It seems there is a group of people out there who are not content with just reading The Weekend Times. They would like to do more such as 'reporting' for the paper albeit for crooked reasons.

It was shocking, in the first place, when the media reported about the Mzuzu clinician's rape case. Justice has finally been done and the lessons learnt from this case are numerous.

Turn back the hands of time. It is 2009 when talk of 50/50 representation is on the lips of almost every well-meaning Malawian to correct the gender disparities.

We advocate for the idea of sex workers  forming an alliance. It is a fact  that sex workers in the country are  abused.

There is a song titled 'Chidyamakanda' by Namakhwa Brothers Band that declares that sugar daddies are never wrong, we can only blame the girls who are easily coaxed by Chips and Chicken and they will be willing to spread their legs anytime of the day.

There are sick men in this world who salivate at the sight of a three-year-old toddler learning to crawl. They are so sick that the next thing you would hear is that they have been arrested by the police for defilement.

Social media that includes facebook, twitter, linked are all ingenious inventions that have made communication easy.

Peer pressure in schools is one of the reasons why students engage in deplorable behaviour. What happened at Providence Girls Secondary School is a classic example of peer pressure.

The story of a governor based in Mbayani, who won several prizes in the Hello Sweetie Chishango Promotion by PSI, is inspiring.

The conduct of Kuku Matches over sponsorship of football in the country leaves a lot to be desired. Judging from how they have treated Blantyre United and Big Bullets it seems their motives are not to help out clubs that are in dire need of sponsorship.

Men can walk tall justifying their otherwise wayward behaviour but none of them is clever. So often we have heard about men who bed their housemaids to relieve themselves possibly because they are denied that opportunity by their wives.

What happened in 2008 when promoter Jordan Mlotha popularly known as Ice J failed to fulfill his promise of giving Malawians a KCI and Jojo concert dented his image.

The revelation by some commercial sex workers that they use patrol vehicles as taxis at night is worrisome.

There is a concept in commerce called 'division of labour' which means each unit is supposed to play its role which it is best suited to do. The idea behind it is to increase efficiency and ensure high quality in the line of production.

The revelation that MBC-TV female boss Chimwemwe Banda decided to insult her junior is very unfortunate. For a long time, women have complained that they are mistreated in their work places because of male domination.

A wedding is a serious matter and must be treated as such at all times.

There are notorious militias in the other parts of Africa that you would be worried if they were to invade Malawi. We wonder how frightened students must be to have a teacher amidst them who behaves like a militia.

The list of untrustworthy pastors who are swindling unsuspecting church members is growing at an alarming rate.

There is a saying that a clever woman builds her marriage with her hands but a foolish one destroys it with her hands.

The accusations by some Christians towards their reverend Baxton Maulidi that his unilateral decisions were hurting the Church are not strange at all.