Tag Archives: Buvuma

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buvuma district authorities are under the spotlight for receiving a non-functional water plant from a contractor. The leaders received the Shillings 1.6billion water plant from PROF Technical Services limited in Bugaya sub county in November 2021. The plant was designed to use solar energy to …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Micro-Finance, Haruna Kyeyune Kasolo has given Buvuma district officials a two-week ultimatum to return the money they borrowed from various Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies-SACCOs under the Emyooga program. According to information obtained by URN, 16 Saccos in Buvuma district received …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | If for whatever reason you find yourself on Buvuma Islands district, pray that you don’t get admitted to hospital for you may not be comfortable having to lie side by side with a dead body should a patient near you die and the relatives take …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One person has died and 16 are nursing injuries from an accident in Bubanzi village, Buvuma town council. The deceased has been identified as Julius Kwanya, an employee of Buvuma Oil Palm Uganda. Kwanya and the injured who are also employees of Buvuma Oil Palm …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Buvuma Island Member of Parliament Robert Migadde Ndugwa has urged members of his community join him in embracing oil palm growing in order to transform their area economically. Miggade is one of the out grower scheme oil palm farmers registered in Buvuma with 13 …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Big institutions intending to establish palm oil plantations in Buvuma district are bound to miss out on the first phase of planting which started at the beginning of this month. The second phase will start at the end of July. Buvuma District National Oil Palm Project-NOPP …

Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Vincent Ssempijja has commended the private sector for their contribution to the development of the oil palm sector in Uganda. The minister made the remarks in Buvuma while launching oil palm growing on the island. “The private …

Today, 154 people majority of whom are residents of Buvuma Islands are employed at just one main nursery bed Buvuma, Uganda | SIERRA RUTH ARINAITWE  | Joyce Namusobya has been a subsistence farmer based in Bukagali village on Buvuma Island for as long as she can remember, using her land …

Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Voters in the island districts of Buvuma and Kalangala say President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni polled few votes there largely because of the brutality meted against fishing communities by the army, the illegal land acquisition and unfulfilled presidential pledges. Unlike previous elections where Museveni won in …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Buvuma has arrested two people believed to be behind the theft of boat engines on Lake Victoria. The suspects names are still withheld by security until investigations expected to lead to the arrest of others are done. Buvuma Resident District Commissioner, Kigongo Juma …