adminMegalink bus crash victim’s body unclaimed six weeks on
George Maponga in MasvingoONE of the 21 people who died in a horrific crash involving a Megalink coach along the Masvingo-Beitbridge Highway in April this year is still to be buried after a man who claimed to be her relative vanished after collecting US$700 meant for burial.
Nuclear science meet
Herald ReporterTHE Government is appreciative of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s efforts in peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology, an official has said.
Secretary for Special Affairs in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Mr Thanks Musukutwa, said it was important that the “healthy relationship between the country and IAEA will continue”.
US$1,6bn for TB
Health ReporterTHE Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has secured more than US$1,6 billion in additional funding that will be available between 2012 and 2014.
In a presentation made on his behalf by National Aids Council Global Fund co-ordinator Mrs Rosemary Kona, the national country co-ordinating mechanism co-ordinator Mr Rangarirai Chiteure said Zimbabwe will apply for funding when a call for proposals is made in September.
Zim may fail to meet MDGs
Municipal ReporterZimbabwe may fail to achieve some Millennium Development Goals related to health provision because Government has no money to fund water and sanitation facilities, Water Resources Development and Management Minister Sipepa Nkomo has disclosed.
ARV shortage
Bulawayo BureauBULAWAYO has been hit by a severe shortage of Anti-Retroviral (ARV) drugs amid reports that 1 090 children are dying in the country every week from HIV and Aids.
It has also emerged that 15 000 children are infected with the disease every year. The shortage of drugs has seen HIV patients on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) being forced to share the medication.
Meet the man who walks on water
EVERYTHING about 29-year-old Steven Frayne is small, gentle and unassuming.He’s just 5ft 6in and softly spoken. His waist is teeny, his arms are bird-like and his hands are small, pink and currently rummaging in his enormous Louis Vuitton bag for a pot of hair-styling wax.
Malaysia makes US$18m drug bust
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian custom authorities have seized US$18m worth of illegal drugs from a shipping container from India in the country’s biggest drugs bust in a decade, officials said yesterday.Man lodges US$20 000 insurance claim over fake dead cat
A Russian man has been charged in the United States with insurance fraud after filing a US$20 000 claim for a dead cat that never existed using photos he picked out from the internet, the Seattle Times said. In March 2009, Tacoma resident Yevgeny Samsonov, (29), was involved in a minor car accident. He filed a claim that included chiropractic treatment. PEMCO Insurance, representing the other driver, paid Samsonov US$3 452.Snake dies from silicone poisoning
IT should have been an alluring photo shoot between two of nature’s beautiful creatures as a model wrapped herself in a snake.But surgically enhanced Israeli model Orit Fox got more than she bargained for when the massive boa constrictor took objection to her over familiarity and reacted by biting into her breast.