EDITORIAL: Self -reliance is possible,Lesson from Singapore

>The revelation that Rashid Charles Mberesero, who was arrested last week over his alleged involvement in a terror attack in which 148 people were killed, most of them students at Kenya’s Garissa University College, absconded from school since January, raises concern on whether parents are as close enough to their children—especially those in boarding schools.

>It is bad enough that people die. It is worse when some do so when that eventuality could have been avoided but isn’t due to recklessness and greed. Going by the saying that hope is the last thing that a person should lose, people close to a terminally ill  patient don’t despair.

Parliamentary budget committee chairman Andrew Chenge on Wednesday advised the government to adopt a new budgetary system that will refrain from depending on support from donors.

>The East African Community (EAC) is looking for ways of funding its own activities and  become self-reliant entity.

 Tanzania’s dependence on the international community has been hampering climate change interventions and resilience efforts.

Prime Minister of Singapore, H.E. Lee Hsien Loong  PRESS RELEASEH.E. Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania has sent a condolence message to H.E. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore following the death of his father and founding Prime Minister of Singapore, the late Mr. Lee Kuan Yew.

The message reads as follows:

“H.E. Lee Hsien Loong,

Prime Minister of Singapore,

SINGAPORE.

Your Excellency and dear brother,

I am writing to extend my deep condolences and...

Lesson From Uchumi - Government Should Support Local Production
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In the same week that Uchumi Supermarkets closed its business in Uganda, the press reported the latest government programme for women, the Uganda Women Entrepreneur Programme (UWEP). And, as Saturday Monitor editorial rightly observes, the ...

The State House announcement that President Jakaya Kikwete had gone abroad for prostrate treatment deserves commendation as it bore a very special lesson for us all.

Democracy – that much cherished value or political state that many countries struggle hard to achieve and maintain – comes at a cost. It seems we, in Tanzania, have not yet realised this fact.