EDITORIAL: Enforce good parenting

>Whenever there is an accident, especially one in which scores of people are killed, the law and security agencies spring into action. They suddenly remember this law and that regulation and hurry to enforce it.

The demand for a new media law, which should effectively repeal the much-criticised 1976 Media Act is an old song. Now ideally, the report that the government will table in the ongoing Parliament sitting, two media Bills to lead to a new Media Law, should have been received with a sigh of relief. But it has only created tension.

>Tanzanian towns and cities are choked, not only by garbage; it is choked by noise too. Noise from music bars, partying households, nightclubs, motorbike taxis (bodaboda)… you name it.    That is called noise pollution. It is bad enough that bar patrons, who should be enjoying themselves, have to contend with sound levels that threaten to burst eardrums.

>Sports lovers live in hope against hope that the new community-based sports park in Dar es Salaam will help make Tanzania a force to reckon with.

Many parents feel that the world today is a scarier place than the one they grew up in. While some of the things you worry about are real, others border on paranoia.

>The head coach of the national Under-20 women’s soccer team reckons they have failed to shine in the women’s African championship for one simple reason--lack of international exposure

>It is a safe guess, that, were it not for media reports that jolted memories, very few people would have remembered that, yesterday was the 31st anniversary of the death of Edward Moringe Sokoine.

>Peace in South Sudan is good for the East African region, so much so that we can only hope and pray that the reconciliation process—brokered by CCM on Tuesday—is fast-tracked.

It is a pity that many developing countries have failed to implement programmes aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on health due to inadequate donor funding.