By Joan Akello If you are unlucky, one of these days you might experience what mechanics call a hard start with your vehicle. That means your vehicle will require several failed attempts before it starts. Then it will start smoking or bellowing thick black smoke as you drive, losing acceleration …

By Kyle Beaulieu Bukenya, CHOGM looters wont be punished The much-hyped, soon-to-be-released official report from the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will only be that: a report. Parliament can only make recommendations; a court has to make the verdict. Justice will be left to the judiciary and the dedication of …

By Dicta Asiimwe It is not authenticated but a report purported to be by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the American Congress on the 2011 Uganda elections could have serious implications. The report is the first in a series that the US Congress, in an unprecedented move, asked …

By Justice Prof. G.W. Kanyeihamba I received alarming documents, one entitled, “Principles for a Bill to amend the Press and Journalist Act with the main object of Regulating the media”dated May 6, 2009 and another dated January 29, 2010 and called The Press and Journalist (Amendment) Act 2010. The long …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati Three things had to be proved: Was Kasirye murdered? Was his murder malicious? Did Kajubi procure or participate in the murder? When High Court Judge Justice Moses Mukiibi on April 24 acquitted Kampala businessman, Kato Kajubi, of the charges of murdering 12 year-old Joseph Kasirye, he …

By Mubatsi Asinja Habati One man called into a radio show to brag about it. By morning he was dead. When Esau Karimunda and his son, Enoch Karimunda, stopped to have a drink at a bar in Kikolegyi suburb in Kabale town on April 8 after the days work, nothing …

By Kyle Beaulieu Was the National Development Plan (NDP) deliberately launched on 19 Apr. 2010 by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government in anticipation of the 2011 elections? The government has not had a clear strategic plan since 2008, when the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) expired. With less than …

By Isaac Mufumba Memories of Vision 2025 and PEAP create doubt Uganda has just launched a new Shs 54 trillion National Development Plan (NDP), the first in more than 40 years. The NDPs vision is to have “a transformed Ugandan Society from a peasant to a modern and prosperous country …

By Bob Kasango When to espouse the virtues of humility, mutual respect and integrity Akio Toyoda, the 54 year old grandson of the company’s founder is the president and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation. Toyota Motor Corporation is the world’s largest automobile maker by sales. Its total revenue for the …

The Independent Team On 28 March 1997 Australian air force jets intercepted a cargo plane in the airspace between northern Australia and Papua New Guinea. Sydney-based newspapers said the Antonov AN-124 aircraft that was grounded in Australia had been carrying several attack helicopters, military vehicles, and an arsenal of weapons, …