Mzuzu First Grade Magistrate has urged members of Parliament to revisit the penalty giv¬en to persons who are found guilty of sleeping with other people through magic if communities are to be safe from such malpractices.

The Lord's Chosen Charismatic Revival Ministries has distanced itself from links with Pastor Israel Ejelle, who the immigration Department arrested last week for forging visas.

A head teacher in Mchinji has shocked parents for being sus¬pected of taking nude pictures of female primary school pupils. The head teacher, Keth Pinda, was arrested over the weekend but he has since been released on bail angering the villagers.

National Theatre Association of Malawi (Ntam) has been operating illegally close to nine years as it only got registered this year, The Weekend Times can reveal.

When you see him singing at Mibawa Cafe, goading the audi¬ence onto the dance floor with his funny lyrics, you can hardly recognise that this is the same gentleman who wears a suit, a barrister's gown and a wig in legal battles in court.

Malawi Writers Union (Mawu) on Wednesday officially handed over 52 manuscripts submitted for the K8 million Peer Gynt Literary Award to the local readers, who will shortlist the manuscripts before being sent to the judges to select the top three.

Police in Kasungu are hunting for a man suspected to have set alight his 65-year-old mother on suspicion that she killed his sister through witchcraft.

More and more girl-children continue to be defiled as the One Stop Centre at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre has already recorded 85 cases between January and April this year.

Singer Dan Lufani, popularly known as Dan Lu in showbiz, is alleged to be pestering his es¬tranged wife, Thalisa, for reconciliation, threatening to take unspecified action against her if she continues to rebuff him.

A former Malawi College of Accountancy (MCA) Mzuzu campus student has dragged Member of Parliament for Nkhata Bay North West David Yohane Kaweche to court claiming child maintenance.

Soche Police sub-station in Blantyre has arrested a 50- year old man for defiling a ten-year-old girl at Soche Quarry (Misesa) location on three occasions.

Police in Blantyre have arrested a Weekend Times imposter who was trying to extort money from a Seventh Day Adventist pastor on false allegations.

Child Justice Court Magistrate Esmie Tembenu has criticised the media for rushing to pub¬lish 'child maintenance' cases before the court finalises them, saying the development jeopardises the welfare of the children involved.

Eye of the Child Executive Director Maxwell Matewere has accused the Malawi Police Service of gross negligence for failing to bring to book people suspected to be behind the re¬moval of a 10-year-old boy's private parts.

The Mzuzu Magistrate's Court Thursday sentenced Hope Chipwatali, a clinician at Mzuzu Central Hospital, to eight years imprisonment with hard labour for raping a patient in a treatment room.

One of the country's most popular artists Dan Lufani, who is popularly known as Dan-Lu in showbiz circles, has filed for divorce against his wife Thalisa Chimbalanga at Blantyre Magistrates Court.

In the book of Genesis, God promised he would bless Abraham and his descendants to multiply and fill the earth: "I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore." (Genesis 22:17)

It is Saturday evening at Chintheche Inn, south of Nkhata Bay where during my research on ethnic conflict, I stayed for the night, and I and a friend decide to go out for a beer in the pub. We sit at a corner and chat as we wait for our drinks. After a while, a mixed race couple catches our attention.

Loquacious Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) sports commentator Peter Fote has been temporarily axed from the Sports Desk allegedly for his "biased commentary" involving Silver Strikers games.

Some people do not go to drinking joints just to quench their thirst but to satisfy the cravings of their loins as well as a lady pool champion and an engineer practically attested to last weekend in Lilongwe.