GOVERNMENT PAVES WAY FOR NEW PROGRAMME
As part of its initiative to pave way for the new Public Service Improvement Reform Programme (PSIRP), the government of Lesotho through the Prime Minister’s Office held a preparatory meeting with District Administrators (DAs) and District Council Chairpersons (DCCs) at Manthabiseng Convention Centre in Maseru on Tuesday. Addressing the participants, the Government Secretary (GS), Mr. […]
MAHAO GETS POST HUMAS MILITARY FUNERAL
The late Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Commander, Lieutenant General Maaparankoe Mahao was on Saturday officially given a post humas military funeral service at Ha-Lebakae Mokema. This follows his family denying the army giving a military sent off in July 2014 after he was brutally killed by soldiers on June 25 the same year on what […]
SADC PLACES GENDER ON ITS AGENDA-DR TAX
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Executive Secretary has urged the SADC member states to place gender firmly on the SADC Regional Integration Programme of Action and Agenda, and recognise Gender as an important cross-cutting issue and enabler of regional integration, as enshrined in its strategic instruments, and as operationalised through the SADC Protocol on […]
PUBLIC SERVICE BIOMETRIC, PAYROLL CENSUS COMMENCES
The Ministry of Public Service commenced with a biometric and payroll census of the public servants on Thursday last week. According to the Minister of Public Service, Chief Joang Molapo, this is one of the tools that the government of Lesotho is using to reduce the public service wage bill. He said all the public […]
HER MAJESTY RECEIVES FRENCH AWARD
Her Majesty Queen ‘Masenate Mohato Seeiso received the French award of the Commander of the Order of Academic Palms at the event held at the Royal Palace in Maseru on Thursday. The Order of Academic Palms is the oldest civilian order in France given to persons who have demonstrated an exceptional interest and commitment in […]
FIRST LADY DONATES TO YOUNG MOTHERS
The First Lady, Mrs. Maesaeah Thabane presented babies clothes to 41 young mothers at Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) on Tuesday. Speaking at the event, Mrs. Thabane, thanked the nurses for their work, saying they are doing a great job in ensuring that infants who do not have clothes are wrapped in such a way […]
EARLY CHILD MARRIAGES ROB CHILDHOOD – PRINCESS SENATE
Princess Senate Mohato Seeiso says early child marriages rob children of their childhood, deny them an opportunity for a fruitful and a bright future characterised by solid education, good health and robust development. This, she said when officially opening the first sitting of the first session of National Children’s Parliament on Thursday in Maseru. The […]
PM LAUNCHES CANCER SCREENING CAMPAIGN
The Prime Minister, Dr Thomas Thabane officially launched the Cancer Screening campaign and paved way to Stop Cervical, Breast and Prostate Cancer in Africa (SCCA) Conference to be held at Manthabiseng Convention Centre in Maseru, Lesotho from 22-25 July 2018. The launch took place at Manthabiseng Convention Centre on Monday. Dr Thabane said it is […]
HABITAT,STANDARD LESOTHO BANK DONATE A HOUSE
The Habitat for Humanity Lesotho and Standard Lesotho Bank donated a two-roomed house, pit-latrine and a multipurpose African Clean Energy stove, amounting to M66,000.00 to Mr. Masilo Thulo Maphathe (67) living with disability. The initiative forms part of these organisations’ efforts to help the Lesotho Government in achieving its mandate. Speaking at the handing-over ceremony […]
PS REFUTES EMPLOYMENT RUMOURS
The Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mrs. ‘Machabana Lemphane Letsie has refuted rumours that the Ministry will hire temporary staff in its passport department. This, she said in an interview a few days before Basotho return traditional machine readable passports to the Ministry, following a call that was made earlier in June. […]
