Kazi inafanywa ofisini kwenye mafaili yanayohusu mustakabali wa Taifa, vijijini kwa wakulima, mitaani kwa wamachinga na sio kwenye ndege na dhifa za taifa anazoandaliwa huko aendako. Sema hiviiii - tuwaache viongozi wetu watumbue, tutakuelewa vyema ukisema hivyo.
akitoka Jamaica........ni moja kwa moja hadi Trinidad and Tobago......unajua tena mambo ya Carnival.............huku tutakulisha Konokono "Conch" na Mijusi "Iguana" na Majani ya Maghimbi "Kalalou"........au vipi mazee lol
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen (left) welcomes Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (second left), president of the United Republic of Tanzania, on his arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport last night. Other members of the welcome party are (from centre) Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Stewart Saunders; Acting Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington; and Dr Ken Baugh, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade. Kikwete is on a hectic three-day visit, which will include a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Bruce Golding and tours of various places of interest. He will also meet Opposition Leader, Portia Simpson Miller, address Parliament, and assist in tomorrow's 4 p.m. unveiling of the statue of late Jamaican Olympian, Herb McKenley. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer THE USUAL Tuesday sitting of the House of Representatives will not take place today.
Instead, elected representatives are taking a breather as they await the arrival of Tanzania's President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete.
Kikwete, who arrived yesterday and leaves on Thursday, will address a joint sitting of the houses of Parliament tomorrow.
During his visit, Kikwete will be touring the Amity Hall Project and the Bodles Research Station in St Catherine on the first full day of a three-day state visit to Jamaica, the Jamaica [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]Information [COLOR=orange ! important]Service[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR] has said.
The Tanzanian president and first lady, Salma Kikwete, are set to meet with tourism officials and will also tour attractions in St Ann.
President Kikwete, who is also being accompanied by three members of his Cabinet, is expected to unveil the statue of Jamaican Olympian, the late Herb McKenley, at the National Stadium. Historical visit
Kikwete's visit marks the second time since 1974 that a Tanzanian leader will be in Jamaica on official business. The first man to do so was President Julius K. Nyerere.
On that visit, which was disrupted by Tropical [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]Storm[/COLOR][/COLOR] Fifi, Nyerere addressed Parliament on the apartheid regime in South [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]Africa[/COLOR][/COLOR]. He also committed his country's support for a lasting relationship with Jamaica.
During his time on the [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]island[/COLOR][/COLOR], he also opened the Nyerere Community Farm at Cacoon Castle, Hanover, which was named in his honour. Views on imf
In a later visit to the island - this time as a guest of the [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]People's[/COLOR][/COLOR] National Party - Nyerere blasted the International Monetary Fund (IMF), likening it to the usurious Shakespearean character, Shylock.
"Usually, countries go to the International Monetary Fund when they are already in trouble. The IMF never helps, really, to solve the major problems," he said, while arguing that the IMF often worsened the problems of Third-world nations.
"The prescriptions of the IMF are almost always anti-people," Nyerere said.
The visit of Kikwete comes at a time when Jamaica is negotiating another agreement with the IMF.
The country is seeking to borrow US$1.2 billion (J$105 billion) through a standby facility.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding (centre) tours Coronation Market yesterdaywith Digicel Chairman Denis O'Brien (second left) during his visit to the proposed site of the telecom-munications firm's new head office in downtown Kingston. Partly hidden at left is Daryl Vaz, minister in charge of the information portfolio. - Contributed
In this 1974 Gleaner photograph, President Julius K. Nyerere of the United Republic of Tanzania addressing the gathering at the official opening of the Nyerere Community Farm at Cacoon Castle, Hanover. The farm was named in commemoration of his visit to Jamaica. Seated (from left) are O.K. Melhado, chairman of the Social Development Commission; Michael Manley, prime minister; Mrs Nyerere; and Mrs Manley. - File
akitoka Jamaica........ni moja kwa moja hadi Trinidad and Tobago......unajua tena mambo ya Carnival.............huku tutakulisha Konokono "Conch" na Mijusi "Iguana" na Majani ya Maghimbi "Kalalou"........au vipi mazee lol
President of Tanzania Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete (left) and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr Christopher Tufton, pat a 'Black Poll' bull, during a tour of the Bodles Research Centre in St Catherine yesterday. - JIS photoTanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete says he is impressed with Jamaica's agricultural research, and wants closer cooperation between both countries in that area.
"There is need for exchanging information and exchanging experience, and to use that experience for the benefit of our two peoples and two countries," Kikwete said yesterday, during a tour of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries' Bodles Research Station in Old Harbour, St Catherine. The tour formed part of the itinerary for his three-day state visit to Jamaica.
Kikwete said efforts are being made to transform the agriculture sector in his country to make peasant farming more productive.
"Our preoccupation is increasing about the use of water for our agriculture, meaning irrigation; the use of high-yielding seeds and the challenge is about its availability, and this is where the research institution comes in," he explained. Echoed need
Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton welcomed the visiting president and his delegation for the tour, and echoed the need for cooperation.
"We're quite mindful of the fact that in Tanzania the bulk of your economic activity is in the area of agriculture," Tufton said, noting that almost 20 per cent of Jamaica's labour force is involved in agriculture.
"As a consequence, we share that important variable, and we believe that we can learn from each other."
Kikwete will leave Jamaica tomorrow for [COLOR=orange ! important][COLOR=orange ! important]Trinidad[/COLOR][/COLOR] and Tobago to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Port-of-Spain.
For those interested to know what the President JK addressed the parliament in Jamaica watch the video below. [ame]http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2641002[/ame]
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