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Daily Monitor
Monday May 17 2021
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Sugar Factory within the first year of operation, authorities have revealed.
The construction of the factory comes after Bugiri District Local Government secured 60 acres of land in Bugubo Village, Kapyanga Sub-county.
Mr Yash Patel, the managing director, earlier said construction is expected to end in December, adding that
they would crush 3,500 tonnes of canes per day and produce 4,800 bags of sugar daily.
Mr Rogers Bagaga, the Kapyanga Subcounty vice chairperson, at the weekend said the factory has come with a number of benefits.
“The factory hasn’t yet started crushing cane but a number of youth in Bugiri and immediate surroundingdistricts are already being employed. This is an initiative which is going to off er employment to our idle youth,” he said.
Daily Monitor
Monday May 10 2021
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Speaking at the duo s burial on May 9, Mr Basalirwa- who was visibly angry at Umeme said the case will be filed this week against power distributing company, Umeme.
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Bugiri Municipality Member of Parliament (MP), Mr Asuman Basalirwa, who doubles as Justice Forum (Jeema) Party President, has threatened to file a case against power distributor, Umeme following the electrocution of his two relatives.
Ms Fazira Kagoya, 56, a wife to the elder brother of his father (Uncle) and Fahad Mususwa, 19, a nephew, who sat for his Senior Four examinations at Bukooli College, Bugiri, and was awaiting results, were on Saturday morning electrocuted at their home in Bugodo Village, Namukonge Parish in Bugiri District.
Daily Monitor
Thursday May 06 2021
Ministry of Health officials hand over the upgrade site plan to Kyeeya Health Centre II team in Kamuli District on Sunday. PHOTO | SAM CALEB OPIO
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State of health. Whereas the Ministry of Health’s policy stipulates that every district should have a hospital, most districts in Busoga do not have district hospitals. They have to make do with health centre IVs, health centre IIIs and health centre IIs which ill equipped and understaffed.
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At first, Ms Nakisige thought she had a cultural problem.
But when she was advised to attend antenatal visits at Kyeeya Health Centre II, her misfortunes changed and she recently delivered a baby boy at the facility.
Daily Monitor
Thursday May 06 2021
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Some of the practices to prioritise at slaughter node include poultry meat inspection, especially post-slaughter inspection to protect the consumers, the slaughterers were urged to only slaughter healthy birds or perform rapid flock health (ante mortem) assessment before slaughtering.
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Poultry farmers have been tipped on actionable and implementable behavioural changes at the slaughtering node of the poultry value chain.
This was during a two-day stakeholder dialogue to improve the poultry value chain held at Jinja Nile Resort (Mada Hotels) in Jinja City facilitated by Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and USAID.