Woman, 21, arrested over stabbing of Labour MP
A Labour MP was recovering in hospital last night after being stabbed during his first constituency advice surgery since the general election. Stephen Timms, the MP for East Ham and a vice-chairman of the Labour Party, is thought to have been knifed twice in the stomach while meeting a female constituent at Beckton Globe community hall at 3.20pm yesterday. The woman reportedly became angry towards the end of her appointment. It is unknown why the woman wanted to see Mr Timms, 54, or if she had any particular complaint. A 21-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene....read more
David Cameron is the youngest Prime Minister
David Cameron has become Prime Minister after agreeing a deal with the Liberal Democrats to lead Britain’s first coalition government since the Second World War. Mr Cameron and his wife Samantha met the met the Queen at Buckingham Palace just after 8pm on Tuesday, where she invited him to form a minority government. Mr Cameron, 43, accepted and now becomes the youngest Prime Minister in almost 200 years and forms the first Conservative administration since 1997. He is the youngest British leader since Lord Liverpool in 1812....read more
Gordon Brown To Resign As Labour Leader
Gordon Brown has said he will step down as party leader as Nick Clegg asks for talks between Labour and the Liberal Democrats. In a statement outside Downing Street, Mr Brown said he had "no desire to stay in my position longer than needed" and would leave by the party conference in September. He said he will ask the Labour Party to begin the process for a leadership election but that he will not stand or intervene. He will have left the role by the September party conference, he added...read more
Ireland: Dr Irene Mwangi, 33, faces charges of professional misconduct
A Kenyan doctor accused of reneging on a €150,000 medical scholarship in Ireland has alleged that she was paid less than her colleagues and was threatened with deportation if she were to outstay the study programme. The claims emerged during a Medical Council inquiry into Dr Irene Mwangi, 33, who faces charges of professional misconduct for allegedly dishonouring a scholarship, which was funded by a wealthy Dublin businessman.....read more
Miss Elizabeth Kangethe wins a council seat in London
Miss Elizabeth Kangethe a teacher in London has worn a council seat in London and is now a councillor of Parsloe Ward in Barking and Dagenham. Elizabeth Kangethe is from the African community who lives in the borough. Elizabeth has been an active member in the local Labour party since 2005 helping the local MP M.Hodge and ......read more
UK kingmaker in power sharing talks
LONDON, May 8 - Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg held talks with his party's lawmakers Saturday to plan their strategy as he considers a power-sharing deal with the Conservatives to solve Britain's political impasse. The Liberal Democrats, the third-biggest party, are responding to Conservative leader David Cameron's "big, comprehensive offer" after Thursday's landmark general election resulted in the first hung parliament for 36 years....read more
Ocampo targets three Kenyan suspects
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 8 - International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has promised to finalise investigations into the post election violence in the next couple of months, and expects to indict two to three suspects by the end of this year. Mr Ocampo told a Press conference soon after arrival in Nairobi on Saturday morning that the bulk of investigations in two main cases will be conducted from scratch and go on for about six months.
“We are collecting evidence and we have no one yet as a suspect for us,” he said and added. “We cannot rely from statements collected by Non Governmental ...read more ...
Kenya pledges to allow homosexuality
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 7 - Kenya has pledged to decriminalise homosexuality and combat any sort of prejudice based on sexual orientation or gender at the ongoing eighth session of the Universal Periodic Review on human rights at Geneva’s Palais des Nations..
The country, whose human rights issues were scrutinised on Thursday by peers however admitted that it faced serious social intolerance towards homosexuals....read more
Kenyan man wins $12.1 million against his employer fro wrongful termination
A California Jury awarded a Kenyan man over $2.2 million in compensatory damages and of over $9.9 million in punitive damages against his former employer Alticor. A jury returned special verdicts finding defendant liable on Steve Gikonyo's claims for wrongful termination in violation of public policy, defamation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.-Court Records
Kenyan national held over sh100m fraud
A KENYAN man was on Wednesday morning arrested for allegedly transferring sh100m from Standard Chartered Bank in Kampala illegally.
According to the Police, John Musoti a.k.a. Walter Phillips Muhoma, was nabbed at the Garden City branch moments after the transaction.
Jinja Road police station chief Seiko Chemonges disclosed that Musoti, held in Kampala, went to the bank at about 11am in the company of two other men.
According to sources, the staff became suspicious of the men and alerted their security team. Musoti’s accomplices escaped as he was detained. ...read more
Kenyan Immigration Ministry insists Wajir politician not Kenyan
The Immigration Ministry maintains that it is justified to charge Wajir South politician Mahamud Muhumed Sirat with being in the country illegally even after two High Court judges declared that he is a Kenyan Citizen.
In a replying affidavit, the Ministry of Immigration claims that despite the fact that Mr Sirat is a holder of a Kenyan Passport, the process of obtaining the document was by way of misleading an immigration officer....read more
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MOMBASA,(PlusNews) - At a nightclub in Mombasa, on the Kenyan coast, Tito Bakari* a local man, and Leonard Smithberger, a tourist, make out in a dark corner before the bouncer asks them to leave. Hand in hand they walk to another bar nearby, where they party through the night.
"My love from Germany has been here since Easter - the party has just begun," Bakari told PlusNews. Smithberger visits Kenya a few times every year and showers gifts and money on Bakari, who moves out of the house he shares with his wife and child and into his lover's hotel.......read more ..
Nepotism Of The just Revealed List Of Kenyas Envoys: By David Onchwangi-Atlanta,GA-
How do you reconcile the appointments of members of one family as envoys to the United States, both as Ambassador and Consular General respectively against nepotism? Isnt this a clear conflict of interest? How do you reconcile the appointment of the personal assistant to the PM as ambassador to Egypt against cronyism? How do you reconcile complete neophytes to Diplomacy to key diplomatic appointments against cronyism? Kenya is a country of almost 38 Million people, hundreds if not thousands of them qualified career diplomats, why werent they picked for these positions? Something is badly wrong with this picture; good people stand up, evil triumphs when good men say nothing, and at this rate, we are perilously headed down a very dangerous path.....read more
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