adminPSL postpones three fixtures
Sports Reporter
THREE Castle Lager Premier Soccer League matches set for this weekend have been cancelled with the remaining five set to be played on Saturday due to the Warriors’ World Cup qualifier against Guinea at the National Sports Stadium on Sunday.
Civil servants appeal to President
Harare Bureau
CIVIL servants unions have written to President Mugabe imploring him to intervene and help improve their salaries and working conditions by July this year.
Gumbo ecstatic over return of Asiagate innocents
Harare Bureau
WARRIORS coach Rahman Gumbo says that the return to the fold of three of his key players — Ovidy Karuru, Khama Billiat and Willard Katsande — has boosted the senior national team ahead of the start of their 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign.
18 years on, ex-Kamativi workers still hopeful
Yoliswa Dube
STILL holding on to a newspaper cutting from the Chronicle of 1996 with a story about Kamativi Tin Mine “reopening”, two years after it had been closed, is a man who is hopeful that the mine would now reopen so all his problems and those of others will soon become a thing of the past.
Govt to intervene in cotton price impasse
Harare Bureau
THE GOVERNMENT will soon intervene and buy cotton from farmers if the current price impasse between growers and merchants is not resolved.
It has, however, not hinted on the prices it will offer for the cotton as it is yet to start mobilising the money for the programme.
Ministry introduces new vaccines for children
Chronicle Reporter
THE Ministry of Health and Child Welfare has introduced two new vaccines for children aged five years and under to reduce child mortality due to pneumonia and diarrhoea.
Water challenges force Binga teachers to consider transferring
By Eliah Saushoma
Chronicle Reporter
UNAVAILABILITY of clean water sources in Binga District has forced some teachers to contemplate transferring to other districts.
Teachers at Chinego Primary School in Tinde said they were forced to walk several kilometres to fetch water from Pashu River.
Man rapes, strangles ex-girlfriend’s juvenile niece
Freedom Mupanedemo
A spurned lover allegedly raped and strangled to death his ex-girlfriend’s 14-year-old niece after an attempt to rape the aunt had failed.
Cowdray Park residents clash with councillor
Lynot Munyaka
RESIDENTS of Cowdray Park are up in arms against Ward 28 Councillor Collet Ndhlovu for poor service delivery amid revelations that burst sewers were last repaired last year.
Syria blames rebels for Houla massacre
AMMAN — Facing growing world outrage over the killing of at least 109 people in a restive town, Syria yesterday accused rebels of carrying out the massacre, in which dozens of children perished.