adminTobacco growers to benefit from levy
Elita Chikwati Agriculture Reporter TOBACCO growers are expected to start accessing the $7 million levy that was collected by the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board last season. The 1,5 percent tobacco…
Editorial Comment: Be wary of mushroom poisoning
DRIVING along major highways in Zimbabwe, one encounters a number of roadside vendors selling mushroom to passing motorists. A famed delicacy, mushroom is also very dangerous as it needs a…
Cop shoots colleague
Fungai Lupande Court Reporter A POLICE officer allegedly shot a female colleague while trying to sneak into a Government minister’s house she was guarding in order to see his lover, a…
Costa on the defensive
LIVERPOOL. — Controversial Chelsea striker Diego Costa insisted yesterday that he did not bite the neck of Gareth Barry during his team’s 2-0 FA Cup quarter-final defeat at Everton on…
3 700 pupils get access to safe water
Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau AT least 10 schools in Makonde District and surrounding communities, perennially affected by diarrhoea and bilharzia outbreaks, are set to access potable water following a $90 000…
Bear kills three
NEW DELHI. — A bear killed two villagers and a wildlife officer sent to tranquilise it before being shot dead in a forest in central India, police said yesterday. The…
Alarm over rapid spread of mosquitoes
LONDON. — As the world focuses on Zika’s rapid advance in the Americas, experts warn the virus that originated in Africa is just one of a growing number of continent-jumping…
Why can’t we have 12 teams?
Jonathan Wilson Correspondent I’M writing this with Zimbabwe v Afghanistan on in the background. The stadium in Nagpur is near empty, the pistol shot of Mohammad Shahzad’s cut echoing in the…
18 killed in Yemen attacks
ADEN. — Saudi-led helicopters attacked Al-Qaeda militants in Aden overnight in an effort to dislodge them from a stronghold in the southern port city, killing at least 18 people, medics…
Kenya seeks to repatriate prisoners
NAIROBI. – Kenya is drafting a Bill that will see its nationals serving jail terms in foreign countries to be repatriated to serve the remaining years or months in local…