• The stories making headlines in the Star this morning.
Good morning,
For dinner, a thin sausage, a handful of rice clamped together and doughy mashed potatoes. Nothing green, nothing liquid.
For almost seven months now, the Kenyan doctors in Cuba have survived on this food, paying no more allegiance to a balanced diet, which they constantly preach for those keen on healthy living.
The doctors are speaking out against untold suffering in Cuba.
Here are the other stories making headlines in the Star this morning.
Today's top stories in the Star.
Police raid Echesa home, take away his pistol
Armed policemen raided the home of sacked Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa in search of guns.
The officers from the elite Directorate of Criminal Investigation’s Special Crime Prevention Unit conducted the raid last Sunday night at the former CS Karen residence.
According to the police report at Kilimani Police station, OB68/17/3/2009 the DCI officers took Echesa’s Barretta pistol and recovered 15 Bullets during the police operation.
Sossion: 2-6-3-3-3 system bound to fail
Kenya National Union of Teachers launched fresh attacks on the new curriculum, urging the government to halt implementation as teachers are unfamiliar and unable to handle it.
The union said reception among teachers is generally negative and warning that teachers will not take the blame should the curriculum be pronounced dead.
Juma tells MPs to expunge her from PAC report
Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma has asked Parliament to expunge her name from an incriminating report as focus shifted to ex-Interior PS Mutea Iringo over the Sh1.7 billion police insurance saga.
Juma on Tuesday told the Public Accounts Committee that she was not the PS when the controversial deal was negotiated and concluded.
Widow loses bid to manage estate of husband she's accused of killing
One of life's paradoxes is the immense potential of human beings to do good and the capacity to do evil. Life casts the mould of conduct which will someday be adjudged decent or wicked. At times fate and coincidence conspire to produce unlikely facts and events.
These were words of Appeal judges as they dismissed the case by a woman seeking to manage the vast estate of the husband she is accused of killing.
Nairobi Hospital board faces overhaul as fights over Sh8bn projects intensify
The Kenya Hospital Association has called for a meeting to kick out the board of the Nairobi Hospital.
The demand by shareholders to have a new board take charge follows the feuding between the current on and the management over the control of the hospital’s Sh8 billion projects.