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As the new year begins, the Village of Lansing is sensitive to the property tax issues many businesses are facing, and plans to use an online portal to...
THE STANDARD By Augustine Oduor | January 2nd 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 A Class Eight pupil during a lesson at Kaptembwa Primary School in Nakuru. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] The race is on to procure masks for over 10 million school-going children. In the next two days, every primary and secondary student must have at least two masks as part of measures to ward off Covid-19, which led to the closure of learning institutions 10 months ago. It gets complicated for boarders who are supposed to have enough masks to last for 11 weeks because there won’t be a mid-term break and visits by gua...
Views: Visits 25 The Head of State has said schools will open on January 4. Learners have been out of the classrooms for more than nine months owing to the Covid-19 outbreak. Since independence, such a thing has never happened. My grandmother narrated how the state of emergency forced schools to close in 1952 for five years and this ended her education. At least we are lucky and are waiting for next year with bated breath. When the Education Cabinet Secretary made the announcement to close schools, learners thought it will only take a few months to resume. The school economy has thou...
Pastor suspected of defiling girl arrested after six days on the run He surrendered to police [Photo: James Omoro] A Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) pastor has denied defiling a 14-year-old girl in Homa Bay County. Bernard Tambo Odhiambo, who is in charge of a church in Homa Bay East District, yesterday appeared before Homa Bay Senior Resident Magistrate Joy Wesonga. In the first count, the pastor was accused of defiling the minor who is a Class Eight candidate. The court heard that Odhiambo intentionally and unlawfully had carnal knowledge of the girl at Nyalkinyi area on December 2. In the sec...
THE STANDARD By James Omoro | December 10th 2020 at 16:23:18 GMT +0300 Seventh-Day Adventist Church (SDA) Pastor Bernard Tambo was detained at Homa Bay Police station. He has been released on Sh100,000 bond. [James Omoro, Standard] A Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) pastor was released on a Sh100, 000 bond with a surety of a similar amount after he denied defiling a 14-year old girl in Homa Bay County. Bernard Tambo Odhiambo—who is in charge of the church’s Homa-Bay East District comprising 10 churches—was accused of defiling a minor who is a Class Eight pupil at a primary school in Homa ...