Tag Archives: Comment

  COMMENT | ROBERT KABUSHENGA | The current coffee debate started in December 2019 with the controversial Bill that later became law. Since then, some of us who are active in different parts of the value chain have been exchanging ideas on what can be done. I am going to share …

COMMENT | Judith Hope Kiconco |  I recently passed by Quality shopping mall in Naalya close to the peak shopping hours to pick up a few items on my way home. The queues were growing longer, reason being that out of the many tills, only two were operating with the …

Cairo, Egypt | Zhi Linfei & Li Rui – Xinhua | Joe Biden on Saturday concluded his first visit to the Middle East as the U.S. president, achieving a limited number of strategic goals on his selfish agenda. He neither succeeded in his bid to form a regional military alliance against …

  COMMENT | Samson Tinka |  Late last month, I took a journey to UAE for a business engagement. As a patriot, country comes before my personal needs, so firmly on my schedule was to find out the impact Uganda airlines has had on the economy and perceptions of the country …

The choice between a costly, polluting future and low-cost energy alternative that secures us COMMENT |  Jean Baderschneider | Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread environmental disruption and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world faces …

. COMMENT | ELIZABETH K. PATIENCE |  I wake up and prepare to leave home for work. Moments before setting off it starts raining. Time check- 6.20 am! Because I stay in the city suburb of Nsasa, I always leave home by 6.30. Also, since I don’t drive, I often jump …

COMMENT | Crispin Kaheru | The palpable danger of the pre-election atmosphere in any society mainly stems from a preference for politics over the substance of leadership. Sounds puzzling, doesn’t it? Experience will break it down. From past and recent elections, it is clear that more often than not, vote-hunters seek …

COMMENT | ANDREW M. MWENDA | A local musician known as Sheeba Kalungi went on YouTube with a video. She claimed that some man who appears on television and presents himself as a role model raped her. She does not reveal the name of this man but claims this man …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | These are the top stories in this week’s THE INDEPENDENT. COVER STORY Govt takes COVID-19 fight to schools: The Coronavirus, is still around and there will be another wave, say experts THE LAST WORD Uganda’s pursuit of modernity: Why every modern asset should be …

COMMENT | Samson Tinka | A discussion about the controversial Lubowa specialized hospital on CBS FM’s ‘kiliza oba gana’ program moderated by Medi Nsereko, caught my ear recently. The guests in the studio included an MP from Rakai district who was not shy to describe what was going on at Lubowa …