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UPDATE 1-Uganda aims for commercial oil output by 2016
Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:53am EDT * Refinery to be doubled to 60,000 bpd from 30,000 bpd two years later * Landlocked country weighing pipeline for oil exports * Production has been delayed over tax, refinery wrangles (Recasts lead, adds comment from geologist, background, foreign partners) By George Obulutsa NAIROBI, June 19 (Reuters) - Uganda is aiming for commercial output of oil by 2016 at the ...
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Uganda coffee exports rise 56 pct in May on
coffee exports rose 56 percent in the year to May, after farmers sold huge volumes to prevent further losses as prices for the bean tumbled, a source at the ...
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The Faj Condemns the Killing of a Journalist in Uganda
The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) has today condemned the killing of freelance journalist, Thomas Pere, of the New Vision Newspaper, on Sunday, June 16, 2013. "Thomas Père was found dead in a pool of blood in Masjja, a few kilometers south east of the capital, Kampala on the Entebbe road. According to the Ugandan Journalists Union (UJU) an affiliate of FAJ, "The ...
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Uganda - Ugandan journalist murdered
journalist, Pere Thomas, was killed by unknown assailants. His body was found lying at Masajja - along Entebbe road with a deep cut on the head. His photo camera, laptop and cellular phone were stolen.Thomas, 36, a resident of Kawuku, in the Wakiso district, reportedly left work ...
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Uganda says to build 30000 bpd refinery by 201617
barrels per day refinery by 2016/17 and double this capacity two years later in a move towards commercial output of the country's oil. Explorers struck oil in east Africa's third largest economy in 2006 and Uganda estimates its crude reserves at 3.5 billion barrels but wrangling over taxes and the viability of a ...
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Miracle - the Dead Cannot Be Your Friend
The most challenging prayer, I think, is one that involves rebuking spirits operating behind the image of a dead loved one. God clearly bars us from communicating/consulting with the dead in Deuteronomy 18:9-13. Even my grandmother (RIP) used to emphasise, omufu taba munno (the dead cannot be friends with the living). When I dream about a dead person, however close I may have been to that ...
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Wedding - Capital Honours Its Big Wedding Pledge
Gordon Amanya and his bride Catherine Atwine arrived in a white limousine flanked by two bikers. Amanya and his best man Patrick Mwesigye wore matching grey suits with white shirts; they were shortly followed into church by Atwine in her white gown. As the wedding entourage walked through the arch decorated with yellow mum flowers and white roses, a flower girl tossed petals onto the red carpet ...
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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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