Are We A Dismissive Nation?

As a publication, we have been following a number of issues for quite sometime, particularly those that are in high demand on digital platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

Recently Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS) boss, Peter Magosi called a press conference and informed journalists that the President’s life might be in danger, which was brought about by a number of incidents that occurred during some of the Head of State’s travels.

As soon as different media houses posted the information on their social media pages, Facebook became quite busy, with most people dismissing the information shared by the DIS boss during the press conference as propaganda.  Ironically, some of the individuals are the very same people who usually blame the police for not acting in good time to deal with crime, accusing law enforcement officers of only taking action after a crime has already been committed.

Editor's Comment
Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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