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CTE Tole Workers Besiege CDC Head Office

By Francis Tim Mbom & Roland Mbonteh

Marooned workers of the Tole Tea Plantation near Buea in the early hours of Wednesday, July 26, besieged the head office of the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC, in Bota Limbe.      

Desperate CTE workers spent entire wednesday at CDC Head Office

Poor FSLC Results Blamed On Lack Of Teachers

By Ernest Sumelong

Southwest Delegate of Basic Education Joseph Njika has identified the lack of teachers as the main cause of the drop in the results of this year's First School Leaving Certificate, FSLC, examination.

Anxious pupils looking up FSLC results

Taxi Driver Dies In Gendarmerie Cell

By Joe Dinga Pefok

Controversy is raging over the exact cause of the death of a taxi driver, Alain Nzedjeu, 30, in the cell of Territorial Research of the Gendarmerie at Ndopassi, Douala 11, July 22. While gendarmes say the driver committed suicide, family members suspect he died from torture at the gendarmerie station.

Fon Doh May Be Granted Bail

By Peterkins Manyong

The Northwest Court of Appeal has rejected a motion filed by Fon Doh's opponents, which would have given room for an objection to the granting of bail to the jailed Balikumbat Fon.

Workers Welcome FAKOSHIP Bid To Takeover Tole Tea

Walter Wilson Nana

Workers of Tole Tea Estate, Buea, one of the three tea components of Cameroon Tea Estates, CTE, have welcomed a proposal by the management of FAKOSHIP to buy over the estate.

Relax The Back Office Chairs

Biya Fuels Anti-Press Sentiments

By Kini Nsom

President Paul Biya has exacerbated the anti-press sentiments that have been common within government circles of late.In a policy speech during the CPDM extraordinary congress on July 21, President Biya warned journalists to look away from the private lives of people.

Tole Tea Estate Crisis: Who Is Fooling Who?

By Bouddih Adams

The recent press statements by the proprietor of the Cameroon Tea Estates, CTE, Alhadji Baba Danpullo, in reaction to a bid by the owner of FAKOSHIP company, Mr. Charles Namme Menyoli to buy the Tole Tea Estate, seem an attempt to downplay the real issues at stake.

Diboule, The Struggle For Change And Martyrdom

Nzall Diboule Grégoire, you will be buried on Saturday July 29, in your native village. You were born in Mouanko, a village in Sanaga Maritime Division, Littoral Province. You lived in Mimboman; I in Essos Yaounde. So we were very close neighbours.

Rumpi Is On Track Despite Hurdles - Coordinator

Interviewed By Pegue Manga

Dr. Fabian Ndomo Ekue, Project Coodinator, Rumpi Area Participatory Development Project, thinks despite some hurdles, the project is inching towards achieveing its objectives.In this exclusive interview, Dr Ekue says money has been made available to pay Rumpi workers who have been going for eight months without salaries.

 

Who Should Coach The Lions - Expatriate Or Cameroonian?

Compiled By Walter Wilson Nana, Olive Ejang, Loveline Mbori, Francis Tim Mbom & Ernest Sumelong

Money Spent On Expatriates Could Help Cameroonians 

I would like a Cameroonian to be made Lions' coach. At times the money we spend on expatriates does not help us. This money could be used for poverty alleviation in the country.

State Counsel Interrogates Siyam Siwe

By Joe Dinga Pefok

Alphonse Siyam Siwe, former Minster of Energy and Water and General Manager of the Port Authority of Douala, PAD, was July 21 interrogated by the State Counsel of the Bonanjo Magistrate Court, Douala, Amadou Sule. 

Siyam:Smiling in detention

Muna Starts Grassroots Campaigns In Northwest

By Peterkings Manyong

Ben Muna, faction leader of the Social Democratic Front, SDF, has begun a campaign to endear himself to grassroots militants of the party in the Northwest.

Letter From Y"de to...Buea

Dear Mbella,

I was tickled with your rigmarole over issues you do not master. There is no gainsaying that your mind is full of prejudice about a party that has brought everlasting peace to Cameroon.

PMUC Props NGO For Underprivileged Children

By Joe Dinga Pefok

Pari Mutuel Urbain Camerounais, PMUC, has offered support to a newly created NGO in Douala, known as Groupe d'Initiative Commune Socio-economique des Enfans Démunis, GIC-ED, which offers technical training to some handicapped and underprivileged children in the society.

PMUC authorities and members of NGO at occassion

COLLECTOR'S DIARY:Pas de Condom?

Tiny rain drips danced on the street. There was no wind except for an occasional whiff as cars swished past on the wet tarmac, and only a steady patter of rain soldiers marking time. I crossed the road and leaped into Figaro.

Sifting Through Buea's Garbage And Drainage

By Christelle Megne & Namondo Mbonde (UB journalism Students On Internship)

On one chilly Tuesday morning in Molyko, Buea, pigs, goats and chickens fed lavishly on a hill of garbage at the University entrance. The lone trashcan, placed by the Buea Council, was overflowing with rubbish. Hard by, garrulous women roasted maize, plums and plantains on charcoal stoves.

Inhabitants usually ignore the trashcans

Living With Bandits, Feymen And Prostitutes In Bamenda

By Loveline Mbori

This is not Bamenda. The once serene, secure and decent headquarters of the Northwest Province, admired for its beauty and hospitality, is fast becoming a "the Devil's Island"; insecurity, feymania, prostitution and banditry have taken the town hostage.

One Dies In Scuffle Over Electricity Bills

By Olive Ejang Tebug

The fight started at 6 p.m on Monday, July 17, at Farm Road Street, Fiango Kumba, when Pius Akode, 30, decided to pack out of his Farm Road residence because he could not pay his electricity bills, which he said was too high.

Njinikom Bizman Wins FCFA 8.1 Million In Quinte Plus

By Chris Mbunwe

Paris Mutuel Urbain Camerounais, PMUC, Friday, July 21, handed a cheque worth FCFA 8.137.900million to Raymond Diangha, an off-licence owner from Njinikom subdivision of Boyo Division in the Northwest Province, for staking on the Quinte Plus.             

Happy winner displays sybolic cheque

Form Families That Lure God Back

By Leocadia Bongben

The Co-founder of the Universal Peace Federation, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, has urged Cameroonians to form families that God will miss and yearn to return after having been away.

Governor Reseals BCUF Property

By Teclaire Same (UB Journalism Student On Internship In Buea)

A commission created by Southwest Governor, Louis Eyeya Zanga, Wednesday, July 26, resealed the property of Bakweri Cooperative Union of Farmers, BCUF, Real Estate and Housing Cooperative Society.

Five cops ensuring that BCUF stays sealed

Four Arrested Over Conflict In Drivers' Union

By Olive Ejang Tebug and Jude Efutercha (UB Journalism Student on internship in Kumba)

Gendarmes recently arrested four drivers of the Meme, Kupe Muanenguba, Manyu and Ndian Divisions Drivers' Union over conflicts in the union. The drivers include Agbor Ndip, Michael Kamga, Lawrence Orock and Julius Esapa.

Orock & Kamga

BRIEFS: Junior Lions Camp In Buea

Junior Lions of Cameroon are currently camping in Buea at the Mount Cameroon Sport Complex, in preparations for an encounter against Niger on August 6, marking qualifier round for the Junior African Cup of nations billed for early 2007.

Biya Checks CPDM Resource Persons' Excesses

By Kini Nsom

President Paul Biya who was Friday, July 21, re-acclaimed National Chairman of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement, CPDM, has castigated some resource persons whom he said, lord it over elected local officials of the party.

Biya: "The party could criticise gov't action"

Gov't Still To Decide On CAMAIR Workers' Retrenchment

By Joe Dinga Pefok

The Provisional Administrator of Cameroon Airlines, CAMAIR, Paul Ngamo Hamani, has said the government is still to decide on how retrenchment benefits, which will be paid to workers when the company disappears in the coming months, will be calculated.