Browsing by Author "Amamukirori, Betty"

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    48 irrigation schemes constructed, 30 in pipeline
    (New Vision, 2018-05-18) Tenywa, Gerald; Amamukirori, Betty
    The Ministry of Water and Environment is constructing 48 new small and big irrigation schemes in order to increase food security and resilience against climate change impacts.
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    Activists push for HIV law amendment
    (New Vision, 2017-12-01) Amamukirori, Betty
    Activists and people living with HIV/AIDS want the new HIV Act amended, saying that some of its sections are discriminatory, overly vague and undermine the efforts made in the fight against the disease. "Some sections are good, but the bad sections have overshadowed them. You cannot get a new cloth and bury it in the mud," Irene Namyalo, the publicist Uganda Network on Law Ethics and HIV/AIDS (UGANET) says.
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    Bedbugs attack Kampala again
    (New Vision, 2017-01-12) Amamukirori, Betty; Akampurira, Dorothy
    Bedbugs have re-attacked the slums of Kampala with a ferocity that is forcing residents to spend nights on the verandahs, barely a year since the army carried out an exercise to get rid of them.
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    Conservationist advises on chimps
    (New Vision, 2018-06-08) Amamukirori, Betty
    The relationship between humans and chimpanzees can be better. For instance farmers can plant high value crops, which cannot be destroyed by the primates such that farmers incomes are not undermined.
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    Court squashes sh40b Namanve tree farmers' compesation
    (New Vision, 2017-01-13) Amamukirori, Betty; Akampurira, Dorothy
    The court of Appeal has overturned a lower court award of over sh40b to Namanve forest tree farmers that they got after winning a case against the government for the destruction of their trees by encroachers.
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    Curriculum centre to focus on skills
    (New Vision, 2018-04-16) Amamukirori, Betty; Amanya, Desire
    Dr Grace Baguma, the executive director of the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), has said they are going to bench mark on the best curriculum development practices at the forthcoming international conference on curriculum, with focus on innovative ways to skill students.
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    Dont commercialise education- founder warns Uganda Martyrs Namugongo
    (New Vision, 2017-07-25) Amamukirori, Betty
    Hellen Namazzi, one of the founding members of Uganda Martyrs Secondary School Namugongo, has warned the school administration and government against commercialising education, arguing that it denies " low-income earners" a chance of getting quality education.
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    Drug shops to be phased out.
    (New Vision, 2018-01-11) Amamukirori, Betty
    Drug shops located in the city , municipalities and town councils have been given one year to either transform into pharmacies or shut down, Donna Kusemerewa, the executive director of National Drug Authority(NDA) has said. She said pharmacies are stocked with all types of drugs and can sufficiently serve the population.
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    Gender ministry launches campaign to create 1 million jobs by 2022.
    (New Vision, 2017-08-16) Amamukirori, Betty; Mazirwe, Sarah
    The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development, together with Business Day Communications, have launched a new campaign aimed at creating employment for one million youths by 2022. The campaign, dubbed young, health and employed was launched yesterday at the Makerere University main building by the ministry's
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    Implant kits added to medical supplies list.
    (New Vision, 2018-03-21) Amamukirori, Betty; Nsaba, Lisa
    The government has added the procurement of up-to-date implant insertion and removal equipment and the intrauterine device(IUD) on its essential drugs and medical supplies list.
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    Introduce birth control for city dogs-activists.
    (New Vision, 2017-08-08) Amamukirori, Betty
    A group of animals welfare activists have called on the urban authorities to stop poisoning dogs as a measure of reducing their population, but come up with a comprehensive birth control strategy for the dog population. The activists from World Animal Production,
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    Lwengo LC5 boss sued over cning residents
    (Saturday Vision, 2017-07-22) Kabahumuza, Barbara; Amamukirori, Betty
    Lwengo district chairperson Georgee Mutabazi has been sued for allegedly assaulting several residents in the district.
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    Makerere lecturers dodge classes, say report.
    (New Vision, 2019-01-08) Amamukirori, Betty
    A section of lecturers at Makerere University spend weeks without stepping into lecture rooms, the Makerere University probe report has revealed. The report which was unveiled last week, stated that when the probe team carried out a review of the teaching load analysis report at the University.
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    Ministry bans non-cash school requirements
    (New Vision, 2017-11-23) Amamukirori, Betty
    The Ministry of Education and sports has ordered schools to stop charging cash and non-cash requirements outside the approved school fees.
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    NEMA stops Britania from contructing on city wetland.
    (New Vision, 2017-08-18) Amamukirori, Betty
    The executive director of the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA), Tom OKurut, has told the commission of inquiry into land matters that the authority has stopped Britania Allied Industries, a food and beverages company, from building an apartment on the Nakivubo Channel wetland.
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    New machine gives hope to leukemia, sickle cell patients.
    (New Vision, 2018-03-16) Amamukirori, Betty
    A man lies in bed at a hospital, his arm connected to a machine by a set of tubes through which blood from his body flows into it.
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    NFA official pinned over empty forest reserve.
    (New Vision, 2017-08-17) Amamukirori, Betty
    Members of the commission of inquiry into land matters were yesterday shocked to find the Kajjansi Central Forest Reserve bare with only tree stumps, anthills and shrubs. The probe team arrived at the reserve at about 10:00am. The team had the outdoor session without their chairperson,
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    NWSC covers over 200 towns.
    (New Vision, 2018-03-22) Amamukirori, Betty
    From just 24 towns in 2013, the national water and sewerage cooperation(NWSC) has expanded to 225 towns. as we commemorate the uganda water and environment week, the executive director Dr.Eng Silver Mugisha in a wide ranging interview told Betty Amamukirori that the water supply situation in uganda is set to improve further.
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    Patients pay price as nursing care deteriorates.
    (New Vision, 2018-01-04) Amamukirori, Betty
    The clock strikes midday as I enter Mulago National Referral Hospital's casualty ward. I am here to see a friend. Working in one of the wards. As l pass by the emergency room a faint cry for help stop me. "Munyambe (help me)". Shouts a man from the VIP latrines opposite the room.
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    Rotary to raise $50m per year for polio treatment
    (New Vision, 2018-04-27) Amamukirori, Betty
    Kenneth Mugisha, the rotary governor for district 9211, has said they are currently in a drive to raise $50m ( sh185b) per year for the next three years to help in the prevention and treatment of polio. "Rotarians are people of action, we cannot watch people die without doing anything about it". he said. During last year's run Rotarians were able to raise over sh1.3b that they used to kickstart the project.