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The MCAs now say their removal from the committee was a ploy to intimidate them
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent President-Elect Joe Biden’s administration plans to support legislation offered by District of Columbia Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton that would ensure federal agencies advertise with minority-owned businesses, including the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA). “From the racial equity plan – at the direction of the President-Elect, … Continued
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Nairobi County, NYS suppliers to wait longer for payment
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By OTIATO GUGUYU |
Treasury Secretary Ukur Yatani.
Treasury Secretary Ukur Yatani said about Sh13 billion historical pending bills linked to the National Youth Service (NYS) and the Prisons Department have not been paid.
County governments owed Sh80 billion in pending bills out of which the Auditor General cleared Sh58 billion for payment; until now Sh45 billion has been paid out.
The Treasury has put up a spirited fight to have suppliers paid on time, sparking resistance from counties to court after Mr Yatani withheld funds in a push to have them settle outstanding bills.
The matter is still in court but we said we were not going to release funds until they either pay or give us a plan of how they will pay every month and subsequent disbursements will depend on how you have paid out the other bills,” Mr Yatani said.
With both the Eastern and Western Capes now facing a resurgence, it seems Gauteng will be the next region to encounter a second wave of COVID-19.
Strenuous attempts by Dr Grace McLean to justify the spending of more than $400,000 in 2018 to stage a surprise birthday party for Fritz Pinnock, the former president of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), were rejected on Tuesday by the hard-...
The ATM’s motion of no confidence in Ramaphosa was first submitted in February and got approved last week Thursday.
By Victor Omondi As soon Black Friday comes to a close, Small Business Saturday is next. It’s a time when Americans are urged to support their local retailers. However, there will be more than 11,200 fewer Illinoisans running retail stores due to the Covid-19 pandemic and state-mandated lockdowns. And when it’s time to eat and […]
(BPT)—Uncertainty continues into the 2020 holiday season, with limited travel, canceled events and strict budgets changing how Americans will celebrate this year. According to a recent Coinstar Holiday Survey, the majority of Americans said COVID-19 will influence how they celebrate the holidays. Fortunately, by thinking outside the box and keeping a positive attitude, you can … Continued
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The Accountant General’s Department (AcGD) has come under the microscope of the country’s chief guardian of public expenditure for paying out millions to pensioners up to seven months after they have died. Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis stated...
WOMEN are more than just victims of patriarchal society. One of the best ways to arrest patriarchal ideologies is to promote participatory development which include women in development initiatives. By Evans Mathanda Working together with local authorities to address challenges affecting women in communities is the goal of The Institute for Young Women development (IYWD), which has today launched a Gender Social Service Barometer aimed at harnessing young women’s voices and power for local government accountability and gender responsive social services delivery (GRSSD). Not by a “free ride” but through support programs to help them be successful. The (IYWD) has been carrying out activity on local government accountability and GRSSD with the aim of providing young women in selected wards and districts of Mashonaland Central and Midlands Provinces of Zimbabwe, an opportunity to rate social services provided by local councils and holding local authorities accountable and seek transparency for gender responsive social services delivery. The organisation was formed in 2009 and has successfully mobilized more than 3000 young women and girls in Mashonaland Central Province who are now conscious of and are practicing their political responsibilities to resist, disrupt and defend their voice and power in decision-making in their families, communities and national processes. Presenting the (GRSSD) launched at Rainbow Towers today IYWD team leader Granis Changachirere says one of the social accountability tools the organisation has adopted in implementation of their local government accountability and GRSSD to systemise tracking of their intervention and intended goal. The GRSSD final report captured the IYWD’s work under the local government accountability which has involved the formulation and application of a service delivery scorecard. Their findings exhibited that some communities rely on water dams such as Matesamwa in Gokwe North and the water is being sourced directly from the dam without any form of purification. “The quality of water is poor, which extremely compromises the health of community members who consume it”, the report reads. Violent conflict has left women incapacitated and not able to participate in politics and decision making. Government, non-profit making organisations and private stakeholders have not done justice enough to advocate women during and after violent conflict. However, Kudakwashe Munemo IYWD finance manager says gender based violence is prominent is mining activities and police are difficult to reach is such circumstances. Munemo added that their organisation is working with local authorities in capacitating women to be aware of their rights. “Our aim is to encourage young women and girls to participate in politics and decision making”, said Munemo.
The auditor general urged the ministry to “review its systems to ensure that the controls in place to enforce the eligibility requirements for PATH beneficiaries are operating effectively to reduce the risk of irregular or erroneous payments”.
Monroe Ellis said that the ministry should also take the necessary steps to ensure that only legitimate beneficiaries who have satisfied all the requisite criteria are paid the COVID-19 PATH grants.
Monroe Ellis reported that in response to the findings of her audit, the ministry placed a hold on the payment for the 8,933 beneficiaries and conducted a review to determine the actual eligibility status of each of the additional persons.
The ministry acknowledged that 4,354 new beneficiaries did not sign the agreement letter as required by the PATH Operations Manual, but they satisfied the other requirements of the programme for eligibility.
The ministry also indicated that for the May 2020 payment, “the requirement to sign the agreement letter was relaxed, owing to social distancing, reduced office hours, and other measures implemented by the Government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic”.
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis yesterday revealed that she was the one who contacted chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Julian Robinson, to appear before the oversight body, as she had “nothing to hide” and “was answerable to the...
The Democratic-controlled House on Friday approved a bill to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level, reversing what supporters... View Article
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Mali's interim government on Thursday announced the composition of a new legislative body for the West African country's transition to civilian rule, with the military retaining a key role.
Young army officers in the conflict-ridden Sahel state toppled president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on August 18 after weeks of anti-government protests.
Under the threat of international sanctions, the officers between September and October handed power to an interim government, which is meant to rule for 18 months before staging elections.
Coup leader Colonel Assimi Goita, who was made vice president of the interim government, was given veto power last month over the appointments to the 121-seat legislative body.
The move was seen by critics of the military-dominated interim regime as strengthening army control.
The final list for the new National Transitional Council was published by a decree from the interim president, Bah Ndaw, himself a retired army colonel.
The list of appointments was read out late Thursday on national television. Members of the defense and security forces received 22 seats.
The body will meet for the first time on Saturday and will elect its president.
The opposition June 5 Movement, or M5, last month called for \"resistance\" after it was announced Goita would have the final say on the MPs.
As interim vice president, Goita is in charge of security issues in a country which has struggled to quell a brutal militant insurgency since 2012.
The transitional government's mandate is meant to last for 18 months with a return to democratic civilian rule.
The disagreements over the assembly's composition threaten to derail plans for elections, national reconciliation and the fight against militants in the north of the country.
Anger over the seemingly endless conflict, as well as over perceived corruption, contributed to the protests which culminated in Keita's ouster.
Despite seeming to have softened his stance on the Ush10 billion ($2.6 million) that Ugandan legislators allocated themselves as part of the Covid-19 supplementary budget, President Yoweri Museveni is said to have ordered an audit of the expenditure.
In a letter dated April 28 to the Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga, President Museveni said he instructed the Auditor-General to go over how the funds were used.
In a recent televised address on coronavirus, President Museveni described the Covid-19 cash as a trap that the MPs had laid for themselves and “morally reprehensible.”
Despite Speaker Kadaga’s efforts to explain that MPs were to use this money to sensitise their constituents about the pandemic and for maintenance of ambulances in their constituencies, President Museveni and the Cabinet insisted the allocation was illegal and inappropriate.
As at April 12, the number of MPs that had returned the money stood at 101 out of a total of 458 legislators.
Milwaukee – The Milwaukee Health Department is revising the current public health order, modifying the capacity rules for restaurants and bars and requiring more stringent protocols for participation in team sports. The COVID-19 Public Health Plan for the City of Milwaukee, Order #4.3, will take effect on December 3, 2020. In a change from past […]
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Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2021: It would seem that the latest reports from Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) have sparked a considerable amount of controversy. Simply put, people are split along two lines. Those who are not fans of the current government remark that with such incriminating reports, they do not have…
More than five years after the Accountant General’s Department (AcGD) spent $5 million to purchase a machine and software to print pensioners’ pay slips and life certificates, the agency has not derived any value for the money spent. This is...
KÙLÚ MÈLÉ VIRTUAL CELEBRATION: Philadelphia’s iconic African Dance & Drum Ensemble is observing its 51st Anniversary with a virtual celebration of dance and drumming Saturday, ...
A showdown also looms between Jamaica’s Office of the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, which claims the former did not consult it on a report which paints a negative picture of a programme depended on by thousands of families.
The human-trafficking threat facing the approximately 16,000 Jamaicans who go overseas for between six and eight months per year on Government-sponsored programmes with the North American states was flagged as an “emerging challenge” in the April report by Diahann Gordon Harrison, the national rapporteur on trafficking in persons.
“It is imperative that the Government of Jamaica takes effective steps towards eliminating the barriers that contribute to injuries, death and the overall vulnerability of Jamaican farm workers to exploitation and human trafficking,” Harrison wrote in the report which covered April 2018 to March 2020.
The threat to Jamaican workers was reinforced in a 2018 report by Polaris Project, a US non-profit which manages that country’s human trafficking hotline.
It ranked Jamaica fifth among the top 10 nationalities identified as victims of human trafficking on the guest worker programme in the US.
President Donald Trump is pressing his grievances over losing the presidential election, using a weekend rally to spread baseless allegations... View Article
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