COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | I once ate on credit an over five million shillings’ (US$2,000 at the time) working lunch at the Silver Springs Hotel in Bugolobi, a Kampala, Uganda suburb. I then spent three months of my subsequent salaries, repaying for the meal! I had had a stint …
Read More »Alienating intern doctors is a naive and ill-advised costs saving strategy
While internship is part of one’s training towards being a licensed doctor, in practice, it is how care is delivered in training hospitals across the country COMMENT | Dr Bruce Tumwine Rwabasonga | On Friday, May 12th, government issued a newly proposed policy to address what now appears to be a …
Read More »Lack of CCTV at Engola house a security failure
Shame that the late Col Charles Engola house had no CCTV. Could this death have been averted? Yes. COMMENT | Samson Tinka | Col Charles Engola died a few days ago. Whereas death is a given and at one time all of us will die, the difference lies on how one …
Read More »Green manufacturing: Our opportunity to walk the climate talk now
COMMENT | IAN RUMANYIKA | As world leaders often gather to discuss alarming climate concerns, including the most recent Conference of Parties (COP) gathering in Cairo, Egypt, it serves everyone in the manufacturing sector well to remind ourselves of the long-underappreciated duty among those who manufacture, to consider the environment. …
Read More »CHURCHES: Security agencies should ensure another Kanungu is avoided
COMMENT | Samson Tinka | Kenyan police have exhumed over 100 of bodies from graves that have since been connected to a Christian pastor, who is being investigated on allegations that he directed his congregants to starve themselves to death. Many of the victims are believed to have been members of …
Read More »Crime and Punishment in Uttar Pradesh
New Delhi, India | SHASHI THAROOR – PROJECT SYNDICATE | Last month’s murder, on live television, of the notorious gangster and former member of India’s parliament Atiq Ahmed has triggered anguished debates about how such an event could happen in a modern democracy. Along with the killers, who were apprehended …
Read More »A safe and healthy working environment has implications for retirement
COMMENT | Lydia Mirembe | A story is told of a young factory worker, whose hands were crushed as he operated a machine in the factory. Having lost both hands, he could not carry on with his job, and was forced to take early retirement. His employer sent him home with …
Read More »Why Uganda must sign up to the single African Air Transport Market
One of the key benefits of the SAATM is that it will increase the number of flights and airlines operating in Uganda, thereby increasing competition and lowering prices for consumers SPECIAL FEATURE | DEREK NSEKO | The Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) is a flagship project of the African Union, …
Read More »Flash-back to 1970s coffee smuggling through Chepkube, and the Agnes Nandutu who went missing
COMMENT | Alfred Geresom Musamali | The trending of former journalist Agnes Nandutu on social media this month reminds me of the late 1970s coffee smuggling through Chepkube and Cheptais sokos (markets) on the eastern side of the Uganda-Kenya border in the East African Community (EAC) (See Google Map). The …
Read More »YEAR 2023: Quarter 1 is gone, what next?
COMMENT | Elizabeth K. Patience | As we crossed over to 2023, nearly all of us had visions, dreams, goals, targets and prayer requests for the year well stated out. Over the years, this has been the norm for most people but to no fulfilment at the end of the year. While …
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