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  SIR ELVIS TOPS IN TEXAS SOUNDS INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS 2019  Elvis Otieno popularly known as Sir Elvis has emerged the BEST MALE VOCALIST of the year 2019 in the recent Texas sound international country music awards.                                           Elvis Otieno in Texas after winning the awards. photo/courtesy Being the only nominee from the country, Sir Elvis was scheduled to compete with other 23 renowned and international country music performers. The announcement for his participation in the awards had been made public in Texas sounds website. Upon his nomination for the awards, friends and fans definitely exuded confidence that Sir Elvis would. For instance when Deejay Pierre Kinyua was speaking to standard digital said that Elvis would emerge victorious in the competition.

PLASTIC BAGS USAGE YET TO VANISH Months after the National Environmental Management Authority[NEMA]imposing a ban on usage of poly ethane plastics bags, the product is still being put into use by traders in most parts of the country. Mostly being small scale traders are using these bags to package the products they are selling on the town streets. For instance, in Mombasa sugarcanes dealers in the streets uses the small transparent bags to package the sliced canes that enables them hawk to passing vehicles conveniently. Food sector seems to be one utilizing this illegal product in a big way. Food dealers doing outside catering especially around Kongowea wholesale market are fond of wrapping the plates holding food with the stretched bags to prevent anticipated contamination. Whether the users of the bags are aware of the dire penalties they stand being applied to them or not, there is need for NEMA to deal deliberately with the rooted manufucturers,since continued appearance o...

  SCAMMERS ARE ALL OVER- POETRY  CORNER  Today the world is full of con men, scammers are all over, People want to harvest where they dint plant, People who never want when getting tired, They will wait until other have worked for them to rob. Unemployment having become rampant today, Youths are becoming the most targeted by scammers, Simply because they are desperate and thirsty for jobs, When an opportunity appears they will scramble for it. Varsity students must be extra careful with these scammers, Stop gambling with money given and meant for school fees, These people have no mercy and they will rob you everything, Be contented with what your parent can provide to you. Be on look out at people you partner with for investment, A lady is crying helplessly after being conned all her fees, She has been promised an online job by a person they met online, Only for her to be blocked after sending all her fees to the man.

RISING FROM NOTHING TO EDUCATING HERSELF-NO HUMAN IS LIMITED. Meet Ann Kangai a mass communication student and a hustler concurrently. When you get her in the midst of other traders at Kongowea whole sale market Mombasa, you might take her for just a normal trader but Ann has a got a different story to tell. Ann who hails from Tharaka Nithi County tells how she moved from her county of birth to Mombasa back in 2017 after completing her secondary education to visit her elder brother in Mombasa. Having completed form four level by fate due to the challenges she had gone through during the course, Ann had no hope of advancing to higher learning institution since she had no one to cater for her fees. She painfully narrates how she would spend days at home for failure to meet payment of her school fees and she would study only for a few weeks before to exam. However despite all these ups and downs, she had always had hope to one day pursue the course of her dream. Upon relocating ...

SEARCH FOR THE LIKONI TRAGEDY VICTIMS CONTNUES The search for the Likoni ferry tragedy victims where a mother and her daughter are feared dead after the vehicle they were in reversed and plunged into the sea, has resumed after efforts to locate the vehicle yesterday hit rock amid poor visibility on the site. This has resulted the ferry services at the facility to be halted for 3hrs starting from 9am in what is termed as to give the divers who are up to the task humble time to carry the search. This comes when the Kenya ferry services has met rigorous critics after its disaster management has failed to effectively respond to the disaster. Divers getting ready for the search at Likoni.photo/courtesy Ironically, the organization is yet to give official communication concerning the Sunday evening incident. Kenyans and the family of the bereaved are now waiting with a heavy hearts for the retrieval of the bodies still trapped in the water.