Tuesday, August 16, 2011

MABIRA: UGANDA'S HYPROCRITICAL ENVIRONMENTALISTS AGAIN

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Woe unto you if you are for or indifferent to the conversion of part of Mabira forest reserve for sugar production. That is the way section...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Day One on the Obamagenda

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... no Uganda, no DR Congo, no LRA ...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Ad on Ugandan Radio: "INDIAN General Manager Wanted ..."

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I heard on Star Radio on the morning of Tuesday 13th of January 2009 a job vacancy announcement for (incredibly) an INDIAN general manager! ...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Ugandan Women Activists: Prove You're Not Oppositionist

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To some of us, right or wrong, the prominent women's rights activist machinery in Uganda is oppositionist. We see them quick to point ou...
Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Ugandans' Support for Obama is not Principled

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I am not one of those that are euphoric about Barack Obama’s ascendancy to the presidency of the United States. I prefer to applaud the part...
Thursday, September 04, 2008

Racism = Africans Only Supporting Obama because He's 'Black'

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Take away Barack Obama’s skin colour and recent-generation African roots and I find nothing else of benefit in his campaign to Africa, Ugand...
Monday, June 23, 2008

Why Only Small Fish Will Always Fry In Uganda

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I thank Dan Ogwal and H.G.K. Nyakoojo for their letters in The New Vision of 16th June in which they point out MPs’ selfishness in their boy...
Friday, May 23, 2008

XENOPHOBIA IS AN INSATIABLE ANIMAL

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“First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Union...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

EBOLA IN BUNDIBUGYO - A SHAME!

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Stories of Bundibugyo District Hospital not being equipped to protect its staff, patients and the public from possibly being infected with t...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

UGANDAN CONSULTANTS ARE BIG CORPORATE SINNERS

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Ugandan consultants are a very brilliant lot. Their expertise, qualifications and grasp on technical issues are well above international ave...
Friday, June 22, 2007

Carbon footprint calculator launched - Yahoo! News UK

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Martin Makara (martmakara@yahoo.co.uk) has sent you a news article -------------------- Personal message text: This is a good thing that sho...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Cart Before the Horse: Workers MP's are Offside.

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Dear Sir,   Uganda 's lack of a strong trades union system was supposed to be solved by the representation of workers in parliament. ...
Thursday, June 07, 2007

martmakara@yahoo.co.uk has sent you a New Vision News Article!

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Hi there! martmakara@yahoo.co.uk thought you might be interested in this article from The New Vision online: http://www.newvision.co.ug They...

Uganda Cranes or Uganda Chameleons?

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Now that the ‘small’ issue of beating ‘our new biggest sporting rivals’, Nigeria, is done and dusted (what insolence!), we have never had a ...
Tuesday, May 08, 2007

30 Pieces of Silver to Save 1 Baby is no Sin

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First of all, I respect the opinions of those who oppose the proposed conversion of a part of Mabira forest to sugarcane growing and I am su...

Carbon Emissions Can Be Deliberate Weapons of Mass Destruction

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The BBC World Service Have Your Say programme of 4th May, revealed something that made me shiver. On the subject of the introduction into th...
Friday, March 30, 2007

Uganda Needs a Public Transport Authority

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‘UTODA Prepares for CHOGM’ was a headline in The New Vision of March 27th and that is the only part of the story I read. I have learnt not t...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

MABIRA: DAMNED IF WE DO, DAMNED IF WE DON'T

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Whether we keep Mabira gazetted or not, Uganda remains at the very bottom of the global warming food chain. Even before the suggested degaze...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Uganda's Public Transport Still Stinks

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The typical Kampala public transport users have neither voice nor partners in government (both local and central), their elected legislators...
Saturday, February 10, 2007

WBS Endangered Namayanja's Kids

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While I appreciate Drake Ssekkeba’s Vumbula programme on WBS TV on February 9th highlighting the problems Ms. Charity Namayanja is facing, I...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

Kalyegira Ranting as Usual.

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Hello people,> Thanks for writing in. I am going to send you the first and second parts of my July 2006 conversation with this Seer.> ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Besigye’s remarks about bahima were outrageous

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SIR — I wish to comment on your story “Besigye slams Bahima” published on Monday. The outrageous comments of the FDC leader is a clear signa...

Turning Golf Balls into Planets

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For a leader, Erias Lukwago, MP for Kampala Central, Uganda, is very good at blowing things unnecessarily out of proportion. He chooses the...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

BUGANDA UNDER SIEGE! So Says Some Paranoid Guy.

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Forwarded Message [ Download File Save to Yahoo! Briefcase ] Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:05:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Ekissodde Ekissodde...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

IS DSTV IN AFRICA ANTI-GOD AND PRO-GAY?

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At first, I thought it was the result of a technical problem but when I noticed that it was repeated over and over again, I was shocked to c...
Friday, January 12, 2007

POLL: SHOULD THE WORD "GOD" BE ERASED?

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Should the word 'God' be erased from from secular films? Yes No I Don't Know I Don't Care pollcode.com free polls
Thursday, January 11, 2007

US SAVED IRAQ FROM MUCH BUMPIER RIDE

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(This blog was first posted on 07 November 2006.) I feel that some of the loudest opinions on Iraq , its occupation and Saddam Hussein’s con...
Wednesday, January 10, 2007

FOOTBALL LEAGUES ARE SIMPLY ENTERTAINMENT

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I understand Andrew Magunda’s concern in his letter in ‘Vision’s Saturday Soccer magazine of December 16th in which he decries the popularit...
Monday, January 08, 2007

UGANDAN PARTIES: NO MONEY, NO BUSINESS WITH RALLIES

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In justifying why opposition parties prefer the Constitutional Square to host their political events, Ms. Beti Kamya, MP, explained in the m...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Public Transport in Uganda is a Mess!

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To: "Letters" , bukedde@newvision.co.ug CC: "Susan Nakawuki" , "NRM" , "Freddie Ruhindi" , elukwago@...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

WHO RULES THE ROOST?

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The scene is the Tusker Challenge show at Nairobi’s Carnivore shown on UBC. One of the judges, Ian, is having an exchange of words with the ...

IF OTTO CAN INVEST IN ANOTHER CONSTITUENCY …

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Dear Editor ( www.newvision.co.ug) , When the MP for Aruu County in Acholi got access to some hundreds of millions of shillings, he invested...
Monday, November 20, 2006

Crane Bank Official Replies

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Dear Sir Thank you for the pains you have taken in sending us this detailed mail, we have noted with concern the points raised by you and wi...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Crane Bank in Uganda Sucks!!!

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I walked into Crane Bank's main branch on Kampala Road today with a simple problem but walked out a whole HOUR later. All I wanted to do...