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THE STANDARD BUSINESS A tea basket on a tea farm in Tetu, Nyeri. [Kibata Kihu, Standard] Senior management and board members of the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) may be headed home as the government kicks off an investigation into the operations of the agency. President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday directed the Attorney General to conduct an inquiry into allegations of statutory and regulatory breaches committed by KTDA, one of the largest tea industry players in Kenya. Among the ills KTDA is accused of include price fixing and abusing its dominance and having a grip on more than 620,000 s...

SUMMARY George III was king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1811. The third monarch from the House of Hanover, George was just twenty-two years old when he succeeded his grandfather, George II, as king in 1760. His reign was shaped by the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), the Irish Rebellion (1798), and the French Revolution (1783–1815), but he is best known as the “tyrant,” called “unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in the Declaration of Independence (1776), who lost the American Revolution (1775–1783). In reality, George III supported his cabinet’s authority and...

THE STANDARD BUSINESS NEWS By Correspondent | February 17th 2021 The High Court in Embu has dismissed with costs an application by the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) to be enjoined in a petition challenging sections of the 2020 Tea Act. The court said the AFA no longer has a mandate in the management of tea matters. In a ruling delivered on Monday, High Court Judge Lucy Njuguna said the new Tea Act had conferred tea management mandate to the Tea Board of Kenya, noting that the crop had been delinked from the Crops Act – under which AFA is established. “The Tea Act 2020 establishes ...

A section of Ruto’s allies are said to have instructed the two clerks of Parliament to re-channel their monthly subscriptions from Jubilee to the UDA

After Tea Act, Kenya must now enact law on unique products Wednesday February 03 2021 Summary Regardless of the challenges, there is optimism among intellectual property practitioners that Parliament will entertain the enactment of a geographical indication legal framework, which stalled a decade or so ago. A geographic indication is a symbol showing region of source of goods, for example, a town, region, or country that oozes certain quality because of either/or a combination of geographical, environmental, natural and human factors. On December 23, the MPs passed the Tea Act of 2020 paving ...