YOUTH-FRIENDLY financial institution, Empowerbank, has in the last three years availed to at least 3 000 youths loans to embark on various…
ZIMBABWEANS will need to fork more money to acquire passports from now onwards. This comes after the government increased the price of an ordinary travel document to US$60 — and US$200 and US$318 respectively for three-day and 24-hour emergency documents, as it battles to reduce a huge passport backlog. In a Government Gazette notice published…
THE government is set to beef up personnel conducting the Covid-19 vaccination programme as health institutions are being overwhelmed, following a surge in the number of citizens seeking to get inoculated. A survey by the Daily News yesterday showed that vaccination centres such as the Glen View Poly Clinic and Chitungwiza City Health Department were overwhelmed due to…
AS COVID-19 continues to run amok, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube had one message for the masses yesterday: get vaccinated and the economy remains fully open, or don’t get vaccinated, it gets shut! Ncube made this call as the government received two million vaccines from China, amid surging infections and rising number of people succumbing to…
HEALTH experts are worried that the acute transport challenges being experienced by many commuters in urban areas during the current hardened coronavirus lockdown could be inadvertently contributing towards the high infection rates of the disease being recorded in the country. Among the experts who expressed this concern to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday was…
THE government has continued with demolitions of illegal structures in Harare with bulldozers yesterday descending on Glen View suburb, ignoring pleas by…
THE newly-appointed National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it is currently seized with the Gukurahundi issue and has already sent teams to Matabeleland and Bulawayo provinces. The 1980s disturbances in the two provinces are believed to have claimed the lives of 20 000 civilians while the late former president Robert Mugabe described the episode…
WOMEN’S Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni says she will push the government to provide funding to make sanitary products available for free in all public toilets in a bid to eliminate period poverty. Speaking during a webinar running under the theme “Period Dignity” which was organised by the Period Company yesterday, Nyoni said women should campaign…
PREMIER Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) has rebranded in a development set to improve the company’s customer service delivery through adaptation to new technologies. Speaking during the rebranding launch yesterday, PSMAS acting managing director Nixjoen Mapesa said they were motivated to transform based on the ever changing business environment and emerging global trends. “We realised…
GOVERNMENT is set to ramp up production of locally-manufactured drugs and double it to 60 percent, with sales revenue expected to jump from US$32,5 million to US$150 million by 2025. Speaking at the official launch of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Strategy in Harare yesterday, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Health minister, said the…
