LOCAL hotels are seeing occupancy rates exceeding pre-pandemic levels, buoyed by recovering international tourism and meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions. The tourism sector was severely affected by the pandemic outbreak as governments across the world imposed travel bans to try to contain the spread of the disease. Official figures show that the tourism sector in…
AT five months pregnant with her second child, Vimbai started bleeding. She suspected a miscarriage and rushed to a public clinic for…
ZIMBABWE, like every nation, has been marking the mental health month. Mental health has become a serious problem in the country, especially among the youth who have alarmingly resorted to abusing alcohol, drugs and other substances. But our attention is and will be confined to the future generation, the youth, The future for them is…
By Rutendo Ngara MEMBERS of the clergy have been urged to remain apolitical so that the Church can remain “the glue” that keeps Zimbabweans together. So says well-known Bulawayo-based preacher, Blessing Chiza, who adds that the Church must continue to promote peace and societal unity irrespective of people’s political or ethnic differences. Speaking on Thursday…
BY MASIMBA MAKWEMBERE ZIMBABWEANS who enjoy quaffing alcoholic drinks have set new national consumption records after guzzling a staggering 2,46 million hectolitres of lager beer last year. The country’s biggest beverages maker, Delta Beverages revealed last week that this represented a 13 percent increase compared to the volumes imbibed in 2022. “The lager beer business…
By Rutendo Ngara FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe’s son Russel Goreraza, 40, has been arraigned before the courts for allegedly failing to pay US$2 500 maintenance for his son. He appeared before Concession Magistrates’ Court charged with contravening the Maintenance Act or failing to comply with a maintenance order. According to the National Prosecuting Authority…
BY RUTENDO NGARA THE Agriculture and Rural Development Advisory Services (Ardas) says at least 92 000 hectares of wheat have been planted now ahead of the closure of the planting window on May 31. This comes as the government has set 120 000 hectares target this year up from 90 000 plated last year. Speaking…
BY BRYN MATONGO POLICE have launched a manhunt for suspected murderer, Trymore Sixpence, who allegedly killed an unidentified man at Kabonile compound, Mt Pleasant Heights, Harare, on March 30. Harare provincial police spokesperson Luckmore Chakanza told the Daily News On Sunday yesterday that Sixpence had struck his victim with a snooker stick on the head…
BY NYASHA KUNYISWA ZIMBABWE and Belarus are working towards introducing direct flights between the two countries as a way of cementing their economic ties. Speaking during the donation of airport facilitation equipment to AirPorts Company of Zimbabwe (ACZ), the firm’s acting director for airport operations Rony Masawi said the organisation would take advantage of the…
BY BRANDON JOSPHAT AUTHORITIES say they are working on a framework to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) to prevent the negative effects of technology from impacting the country’s moral fibre. Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines or software, as opposed to the intelligence of humans or animals. It is also the field of study in…
