Mumias Sugar Company has reduced interest charged on farm inputs and land preparation for sugarcane farmers by 25 per cent.

They may not have been displaced in the post-election violence but Mrs Juliana Atemi and Mr Fred Kimani have had a rough time this year.

Tea production for the first three months of the year fell by 35 per cent to 70 million kilos from 108 million kilos during the same period last year.

The Government will establish centres for buying maize and other produce throughout the country.

Prison services in Nairobi suffered as officers staged a go-slow demanding risk allowances.

A senior prison officer has warned warders against continuing with the ongoing strike, saying it would be treated as a mutiny in the disciplined force.

In the order of police rankings, prison warders, now on strike over a Sh5,000 monthly risk allowance, have been viewed as the underdogs.

More than 500 warders from the Naivasha GK Prison downed tools demanding a risk allowance.

Prison warders in the North Rift went on strike and threatened to release all prisoners if the Government does not meet their demands.

Prison warders in Kodiaga and Kisii joined in the strike over risk allowances.

Operations at the Bungoma GK Prison were paralysed when more than 200 prison warders went on strike.

Co-operative Bank shareholders on Friday approved plans by the bank to list at the stock market through an Initial Public Offering later in the year.

Top career civil servants are unhappy with the retention and appointment of permanent secretaries aged 55 and above.

East Africa's business leaders are set to meet in Uganda to discuss ways of making the region more competitive in the global market.

The new receiver managers of the controversial Grand Regency Hotel on Friday took over from their predecessors as plans to sell the business in a month went into top gear.

Three inmates at the Naivasha Maximum Security Prison died after taking a lethal brew prepared by one of them inside the cells.

Three prisoners died as a countrywide strike by warders to push for better pay got under way.

THE State-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) has been officially mandated to buy enough petroleum stocks to serve as strategic reserves to stabilise unpredictable domestic prices of fuel products.

THE Co-operative Bank will raise Sh5 billion by offloading a 35 per cent stake through an initial public offer (IPO).