https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/117 Fri, 22 May 2026 10:15:06 GMT 2026-05-22T10:15:06Z https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/151 Coastweek Newspaper Vol 8 No 23 (May 31-June 6,1985) Coastweek, Newspaper Inside this issue: Malindi hotel closes down: Lawford’s Hotel, the pride of Malindi tourism for half a century, goes into receivership from today with a loss of 167 long service jobs and 20 million shillings in debts; Ships off-load vehicles from Europe and japan: An unusually big consignment of vehicles, 500 cars and trucks from Italy, France and Japan, is scheduled to be delivered to the port of Mombasa between today and next Tuesday; Coastal players for kenya side: Three coast hockey players have been selected for the Kenya National team, the coast hockey association Match secretary, Naresh Shah has confirmed; Madaraka baseketball:Thirteen coast basketball clubs are expected to take part in the Madaraka day National cup open tournament to be held in Mombasa tomorrow; Coast teams in divisionII: Five coast province soccer teams may be taking part in the Kenya National Football League Division Two this season; Coast cricket polls:At a meeting of the council of coast cricket Association the following have been elected for the year 1985/86; Jaswinder singh wins snooker cup:Jaswinder Singh won the inaugural Aga Khan closed snooker tournament when he beat Mukesh Tanna 4-1 in the final game held at Aga Khan club. Fri, 31 May 1985 00:00:00 GMT https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/151 1985-05-31T00:00:00Z https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/150 Coastweek Newspaper Vol 8 No 22 (May 24-30,1985) Coastweek, Newspaper Inside this issue: Surgeons save child’s hands: Two Swedish doctors have successfully performed the initial plastic surgery on Andrew Peter Estati, the six-year-old victim of child abuse; Muslim youth mark holy Ramadhan fast: Muslim youths particularly at the coast have been called upon to make a great use of the Holy Month’s noble ideals so that they could emerge intellectually, spiritually and physically improve; ‘Break – dance is not part of muslim culture: “Idd-Ul-Fitr is a Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadhan and it is insulting to us Muslims to read in the papers that it may be celebrated by a break-dance competition at a certain venue; ‘ High tidies damages sea: Lamu is growing rapidly just like any other town in the republic. And it is among the oldest and historical sites along the coast; Cargo handling fc fall victim to hard playing Feisal stars: The current coast province club champions, Feisal FC of Mombasa proved their superiority when they defeated former superleague side, Kenya Cargo FC by 1-0; Vice president visits malindi golf course: Malindi (KNA) The chairman of Malindi golf and country club Mr. Norman Robinson has thanked the vice president and the minister for Home affairs Mr. Mwai Kibaki for visiting the club; Wanderers hold Bayern in friendly: Second half substitute Fauz Lai scored to give Wanderers FC of Mombasa a well deserved 2-2 draw with the visiting Bayern 04 FC from West Germany in an international friendly match played at the municipal stadium on Wednesday. Fri, 24 May 1985 00:00:00 GMT https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/150 1985-05-24T00:00:00Z https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/149 Coastweek Newspaper Vol 8 No 21 (May 17-23,1985) Coastweek, Newspaper Inside this issue: ‘You may be sacked!’ Mayor warns roads department; Big welcome planned for ‘ Marathon man’ werikhe: A mammoth welcome is being planned for Michael Werikhe, AVA’s Security Supervisor, when he arrives back in Mombasa on Saturday afternoon may 25, … Stop thes drug pedding youths: The increasing rate of drug abuse in Mombasa among the youths is alarming; West german scheme for ‘Senior service’ in kenya: On Wednesday, may 29th, 1985, a former German Ambassador to Kenya Dr. Harald Heimsoeth, may introduce their senior expert service (SES) of the Federal Republic of Germany to Kenyan Government officials and to the local business community; Coast table tennis enjoys new ‘Whiz kids’ status: Coast table tennis standard has improved tremendously recently due to the superb performance by the three whizz kids namely Salim Jnr, Moses Maina and Mariga Mwanga all aged 20years; S.G.S. Cup semi- finals: Serena Beach Hotel, Aga Khan Club and Mombasa Beach Hotel have qualified for the semi-finals of the SGS Cup Tournament which reaches its climax this weekend at Mombasa sports club; Nyali playesr raise funds for nationa famine relief: Nyali golf and country club hosted another charity event for all coastal golfers last Sunday, this time to raise funds for the national famine relief fund; Coast hockey aquad leaving for Nairobi: Thirteen coast hockey players and three officials leave Mombasa today by train for Nairobi to represent coast province in the Tata cup provincial hockey championship. Fri, 17 May 1985 00:00:00 GMT https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/149 1985-05-17T00:00:00Z https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/148 Coastweek Newspaper Vol 8 No 20 (May 10-16,1985) Coastweek, Newspaper Inside this issue: ‘ Low season ‘ bookings up: Kenya becomes ‘number one’ destination for Kuoni U.K. Tourism earns billions in foregin exchange: More than 360,000 overseas tourists -up 5,000 from 1983- holidayed in the Kenyan sun in 1984 and brought in Kshs. Three billion in direct foreign exchange receipts to the country; Congratulation to the council: The municipal council took action in the right direction in arresting owners of heavy commercial vehicles along Abdel Nasser Road last week; Getting rid of those vehicle graveyards: Most people applauded the decision of Mombasa municipal council to do something about the ever-increasing number of heavy vehicles that take over roads as parking and repair areas; Rob walker sets a grueling hash…You would think that someone called ‘walker’ would be able to set a nice easy slow Hash which everyone could negotiate without trouble; Baruti xi hold wanderers fc: Coast representatives in the Kenya national football league Mombasa Wanderers FC of Mkanyageni opened their premier league campaign last Sunday when they held Baruti FC from Machakos in a thrilling clash.. Coast players join training campfor tata cup tournament: Seventeen coast hockey players have been attending training in preparation for the Tata provincial hockey championship to be held in Nairobi next weekend; Bem okello wins the Robertson- Eustace: It was repeated itself last Saturday as for the second year running, the may Mug at the Mombasa golf club was rained off. Thu, 16 May 1985 00:00:00 GMT https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/148 1985-05-16T00:00:00Z