Some Development Issues and Debates

(Fish consumption decline: hypotheses.) GC Matchaya, PhD This note is in response to the article ‘Fish consumption drops’ that appeared in the nation paper of Friday, 18 June 2010 published online at http://www.mwnation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1206:fish-consumption-drops&catid=66:business-news&Itemid=64 The said article is interesting and tackles an issue of importance for health and general societal welfare. The annual fish catch figures it presents are enlightening and helps readers to understand the fish availability problem in Malawi in a proper context. Nevertheless the article seems to present otherwise simple facts in a manner that may get the readers confused. Firstly the characters mentioned in the article seem to insinuate that the decline in fish per capita consumption is due to general disinterest in fish consumption by consumers, so that there should be policies that seek to encourage fish consumption as perhaps in fish importance ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCuErm9RqSY "I still worry and stress about what I had with you I still feel the pain as it is ceaseless since my heart is mute, the burden is on me eyes get shy but heart still feels and stays your only courage (oh my love) I have done everything I can, but you still mad" Blandine, prittynae2008

what is the role of tribal groupings in Malawi's present and future politics? what is the potential role of such groupings on development?

This is a song by Noel Ngiama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D5kq-BqeYE while this is by Rochereau and sung by Mbilia Bel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D5kq-BqeYE

As they say friends aren't jumper cables, you don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies. True friendship should be perpendicular to achievements in areas of power, wealth, education or religion. It must show up regardless of conditions, it must edure misfortune, it must conqure distance, and must pass a test of time, otherwise, it is fake, or thinly veiled opportunism!

Greenwell C. Matchaya A slightly modified version appeared in the Nation news paper’s Business section on Thursday 04/03/2010 I am pretty sure that for most government theorists, executive search agencies, management consultants and those of us with some advanced level of management theory it is platitudinous that the quest for any company’s CEO is probably the single most important decision that a Board of Directors has to periodically make. The decision of a CEO is very critical to the immediate and inter-temporal health and productivity of any organization. CEOs can, and do, make or break organizational fabrics and integrity conditional on their style of leadership, foresight and dynamism. It is hence so obvious that boards ought to usher themselves into robust search for the right candidates for the job while bearing in mind the larger goals of the organisation. The recent media debate on the choice of the CEO for the troubled ESCOM, partly tackled by MIE staff (referring to The N...

The pursuit of wealth and that of education aren't necessarily complementary. You can either become a billionnaire, but without too much formal education or you may become a professor but without the tambalas. It's all to do with how we invest our time.....sad reality, isn't it? The implication though is not that we should not endeavour to achieve excellence in academia, or in business, but that we should realise that we need to search for an optimal combination of the two given the scarce resource of time.