http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/ RSS Feeds for The Standard - Online Edition en-us http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/ PHP/5.2.9 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028731&cid=16& If you thought investor funds are now secure following stringent measures put in place by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) to arrest unscrupulous trading practices, you are wrong. A few months after stockbrokers, investment banks and a host of other financial intermediaries were ordered to publish their books of accounts, an asset manager is in the news for the wrong reasons. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:00:49 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258732849 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028730&cid=16& International federations have a duty to set standards for their global affiliates. The affiliates seek advice from their line international federations whenever sticky issues emerge that need quick solutions. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:00:20 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258732820 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028692&cid=16& Reports that land reform at the coast is predicated on pitting the indigenous populations against Arab landowners are disturbing. In the language of Lands Minister James Orengo and the landmark Draft National Land Policy, it is "indigenous Kenyans" — not ‘citizens’ mark you — for whom land in the Ten Mile strip that is held by absentee landlords will be converted to community land. And these landlords, we are told, are Arab. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:20:56 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258654856 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028693&cid=16& Squatters, internally disp-laced people and vulne-rable minority groups in need of the Government’s assistance must not be turned into pawns in political games. This is what seems to be happening in the South Eastern Mau, complicating what should have been a straight-forward evacuation, and in other parts of the nation (see second editorial). Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:21:27 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258654887 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028629&cid=16& Protecting gazetted forests and woodlands, and planting trees on ten per cent of privately held parcels are good beginnings to dealing with the problem of conservation. The drop of forest cover to just 2.7 per cent of the country’s territory as the use of wood energy continues unabated is a wake-up call to the nation on the challenge we face. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:58:39 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258563519 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028628&cid=16& The nation is upbeat over the release of the Harmonised Draft by the Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review on Tuesday for the requisite one-month public debate. It is an ecstatic yet trying moment for a nation that has for two decades clamoured for overhaul of its laws of governance. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:58:05 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258563485 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028568&cid=16& On a journey as long as the one Kenyans have endured in the search for a new constitution, there are many changes. People who were comrades-in-arms in the clamour to make Kenya a multi-party state with the repeal of Section 2(a) no longer see eye to eye. Others who fought them tooth and nail have morphed into latter-day reformists. All have embraced the political divisions encouraged in the early 1990s, resulting in ethnicity playing an overwhelming role in governance. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:24:01 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258478641 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028567&cid=16& Stephen Rapp says he has seen pictures of Rwanda genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga in Kenyan neighbourhoods. The United States Ambassador for War Crimes adds to the accusations emanating from current and former officials of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. However, he, like the others who have made this claim, is yet to provide evidence of the fugitive’s presence in Kenya or of prominent persons hiding him. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:23:11 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258478591 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028569&cid=16& It is how the Treasury did it that is undermining the milestone policy on the engine capacity of government vehicles. That, in a way, is the treachery of our government systems and actors, in which even well-intended policy tends to stumble in the execution. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:24:34 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258478674 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028532&cid=16& News that Kenya is on a list of countries with severely stunted children under the age of five years old is frightening. According to a new Unicef study, last year close to 40 per cent of Kenyan children in this age bracket suffered severe growth limitations due to poor nutrition. When weighed against the population, this is huge. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:45:15 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258393515 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028533&cid=16& Domestic violence continues to be a huge social problem 26 years after Mrs Piah Njoki had her eyes gouged out by her husband of 15 years. Mr Jackson Kagwai attacked Njoki, a mother of six, with a broken bottle because she had only borne him daughters. Three years later in court, however, she asked the judge not to jail her husband because she would be left alone to fend for her six daughters. Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:45:53 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258393553 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028401&cid=16& The Cabinet retreat in Mombasa ended yesterday and it was a charade. You and I, the taxpayer, will of course foot the Sh11 million bill for an exercise you were neither party to nor approved. Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:21:02 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258215662 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028335&cid=16& Our national football team, Harambee Stars, meets Nigeria in a crucial World Cup qualifier on Saturday. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:29:32 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258133372 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028284&cid=16& Proposals to expand and enhance the scope and nature of witness prote-ction are most welcome. Whistleblowers on economic crimes may have given us the impetus to seek creation of a protection unit, but the events of recent years suggest it is the war on organised crime that will benefit most. This makes it imperative that the protection of whistleblowers be handled by an independent body. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:03:35 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258049015 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/editorial/InsidePage.php?id=1144028285&cid=16& Government’s response to the crisis in the Mau Forest complex should not degenerate into incoherence. A two-week eviction process in the South Eastern Mau began on Wednesday amid uncertainty as to whether it was a Kenya Forestry Service exercise or the co-ord-inated relocation expected from the Mau Secretariat. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:04:09 +0000 http:www.standardmedia.co.ke/rss/.1258049049