PARLIAMENTARIANS on the natural resources committee have pledged to expeditiously support Hima Cement's $104m investment plan. Emmanuel Dombo, the committee's head, explained that the move would make cement affordable.

PADRE Pio Insurance Brokers has developed an insurance product that covers funeral expenses among the average income groups.

KYAMBOGO University's non-teaching staff have refused to re-apply for their jobs, saying the process is irregular and would lead to loss of their salary arrears of sh1.4b.

HAMZA Wandera claimed the vacant national super middleweight title with an impressive fifth round knockout of Charles Kakande on Sunday night. The hard-hitting Wandera was rocked early in the fight by Kakande, who was determined to revenge an earlier loss

Scientists have started screening crocodiles, monitor-lizards, snakes and other reptiles to establish whether they are reservoirs for sleeping sickness and nagana disease parasites countrywide.

TWO Special Police constables were to assemble at Old Kampala Police Station for an assignment but they ended up in a bar and allegedly beat up a reveller into a coma.

Kitgum Woman MP Beatrice Anywar defied Police orders when she led a demonstration against the give-away of Mabira forest last year, Buganda Road Court heard on Wednesday.

ROBERT Ssentongo's hunt for the top scorer's boot and a first Super league title switches to Lira when he leads KCC in an away encounter with Boroboro.

Officials of Arua Hill Division have been questioned over fake licence receipts issued to business operators. The district Police chief, Julius Salube, said the six officials were nabbed in an operation by the fraud squad from Arua Central Police Station.

CHARITY continued their fairytale run by advancing to the semi-finals of the Luswata cup with a convincing four- wicket victory over Patidar on Sunday. Henry Senyondo took six wickets as Charity formed last month, restricted Patidar to 98 in Jinja.

MAJORITY of the children born with HIV/AIDS cannot access anti-retroviral treatment resulting in their early death, a health expert has said.

The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) has planned a late departure for Taifa Stars in their return leg match against The Cranes of Uganda.

The chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights Commission, Mrs Margaret Sekaggya, has been appointed UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, effective May 1.

Expatriate taxation is perhaps the most complex area of personal taxation in Uganda, not least because it often involves the interaction of the tax systems of two countries.

Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya yesterday told a gathering of the National Resistance Movement Caucus in Parliament that he suspects some party officials are working to bring him down, in yet another open political outburst from the Busiro North MP.

THE report into the death of Brig. Noble Mayombo should be made public, an opposition MP has said. Arua Municipality legislator Akbar Hussein Godi (FDC) yesterday asked the Government to produce the report within seven days.

KIBULI SS and hosts Mvara SS yesterday clawed their way back from the drop zone to qualify for knockout stage in the COPA Coca-Cola schools soccer championships.

Rose 'Flying Chic' Lwakataka's spirited show in the just concluded KCB Pearl of Africa Uganda Rally won her the most coveted sports accolade in Uganda yesterday.

The medical workers are again threatening a strike because the government has delayed or failed to pay them their allowances.

The banking industry performed robustly in 2007, effectively putting behind it the difficult times of the preceding year when a combination of an acute energy challenge and a sluggish economy pulled banks into an enormous distress, depressing their earnings by