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Opinion Govt needs to inject more resources into Youth development so as to harness the demographic dividend. As Uganda strives to acquire the middle income status by 2020, government and all other players should put considerable efforts in youth development bearing in mind that 78% of the country’s population is below 30 years (UBOS report 2014) and huge potential if this demographic dividend is harnessed. A national resource planning programme therefore needs to be developed and regularly operationalized to take stock of the skills needs of the young people as enshrined in the Vision 2040 so as to spur the…
By Our reporter. The leader of opposition in parliament, Winnie Kizza wants the inspector general of police Gen Kale Kayihura to explain to the country why he commanded Special Forces commandos to beat up MPs opposed to Age limit bill. “We want the IGP to appear before legal and parliamentary affairs committee scrutinizing, the constitutional Amendment Bill 2017, that seek to remove Article 102 (B) of the constitution to lift Presidential term limit, and to explain why he ordered the attack on MPS on the 27th of September. She said that the IGP was on record, that he called a sister…
By Our reporter. Mukono Municipality member of parliament Betty Nambooze has successfully undegone 8 hours Spine operation at Minipal Hospital in Bangalore India. Nambooze injured her spinal cord on the 27th September in parliament during a fracas that ensued at parliament,over Constitutional Amendment Bill 2017 ,to remove Article 102 (B) of the constitution to lift Presidential age limit. The MP has been getting treatment at Bugolobi Medical Center before going to India , was later referred by Doctors to fly to India for specialized surgery .
By.Damba Rogers Prof. Francis Omaswa a retired cardiologist and now the executive director at Global health and social transformation warns Uganda against replacing health workers with community health workers or village health teams saying this will put the country’s health system and service delivery in danger. Speaking at the global health conference convened by Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) Omaswa reminded government that health workers like nurses and midwives play a vital role in the provision of health services to the population since they dedicate of their time to providing health services to the population which will not…
By. Our reporter. Government has pledged to meet all the parameters required for export of Uganda coffee. This was disclosed by the minister of state for Agriculture Christopher Kibanzanga while speaking at the coffee stakeholders meeting held in kampala today which attracted standards officials from the Sudanese government. He says, government will enhance the technical and human capacity at Uganda coffee Development Authority laboratories so as to meet the required coffee standards for export. He adds that increasing compliance will save the country time and costs of the coffee exports tests which have been always done in Kenya before taken…
CHINA OFFERS UGANDA $30M GRANT TO SUPPORT CUSTOMS MODERNIZATION The Government of the People’s Republic of China has agreed to support customs modernization project in Uganda with a grant worth RMB 200,000,000 (US $ 30m). The grant agreement was signed in the Chinese capital, Beijing on 3rdNovember 2017 by Hon. Matia Kasaija, Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and Dr. Qian Keming, Vice Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China. The signing ceremony was witnessed by Dr. Chrispus Kiyonga, Ambassador of Uganda, Mr. Dicksons Kateshumbwa, Commissioner Customs (URA) and other senior government officials. The grant will…
PRESIDENT JOHN MAGUFULI TO MAKE 3-DAY STATE VISIT TO UGANDA By Henry Acaye. The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, H.E. Dr. John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, will pay a State Visit to Uganda from November 9-11, 2017. This will be his second visit; the first being the swearing-in ceremony of H.E. President Yoweri Museveni in May 2016. H.E. President Yoweri Museveni paid a State Visit to Tanzania from February 25-26, 2017 and on August 05, 2017, together with H.E. President Magufuli, laid the first foundation stone in Tanga for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. President Magufulis visit comes…
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The politics of the Caribbean are diverse for such a relatively small area. These systems can be related to their colonial history. The major political system is democracy, with many different party systems within many of the countries. Party systems are a variety of political parties combined together. These systems can be divided into a one-party system, multi-party systems and two-party systems. The one party system can be found in Cuba. It is a revolutionary socialist democracy adopted from communism. Other parties do exist in this environment but are viewed as illegal. Although the word…
BlizzCon 2017 saw Blizzard announce Kobolds and Catacombs, a new expansion to Hearthstone. With Kobolds and Catacombs, players can explore Azeroth’s deepest dungeons and collect 135 new cards. The expansion brings Dungeon Run, a new single-player game mode to Hearthstone. Dungeon Run turns a regular game of Hearthstone into a fantasy dungeon crawl, not too dissimilar to rogue likes such as FTL and Asura. You start with a novice deck from a class of your choice and face a series of progressively stronger foes, randomly selected from a huge pool of unique bosses. As you progress, you’ll bolster your decks…
Google’s Files Go app The Files Go app has a convenient interface that comes with two tabs — Storage and Files. The originally active Storage tab shows you the free space available on your device alongside sporting feature cards that give you access to clean app cache, remove recorded media, and free up the storage by removing large and downloaded files. The Files tab, on the other hand, works just as a simple file management app and lists sources such as Downloads, Received files, Images, Videos, and Documents. Google’s Files Go app The Files Go app has a convenient interface…
Insurgents have been using armed drones to attack U.S. troops worldwide, so my co-inventor Alex Morrow and I built the DroneDefender to help protect them. It freezes enemy drones in place by disrupting radio- and satellite-control frequencies, but those airwaves are protected by the FCC, so we couldn’t just use the system—even on our own property. That’s how we wound up at Camp Roberts, California, in 2015, conducting our very first outdoor test at a Department of Defense showcase. The plan was for Alex to stand about 1,000 meters away from me with the drone so I could use the…
Ireland will be without defender Richard Keogh, midfielder James McCarthy and forward Sean Maguire for their World Cup playoff against Denmark which kicks off with the first leg on Saturday. Keogh has a groin problem while McCarthy and Maguire are suffering with hamstring strains, the Football Association of Ireland said on its website (www.fai.ie) on Monday. The trio were in a provisional 34-man squad named by Martin O’Neill last month for the two legs starting at Copenhagen’s Parken Stadium before the return in Dublin three days later. Keogh came off early in Derby County’s defeat by Reading in the Championship…
The groans coming from social media were almost audible when WWE halted a ‘Best Of 7 Series’ between Sheamus and Cesaro only to form a tag-team with both men last summer. The series didn’t have a proper conclusion; the only explanation came from then-Raw GM Mick Foley, who felt Sheamus and Cesaro would be better off a team. He was right. Since randomly coming together, the pair have gone from strength-to-strength as one of WWE’s best duos. After being rechristened ‘The Bar’ this year, Sheamus and Cesaro have also went from being directionless singles stars pushed together to a proper…
England will give injured pace bowler Steve Finn a couple more days before making a decision on whether to keep him in the Ashes touring squad, coach Trevor Bayliss said on Tuesday. The 28-year-old quick, a 2010-11 and 2013-14 Ashes tourist, missed the opening tour match in Perth because of a knee injury and will also play no part in this week’s day-night match against a Cricket Australia XI at the Adelaide Oval. All-rounder Moeen Ali, who has a side strain, will also miss both matches but Bayliss said he was on track to be available for a return to…
Salu Sawant turned out for Seza FC by day, and took to the stage for Zagor — Goa’s traditional colourful, musical folk theatre — by night. ‘Feast in the morning, football in the afternoon, drama in the evening’ was the Goan way of life. Paddy fields that form the state’s bordering landscape when the sea doesn’t, along either side of the NH17, used to make way for small clearings which were used to kick around a ball made by rolling a cloth into a sphere. Goa was a giant gymnasium in some recent-ancient past. And when it started to rain…