Sources at the ferry terminal revealed that staff were instructed to suspend the scheduled departure until RDC Ndege arrived, even though they lacked a valid reason to give to frustrated travelers. JOBS-FOR-SALE SCANDAL SPIRALS: Arrested Mukono District Officials Relocated to Unknown Place Buvuma District is facing public outcry after the newly deployed Resident District Commissioner […]
Looking ahead, Wako plans to expand his kraal, exchange his present cows with improved dairy breeds which will increase his daily earning from the milk business. Before 2023, Muwereza Wako struggled to finance his home needs which required at least sh2000 on a daily basis. A resident of Buyego cell in Tome ward, Buvuma Town Council […]
As traditional academic giants countrywide celebrate excellent 2024 UCE results, Buvuma islanders are singing praises to President Museveni for construction of Nairambi Seed School, in addition to introduction of the competence-based education system which they say has unearthed their children’s hidden potential. Opened in 2019 with only 15 students in Senior One, Nairambi Seed School […]
Leaders in Buvuma islands have petitioned Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) to devise safer and faster means of ferrying final examination papers for candidates in the 52 islands forming the district, than transporting them aboard local wooden fishing boats. They argued that because examinations are held in the wet month when the sea is very […]
During the two-day Buvuma district inspection of government funded projects in the islands, members of the parliamentary national economy committee amazed islanders when they pounced on a family size jackfruit, had it chopped into pieces and did justice to it without leaving a piece. When they got to Lukale Health Centre III in Nairambi sub-county, […]
Namusisi said that owing to lack of enough dormitories and beds, the students share beds while others sleep on the floor, both of which are fraught with disease spread in case some had contracted any contagious disease. The headmistress for Nairambi Seed School in Buvuma islands, Faridah Namusisi has enumerated challenges they go through including […]
For decades now, the government introduced the growing of oil palm plants mainly for the people in the islands as an alternative means of livelihood. Having started in Kalangala district in 1998 where it is believed to have caused a very positive change, the government switched the business to also benefit the islanders in Buvuma […]
Five people have drowned on Lake Victoria after the boat they were traveling in capsized. The victims reportedly boarded an overloaded boat from Kirongo landing site in Buvuma district heading to Kiyindi landing site in Buikwe district on Thursday. They have been identified as Kabenge, the boat operator, Karisimati (a butcher at Kirongo trading center), […]
In an emotional testimony presented before the Parliamentary Committee of Presidential Affairs, female opposition Members of Parliament are demanding transparency and accountability concerning incidents of police brutality they endured in April 2023. These brave lawmakers have come forward with distressing allegations of physical abuse at the hands of police officers. As a response to their […]