Malawi government is working on banning harmful cultural practises following revelations of a rular man from Nsanje, Eric Aniva who confessed to defiling young girls and sleeping with widows when he was HIV positive. Aniva, who has since been arrested after Presidential directive when the news about his confession was on BBC, was practising the […]
Minister of Information, Communication, Technology and Civic Education Patricia Kaliati has warned that all perpetrators of early child marriages and all forms of domestic violence against women will face stiff punishment. She made the remarks during a marriage, divorce and family relations sensitization meeting which took place at Ekwendeni in Mzimba North East on Wednesday. […]
Minister of Information Communication Technology and Civic Education, Patricia Kaliati, has urged the country’s television stations to include adequate local content in their programs in order to promote Malawi’s cultural values. She observed that despite the continued increase in the number of television channels on the domestic scene, most of their programming are foreign-based, a […]
Members of parliamnt on Wednesday morning got back to serious business when they passed bills in harmony, in sharp contrast to the previous day when the opposition walked out of the House and senior politicians wanted to fight. Parliament on Wednesday passed two Land bills in a very peaceful atmosphere and for the first time […]
Tempers flared high on Monday as opposition legislators demanded an apology from Information minister Patricia Kaliati who accused the opposition MCP and PP legislators of being silent since the K577 billion report came out. Vitus Dzoole Mwale, Lilongwe Msozi South MP (MCP) brought to the attention of Speaker Richard Msowoya that Kaliati had mumrmured something […]
Minister of Information, communication, technology and civic education Patricia Kaliati has said the central region is no longer Malawi Congress Party (MCP) stronghold saying more people are now supporting the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) due to its programmes supporting the poor. Kaliati made the remarks at Mchinji Community ground on Friday when she addressed a […]
Information Minister Patricia Kaliati on Wednesday called for mindset transformation amongst Malawians while demanding them to stop castigating the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government for the hunger and financial crisis the nation is facing. Kaliati made her call during the National Service Worship Commemorating 52 years of Independent which was held in Lilongwe. Speaking […]
Information, Communication Technology and Civic Education Minister who is also government spokesperson Patricia Kaliati has hit back at some Malawians faulting President Peter Mutharika in what she calls ‘innocent things’ including jokes. Kaliati said the remarks made by President Mutharika at a recent development rally in Mulanje that people should eat ‘mice’ as part of […]
The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has defended the K61 billion wealth said to have been accumulated by former president Bingu wa Mutharika, saying he had the capacity to accumulate such wealth and that there is no evidence the money was stolen. Minister of Information, Patricia Kaliati, who is also government spokesperson defended late Mutharika […]
Information minister Patricia Kaliati has ruled out that government would implement the death penalty on killers of people with albinism, saying doing so would be contravening international human rights instruments Malawi signed. Kaliati’s comments come hot in the heels of calls by Mulanje South MP Bon Kalindo to unleash the death penalty on the killers […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) regional governor in the Northern Region Kenneth Sanga has contradicted government spokesperson Patricia Kaliati by admitting that newspaper reports were accurate that the party ferried supporters to the Chitipa political rally using taxpayer’s money. Kaliati, who is also Minister of Information, accused Malawi News for what she called sensational reporting “to […]
Amnesty International has faulted Malawi government of failing to protect people with albinism and has called for authorities to do more to punish those responsible deeply disturbing pattern of disappearances and killings of the vulnerable group. It is widely believed that albino body parts are sold for use in witchcraft. In the past 19 months […]
Government spokesperson, Patricia Kaliati, has rejected a report which appeared in Malawi News and photographic evidence that showed the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has been ferrying party supporters in State cars to party political meetings. The paper reported that DPP used government vehicle MG 731 AF from Department of Forestry in the Ministry of […]
Minister of Information, Communication, Technology and Civic Education, Patricia Kaliati says people advocating for the federal system of government are bent on disrupting the peace, unity and tranquility prevailing in the country. She made the remarks when she held a rally at Chitipa Boma this week. There have been calls from some quarters in the […]
Thom Chiumia – Nyasa Times Minister of Informatio, communication, technology and civic education Patricia Kaliati on Thursday hit out at opposition lawmaker form Rumphi East (Peoples Party –PP) Kamlepo Kalua for insisting to have President Peter Mutharika to face legislatures and respond to questions in person in the National Assembly. Kalua told parliament that he would like to […]
Owen Khamula –Nyasa Times Government spokesperson Patricia Kaliati has spit fire at opposition leaders for tearing apart President Peter Mutharika’s state of the nation address. In an interview, Kaliati described Malawi Congress Party(MCP) president Lazarus Chakwera and Peoples Party (PP) acting president Uladi Mussa as empty headed. “The opposition have nothing to offer to Malawians. […]
Minister of Information, Communications Technology and Civic Education Patricia Kaliati has told critics of the President Peter Mutharika initiated public sector reforms program to be “shut up”, saying they cannot criticize a program they do not know much. “It is His Excellency the President and the DPP (the Democratic Progressive Party) who brought this program. You […]
Malawi government has ballistic on the country’s flagship newspaper, Daily Times for their editorial comment published on 13 May 2016 titled ‘’When Government Creates Poverty,’’ calling it sensational and misleading. According to a statement issued by Minister of Information Patricia Kalia released on Friday, government said the paper fronts and stunts as chief sdvisor to […]