https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/170 Fri, 22 May 2026 10:24:47 GMT 2026-05-22T10:24:47Z https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/181 Coastweek Newspaper Vol 8 No 50 (November 29-Dember 5,1985) Coastweek, Newspaper Inside this issue: Boost for kenya tourism: Kenya’s Tourist Industry has this week received a considerable boost in Britain, where a large government delegation led by Tourism Minister A.J. Omanga is participating in the 1985 “World Travel Market” being hosted at the Olympic exhibition center in London; Church probe urole of ‘mombasa martyrs’Recently discovered documents revel that well over one hundred African and 146 others, mainly Portuguese died together ‘for their faith’ in Mombasa three hundred and fifty years’ ago ; Despite surgery andy faces a cloud future:Seven-year-old Andy, the forgotten victim of severe child abuse who is still without a home, has undergone a third plastic surgery at the Kilifi District Hospital on Tuesday in a further attempt to save his hands; Somalia tourism minister gets big shanzu welcome: Every effort is being made by Somalia to establish a tourist Industry, with many experts coming to help with its development; Lamu marathon men are ding it again…Julius Simiyu Karani and Jackson Mutunu Maimbo are doing it again-this time walking from Mombasa to Lamu and back to raise Kshs. 150,000/- in aid of the Mayor’s Christmas Tree Fund. supporters of Gor Mahia FC, East and Central Africa Club Champions, cheered in jubilation when the Voice of Kenya soccer commentator announced the final whistle has been blown and Kenya Breweries had won the game 3-0 against AFC Leopards. SNOOKER SEMIS SET FOR TODAY The second semi-finals of the on-going Nissan-Dobie snooker competition sponsored by D.T. Dobie Limited is scheduled to take place today at Mombasa sports club. SUPPORTERS CLUB The Gor Mahia Likoni Sub Branch Supporters Elections was held in Likoni and supervised by Branch secretary John David Olare and Branch Treasurer-Abraham Obiero. Fri, 29 Nov 1985 00:00:00 GMT https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/181 1985-11-29T00:00:00Z https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/180 Coastweek Newspaper Vol 8 No 49 (November 27-December 2,1985) Coastweek, Newspaper Wed, 27 Nov 1985 00:00:00 GMT https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/180 1985-11-27T00:00:00Z https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/179 Coastweek Newspaper Vol 8 No 48 (November 22-28,1985) Coastweek, Newspaper Inside this issue : Rwanda cargo still moving: Continuing Kenya – Tanzania assistance praised; Halley comet can be seen with binoculars: ‘Visibility may depend on the weather- and urban lights.’ Safari sound success: Thursday saw the welcome return from Europe of Kenya’s top hand the Safari Sound, and singer Jane Osborne; Third great week:The Legendary James Bond, unnerved by his feminine replica Cleopatra Wong who bows out tomorrow at lotus cinema; Further facts on the ferry fiasco: Some newspapers have drawn attention to the problems faced by the hundreds of thousand of commuters who were affected by the ferry fiasco on the night of the 11th November; Muslims marking ‘ maulidi’The birthday of the Prophet Muhammed S.A.W. which may fall on Sunday the 24th November, 1985 may be celebrated in Mombasa with a mass procession and a Rally; Ship discharges material for new oil exploration project: A multi- purpose ship with a difference is the Maagasy owned Vasty 3 Japanese built by 1979 which arrived last weekend from Madagascar to discharge project material for geophysical survey work in connection with oil exploration. Fri, 22 Nov 1985 00:00:00 GMT https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/179 1985-11-22T00:00:00Z https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/178 Coastweek Newspaper Vol 8 No 47 (November 15-21,1985) Coastweek, Newspaper Inside this issue: Take me to the court’ Stowaway survivor pleads passage to Piraeus; First lady of finland enjoys kenya holiday:The First Lady of Finland Mrs. Tellervo Koivisto, wife of the president of the Republic of Finland, said she would have liked to stay a week longer in Mombasa as ‘it is so relaxing here.’Princess diana for W.T.M. 85: The sixth world travel market exhibition is to be officially opened this year by Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales; Nyali no longer lovely: I fully support Mr. Mortimer’s letter of the 18th October and well done once again, Lorna Hayes, for your piece in the Coastweek; Watamu fishing off to good start:The season has got off to a good start for the Watamu Sea Fishing Club; The boys hinderer troph:Last Saturday, the Mombasa Golf club was the scene for the Boys-Hinderer Trophy; Nissan- dobie snooker:The Nissan Dobie snooker tournament sponsored by D.T. Dobie Limited which was to start on Monday was postponed and got off the ground yesterday in various venues. Fri, 15 Nov 1985 00:00:00 GMT https://coastweek.tum.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/coastweek/178 1985-11-15T00:00:00Z