Tag Archives: Buvuma

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | US Ambassador William Popp commissioned a boat on Friday that will be helping islanders easily travel to access HIV/AIDS treatment refills. The 20-seater water vessel is set to Buvuma and Koome transporting health workers, medical supplies, and commodities to scattered islands that lack access to …

Mukono, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Five bodies of people who drowned in Lake Victoria on January 1, 2024, have been retrieved in Buvuma District. The boat, which was reportedly overloaded with a non specified number of people broke into two pieces and capsized shortly before docking at Zinga Island in …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police are holding Saul Ssimbwa, the Deputy Buvuma District Internal Security Officer-ISO for assaulting Henry Nsubuga, the New Vision correspondent for Greater Mukono. Nsubuga had gone for an interview at the Resident District Commissioner’s office on Thursday morning when Ssimbwa assaulted him. According to …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new ferry on Lake Victoria has been launched. MV Palm-Uganda’ will ply the route on Lake Victoria from Kiyindi landing site in Buikwe district to Kirongo in Buvuma District. The four-engine ferry was designed and built by Songoro Marine Transport Limited in Mwanza, Tanzania. …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buvuma district and Kkoome islands on Tuesday received the specialized boat ambulances promised by President Yoweri Museveni in the last presidential campaigns. The boats are equipped with necessary gadgets including ventilators, surgical and first aid equipment to save life. However, even as they received them, district …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Oil palm growers in Buvuma district have raised concerns about the criterion used by the National Oil Palm Project-NOPP to distribute farm inputs, saying it is meant to keep them in debts. Oil palm farmers are entitled to farm inputs such as seedling, fertilizers, pesticides, …

Buikwe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ssezibwa regional marine police have together with residents of Buvuma and Kiyindi landing site in Buikwe district, recovered the bodies of three of the six people who drowned in Lake Victoria when their boat capsized over the weekend. The deceased have been identified as Geoffrey …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buvuma district authorities are under the spotlight for receiving a non-functional water plant from a contractor. The leaders received the Shillings 1.6billion water plant from PROF Technical Services limited in Bugaya sub county in November 2021. The plant was designed to use solar energy to …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Micro-Finance, Haruna Kyeyune Kasolo has given Buvuma district officials a two-week ultimatum to return the money they borrowed from various Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies-SACCOs under the Emyooga program. According to information obtained by URN, 16 Saccos in Buvuma district received …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | If for whatever reason you find yourself on Buvuma Islands district, pray that you don’t get admitted to hospital for you may not be comfortable having to lie side by side with a dead body should a patient near you die and the relatives take …