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  • Kenyan Bourse to Start Online Stocks Trading by Fourth Quarter

    The Nairobi Securities Exchange, the world's third-best performing equities market this year, will begin online trading in the fourth quarter as it tries to enable more people to have access to the bourse. "The design work for online trading is complete" Donald Ouma, head of market and product development, said today in response to e-mailed questions. "Setup and testing ...

  • Kenya Uhuru Wants ICC Trial Moved to January 2014

    President Uhuru Kenyatta now wants his case on alleged crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court to start in January next year. Through his lawyers, the president told the ICC judges, on Wednesday, that due to continued slow pace of disclosure, they have not been able to complete investigations on prosecution witnesses. "The Defence requires time to investigate the ...

  • Kenyan pupils find teachers in laptops

    Gladys Lokilamak is always cheery in the afternoons. This is the time that she and her colleagues at the remote Asilong Primary School in north-western Kenya normally find fun in education - through ...

  • Opinion Agriculture key to Kenyan prosperity

    Felix Kosgei , Kenya's newly appointed Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, has already shared some ambitious plans for the ...

  • Politics House committees leaders elected

    TNA ) trounced Karachuonyo MP James Rege by 19 to 4 votes to become vice chairman. Former Standard journalist Ayub Savula (UDF) was elected chairman of the Agriculture Committee unopposed. Savula, the Lugari MP, will be deputized by Maara MP Kareke Mbiuki ...

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Ordinary People [DVD]

Ordinary People [DVD]

Robert Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People, is a solemn, studied portrait of a well-to-do American family coming apart from the inside after the tragic death of a son. Based the popular 1976 novel by Judith Guest, its central idea is that all families have inner crises that remain unspoken until something forces them out into the open, which is the true test of the family's streng ... ...

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  • Kenya Jubilee Takes Charge of 2 Committees

    THE Jubilee Coalition has taken charge of two departmental committees in the National Assembly. Just a day after the House approved membership of 24 out of the 28 committees, members of four departmental committees were called upon to elect their chairpersons yesterday. The four were the committees on Budget and Appropriations, Delegated Legislation, Administration and National Security and ...

  • Kenya Bureaucracy Delays Small Firms Listing

    Long approval processes at the Nairobi Securities Exchange are delaying the listing of small firms at the bourse despite the existence of the Growth Enterprise Market Segment (Gems). The segment which was regularised in January this year, is yet to list any firm owing to various levels of approvals. The first firms are expected in about four months. This is despite the fact that the segement ...

  • Nigeria and Kenya to Collaborate Against Terrorism

    President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has told Kenya's Deputy President and Special Envoy of President Uhuru Kenyatta, Mr. William Ruto, that Nigeria was concerned about the activities of terrorists in Somalia and other places in Africa, and the attendant negative effects on peace and development in the continent. ‘I have just declared a state of emergency in three states in our country, ...

  • Nyanza Top in Drug Abuse Nacada Says

    THE National Authority for Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse has raised an alarm over increasing rate of bhang abuse in Nyanza. Nacada Nyanza regional manager Esther Okenye said the region is second in bhang smoking in Kenya. Okenye was speaking during Kisumu county choir competition on alcohol and drug abuse held at Social hall and attended by more than 200 youth. She said alcohol and ...

  • DOs Chiefs Told to Stop Land Deals

    Lamu Governor Issa Timamy has ordered provincial administrators to stop illegal allocations of government land saying they will be prosecuted. He accused some district officers, chiefs and their assistance of being behind shoddy deals of brokering land to individuals at the expense of the locals. Timamy said all government lands in the county were now under his government as stipulated by the ...

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