Money&Business Lesotho, SA agree to establish cross-border benefit pact >> Pg 5 HEALTHYLiving Blood donation essential health service, during C0VID-19 >> Pg 9 Likuena players expected back at training News you can use in SA Tel.: 266 2232 5494 | [email protected] | [email protected] | Est. 2017 June 18 - 24, 2020 >> Pg 23 GOVT SETS STRONG TARGETS TO FIGHT CORRUPTION …announces 14-day deadline for declaration of assets >> Pg 3 RESOLUTE: Minister of Law and Justice Professor Nqosa Mahao Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~ Jim Rohn The Metro, Florida Industrial Park, Ha Hoohlo, Maseru. P.O.Box 14129, Maseru 100, Lesotho. Thursday, June 18, 2020 2 NEWS Not one to shy away from the public course during happy and sad moments, the Matekane Group of Companies (MGC) 152 million On This Day in saw Coronavirus as another public enemy to be fought within its usual social responsibilityF drive,ast albeit this time the pandemic is a global crisis. When the company led by Chairman Sam Matekane donated 3 000 face masks and 40 containers of 25litre hand The number of child sanitizers worth M250 000, it was just an appetiser. The main course did not take long beforeF it landed.A A M30C millionT upgrades of government laboratories to enable testing of History suspected coronavirus cases which came labourers worldwide has in the form of equipment that would allow the health ministry to run a minimum of 1 000 tests per day. dropped significantly to 18 July Liquor traders not 152 million children from 246 million in 2000, the U.N. children’s agency (UNICEF) and the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said to mark World Day Against Child Labour. Of the 152 million victims globally, happy with new about half are engaged in dangerous work in sectors such as construction, agriculture, mining and brick and stone manufacturing. regulations Jargon Buster Economic Slump In 2012, Kim Jong-un is officially Slump is a slang term for a sharp appointed Supreme Leader of North decline in business activity, trade or Korea and given the rank of Marshal market values. In economic terms, in the Korean People's Army. slump usually refers to the beginning of a recession. A recession is not officially declared until several months Directory of declining activity have passed, so the 1. Child Helpline: 80022345 months leading up to the declaration 2. Crime Hotline: 22313337 of recession are simply described as a 3. WASCO: 22262000 prolonged economic slump. 4. LEC: 52100000 5. Police Station: 22317262 6. Airport: 22350777 7. MRTO: 2232 5494 Cracks 8. Ombudsman: 22316425 The Mosotho lady 9. Metro News Tips: 2232 5494 There was a Mosotho lady married to Border Control: 22325740 10. an English gentleman who had moved to London. The poor lady was not Essentials very proficient in English, but anyhow managed to communicate with her 1. Trader’s License: M1000+/- husband. The real problem arose 2. Company Certificate: Free whenever she had to shop for groceries. Travel Passport: M130 - M400 3. One day, she went to the butcher and 4. National ID: Free wanted to buy pork legs. She didn't 5. Driver’s License: M200 know how to put forward her request, 6. Car Registration and in desperation, lifted up her skirt Certificate: M135 - M265 to show her thighs. The butcher got the message and the lady went home with pork legs. The next day, she needed to get Technology chicken breasts. Again, she didn't know how to say it, and so unbuttoned her blouse to show the butcher her breasts. The lady got what she wanted. The third day, the poor lady needed to buy sausages. She brought her husband to the store and, … what do you think happened? BACK IN BUSINESS: A local liquor wholesale READ NEO SENOKO to the new regulations. days a week. But unfortunately we www.maserumetro.com Engineers put tens of thousands of A maximum quantity of one have only been given five working Online artificial brain synapses on a single MASERU - The government and half litres per person can be hours during the week and that is . LHDA embarks on entrepreneurship chip has taken a bold move by easing purchased for a beverage which not perfect timing for our customers. programme Massachusetts Institute of some of the Covid-19 Public Health contains twenty percent alcohol or “We will go back and ask Technology (MIT) engineers have Regulations in various sectors but above is also allowed. government to at least give us . Lesotho, Cuba enjoy 41 years of designed a "brain-on-a-chip," smaller the liquor and restaurant owners are Liquor stores and any other another day over the weekend diplomacy than a piece of confetti, that is made still not happy with the decision. facility that sell alcohol are only and maybe remove any other day from tens of thousands of artificial They say the move does not allowed to operate between 8am and during the week. We also want brain synapses known as memristors make a huge impact in terms of 5pm. government to allow us more time -- silicon-based components that revenue collection. Despite these developments, to operate during the week because mimic the information-transmitting Under the new Public Health liquor stores and restaurant owners being forced to close at 5 pm is not synapses in the human brain. Regulations, all premises selling are not happy, saying the new time a brilliant idea,” said the Lesotho The researchers borrowed from liquor shall operate only from frames are no suitable for their Liquor and Restaurant Owners principles of metallurgy to fabricate Monday to Friday and shall only customers, which therefore means Association (LIRWA) president each memristor from alloys of silver offer take-away as people are less revenue collection. Motseki Nkeane in an interview with and copper, along with silicon. prohibited from consuming liquor in To overcome this condition, Maseru Metro on Wednesday. When they ran the chip through public places. liquor traders are calling for He Nkeane said although they several visual tasks, the chip was A person shall be allowed to government to revisit the do understand the current Covid-19 able to "remember" stored images purchase a maximum quantity regulations and or give them another situation, the government should, and reproduce them many times of one case for a beverage which day during weekend to sell their however, also make things easier for over, in versions that were crisper contains 10 percent alcohol or less products. them through regular cooperation. and cleaner compared with existing and three litres per person for a “We are not entirely happy Under the previous regulations, memristor designs made with beverage which contain ten to because we have asked to be allowed liquor stores were only allowed to unalloyed elements. twenty percent of alcohol, according to operate normally within seven operate on Mondays and Thursdays. 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