Why government’s biggest problem is not the size of its debt but its cost of borrowing THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Uganda’s 2023/24 budget, like all previous ones in the last few years, has generated a lot of controversy about the role of public debt in our national life. Growths …
Read More »Trump in court, pleads not guilty
Miami, Florida | AGENCIES | Former US President Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to historic charges of mishandling sensitive files at a federal court in Miami, Florida. He becomes the first US president – current or former – to be hit with a federal criminal indictment. This was the …
Read More »Gun violence: How to stay safe and secure
COMMENT | Samson Tinka | In the last few weeks, over ten gun violence cases have been recorded in Uganda. This is not to say, there hasn’t been such cases before, what’s weird this time round is how these cases have been committed. The first one was a bodyguard killing …
Read More »How court bailiffs have hijacked Uganda’s debt collection industry
COMMENT | CLEVER NICHOLAS | While debt collection intends to ensure that individuals and businesses fulfill their financial obligations, it is increasingly becoming evident that the debt collection industry in Uganda has been hijacked by court bailiffs who engage in debt collection without court order, which is illegal and improper. Court …
Read More »I once ate a Sh5m lunch on credit at Silver Springs Hotel
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 …
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