Willem Alexandar Hondius, a guru of the low budget airlines business and founding CEO of Jambojet, has died after battling illness in his home in the Netherlands.
Author: Mbugua Ng’ang’a
Human Rights crusader Zarina Patel, 89, one of the key figures who fought for the expansion of democratic space in Kenya for over three decades, died on Thursday, April 26, after battling illness. Zarina, the granddaughter of Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee, the businessman and activist who donated the Jeevanjee Gardens to the residents of Nairobi, was a member of the Ufungamano Initiative, a civil society movement that was pushing for electoral and legal reforms to entrench multi-party democracy in Kenya during the autocratic tenure of the then President Daniel arap Moi. Additionally, she will be remembered for her crusade that stopped…
A drop in diesel prices is also expected to ease the cost of electricity given that 14 per cent of electricity generated in Kenya is from diesel-powered plants, also known as thermal power producers.
It is not every day that a song by Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter opens with a banjo. And that explains, in part, why her latest single, Texas Hold ‘Em, is proving to be such a hit — and is literally causing quiet some heat online — for if there ever was an outlier performance, this year’s must be Beyonce topping the Hot Country Songs chats. What is more, the song, which she released in February, has hit TikTok like a storm, with various content creators, including toothless American countryside mums, throwing their best foot backwards, so to speak, as they dance…
Former US President Donald Trump was on Wednesday widely expected to win the Republican Primary in Akansas State, just two days after the Supreme Court ruled that he could be on the ballot, overturning a Colorado court decision that had ordered he be excluded from the 2024 presidential ballot. Some opinion polls have given Mr Trump a 77 per cent chance of clinching the Akansas vote — which would give him 39 party delegates. His closest challenger, Ms Nikki Haley, was projected to take 18 per cent of the state vote, which would earn her one delegate. Other fringe candidates…
News that eleven passengers died when the bus they were travelling in collided with a lorry ought to stir the traffic police department and the National Transport and Safety Authority to enforce the Highway Code more robustly if the country is serious about ending the carnage of our roads. Now that it has been established that errant human behaviour — speeding, reckless and drunk driving, distracted driving, mainly from the use of mobile phones — there ought to be more targeted vigilance and sanctions against offenders. As it is, Kenyan highways have become like the Wild West of olden America,…
The war of words between President William Ruto and members of the legal profession went a notch higher on Wednesday, January 11, when the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) called for countrywide protests “in support of the rule of law and solidarity with the Judiciary”. LSK said the protests would be “against the recent remarks made by the Head of State against the Judiciary”. In addition to the peaceful protests across the country, LSK raised the ante when it asked its members in Nairobi to assemble outside the Supreme Court today, Friday, January 12, for the protest march that is…