AFGHANS STRUGGLE TO COPE WITH MENTAL HEALTH DUE TO LONG PERIOD OF VIOLENCE IN THE COUNTRY

Afghans struggling with mental health

Minister calls for greater support from aid agencies and partners.



Kabul: Afghanistan is struggling to cope with mental health issues that afflict an estimated two-thirds of its population after decades of violence, the country's health ministry said yesterday, amid commemorations of World Mental Health Day.

"We hope in the future at least one trained [mental] health professional will be working in every health facility and every patient will have the opportunity to be screened and get proper counselling and treatment for the mental health and psychosocial problems," acting Health Minister Suraya Dalil was quoted as saying.

"We hope that the donor agencies and other Afghanistan health partners support us to enhance the mental health of those Afghans who have been affected during the war and conflict years."

FAITH JOHN (SIERA -LEONE)WEST AFRICA

BEAUTIFUL COAST

KENYA COMMERCIAL BANK'S AGRRESSIVE ADVERTISING IN KERICHO TOWN

The kenya commercial bank was running a very agressive campaign for their new product,the bankika juu account.The Bank was trying it level best to get as much customers from the public as possible .They used all the techniques that one can think of to catch the attention of the residents of kericho town .Music ,commedy and so on ,plus the easy conditions for opening and maintaining the account in their bank.The bank won quite a following from the residents of the town though!!!

KERICHO TOWN SLOWLY RECOVERS FROM THE EEFECTS OF THE RECENT POLITICAL CHAOS

Life is slowly going back to nrmal in kericho town from the effects of the recent political chaos that rocked the country.THe chaos left life in this town abnormaly high with the basic commodities for survival be priced at tripple the normal prices .The worst affected was fuel and the basic food stuffs ,that is maize and the fish that are popularly known as omena or dagaa .The fish that normally go at ten shillings per one two hundred and fifty gramms tin of blue band magarine,were priced at twnety shillings for the same quantity .And the charcoal that used to cost only twenty shillings per a two kilogramme tin of kimbo cooking fat was until recently priced at forty shillings for the same quantity.Andthe maize flour that used to go at twenty shillings per a kilogramme in the slums ,was  priced at twenty five shillings for the same quantity of flour.

From between two and three weeks ago,things have changed and slowly by slowly the prices are getting back to normal .The prices of charcoal have gone back to the thirty shillings for the same aquantity of charcoal while the prices of maize flour have dropped down to where they were before ,that is at twenty shillings for the same quantity of flour.

The things that have not yet dropped in prices are houses which some of the residents have been heard complaining that ,some land lords have been claiming alot of money from them for very poor quality houses.

So,slowly by slowy ,the town is healing from the eefects of the chaos and it is expected that soon the life ,generally ,in this town will be back to normal.

KERICHO SCHOOL TOPS IN MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL

The kericho highlands primariy school came back home from the recently completed music and arts festivals that were held in kitale kenya with a tenth position in their classical music category.Mean while their neighbours,the Saint patricks primary school ,in the same town, did very well in their falk song and dance presentation .They got a first position in that category.The saint patricks primary school are the only hope for the district in the festivals .

A COWS SKIINED CARCASE STUFFED IN A BUSH IN KERICHO KENYA

The carcse of a jersy cow was discovered in the bushes along the rivere tha runs between the Nyagacho living areas of kericho and the town center.It was n't known instantly what the cause of the death of the cow might have been but the cow had been properly skinned ,but the meety was'nt carried away .It wasn't known whether it was a thief who had run out of the time to finish the preparation procedurs before he could carry away the meet or the cow had ddied because of disease .

There hasn't been any official information about the death of the cow from the authorities .

UNKNOWN WOMAN SECRETLY DUMPS DEAD INFANTS BODY INTO SOMEONES TOILET

There was drama in ainamoi town when an unknown woman gave birth to a baby the dumbed it in to another persons toilet secretly.Whe the owner of the toilet,a Mr. Bett., went to help himself in the toilet ,he discovered that there was a dead baby in the yoilet.It is not clear really how  he knew this ,but our sources told us that he discovered that there was a baby in the toilet and he the rushed to the Kericho towns Police station and made a report.The police the went to the mans home and removed the body of the infant and carried it away to the \kericho district hospitals mortuary where it was kept .The owner was never discovered and the police are going on with investigations.

PRISONER ESCAPES FROM KERICHO TOWNS MAIN PRISON ,KERICHO,KENYA

There was drama in kericho town on the sixteenth date of the month of june the year two thousand and ten when all the prison warders of the kericho main prison when running helter skelter allover the Jua kali part of the town in pursuit of a suspected runaway prisoner.

The mas passed through the jua kali charcoal selling shades of the town ,the shades that are situated beside the prisons camp and the administration police camp.A woman who suspected the man said that he had passed where she was seated selling her charcoal bare chested and his trouser rolled up to his kneees and he was carrying a piece of bar soap in his hand .The woman then had sounded the alarm and the whole camp of prison warders came out streaming running trying to cover all the roads in the area .
By the time we were writing tis story ,the chase was still on and it wasn't known quickly whether ,the man was a prisoner or not.

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A SERIES OF ARMED ROBBERY ATTACKS ON A SHPO IN KERICHO ,KENYA

There has been two armed robberies on the same shop in Kericho town .The shop is called the Raha Wholesalers .In just two days ,that is thursday and frida ,the shop has been attacked twice and each these armed robbers come ,they snatch millions of shillings and manage to run away un harmed.

According to eye witnesses ,they said that these armed robbers come and pose as motorcycle taxi operators ,and they slowly sneak at the staff of the whole sale shop and then they santch the money that goes in sums of millions and then the walkout and jump on to their motorbikes and ride away very fast that the police are not even able to trace them .

They are said to have made away with seventeen million shillings on thursday alone ,the sum that was stollen on the following day,friday is still not known yet.

The shop which is among the towns biggest wholesalers has suffered several robbery attacks in which ,other times ,the members of staff have lost their lives .

The incidents take place around lunch time.

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL ASKARIS WANT JUA KALI MECHANICS TO EVACUATE THEIR WORKING PLACE AFTR AN ACCIDENT

There was drama at the kericho Kenya co-operative creamerise depot of kericho town when the municpal council askaris confronted the Jua kali mechanics who run their work on the sides of the roads here and told them to stop and look for elsewhere to operate their garages.This was beacuse of an accident that happened at the same palce on monday morning when a nissan shark taxi hit a motorcylce ride at the round about and ran away .The motorcyclist was the carried away to hospital by the jua kali mechanis of the area.
Situations here are slowly coming to normal though .Up to friday morning ,the council askaris were seen struggling for the gass cylinders with the mechanis ,they were trying to take them away to their offices while the mechanics went on to defend themselves .They later left without taking any of their tools though.
Things are slowly cooling down here.

CRACK DOWN ON UNROADWORTHY VEHICLES IN KERICHO, KENYA

Police on tuesday this week carried an operation to get rid of unroad worthy vehicles from the roads of kericho disrict .This was aimed at making sure that the drivers of the matatus and other road users stuck to the Kenyanhighway code for sfaety and order on our roads.
The operation caused a hitch in the normal functioning of the transport systems in the district .Travewllers had to cancel their journeys or bear with the problems that go with the lack of enough vehicles on the roads .
The situations are going back to normal though

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AINAMOI CHIEF STILL TAXING RESIDENTS IRREGULARLY FOR HIS SERVICES,KERICHO ,KENYA

A chief in ainamoi division is reported to still dragging the people of the division back ito the land of bondage where we came from long ago bog creating a new constituition for our beloved country kenya.The chief ,Mr.Richard Bett,is said to still be taxing the peopele of the area iregularly.Every monetary transaction that goes through his handas must be taxed ,starting from a thousand shillings and above.
One concerned resident of his location said that when the peopel asked why their money was deducted ,the chief would answer ,am i a bank or is my house a bank ?And that would mark the end of every communications between the tweo sides.
May the authorities that are concerned save our country from slipping back to where we came from ,Egypt the land of bondage.

MAN COMMITS SUICIDE FOR BEING UNABLE TO CONTINUE COOKING AND SELLING ILLEGAL BREW IN KERICHO,KENYA

A man known by name as a mr.Kilel of ainamoi division of kericho district was reported to have commited suicide by jumping into his own water well at his home.The man decided to end his life after the police would not allow him to continue cooking and selling the traditional wine known as Chang'aa by the locals ,which he depended on for his living.He didn't have any other way of getting an income.

Before the day when he decided to end his life ,the man had been introuble with the police.The police had gone to the site where he cooked and sold the brew illegally .They didn't aresst him though ,they got even after he had given them a bribe.It is said that the police weren't satisfied with the bribe and so they went away back to their station where they sent back to the site fellow policemen who terrorised the brewer and arrested him and took him to the station where he spent about a week before they released him .When they released him,he decided to end his misery by jumping down his own well .He died.

TRUCK RUNS IN TO A HOTEL IN KERICHO TOWN,KENYA

A truck that was downloading cargo at the tuskys supermarkets only branch in kericho town ran into the Bethel hotel that is stuated opposite the supermarkets store behind the tengecha  street in the town.The truck is said to have lost control after the brakes failed to hold when the driver tried to move it out and then it overpowered him and went staright throug the walls of the hotel up to the inside .There were no injuries that were reported except for one lady who was a customer at the hotel  who had a bleeding scracth on her head but was rushed to hospital for checking of the extend of the injury .The incident took place a short while after the lunch hour at fifteen minutes past two o'clock in the afternoon

CON MEN SELL WATER FOR DIESEL TO LONG DISTANCE TRUCK STAFF

A truck driver and his turn boy caused a stir on tengecha road in Kericho town when they got stuck on the street after their truck engine went dead after they were coned of money equivalent with twenty litres of diesel and given tap water instead of diesel .The truck developed problems but when they got to the street on their way to the Jua Kali garages at the kenya co-poerative creameries depot of kericho town ,the engine went dead completely and they went nad called mechanics from those garages to go and help them.

The con men filled the vehicles tank to capacity and demanded payment after which they parted peacefull with the trucks staff.The trucks fuel tank hand to be removed and then cleaned thoroughly and dried in the sun to get rid of all the watervapour and then the fuel filters had to be changed plus anything to do with the fuel before it reaches in to the engine,
They spent about twenty hours in the town trying to repair the truck.
There was nothing that they could do about the con men though,because thy were too smart for them that they couldn't even trace them.

SHARP RICE IN CHARCOAL PRICES IN KERICHO ,KENYA

Prices of cahrcoal have reached an all time alrming high in Kericho town.One Big bag now costs between nine hundred and one thousand kenyan shillings while the small bags go for half the price.
When we asked the charcoal dealers in the town they answered that the rise is due to the bad weather and the polices'tight security in the Mau forest.It has been reported that the police has been very harsh at charcoal burners in the forest . They are reported to have interrupted the burning of charcoal in the forest which has led to a servere shortage of charcoal in the town and it's environs.
Kericho has been experiencing heavy rains recently.

RESIDENTS OF KERICHO TOWN COMPLAIN ABOUT THE HOUSE RENTS

Residents of The nyagacho living area of kericho town have complained bitterly about the steep rise in the rents of the houses in these estates .They waid that the quality of the houses is very low yet they pay amounts equal to those of stone house well electrified plus water and all the other services.They said that in the houses in question ,there is nothing more thatn just iron sheets for the walls and the timber frames that hold the iron sheets standing upright .
Mr. Gerald Ochieng who is a resident of the area said that the rent of these houses starts from two thousand shillings and onwards which is very high for houses of that standard and the standards of life in this town in general .He also asked for the authorities to step in and help the poor tenants of those areas to bargain for the amount of the rents to be lowered up to five hundred shillings per month>

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A NEW BUTCHERY IN KERICHO TOWN,KENYA

There are somethings that are really notpossible to do in the over crowded slums of our citiys .this denies some of the chance ,eometimes ,to prepare the kinds of mewals that we like most .Things like roasting meat!Preparing this meal is shamefull in thos overcrowded places .Everyone in the neighborhood knowing when ypou come  back home with meat and when you don't ,especially when  meall is your favourite ,it will be very difficult to eat your meals the way you want it beacuse every time you roast it the neighbors will know and slowly by slowly you will start feeling ashamed and drop it from the menu.

It is because of this reasons and many more others that the coming of the new classic butchery in kericho town is a blessing.At classic the lovers of roasted meat are saved all these troubles .All that you do is give them an order and will roast it and pack it well for you ,ready to carry home and enjoy the meal in your privacy and away from the shame that roasting meat on a charcoal stove causes .

Classic butchery provides all the solutions for meat lover in Kericho town!!

MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF KERICHO SPOILING THE NEW BUS PARK AGAIN

Threre anothe unpleasant thing going on about the Kercho bus park again.The park was designed well for the utmost comfort that it can provide ,but the municipal councils mayor and his man have again come to start seeing the architects like fools again ang gone to add their own things in the bus park.The park wasn't built up to the starndard s that the peopel epected because the were no computers that were installed ,yes!!,but that should be an excuse for them to go on adding their own things in the bus park.

The builders left some spaces for green grace and flowers in the bus park just add beay ,to increase the productivity of the park ,and as a display of expertise in their professions .But Loooooooooo!!1for the mayor and his men .They decide to destroy all this spaces and built Shops in the park which has turned the park in to a very congested place with space for the vehicle to comr in and get out of the place.Otherwse ,there is nothing more .

Travellers will be expected to stand on the verandahs of the shops while they waited for the buses without even a thing to lean on. The place is very bad now and it needs some mending ,the mayor and his men can stop what they are doing and go on building the shops in the newly contructed ultra modern market and leave the park to remain the way it is .The mayor is wrong!!!!!Please stop what you are doing  Mr.Mayor

MINISTRY BUILDING TALLEST BUILDNIG IN KERICHOTOWN

The ministry of lands is building the highest building in Kericho town.The building which is still under construction ,is expected  to be as high as nine storeys high making it the tallest inthe town after the posta plaza and then the tet plaza which is situated opposite the Kericho gorvernment prison .Most buildings in this town are only upto fours tories high .This one is going to be the first one to go that high.

The building is situated next to the Kericho Kenya tel com offices ,just behind the Kericho caltex  petrol filling station  .

FEDERAL TYP OF GOVERNMENT(MAJIMBO) DEBATE HOTS UP IN KERICHO, KENYA

THE MAJIMBO DEBATE HOTS UP IN KERICHO, KENYA

AS the debate about majimbo continues catching fire in kericho, more and more people are continuing to take an interest in it and to speak out their minds out and to declare their stand about it.

We talked to one Kericho business man, Mr. Lawrence Bet, about the debate and he talked strongly about his stand on the debate. He said that he strongly advocated for the ODM backed debate .The businessman said that with this system of government, there would be a fair distribution of the country’s revenues. He said that according to the current system of government ,some areas of the country lacked behind in development because of others  while they had the natural resources to enable them to catch up with civilization  .They produced enough to feed ,educate and provide employment for it’s populations ,yet ,because of the other non-productive areas of the country, they lacked behind with them.

He also said that he strongly supported the increase by the government of the number of counties to twenty five and the regional governments in general .Kericho is Kenya’s main tea growing area and the people here have been strongly supporting this debate .They say that the areas populations are suffering from all these economic problems yet, the tea industry provides a lot of jobs but they are taken by people from different places in the country.

It looks like the ODM will again get a stronghold in kericho like it was in the past general elections.

CHELILIS HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL LACKS RESPECT FOR AREAS COMMUNITY,KERICHOKENYA

 

There has been complaints from the community that lives around Chelilis girls high school in Bureti constituency, the area that is under the MP ,Hon; Franklin bett.The people have complained very bitterly of the behaviors of the schools principal towards the schools surrounding community in general .The people have complaint that the principal doesn’t have any respects for them yet they are the ones who made the decision that lead to the building of the school .They are the ones who provided the funds that built the school ,they also provided the land on which the school was built . They are the ones who caused the existence of the school.

The people complained that this principal is treating them as if the school was not their own. He gives all the tenders to people from out side the area while they themselves can provide all the manpower that the school will need to run. The people complained that all the jobs from teachers to the sub-ordinate staff of the school have all been taken by outsiders, yet the people of the area have people who can teach in the school. The people that we talked to said that even the cabbages and beans that they can supply to the schools are fetched from places as far as litein and sotik, yet they have enough .The people said that all these jobs have been taken by the people from the principal’s homeland. Every time a job opportunity appears, he goes for his own people instead of advertising and employing people from this area. The areas community wants the schools driver to be expelled from work.

A spokes man form the area told us that recently, elders from the area held a meeting to discus about this matter .The main topic of the discussion was to press for changes in the school .The meeting decided to press for the school to be given back to that community. They want everything about the school to be decided by the community and not outsiders. They want all the tendering for the supply of food and everything that the school will need ,the staff and sub-ordinate staff ,all to be taken by the people of that area, and they demanded for respect form the current members of the school staff up to everyone who will come to work in the school in the future .

They said that the schools principal doesn’t respect them, yet they are the ones who built the school. Because of this treatment from the principal, the group of elders agreed together that everyone who will go to work In the school to maintain good relations with the areas community and not like the current hostile relations that exist now. The wanted the school staff to be consulting the either the group of elders before carrying on with any projects or any other members of that community.

The group of elders said that the schools performance in the national exams was very poor and so they wanted the board of governors to investigate the cause of the poor performance and find the solution to this .They also said that They wanted the board of governors to help develop the primary school which the land was divided and the high school was built on. They wanted them to help to build more classes and, laboratories, lavatories and much more that the school lacks.

healing with light

For years, scientists have used the energy in laser light to drill microscopic holes or as tweezers or traps to direct and maneuver small pieces of matter. Guiding entire cells, though, has proven difficult because the lasers used for manipulation tend to damage the structural units of living organisms.

Now Aristide Dogariu and colleagues at the University of Central Florida in Orlando have developed an optical procedure that does not harm cells, but affects their skeletons – an ensemble of slender rods made out of an abundant protein called actin. The actin rods are constantly growing and shrinking inside of cells. The direction in which they grow changes the cell's membrane shape and dictates where the cell moves.

Dogariu and colleagues use the polarization of optical waves to create a field around the cells in which the growing actin rods line up like a compass in the Earth's magnetic field. These optical fields can be used to guide large groups of cells to line up and move in the same direction.

The technique could be useful for cancer assays, which test the motility of cells, or as a non-invasive, non-toxic boost for regenerative medicine. Though cells have complicated and intriguing mechanisms to sense and communicate where an injury occurs, the possibility of using photonic scaffolds to stimulate and guide cells' motility to accelerate tissue repair, is now quite promising.

This research is scheduled to be presented during the 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/IQEC) May 31 to June 5 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore.
Adapted from materials provided by Optical Society of America, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.

KENYA THREATENED BY MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TB

There have been reports in the press that Kenya is under a threat from multi drug resistant strains of the tuberculosis disease. Reports say that there could be more than three hundred patients with multi drug resistant tuberculosis bacillus disease (TB) roaming the streets of the country

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 cities freely.

The estimates were taken according to the records at the Country's' main hospital in the capital called the Kenyatta national hospital. The said three hundred patients are those who managed to report in to that hospital for help but there could be more people suffering from this drug resistant strains of the disease in the Slums of the country's' cities and the villages.

This free and roaming patients are feared that they could be spreading this disease to the rest of the public in the country .They mix with other people in public places and ,there is a chance that they could infected them through the normal ways of infection by the disease.

This report was supported by the statistics that were given to the press by the doctors from the hospital.

There has been no formal report by the doctors so far that there is a hope for a remedy for the disease soon in the country or the availability of drugs such as the ones that are used by the acquired immune deffiency (AIDs) patients, the ones that are called the antiretroviral therapy (ARTs)

Kenya has been running an effective campaign to eradicate the disease through the ministry of health .The ministry has been trying very hard to educate the public about the disease and how to be safe from being infected by this disease. The ministry has been going up to the villages with the information about this disease just to make sure that every Kenyan has access to the information about this disease. These multi drug resistant strains of the disease have gone on top of these lists of the most dreaded disease after the HIV/AIDS disease.

Those who have already been infected with these strains of the disease have no hope of healing for there is still no effective drug against these strains of the disease.

DAP FERTILIZER RESERVES AT THE NATIONAL CEREALS AND PRODUCE BOARD EXHAUSTED,KERICHO,KENYA

 Farmers were left stranded at the national cereals board ,Kericho depot on Friday morning when reports came from the depots main offices that the DAP type of fertilizers was finished .The news caught many of the farmers who needed the type of fertilizer specially for the various methods of farming unawares .There were wasn't a quick solution to the problem and so everyone of them had to go back home in the villages without fertilizers ,forcing them to postpone their farming activities .
The loaders at the depot whispered to us when we visited the place that the fertilizer stocks come ones every year and therefore those farmers who were left out this year will never fertilize their farms until the coming year.

KETEPA CARRYS AN AGRRESIVE PROMOTIONAL: CAMPAIGN FOR THEIR PRODUCT,THE ICE TEA SOFT DRINK,KENYA

The Kenya Tea packers limited are carrying out a very aggressive promotion of their ice tea soft drink product .The company has flooded the streets of the town with the soft drink and they are giving it away at a very cheap price of only ten shillings per a half a liter bottle which normally costs fifty shillings for the same quantity of the soft drink.
The promotion seems to be doing well because very few people knew about the availability of the drink until recently when the company cam with it on the streets of the town .Now,every resident of the town is aware of the existence of the ice tea drink and they are really enjoying it.The company has created a good market fro their product by giving the people the chance to taste it instead of looking at it on the supermarkets shelves and shying away from it .

The techniques that the company used seem to be the right ones in this country because everyone can witness it's impact on the people .

Though the company might be having high hopes of luring the peoepl into drinking the ice tea ,but the price is too high for the average class of people who make up the majority of the population in the country .They will have to do something about the prices or ,otherwise ,the small people will leave it for the rich ones .

Kenya Tea Packers ice tea is ,indeed ,a very good drink.

A WOMAN KILLS HERSELF FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO GIVE BIRTH TO A MALE CHILD ,KERICHO.KENYA

The Residents of Nyagacho living areas of kericho town were shoched when an elderly woman died after she AIDS drugs and a local brew popularly known as changa'aa.THe woman was undergoing treatment from the aids disease but she is said to have mixed the two drinks and ended up dying.
The woman lived at the big Baptist church that is situated along  the edge of the the Nyagacho river.
Rumours have it differently though.She is said to have been heard complaining painfully severaly that she wasn't satified in life because she hadn't givenm birth to a male child in her life and because of this ,she is suspected to have ended her own life.

By the time we visited the scene ,she was lying in her her school awaiting for the police action about her case.

KERICHO CAMPUSOF THE AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH STUDDIES HOSTS AN INTER COLLEGES SPORTS EVENT IN KERICHO TOWN

The African institute of research and technology ,Kericho campus .hosted all the non government colleges and universities in the town to a sports and athletics meeting on the twelfth date of the month of february at the Kericho green stadium. Among the colleges that took partin the event  were the Kericho schoolof professionalstudies ,The sikh NSPSI schoolof business studies,the southwestern Teacherscollege An the three African instituteof research campuses of Nakuru,KerichoAnd Kisumu .

The organisers of the Event ,Mr.Ken Kibet Koskey and martin Mutai ,both o fthe kricho schoolof professionalstuddies said that it was the first time that the event was atteended by institutions fromoutsidethe Kericho disstrict .Previously,the events only involved institutions from within the district.

They said that because of the good results of the previous events ,the organisers hoped toimprove it sothat it involved allinstitutions in the country.

THeresultsof the games were as follows;
Mens' Volley ball titlewent tothe Kerichoschoolof professionalstudiies
Ladies Vollyball title went to the African instituteof research studdies
Andthe mens football title went tothe NSPSI university

There were athletics events alsobut they didn't attract alot ofattention as the other games did but it is hoped that in the future ,the athleticsevents will be improved so that it reached the requiredstarndards sothat they attractedthe attention of the bodiesthat ggorvern the functionning of the sports in this country.
The organizers of the events said that they intend to hold such an event every after each two weeks 

The sports were said to have been very successful though and the students from all the involved institutions were very happy about it and everyone who attended enjoyed themselves to  the most and were fully satisfied with the event. .

WHICH SIZE OF CUPS SHOULD BE USED IN THE KERICHO CAFETERIAS?

We have watched the recent trends in the serving of tea and coffee in the cafeterias and came to realize that there has got to be an official mode of serving food in this places .A good example is the royal hotel that is situated at the Kericho Kenya co-operative creameries depot .

First ,the tea and coffee and porridge and perhaps soup was served in good and decent African type mugs that had a capacity of carrying up to a half a liter of liquid ,then ,Came the introduction of some co wry kinds of cups that had a capacity of carrying slightly lesser liquid than the previous types of cups .And the presently,they are using slim and tall types of co wry cups that ,sincerely speaking ,can not carry more than a third of what we used to have in the first place,that is the olden types of mugs .

Now the question here is ,are we,the customers that is ,getting what we deserve for our money really?Sincerely speaking ,someone has to do something about this .Don't you people think that it would be wiser if the government controlled the quantity of this beverages that we get for a specific amount of money?

For some of us,going to those places for a meal means extending your own life though for others it could be just some luxury in their lives .When things look like they are going too far this way ,we always need someone to rescue the situation.

Don't callus any names ,but what is happening is really not fare and it seems that the hoteliers are really enjoying it because everyone of them is now going for this new types of cups Thirty or fifty milliliters of tea or coffee for a handcart pusher is sincerely too little to keep us going.

THE WORLD WIDE SIKH RELIGIOUS LEADER TO VISIT KERICHO TEMPLE

A word has reached us that the world wide leader of the Sikh religion will be visiting the Sikh Temple and University College in Kericho,Kenya on the thirtieth day of the month of January.This was told to us by the University's Principal during an interview with him on the morning of the twenty ninth day of the same month in the morning as he went on with the preparations to receive his guests.

It was said that the leader will be arriving in the country from the UK and that he will be here on Private and religious business only .

The religion has been contributing a lot to the bettering of the lives of the small Kenyans .They have built bridges ,the university college,and much more in this region alone .There could be much more out there in the other parts of the country.

PETROL TANKER LOSES CONTROL AND BURSTS INTO FLAMES

A petrol tanker lost control at masarian crashed in to a saloon injuring the trucks driver and conductor plus the saloon cars driver on the twenty seventh date of the month of January the two thousand and ten .Masarian is about ten kilometers from Kericho town center..The tanker bust in to flames immediately it stopped rolling and burned a half way and also burnt a half an acre of a teas plantation .
The casualties were admitted at the Kericho district hospital.The cause of the fire was not clearly known but eye witnesses guess that it could be because of the sparks form the trucks batteries.

TREE OF DEATH IN KENYA

There was a story in the kenyan press in the nation news paper about this tree .It was a weird and blood chilling story that is not far from the voo doos and human sacrifices that we have been hering about ,and the truth is that the story can not be far from witcraft ,soucery and religious miinformation.

A tree at Chaka trading centre in Nyeri has earned the reputation of the ‘tree of death’. Troubled people, some from as far as 20km away, are trooping to the trading centre to hang themselves from it.

Local police don’t know what to make of it. Villagers claim seven people have hanged themselves from that one tree in the past year. Police said they could only confirm two. Officers said Peter Muchiri, 25, and Stephen Gathara Kaburia, 40, hanged themselves on that tree within a month of each other.

The two came from Ruring’u, Nyeri, although they did not know each nor were they related, according to relatives. Mr Kaburia, a butcher, left home on a Friday to go and look for a cow for slaughter. He even called his wife, Ms Monicah Gathara Karaya, to say he would be home for lunch.

Four days later, he was found hanging from the tree of death, 20km from his home. The rope around his neck was the one he had carried to lead the cow back home. Police said nothing was stolen from him; even his phone was still in his pocket.

Locals said he was dropped off by a taxi a few metres from the place where his dangling body was found, although police investigators could not confirm this. Last week, Mr Karaya, 25, a lorry driver, was found hanging in the same spot.

According to his mother, Ms Tabitha Karaya, Mr Karaya had said he was going to Nairobi on the day he died. His lifeless body was later found on the tree of death. According to witnesses, his shoes were neatly arranged and the rope carefully slipped over the top of his pullover collar.

Same spot

In his pockets, police found a puzzling, roughly scribbled suicide note, thanking his young wife for giving him a baby boy before signing off with the words “Dhambi ni dhambi” (A sin is a sin).

Are the two deaths related or was it by pure coincidence that the two were found dead on the same spot? That is what police are trying to figure out. Relatives are mystified too. “As far as I know, the two did not know each other, and we are not related in any way,” says Ms Karaya.

“Now we know each other very well, although we are not related,” says Ms Monicah Gathara, Gathara’s wife, now a widow with three little children. Nyeri police boss Kirunya Limbitu described it as a strange coincidence. “It is puzzling. Normally, suicidal people kill themselves within their home area. These ones, it seems, travelled 20 kilometres to kill themselves,” he said.

Locals maintain five more bodies have been found hanging from that tree. Inevitably, it has become a source of fear and superstition. Some want it cut down, others swear never to touch a leaf of it. “I have seen four bodies removed from this spot. I think these trees here are cursed,” area resident Nderitu, 22, says. Police are asking the locals to volunteer information to help solve the case. They have opened inquest files, but there is not much in them.

ANOTHER KENYAN WINS THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

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Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, a peace activist from north Eastern Province, is the winner of a global award, the 2009 Hesse Peace Prize which she received in Germany last week.

Her peace activism is long and chequered, having started the Wajir Peace Committee in the early 1990s to try and end persistent clan wars in the region.

A the time, her passion was to see peace prevail in a region where hostile clans were in a permanent war mode. It did not occur to her that the world was watching. And last week on Thursday, Ms Abdi scooped the global award that told her that her efforts were not in vain.

Wajir was under emergency law from 1963 to 1990, with government forces fighting an active guerrilla movement (the Shifta war). When the emergency and quasi-occupation ended, the security situation deteriorated even more.

There was an open conflict which claimed 1,500 lives, and which resulted in a lot of hatred between different clans.

In 1992, Ms Abdi and other women as well as concerned men started a grassroots peace initiative, bringing together people from all clans.

Despite opposition from the traditional clan leaders, they began to organise mediation between the warring parties (with representatives of minority groups acting as moderators).

When an agreement was in place, they set up the Wajir Peace Committee, with representatives of all parties — clans, Government security organs, Parliamentarians, civil servants, Muslim and Christian religious leaders and NGOs — to implement the agreement.

Ms Abdi, who had been working as coordinator for a mobile primary health care project for nomadic people, was elected as secretary of the peace committee hence undertaking dual roles.

The model developed in Wajir, which Ms Abdi describes as “a peace and development committee - a structure for responding to conflict at a local level”, was used again in 1998, when the Christian community in Wajir experienced some violence.

Ms Abdi assisted in the formation of a disaster committee of Muslim women to assist and make amends with the Christian community. They held prayer meetings with Muslim and Christian women, in which both shared their experience and thereby strengthened their relationship.

Subsequently the Wajir Peace Committee began to include Christian women, leading to the formation of an inter-faith committee for peace which has undertaken further activities to intervene in religious conflicts.

Fostering inter-faith dialogue and attempting to resolve tensions and conflict between religions has been a central focus of Ms Abdi’s activity since her first involvement in working for peace, and her methods have now been copied not only elsewhere in Kenya, but in Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, and South Africa.

In addition, Ms Abdi has taught in Somalia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Canada, Cambodia, Philippines, Ghana, Nigeria, Netherlands, Zimbabwe, and the UK.

Ms Abdi now lives in Mombasa and works on peace, conflict and development issues with a number of organisations. She also raises funds to support community groups in peace-building and communication infrastructure and continues to work for the Wajir community with young people to create economic development.

A FILM MADE IN KENYA AND ANGERED SUDAN

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An IDP with a child strapped on her back against the backdrop of Kikopey camp for the internally displaced. Photo/FILE

An IDP with a child strapped on her back against the backdrop of Kikopey camp for the internally displaced. Photo/FILE
By EDDY NGETAPosted Friday, January 22 2010 at 18:48

Even as dark rain clouds pepper the skies over the barren hills overlooking Kikopey in Kenya’s Rift Valley province, inhabitants of these vast plains are unaware of an even larger shadow looming over their heads, occasioned by a possible international standoff over their participation in a controversial film.

The government of Sudan has petitioned its Kenyan counterpart to intervene and stop Danish film makers from releasing a movie. The movie blames Kenya’s northern neighbour for widespread genocide in the Darfur region. The film, Havnen (Danish for revenge), is centred around the war in Darfur and the vicissitudes of life for a group of refugees living in a town on the banks of river Funen in Denmark, and is scheduled to be released in August, this year.

According to media reports, the director of Sudan’s Department of Conflict Resolution and Management, Omer Dahab, has allegedly submitted complaints to the Kenyan embassy in Khartoum, saying that the film has racist contents. He contends that it will negatively affect ethnic harmony in Darfur.

The same reports quote S. Somaya, the Sudanese government spokesperson at its embassy in Nairobi, as saying that it is misleading for the film producers to shoot the movie in Kenya using 2007 post-election violence victims, and then claiming that the location in question is Darfur.

Ms Somaya claims also that the IDPs were lured with low pay, and taken advantage of because they could hardly afford to reject the offer. But IDPs who participated in the film beg to differ. Take 15-year-old Esther Nyambura who has called the IDP camp in Kikopey home for nearly two years now.

She and her parents were displaced from their Narok home at the height of the 2008 post-election violence and fled to the Naivasha showground, from where they were moved to the Ebenezer camp in Kikopey.

Absentee parents

Her mother Ann Waithera, and father David Maina are virtually absentee parents. They have been gone for weeks now, and she doesn’t know where they are. They occasionally drop by to give her money for food and then disappear again for days on end without telling her where they are.

The diminutive but energetic teenager, who at her tender age acts as both father and mother to her five siblings — feeding, clothing and taking care of their every need almost single-handedly — bubbles with enthusiasm and absolute joie de vivre, or the joy of living. True, life has been hard for the Standard Seven pupil at Mukinduri school, but when the film crew dropped by in October, bringing with them an unprecedented financial windfall, Esther was right in the thick of things.

For her trouble, she got five full days of sumptuous dishes and more money than she had ever had in a single day — enough to buy herself a new pair of shoes, a school bag and a new pen, besides presents for her brothers and sisters. It all started in early October when a bus-load of strangers drove up to the camp, clutching an introductory letter from the Naivasha district commissioner’s office and asked to see the IDPs.

The film crew first arrived at the camp on October 1 after scouting the country for an ideal location for their movie. After explaining their mission, they drew up and signed a written agreement with the IDPs, saying that the IDPs understood the purpose of the film shoot and that they had agreed to take part in it for a daily wage.

The crew then pitched camp on the hillside, peppering its slope with a sea of dark green tents. They stayed there for almost a month building the movie set, only leaving on Sunday November 1 after the shooting. For power, the residents say they used a heavy-duty generator which lit up the whole camp.

They brought with them also hundreds of tall, dark strangers whom the IDPs claim were of Nubian origin. “They spoke fluent Kiswahili and Sheng, so I think they are Kenyans,” says Lucy Wambui, a 30-year-old mother of three who was also chosen for a role as supporting cast.

“They told us that they had been picked from Kibera (slums) in Nairobi,” she adds. “I think they picked our camp because it looks like a desert. It is dry and windy, and has a lot of dust,” says John Mwangi, the Ebenezer IDP camp committee, who acts as their spokesman. The film was shot between October 20 and 24.

Internal refugees

MONEY MISTAKES

Time is what we want most and waste the worst,” observed writer William Penn. Our spending habits are another classic paradox of something we so passionately pursue and then so inappropriately dispense.

And this despite the availability of financial facts, trends and reality that would propel one towards achieving goals and ultimately financial security and freedom.

Many are still making bad or self-depreciating decisions that are regressive rather than progressive in the long run.

*Sue has been working in a bank for almost two years now after getting her first degree. She considers herself quite financially savvy and has her plans well laid out.

She intends to take out a loan for a new car and move out to a better location where her car will be safe, and perhaps take a home loan after that.

*Patrick, a first-time father, says his priorities have to change to give his son the best chance at life. So he has opened a junior savings account in which he intends to deposit money often.

And he certainly agrees with spending more time at home now but doesn’t agree with his wife about cutting down on going out on weekends or evenings with his colleagues and friends.

Furthermore, he does intend to take out an education policy with an insurance company when the boy is a little older.

*Millie, a public secondary school teacher in her early fifties, doesn’t agree with her advisor at the bank where she wants to take a mortgage about where she should buy a home.

She has been shopping for a house for months and has chosen a three-bedroom apartment in a secure, serene court off Mombasa Road.

Her mortgage advisor feels she should consider her remaining working years and go for a home in another location such as Athi River or Kitengela or take a construction loan and put up a house there so that she is not struggling with a loan on retirement.

Millie intends to teach in a private school upon retiring and is, therefore, confident that she can handle the mortgage.

Mr Danson Mutethia, an investment consultant with Fortune Advisors, points out the flaws with all the above plans and other mistakes we need to stop making that create roadblocks.

1.Here is the first commandment in financial management that most of us know but ignore – live on less than you earn.

“Carefully draw the line between things you want and things you need so that you see where you can cut down on expenses, especially in circumstances that include a new addition to the family,” Mr Mutethia emphasises.

POVERTY COULD BE ANOTHER CAUSE OF THE POOR PERFOMANCE

I watched the Kenya certificate of primary education resultsof all the schools in kericho town and i must accept that poverty could be a cause for the big difference between the performance of all the schools in the town.Holy trinity primary school was another school with very good results .I went and watched the school population and i really was surprised at what i discovered .then i went to kericho primary school ,it was worse here .And when i went to the highlands primary school \,Then i discovered something that i wished that every body would listen to me.
I realized that the two schools ,Kericho primary school and Holy trinity primary school had an almost similar environment that was very different from that of the Kericho highlands primary school and that of the Saint Patrick primary school.The first two schools had an environment that displayed the life of a well of pupil and the second group of schools displayed the typical life of a low class kenyan pupil .

Judging from the above observations ,it is obvious that the results of the exams were affected by the quality of the lives of the pupils .Those with high quality lives had the best while the others had the worst .There is no way that we can escape from this situation though .,The only good solution lies with the Kenya national examinations Council.

The Council has to be careful the next time that they will be making the exams so that the poor pupils from the villages or the slams can have a chance .Your questions in general ,must come in favor of both environments so that poverty can not be a reason next time.And may this apply to all levels of education in the country.Be it in the high school or university levels.

We can't keep on blaming poverty like this ,everyone is gonna sit at home in a few years time .There has got to be a solution of this kind.

DEALERS AND CUSTOMER EXCHANGE BITTER WORDS BECAUSE OD A LOG BOOK

	A motorcycle dealer and his customer caused a stir in kericho town early on the morning of January twelfth the year two thousand and ten.Businnesess and offices had just opened when the two went in to a hot and fierce exchange of words when both of them could not get even with each other. The customer had gone to claim for his log book after he had bought a brand new motorcycle at the Kericho chai motorcycles  dealers shop but he had waited for his papers for too long.The customer is a motorcycle taxi dealer and believe it or not ,the gentleman had all this time been riding the motorbike around the town without the papers and even on this morning after the bitter exchange of words ,he hadn't got it . The customer was ready to get  physical ,or anything that would provide a solution to the problem while the dealer who was of Sikh origin was ready to go even to the law,yet the problem was the delivery of the log book to its rightful owner ,the customer . It was very hard to understand the two gentlemen and customer and the  crowds scattered before they reached a solution to their problems.

LET THEM QUIT THE FOREST - TO SAVE THE CLIMATES !!!!!

I have listened to all the debate about what is going on in the Mau forest and i have also been following waht is happening to the environment and  i decided that let whatever  goes on in parliament or in the stadiums or wherever Kenyans might be gathered go on but ,nothing can turn my mind around .I have been seeing it in the news on the television and and i have read about it in the newspapers and so on .That was then and it used to happen to other people out there in other aprts of this world .Little did i know that this thing would come up to my country and ,to my own doorstep.
The news about what is happening on the top of mount Kenya really scares me .I caused an awareness in me that never existed before.It was when i read about it in the papers that i knew that the situation was very serious .It was said that due to the dreaded damaging climatic changes ,all the snow on the top of the mountain had melted .There was no more snow on the mountain and that ,very soon ,the plants and animals around me in my environment will soon be having there own share of the pains that are caused by this climatic changes ,including me of course !!!!!

This is what is going on in this universe and the experts ahve already announced the only choices available to continue holding the universe for a little while longer before it goes of course!!!THey said that the only thing that could save the  climate was for mankind to stop destroying the remaining forests .We are lucky in kenya here to have afew acres of forests and ,what is remaining is to protect them as much as we can ,no matter what the costs will be .

WE will all be behind the president and the prime minister in every step that they will be makin g in the conservation of the remining forests and we are not going to step back an inch.No matter what it will cost ,every one is gonna spare some space for the forests .

What ever property was built in the forest lands ,in including the Kiptagich Tea factory and the mansions or what soever was built on that land without the help of a surveyor,may they be relocated to other parts of the country and may they be compensated well to avoid the wrangles and to save the time .Every body must quit the forests!!!

THE WATER SUPPLY OF KERICHO TOWN IN KENYA IS A SHAME.

When the elders at the kericho municipal councils offices decided to expand the water suplly some twenty years ago ,The thought the had solved the poeple's water problems in the town.To them ,they thought taht they had built a very big project that would provide a lifetime solution to the areas water supply problems .Little did nthey know nthat what they thought was a magnificent job done would last only twenty years and then every one in the town will be seen again wandering aroud the place in search of good water.

It has been only twnety years since the water project was officially opened but it looks as if There is no water project in the town .The situation is no better than waht it was before .Today ,the residents of the town get clean water in their taps only twice a week and the rest of the times ,they are dry.You have to worry about your work ,then go worrying again about water in the estates.The situation is really bad .

The thing is that the next time that the will try to build or expand the water supply of this place ,let them draw a very good plan so that whatever they will build will solve the peoples forever . A country as smart as Kenya with such water shortages ,is a shame .We are too good for such minor problems.

It has been whispered that the elders at the town hall are again thinking on how to expand the current facilities of the water project and that work on it can start any moment from now .May they do a sensible thing and not bring shame in the name of a water supply  again.

SHENG IS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE AT THE KERICHO YOUTH CENTER ,KERICHO,KENYA

 


 

Posted by John Ambuli on Monday, November 24, 2008

http://johnambuli.synthasite.comSHENG IS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE AT KERICHO YOUTH CENETER

For many years since our child hood ,the language sheng has been existing and widely used by Kenyans .No one used to take it seriously as a language though and mostly it was taken to be a language for the street people or borntowns .It was linked to the evil ways that were caused by the modern ways of life .Everyone who was heard speaking the language was taken to be either  a coneman or a gangster or any other of ther evil behaviours in our towns and cities that we know.Therefore the language and it’s use have been feared by many because of the above reasons.

The Origin of the language can not be easily traced unless we consult the experts of linguistics ,otherwise most of us found the language being used aand only those who came before us can know it’s origins or if any experts might have taken his or her time to research and find out about this.For those of us who grew up in upcountry urban places ,we can klnow alittle about it’s origin because we have used it and we can tell what is going on from our experiences.The uneducated people from up country used to have difficulty filling up the languges ,both English and Kiswahili  and therefore they used to mixed them whichever way they could find it possible to use them and be understood .That is all that we know about the origin of the language .

The language ,however,has not received any formal attention from the experts of linguistics in this country ,though the language has been growing rapidly and it’s use almost matching or out doing  that of the two official languages i.e Kiswahili and English.It was only mentioned in the press sometime ago that one linguist was working on producing a dictionary for the language users but it has been a long time since then and the gentlemanm has never been heard of ever since that time .Despite all that goes on about linguistics in this country ,but the language still commands a lot of following .Those who used to speak it in the past forty five years since independence are the current viollager elders and they are still using it ,meaning that the language is gonna become a third official language oin this country .There is nothing that we can do about it ,we can not sotop trhe public from using it ,it is not possible .so whast is remaininbg is to make it an official language punctually and let the experts of linguistics work on it and mould it into a form that can be fit to be used nationally.

For the first time in history , there is a social center in kericho town where the language is accept officially to be used by the peiopel .At the Kericho youth centere ,the language is among the three officiall accept languages to be used by all those  who visit the place .The languages are ,ofcourse ,English and Kiswahili.

This is a big step in the growth of the languge and soon we could be using it in public places as a language .Say ,during public celebrations or the other nationally functions .The language has started attracting attention ,especially in up country urban places and it is time that the experts of linguistics ,that in the Kiswahili and English languages ,ought to do something about it.

No one sees the language as a sign of arrogance anymore in this country especially in the up country urban places and evry body feels proud to use tit .It has become a sign of  civilization and sophistication and not whgat it was in the past .Ones any body pronounces a thing in the language ,he or she is understood straioght away that he or she is a civilized person and he or she is awarded the respects of a gentleman straight away .

LET those who deal in linguistics in our universities or the other places of that like research and see if we can introduce it in the schools or not .The thing is that sheng is already a language and there is nowhere we can go or any thinmg we can do to stop it from spreading,let us just embrace it and purify it and have as one of our national languages .

Even the Kiswahili language came about the way .IT happened when the Arabs met the firs Bantu people .This one ,happened when our fore fathers met civilization for the first time .The languages mixed up to form what we now call she.ng .There fore it is  a language already        andit is already in use  in some places in the country officially

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KERICHO PEOPLE TOO CRUEL TO ANIMALS ,KENYA

 



I have watched what some of the farmers from the villages look like concerning the care that they gicve to their animals and i have come to realise that ninety nine percent of the are very cruel people .They don't care what ever happens to the animals ,whether they eat or not and when they fall sick ,they can't spare even a coin for calling in the veterinay doctor to look at the animals .

The remaining one percent that perhaps can call in an animal doctor to look at them when they are sick are the few educated one among them.Otherwise the rest do not have even the informnation that animal doctors exist.Otherwise it is this ignorance that is the main cause of all the bad things that we do see happening to this animals around us ,especiaaly in Kericho town

The worst affected animals are the donkeys .This animals produce quite alot at home yet they aren't given the proper care that they deserve .It is In Kericho ,Kenya ,that the situation is worst.The native peopel here use the animals to trnsport luggage of all kinds and then they leave the animals loitering on the living areas of the town as if they do not have owners.

This people seem to have a problem of ignorance.When their donkeys fall sick ,they come and abandon them in the estates  in the living areas of this town so that there is a site of sick donkeys everywhere ,others dying on the roadsides .The donkeys are left carelessly without no one to take care of them so that they go wandering allover the living areas causing a very bad site.

The small people of Kenya need some education about What being cruel to animals means and everything towards that direction ,otherwise they will continue to get as much as possible out of them when they are still alive and when they fall sick ,they lose hope of them ever recovering and  throw them away .

We have the information that there exists anti cruelty to animals organizations in this world but we have never seen even one practically and there fore ,this is a call to all of them that The peopel of this places are really in a bad sitution ,especially concerning the donkeys .The animals that they value mos are cows and dogs and avery few of the value cats .The rest of the animals are left out.

There is only one Asian business man in the town with awareness about this thing that we call anti cruelty to animals and he is really working hard aginst it .He hangs a banner in his shop that reads ,care for your donkeys ,and the entire town name him after the donkeys .His nickname in the town is Sigiriet ,it means donkey in the vernacular language of the people of this area.Sigiriet is the only person in this places with such knowledge ,otherwise the rest of us are as ignorant as the ancient zinjanthropus .People who do not know anything about such things The town is in a very bad condition and the animal specialist need to do something about this.