Author: Staff Writer

Drug abuse cases on the increase

“More young people are resorting to drugs as a coping mechanism to deal with life’s challenges. Youths in high density suburbs are experimenting and making their own concoctions from very harmful substances which no one knows the effects. It’s unfortunate that the country does not have sufficient drug rehabilitation centers for those who would want to turn over a new leaf.”

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“Without NGOs we will die”

“We need to check the amount of power this bill gives to one person. The vulnerable like the girl child and people living with disabilities and other diseases have been protected and assisted by NGOs. This bill takes away all that and compromises the livelihood of women and girls child. We will die if this bill is passed, who will protect us?”

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Social media and mental health

What you need to understand is that what people put on their social media might not be what is actually going on in their lives, people are struggling, people are experiencing pain but it is up to you to see past posts and pictures and work on yourself in real life.

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Mining compounds, murder and GBV

Gender Based Violence (GBV) has become a major cause for concern at Tiger Reef mine. Recently two women were murdered in cold blood in broad daylight with the community looking

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Spare the rod and spoil the child

People in resettlement areas have bemoaned the rise in cases of child marriages and school dropouts and have blamed it on government policies that were not in line with cultural

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