The Cameroon Dispatch

While some shops and supermarkets clip prices, others make-believe they have, just to attract customers. Following the arrival of new stock in some shops in the port city, owners have to get rid of old ones in order to create space for them. To do so effectively and swiftly, the only way is to reduce the prices for customers to stream in. The initiative is welcomed by many, while some customers have mixed feelings about the promotional sales. In Marché Central, one of the most crowded markets during end-of-year periods, the phenomenon is common in household appliance and prêt-à-porter shops as well as liquor and toy sections in some supermarkets. Articles for promotional sales in most shops have spent more time than normal and proprietors think they might go out of fashion. “If the goods are not given out at cheaper rates, we will be the losers when it is not bought finally. It is better to breakeven than watch the goods deteriorate,” a dealer in electronic household appliances said...

There is mounting tension, anger and frustration in the North West regional capital of Bamenda; following news that the region’s historic artefacts, some as old as 56 years old, have on the instructions of Ama Tutu Muna, Arts and Culture Minister, been carted to the national museum in Yaounde.  Boiling with rage, irate elite of the region told this reporter that they feel the more betrayed and insulted because the action has at its origin, a daughter of the soil. The region’s antiquities, it should be recalled, were transferred from the North West Regional Delegation of Arts and Culture in Bamenda. Reacting to the development however, Tutu Muna, told this reporter by phone that the so-called tension was nothing but a false alarm.   Meanwhile, Cameroon Journal gathered that the over 1300 artefacts were carted from the North West delegation of arts and culture to Yaounde by a delegation from the ministry; led by the Inspector General Number 1 at the minis...

By Mbom Sixtus  Anglophone educationists have launched a fullscale campaign to free the Anglo-saxon education from the stranglehold of Francophone policy-makers who they say are bent on destroying what they have qualified as an international acclaimed system.  At an impressive public conference that was staged in Bamenda on April 30, 2014, three fiery speakers elaborated on the systematic destruction of everything Anglophone since 1961. They warned that if the nihilism on the part of the Biya regime is not immediately stopped, there will be absolutely nothing left of Anglo-saxon values by 2061 which will mark the first centenary of reunification. The three key speakers were John Taiti Fodje, Rev. Father Humphrey Tata Mbuy and Hon. Tasi Ntang Lucas. John Fodje who presented a paper titled “Democracy and the minority question; the case of the English subsystem of education in Cameroon”, almost drew tears from the eyes of listeners. John Fodje who is a seasoned...