As Rwandan coffee season for this year heads for harvests, dealers and partners in coffee have expressed the need to work together on increasing its quantity and quality for more revenues.
This was during a recent meeting on Friday March 16, of over 60 coffee dealers and development partners in Butare town. The meeting discussed issues related to increasing coffee production, improving the quality, washing techniques and commercialisation.
Minister of Commerce, Protais Mitari said the government is looking at how to ask all coffee growers and dealers to group them-selves into cooperatives. He said that government aims at assisting cooperatives rather than one independent person.
A middle school student was suspended for placing human urine in a teacher’s coffee pot, an official at Wilson Middle School confirmed Monday.
The eighth grade boy allegedly placed the urine in the teacher’s coffee pot on Friday. Another student overhead a conversation between several students and reported it to administrators. The eighth grader has been suspended and could be expelled, according to Steve Edwards, assistant superintendent of Muncie Community Schools (Indiana).
An Ambridge convenience store employee was treated at a Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) hospital for severe burns early Monday after a customer threw a pot of hot coffee at her. A whole pot! Borough policeman James Mann said Crumb was scheduled to see a specialist in the hospital’s burn unit today. Crumb, he said, was working the late shift at Sunoco A-Plus, 800 Merchant St., when she got into a scuffle with a customer.
