PARLIAMENT is on a fact-finding mission to establish the security of the country’s national points of entry amid reports of rampant smuggling of various goods including hard drugs and other substances. This comes as the government is working on introducing computerized and online border management systems at all points of entry to improve efficiency, eliminate…
Tapiwa Chirume STAFF WRITER chirumet@dailynews.co.zw POLICE have warned members of the public to be on high alert when responding to job offers and dating opportunities on social media. This comes as many desperate and unsuspecting people across the country have been scammed or subjected to sexual abuse by marauding cyber criminals. Speaking to the Daily…
By Nyasha KunyiswaSENIOR STAFF WRITER THE Harare City Council (HCC) has deployed rapid response teams to Glen View after a vendor in the suburb contracted cholera this week. The unidentified man is admitted at the Harare council-run Beatrice Road Infectious Diseases Hospital. HCC epidemiologist Michael Vhere yesterday said the deployment of the council’s response teams…
THE United Nations (UN) and its organs have allocated a budget of around US$370 million to support various government programmes meant to…
Brandon Josphat CHIEF WRITER josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw EXPERTS are pinning their hopes on the government’s plans to put in place a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to resuscitate the country’s ailing public sector medical services. But the jury is out whether the government, acting on its own, can be depended upon to effectively and optimally roll out…
Nyasha Kunyiswa SENIOR STAFF WRITER kunyiswan@dailynews.co.zw HARARE City Council (HCC) has started to print its own child health cards following the failure by the ministry of Health to provide them. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, HCC health services director Prosper Chonzi said they had decided to print their own cards in response to the…
STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw VILLAGERS in the Himalaya area of Chimanimani West, in Manicaland, are living in fear of marauding hyenas which are targeting their easy prey livestock. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, ZimParks’ Chimanimani liaison officer, Kwashirai Dzoro, confirmed that a cackle of aggressive hyenas had become a huge menace in the area. This…
STAFF WRITER muronzereyib@dailynews.co.zw THE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union has appealed to the government to come to the rescue of more than 2 000 RioZim Limited workers who have gone for five months without pay. According to the Union, the Rio Zim workers’ desperate situation now warranted the intervention of the government. In…
Thabiso Mutirwara mutirwarat@dailynews.co.zw OVER 1 500 female sex workers in Epworth have accessed free sexual and reproductive health (SRHR) services through the Springs of Life Zimbabwe (SLZ). SLZ said the project, supported by AIDS Fonds, a Dutch organisation focused on fighting HIV/Aids, aims to empower sex workers in Epworth by equipping them with crucial healthcare…
Brighton Muronzereyi and Brandon Josphat THE government is cranking up its efforts to combat business malpractices in the country, in a bid to protect consumers from rising illegal and unethical misdeeds by greedy traders. In this regard, authorities have confiscated thousands of non-compliant products from errant businesses over the past three months, that include fake…
