A disagreement has ensued between the Evangelical Church of Malawi-Nyasa Mission and the community members of Kajawo over the ownership of Namjodi Primary school in Thyolo.

Government says it is in the final stage of rolling out the World Bank funded school-attached hardship allowance disbursement which it believes will help to retain primary school teachers in rural areas.

In a desperate attempt to revamping banana industry, authorities in Thyolo have resorted to formulating the by-laws to punish some farmers who are resistant to uproot the plantains attacked by banana bunchy-top virus.

The Ministry of Transport says it is using K300 million to capacitate the Central Materials Lab to be able to test the country’s roads and examining consultants amid growing concerns of poor standards.

Police in Thyolo have been challenged to be satisfied with what they possess if they are to resist corruption.

The ICT Association of Malawi (ICTAM) has asked the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (Macra) to avoid launching surveillance on the dessenting views through the Central Equipment Identification Registry machine it plans to procure.

Alarmed by the population growth, environmental degradation, teen pregnancies and early marriages, Thyolo Central Parliamentarian Ben Phiri has organised a conference on Thursday next week for the local leaders in his area to find lasting solutions.

The country’s meteorological department says the Chiperoni weather conditions and Mwera winds being experienced in some parts of the country will clear away on Wednesday, warning Lake Malawi users to refrain from all fishing activities.

Training more geriatric specialists and establishing special elderly facilities in rural hospitals is said to be a way to go in preventing underlying conditions that are killing a lot of older persons in the country.

The National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) says 31 farmer cooperatives have signed agreements to start supplying maize to the Agency this week.