©️ FARMERS started selling their tobacco crop yesterday after the coronavirus outbreak delayed the opening of auctions, which provide vital foreign currency inflows, by more than a month. Tobacco is the second biggest earner of foreign exchange after gold, and last year generated US$747 million in exports mainly to China and Europe, according to Reserve…
©️ THE World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an urgent appeal for US$19,5 million to enhance its operations, including food assistance community resilience programmes, to the effects of Covid-19, the Daily News can report. This comes as the WFP recently launched another appeal for US$130 million to sustain its food assistance and community resilience programmes…
©️ THE current lockdown has stalled the importation of grain, a development which is now affecting vulnerable families in rural areas, Labour and Social Welfare deputy minister Lovemore Matuke has said. This comes as a joint report by relief agencies and the government said about a third of Zimbabweans living in rural areas need food…
LEADING financial services institution, Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe, has put its shoulder on the wheel in the fight against Covid-19 by pledging an assortment of the much-needed equipment worth US$200 000. The Standard Bank Group subsidiary is geared to donate a total of 5 ventilators; 32 500 Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) in the form of suits,…
Mugove Tafirenyika and Nokuthaba Nkomo STAFF WRITERS ©️ PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, faces the tough choice of balancing the health of Zimbabweans against the country’s economic interests when he reviews the current national lockdown this week, the Daily News reports. This comes as health experts are urging Mnangagwa not to relax his extended stay-at-home order…
©️ IN MORE bad news for the country, a joint report by relief agencies and the government says about a third of Zimbabweans living in rural areas need food aid due to the country’s worsening economic rot and the coronavirus pandemic, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zimbabwe has been ranked among the countries…
©️ THE Tobacco Marketing season commences today with Covid-19 preventive measures put in place to curb the spread of the deadly pandemic which has claimed thousands of lives across the globe. Selling of tobacco through auction floors will be followed by the auction system tomorrow, while bookings and deliveries began yesterday. Boka Tobacco Floors (BTF)…
©️ TEACHERS have written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the government setting tough conditions for the re-opening of schools. The Zimbabwe Teachers’ Association (Zimta) wrote to Mnangagwa while Progressive Teachers Union (PTUZ) submitted their position paper to the Primary and Secondary Education ministry. The teachers demanded Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) for all teachers and learners….
©️ THE government is dispatching monitors across the country this week, to clamp down on retailers resisting its recent order to reduce their prices to March 25 levels. Economic experts who spoke to the Daily News last night immediately warned anew that the move to re-introduce price controls, and to employ monitors, would lead to…
©️ HEALTH Services Board (HSB) bigwigs have controversially awarded themselves hefty additional allowances, at a time that frontline health workers are getting measly salaries and incentives despite the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic. An HSB payment schedule that is in the possession of the Daily News shows that its top office bearers recently got…
