Editorial

Healing requires all suspects face trial
Justice for the victims of atrocities committed in the weeks following last year’s General Election can only spring from the due process of the law. [Updated on May 15, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Investigate claims of torture, murder
With allegations of torture and extra-judicial killings continuing to pour out of Mt Elgon District, we are concerned that the security operation against the Sabaot Land Defence Force, Operation Okoa Maisha, has all the hallmarks of other lawless State clampdowns of recent times. [Updated on May 14, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Pan Paper bailout needs scrutiny
Early last year, reports that East Africa’s largest paper manufacturer, the Webuye-based Pan African Paper Mills, was in financial trouble began to reappear. [Updated on May 13, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Air safety still a major challenge
As the Government calls on commercial airline operators, particularly small aircraft firms, to work on safety, it must also work on improving traffic control and rehabilitating its 150 airports and airstrips. [Updated on May 12, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

No more joy-riders
Weightlifting is one of the least recognised sports, with local lifters being regular — but futile — [Updated on May 12, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

African leaders part of the Zimbabwean crisis
If Africa cannot chastise Mr Robert Mugabe over his belligerence and bigotry then what does it stand [Updated on May 11, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

The burden is heavy but Kibaki, Raila must deliver
Another milestone in the seasoning of the Grand Coalition was set at the induction workshop for Cabi [Updated on May 10, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Condoms are great, but we need drugs
Thursday’s revelation by Medical Services minister Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o that the public health syste [Updated on May 9, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Caution advisable on health financing
Proposals to increase the compulsory remittances for social health insurance should be considered in [Updated on May 8, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Food distribution just as important
As the country resumes the journey towards self-sufficiency in food production, we would all do well [Updated on May 7, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Check conflicts in watchdog teams
The inclusion of some MPs in key parliamentary committees constituted last week has raised eyebrows, [Updated on May 5, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Time running out
Victory over Somalia in an Under-20 Africa Youth Championship qualifier has earned Kenyan football s [Updated on May 5, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Kivuitu team hasn’t a grain of trust left
Never in the history of this country has a public institution been so discredited as the Electoral C [Updated on May 4, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

We must tread carefully on forced resettlement
The speedy resettlement of the thousands of people uprooted from their homes by the wave of post-ele [Updated on May 3, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Improve logistics for health supplies
Reports that public hospitals have run out of vaccines for tuberculosis, a disease thriving on the b [Updated on May 2, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more

Fix wage policy
While workers will not like the Government’s decision not to announce an increase in the minimum wag [Updated on May 2, 2008, 12:00 am ] ... Read more