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source: Standay Standard by Sunday Standard Reporter 12.10.2008 1:48:44 P The government warned this week of prolonged power outages due to the ongoing services but added that it was courting the Chinese to inject money into the stalled Mmamabula project. Minerals, Energy and Water Resources minister, Ponatshego Kedikilwe, indicated that the country will run short of 80 mws of electricity supply for the months of October and November this ....

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source: BOPA 10 October, 2008 GABORONE - Government has formed an inter-ministerial committee to oversee the finalisation and implementation of a National Strategic Framework for combating alcohol abuse. According to a news release from Botswana Government Communication Information Systems (BGCIS), this is in line with government’s decision to adopt a holistic approach to the challenge of substance abuse in Botswana. In an addition, it says the decision is consistent ....

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source: Standay Standard by SUNDAY STANDARD REPORTER 12.10.2008 1:23:41 P Confidential notes between the former Bank of Botswana Chief Internal Auditor (Joe Mutwale) and the Bank’s Audit Committee Chairman (Gordon Cunliffe) paints a picture of how the management of the Central Bank deliberately falsified figures that formed part of answers presented to parliament by the Minister of Finance and Development Planning. A Member of Parliament had asked a set ....

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source: Mmegi BRIAN BENZA Staff Writer Botswana’s economic competitiveness has improved on the back of strong macro-economic stability, good quality institutions and infrastructure as well as financial market sophistication, a report released Wednesday by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Geneva, Switzerland reveals. According to the report, which uses the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) as its barometer for the rankings, Botswana has gone up 20 places to position 56 ....

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source: BOPA 10 October, 2008 GABORONE - The Minister of Communications, Science and Technology, Mrs Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi, says government has created a good environment for Public Private Partnership (PPP) in order to address rural connectivity to communications infrastructure. Addressing the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation’s ICT summit in Abuja, Nigeria, recently, Mrs Venson-Moitoi gave the example of the Nteletsa II project, which has been concluded with some public and private telecommunications ....

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source: Mmegi EPHRAIM KEORENG Staff Writer The Director of Information Services (IS) Kebareng Solomon, Mmegi is reliably informed, was summoned to the Office of the President (OP) to explain why yesterday’s Daily News had no story on alcohol. The newspaper only had an advert titled Alcohol abuse wrecks lives on the back page. On the page, a man is asleep and has by his side a bottle of alcohol. ....

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source: Mmegi STAFF WRITER Militarisation of the civil service is continuing and the latest casualty is the department of prisons and rehabilitation. After months of denial that the Office of the President wants a soldier to take over, the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs announced in a press release yesterday the appointment of Colonel Silas Motlalekgosi as commissioner of Prisons and Rehabilitation effective October 6, 2008. The appointment ....

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