/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/689360/-/shdlybz/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/Opinion+polls+offer+free+intelligence/-/689360/1412024/-/9b2rjiz/-/index.html There are new insights into the state of the country as the findings of a fresh opinion poll are unveiled to the public. This poll, conducted last month around the country, provides a representation of what Ugandans think of key political issues, on the economy, and other important aspects of public life. 2012-05-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1410660/-/b2x6qk/-/index.html One of the major challenges in the administration of effective delivery of justice in Uganda has been persistent increase in case backlog due to inadequate resources, on the part of the police and the Judiciary. 2012-05-21T17:32:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1409852/-/b2hx9v/-/index.html As Uganda and the rest of the world marked the International Museums Day on Friday—a day closely linked to the preservation of cultural heritage, it emerged that encroachers are threatening one of this country’s revered archeological relics. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1408480/-/b2h5vh/-/index.html It does not get any easier, even now, for those who are committed to fighting fraud in public offices when politicians get in the way of the anti-corruption crusade. 2012-05-18T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1407886/-/b2gjpb/-/index.html Given the history of landslides around the Mt. Elgon area, it is unfortunate that residents are engaging in activities that further destroy the environment- weaken the soils and expose the population to landslides. The people who have settled in the park are carrying out widespread cutting of trees to clear land for farmland. That encroachers have also settled on the steep slopes without terracing of proper dimensions, exposes the farmed parts of the slopes to potential mudslides in case of heavy rains. 2012-05-17T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1407286/-/b2gf0k/-/index.html Police chief Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura has issued a public apology to Forum for Democratic Change Women’s League leader Ingrid Turinawe for the way she was handled by anti-riot personnel last month. 2012-05-16T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1406342/-/b2fqd7/-/index.html With the 2012/13 budget reading set for next month, Ugandans will be waiting to hear whether government’s plans will relieve them from the pressures of a harsh financial year. A number of instabilities including; high inflation, the unstable currency market and high fuel prices have contracted Uganda’s economic growth slowing from a projected 6.7 per cent in 2011/12 to the current 4 per cent - according to the IMF. 2012-05-15T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/Riots+case+DPP+police+on+the+spot/-/689360/1405698/-/8g414y/-/index.html The High Court yesterday set free the last group of suspects arrested following the 2009 Buganda riots. The riots broke out after the government blocked Buganda prime minister John Baptist Walusimbi from entering Kayunga District, where he was headed as an advance party to prepare for the Kabaka’s visit there. 2012-05-14T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/Fistula+deserves+more+attention/-/689360/1404902/-/cvlxxoz/-/index.html A new report on fistula launched in Kampala last week, outlines lack of skilled medical intervention - in this case, skilled birth attendants - as the major cause of fistula. According to health experts, fistula is an injury that occurs during childbirth, usually when a woman is in labour for too long or when the delivery is obstructed. 2012-05-13T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1404340/-/b2ecps/-/index.html It is a worrying situation that 45,000 newly-born babies die annually in ‘modern’ Uganda for reasons as flimsy as poor hygiene and ignorance on the part of mothers and medical practitioners. 2012-05-12T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1403818/-/b2dr9h/-/index.html Uganda was last week in the spotlight as the world marked World Press Freedom Day. Most global ratings of press freedoms have ranked Uganda as one of the poor performers. 2012-05-11T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/Fufa+should+uplift+stadium+standards/-/689360/1403270/-/a28tju/-/index.html Local football is often embroiled in one controversy or the other and the latest revolves around the decision to hold Saturday’s final of the Uganda Cup at Pece Stadium in Gulu. Once one of the major stadia across the country, Pece, like others in Mbale, Bugembe, Mbarara and elsewhere has fallen into disrepair. In other areas the stadia have been sold off by corrupt local officials and do not exist anymore or have been encroached upon. 2012-05-10T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/Do+not+delay+loan+scheme+further/-/689360/1402744/-/10r44ca/-/index.html The loan scheme is one of the fairest means to ensure equity in secondary education; it would save government accusations of favouritism through such scholarship schemes as the one run by State House, by subjecting everyone to an equal chance to getting an education that would be paid for by their own labour once they finish studies. It is a well tasted scheme that has worked even for developed countries like the United States and many other countries in Europe. 2012-05-09T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1402094/-/b2cvum/-/index.html Government, through the Ministry of Finance, has released funds to go towards various development initiatives. A total of about one trillion shillings, the funds include Shs6 billion as a capitation grant to schools under the Universal Secondary Education programme. 2012-05-08T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1401306/-/b2c9nw/-/index.html Kampala Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago has reportedly initiated talks with councillors from the ruling National Resistance Movement party. Whereas Lukwago assumed the seat on the basis of the IPC/Suubi opposition grouping, ... 2012-05-07T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/Invest+more+in+midwifery/-/689360/1400660/-/fuwfoqz/-/index.html As Uganda joins the rest of the world to mark the midwives week, we must, as a country, critically examine the conditions under which these health professionals, who ensure the safety of our mothers and babies during birth, operate. 2012-05-06T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/Implement+the+Land+Act+now/-/689360/1399990/-/ypboow/-/index.html Incidents around the acquisition, lease, or purchase of land are increasing around the country. Lately, there have been issues around the proposed acquisition of land for commercial agriculture in Amuru District, a proposed gazetting of land for a game reserve in Adjumani, land for palm oil cultivation in Kalangala, and a murky encroachment by a business concern on land owned by a school in Kampala. 2012-05-05T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/Give+the+Speaker+space+to+deliver/-/689360/1399284/-/nnff0fz/-/index.html Speaker Rebecca Kadaga has said some elements in her party - the ruling NRM are putting her on pressure to reduce the Opposition voice in the House. Many would see Ms Kadaga’s remarks as a tip of the iceberg in regard to the infighting within the party. 2012-05-04T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1398868/-/anxdau/-/index.html Residents of Kampala and its suburbs have great cause to worry. Police have warned that armed robberies are slowly but surely creeping back into the city and residents must be on the watch out. And the caution is for real. At the weekend, a businessman, Mr Mustafa Ssimbwa, was reportedly attacked by armed robbers who also took off with his Shs150 million, a motorcycle, and a laptop in Nateete, a city suburb. Earlier, a Muslim cleric, Sheikh Abdul Karim Ssentamu, was brutally murdered in the city by unknown assailants. 2012-05-03T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1398376/-/anx9ee/-/index.html One of Kampala’s older schools, East Kololo Primary, is fighting to save its land from being taken away. For months now a developer, Adventure Real Estates, has staked a claim on part of the school’s land on the eastern outskirts of the capital city. 2012-05-02T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1397538/-/anwljn/-/index.html Early this week, Uganda Human Rights Commission released its report showing that human rights violations in the country have increased by 28 per cent. For those who have lived in Uganda for the last five years, the results of this report did not come as a surprise. 2012-05-01T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1396974/-/anw0gq/-/index.html Ugandans will join the rest of the world in marking the International Labour Day but the issue of growing unemployment will continue to rear its ugly head as workers demand justice, fairness and dignity for all. 2012-04-30T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1396300/-/anvuko/-/index.html Press reports that an alleged underground complicity of government officials is frustrating efforts of potential investors to develop the Kampala Industrial Park in Namanve, are quite revolting. 2012-04-29T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1394996/-/anulv8/-/index.html A piece of land in Amuru District is an item of contention between Madhvani Group, the investor, and residents, who claim ancestral right of ownership. 2012-04-27T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/OpEd/Editorial/-/689360/1394632/-/anujdf/-/index.html Sitting in opposition to the idea on the other side of the fence is the party’s entrenched old guard, led by President Museveni. Not only are they opposed to the idea, they appear, if events in the recent high-level party meetings are anything to go by, opposed to publicly debating it. They have every reason to try and stifle the debate. The lifting of presidential term limits was never a matter of national consensus but the outcome of a hatchet political job conceived in the corridors of Cabinet and delivered in Parliament in a caesarean operation in which bribes offered general anaesthesia. 2012-04-26T21:00:00Z