Commissioner of Prisons, Kennedy Nkhoma, has urged courts to consider alternative forms of sentencing for convicts who are imprisoned for a year or less other than custodial sentences.

Malawi Congress of Trade Unions (MCTU) has cautioned government to tread carefully on exporting Malawians to foreign lands, barely days after government announced it will be sending Malawians to the Middle East.

Blantyre Police have arrested Davie Namusanya who is allegedly suspected to have authored President Joyce Banda's resignation letter.  

Malawi Congress of Trade Unions (MCTU) has lamented the country's broken economy which it says has caused the Malawian workers to live with anxiety and uncertainty in trying to cope with the escalating cost of living.

Inkosi Bvumbwe of Thyolo has abandoned his base in fear of his life as he has allegedly been getting continuous death threats after openly criticising the People's Party (PP) in the presence of its leader President Joyce Banda for politicising a funeral, The Daily Times has learnt.

No agreement has yet been struck on the date for the rollout of the US$351m Millennium Challenge Compact for Malawi as the local office is still occupied with preparing the ground for the take off.

British High Commissioner to Malawi Michael Nevin has appealed to the government to consider signing a declaration aimed at promoting media freedoms, which Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Malawi Chapter presented to President Joyce Banda last week.

The Supreme Court of Appeal on Tuesday quashed an earlier ruling by the High Court stopping the revocation of a licence for cellular phone services awarded to Globally Advanced Networks Limited (G-Mobile).

Home Affairs Minister Uladi Mussa says he will not apologise to United Democratic Front (UDF) president Atupele Muluzi for allegedly making defamatory statements as demanded by the latter.

Preisdent Joyce Banda is reportedly angry with youthful Inkosi Bvumbwe's open rebuke against her People's Party's conduct of distributing party T-shirts at the funeral of High Court Judge Joseph Manyungwa in his area in Thyolo.

Influential quasi-religious grouping, the Public Affairs Committee (Pac), is backing the Consumers Association of Malawi (Cama) on its plans to hold a second round of mass demonstrations in the country against President Joyce Banda's economic policies.

The Pharmacy, Medicines and Poisons Board has warned people especially women against using products that contain corticosteroid as cosmetics because they risk suffering from skin cancer after prolonged use.

A research in Nkhata Bay has found that efforts to promote Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV and Aids have been held back by husbands who prevent their wives from accessing the services.

Britain's Department for International Development (DFID) is procuring millions of dollars worth of essential drugs to ease the current drug shortages, officials have confirmed.

Speaker of Parliament Henry Chimunthu Banda has asked the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Secretary General Jean Kalirani to now focus on developing strategies to rebrand the party rather than to continue living in a pre-convention era.

A report on the Monitoring of Prisons in Malawi by the Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) for the period between December 2011 and March 2012 has revealed that 79 prisoners died due to a number of causes.

Various researchers last week gathered at University of Malawi's Chancellor College to present research papers on the progress of Malawi 49 years after attaining independence.

The country's media continues to face new threats despite some successes in ensuring media freedom, members of the fraternity have said.

Queen Elizabeth Central Hopsital (QECH) has been recording 30,000 cases of typhoid fever every month since January this year the hospital confirmed.

The People's Party (PP) has lashed back at critics of one of its senior members, Uladi Mussa, for his verbal attacks on opposition politicians, saying some of those against Mussa's tirades are in fear of their own shadows.