farm […]
Minister of Youth and Sports Development Grace Obama Chiume has expressed worry with the increased number of athletes failing doping test in the African Union Sports Council Region 5, urging the region to double its efforts in educating athletes on dangers and effects of doping. Chiumia made the observation recently, when she opened an executive […]
In an effort of producing a productive Malawi by promoting proper growth of kids, an association that aims at taking care of the needy children, youth and women has donated blankets to Mercy Montessori Children Centre in Blantyre’s populous township of Ndirande. Commonly called Step Up; the Serve, Train, Educate, Proposition, Uplift, and Provision association […]