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Recline - What Does a Good Girl Do
Trish, 27, puts down the women's magazine she has been reading while Stella, 37, and Joanna, 31, finished their phone calls. Trish: Man, nothing creeps me out lately than the possibility of getting fibroids. Joanna: Please, don't even start. Stella: It is serious though, Joanna. Especially how increasingly younger girls are getting them and some have had to undergo complete ...
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Babirye Is Miss Teen Nabbingo
The search for Mirinda's Miss Teen is on and after visiting Gayaza High School and Rubaga Girls School first, the next stop was Trinity College Nabbingo over the weekend. Nabbingo delivered many unforeseen surprises. The girls were not shy like the team expected, and when it was time to hit the stage to show off some dance moves, they did not disappoint. By 3pm, MC Talha had already got ...
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Music to the Rescue
Bosco Ssegawa's life story is best told from the success of orphans whose life he has turned into wells of hope. Shafiq Kawere is one of his signature success stories. "I first stayed with him when I was eight years old and I have seen a lot of transformation in my life because he turned me into a music instrument specialist and I am currently a piano teacher," the 21-year-old ...
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Star Trail - Parliament Sits At Obbligato
After the Ugandan Cranes win against Angola last Saturday, members of Parliament led by Education and Sports Minister Jessica Alupo stormed New Club Obbligato to dance for victory. The likes of Gonzaga Ssewungu and Moses Kasibante were deployed to the dance floor and they danced to almost every song. The shy ones remained glued to their seats but at least shook their heads. Irene Ntale ...
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Fashion - Dress Right for Travel
While going through airport security at Entebbe International airport, the woman in front of me stopped traffic. Well, you can say she was smart, yes, but she literally stopped traffic. We had to give her some time to undress. Pull off her belt, earrings, necklace, rings, bangles, six-inch platform shoes and whatever was in her pockets that was setting off the alarm. She took another few ...
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A Vestment Colour for Every Special Season
Apart from seeing their priests using different colours for their liturgical vestments, many Christians have not bothered knowing what these colours mean, and on what occasions they are used. Catholic priests, for example, will change from green to purple or violet to white or gold and red, depending on the season in the church's liturgical year. According to Rev Fr Joseph Kasangaki, the ...
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How Bikes Boda Boda Saved My Dull Sunday
Uganda's eviction from Big Brother Africa in just two weeks, coupled with the fact that there is no premiership football at the moment, is really taking its toll on me. Sunday morning found me flipping through our various radio stations; a number of them had mentions of the fourth round of the Mountain Dew National Motocross Championship at Lubiri, Mengo. There was talk of the first ever ...
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Obesity Affects Sex Quality and Quantity
Now, while exercise has been reported to help overweight and obese men improve on their sizes, this man cannot be helped by exercise because his small penile size is not as a consequence of excess pounds; nature endowed him with a small one. He knows that exercise will not lengthen that body part, but he will not lack in size and strength. So he works out, improving on his strength and making ...
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Putting Ugandas child labourers back in school
Over half of Uganda's children are not just forced to work, says a recent report, but they must do so in hazardous jobs. Ugandan NGO Kids in Need hopes to put an end to this. Along with local community members, they're helping give the country's future generation opportunities to get off the street or out of the quarry and return to ...
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LDCS Granted Extension On Intellectual Property
The World Trade Organisation has granted the least developed countries (LDCs) an extension period till 2021 before enforcing Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS). Under TRIPS, LDCs are supposed to implement high standards of legal protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights of the original producer of a product. This extension guarantees access to affordable ...
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Tullow Gets Its Break in London but What Has Uganda Achieved
The tax dispute between Tullow Oil and Heritage Oil, settled in London last week, had it all. In the oil industry, and the messy legal battles they usually serve up, this case about the $313m tax money that Heritage failed to pay when it sold its Uganda assets to its former partner, Tullow Oil, is high up there among the corporate shenanigans that occur when money and pride are at stake. At the ...
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Police Urged to Wipe Out Killer Gangs
A passionate appeal has been rang out for the police and other security agencies to route out criminal gangs as the curtain fell on the life of New Vision scribe Thomas Pere. Pere is believed to have been murdered on Sunday night on the way home from work. His body was discovered on Monday morning in a trench in Masajja on Busabala road, off the Kampala-Entebbe highway. It is suspected that ...
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Judiciary Has No Money to Operate
Government has not released operational funds for the month of June this year for the judiciary, according to its public relations officer, Araali Kagoro Muhiirwa. Speaking during a media press conference on Monday at Buganda Road chief magistrate's court, Muhiirwa said Government's failure to release money for operational activities has led to delay in trials. "Failure to work ...
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Drug Giants Move in to Block Generics
Civil society organisations dealing with intellectual property rights have mounted a spirited attempt to block the European Union and US from introducing stringent patent rights that would block access to generic life-saving medicines. A generic drug is a copy of a brand-name drug whose patent has expired. It is sold at a significantly lower price than the branded drug. In Uganda, 90% of all ...
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URA Malaba Town in Parking Fees Row
Congestion is building up at the Malaba border post, with the town council there engaged in collecting fees from all vehicles getting into and leaving the country, a practice Uganda Revenue Authority is opposed to. Men, dressed in gray overalls with the words, 'Malaba Town Council Tax Collector,' wave down vehicles and demand for Shs 5,000 for goods' trucks, while cars referred to ...
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Uganda Another Couple Slaughtered in Rakai
The alarming spate of senseless murders continues to rock the country with the latest victims being a married couple in Rakai that was slaughtered on Sunday night, the day a New Vision journalist, Thomas Pere, was killed in Kampala. Charles Yiga 34, a coffee dealer who owned a hardware store in Kyotera was slaughtered together with his wife, Maureen Namaato, 30, and their heads taken when thugs ...
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Uganda Ugandans Have to Dig Deeper
Kampala - East African governments have all tightened the noose around their citizens to raise the percentage of domestic tax collection as a percentage of total annual returns. Uganda is no exception. This sends a clear signal for a tough and challenging financial year 2013/14. This was vindicated in the reading of respective budgets for the financial year 2013/14 amidst dwindling foreign aid ...
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Uganda GOtv to Spread Further
MultiChoice, under one of its brand segments, GOtv, is spreading its digital television services to the rest of Uganda as the country embarks on digital migration. "We have been operating within Kampala and Entebbe for the past two years but we are soon moving to several other parts of the country," said Patricia Kiconco, GOtv Uganda Segment Manager, during a luncheon to update the ...
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Repressing Rights While Talking Law in Uganda
forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut. After years of documenting human rights abuses in Uganda, including threats to free expression, I was not impressed by her words. Her claim that the day’s events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government’s emerging practice of citing laws to justify ...
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Farmers Adopt Sprinkling to Fight Coffee Wilt
Coffee farming especially in central region has been affected by coffee wilt for the past few years. Many coffee farmers had abandoned the growing of coffee and changed to other crops which were not affected by the wilt disease. However farmers in Mukono, Luwero and Nakaseke have now turned to sprinkling methods in order to fight the coffee wilt disease. Lawrence Zikusooka a farmer in Zirobwe ...
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Big Brother Africa That Girl Tried to Snatch Ronnie From Me
There are rumours that you and Ronnie separated, is it true? What makes you think that we separated? Ever since I came back from the Big Brother house, people have not been kind to me. The truth is, Ronnie and I are still in love and if you have doubts, you should call him. I hate it when people think they know more about me than I ...
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Uganda Uganda Warns Meddling Envoys
Uganda's foreign minister has warned foreign envoys in the country not to interfere in the East African nation's internal affairs. Henry Okello Oryem says he has told the envoys to use regular diplomatic channels with President Yoweri Museveni's government to resolve their concerns about governance issues. "Ambassadors and other diplomatic missions come with clear terms of ...
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General condemns Uganda monarchy
Renegade Ugandan army General David Sejusa has accused President Yoweri Museveni of creating a "political monarchy" to hang on to power. In his first interview since he fled to the UK last month, the four-star general told the BBC that Mr Museveni's plans should be opposed. Gen Sejusa fled after claiming that Mr Museveni was grooming his son Muhoozi Kainerugaba to succeed him. ...
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Tsetse Flies Hit Bunyoro
TSETSE flies, the vectors that spread sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in cattle have hit districts in northern Uganda, Bunyoro, Busoga and Kalangala. Speaking at the launch of the desert locust control and crop protection programme at Sanctum Hotel in Entebbe yesterday, Evarist Magara, the country representative of Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa, said the situation ...
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Whats in the Salt You Use
Adulterated salt is on sale in Kampala, with stones visible to the naked eye. Sunday Vision bought several packets of salt from different shops and supermarkets across the city and each of them contained stones, some as small as the salt granules. Most of this packed salt is imported from Mombasa, Kenya, Sunday Vision further learnt. While some of this salt is branded, some of it does not have ...
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