Government has urged management and staff at Mount Meru Millers locked in a sit in to resolve their grievance amicably. Minister of Labour, Ken Kandodo made the request Friday after visiting the Company’s premises in Lumbadzi in Dowa after support staff staged a sit in on Thursday. He said the pro-longed sitting of the company […]
Members of the Reformed Timber Millers Union (RTMU) on Thursday conducted peaceful protests in Viphya Plantation in Chikangawa, Mzimba district after failed discussions with government over timber business. Timber Millers members marched from Gwayi to Chikangawa Forestry Department offices, where they are saying they will hold vigils. They are asking government to allocate them some hectares […]
President Professor Arthur Peter Mutharika Saturday opened a US$12 million (about K9 billion) Export Processing Zone (EPZ) factory at Raiply Malawi Limited in Mzimba District with a call for more investors to spur socio-economic growth of the country. Speaking after opening the factory, Mutharika said besides bringing forex into the country, the new factory will […]
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) Commander, General Griffin Supuni-Phiri, Minister of Natural Resources, Energy and Mining, Bright Msaka, and Raiply Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Oomen, Secretary for Forestry, Patrick Matanda, and Forestry Director, Clement Chilima, have survived a risk of being jailed in a contempt of court charge as there has been an agreement for an […]
Raiply Malawi says it does not owe Timber Millers Union anything and has challenged the union to bring evidence of the company’s alleged theft of 2, 000 hectares of blue gum trees in Viphya Plantation. On Tuesday, last week, the millers held demonstrations to force Raiply to return the 2,000 hectares of trees they said […]
Malawi’s current finance minister, Goodall Gondwe, helped to facilitate a 1.8-billion Malawi kwacha state loan for a timber processing factory that, three years later, has not got off the ground. This week neither the wholly state-owned Malawi Savings Bank, which made the loan, nor the Treasury’s Export Development Fund, which guaranteed it, would explain what […]
The Consumer Association of Malawi (CAMA) is alleging that ruling Peoples Party officials are owing government in excess of MK350 million for timber plundered from the Viphya Plantation at Chikangawa in Mzimba District. CAMA notes that the debt dates back 18 months ago shortly after the PP assumed the reigns of power. The consumer body […]
People of Misuku in Chitipa District have been cautioned against selling their precious pine trees to foreigners from neighbouring Tanzania who suddenly have found Misuku area as a source of cheap timber which they smuggle out of the country. District Commissioner for Chitipa, Michael Chimbalanga, warned people a few days ago amidst reports that some […]
The Timber Millers Cooperatives Union, an umbrella union of eight registered timber millers, has withdrawn an injunction which the High Court in Mzuzu granted it, stopping Sterling Timber International Limited, which the Union is the majority shareholder, from operating. According to a copy of the consent order filed at the Court, the Millers agreed to […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has granted an injunction to Timber Millers Cooperatives Union, an umbrella union of eight registered timber millers, stopping the operations of Sterling Timber International Limited from transacting any business in the 53,000 hectare Viphya plantation in Mzimba district until a judicial review is done, Nyasa Times has established. The Timber […]