HOOD'S PERSPECTIVE

An Indonesian maid that was mistreated and battered in Hong Kong I have been greatly disturbed and saddened by the excruciating violence of the house helper towards the innocent child we witnessed in an unknown video that has gone viral on the internet. The kicking, slapping and her 50kgs over the helpless child are unbearable and the video was not for the faint hearted to watch. I must admit that I have also had a second opinion about publishing this article after seeing the chastisement people with divergent opinion have been subjected to especially to Nakyeyune Joweria     who is also an aspiring MP for Kawempe North come 2016. Some of my friends have come up and warned me fearing that am putting my life in danger. After a second thought I have decided to publish it hoping you’ll find it helpful before hiring your next maid. I have also thoroughly edited this article to make it politically correct. As usual Ugandans took on the social media to give their opinion...

  By Adam Hayes. What do you do with your money when you're one of the world's wealthiest individuals? Mexican entrepreneur Carlos Slim Helú  is a self-made man, the son of Catholic Lebanese immigrants to Mexico. Today, he is the chairman and CEO of telecom giants Telmex and América Móvil . He has amassed a net worth upwards of $80 billion and often runs neck and neck with Bill Gates as the wealthiest man in the world.  Slim confesses to prefer "the simple life,” and his lifestyle may seem less extravagant than other billionaires. Still, Slim has been a savvy investor and businessman making sure that his fortune continues to grow. A man like Carlos Slim doesn't just keep billions of dollar bills stacked in a vault someplace. Here is where this billionaire stashes some of his money. Investments in corporations Slim holds stakes in many Mexican companies through his conglomerate,  Grupo Carso . (The name 'Carso' stands for Carl os Sl...

Most of us are more likely to chose private over public  If you live along Jinja highway and you have been observant, am sure you have noticed that 8 of the 10 sirens belong to the ambulances. Surprisingly we have more “private or donated by” ambulances than the entire government has provided. These days its very common to find our hospitals and health centers occupying the best buildings yet lack basic requirements to treat minor infections hence giving referrals to private clinics and pharmaceutical shops which are adequately facilitated....Private is better.   Recently the government decided that this country should be filled with scientists therefore enforcing science subjects on every male and female that decided to enroll for the local curriculum. The amazing thing is that public or government schools lack the facilities to make sure that this directive is successful. As a matter of fact am yet to find a fully public school that embarrasses me with good p...

I must admit that I was compelled to write this after reading an article on dignited.com about how Smart Telecom is the new Warid based on their unrivaled data packages. Every company or person that plans to enter into a new market has to come with a well executable strategy on how to identify potential clients and eventually woe them to use their product or service. The greatest battle that this country has ever witnessed was probably between these two giant multinational corporations of Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola. I would have detailed that more only that I was way too young to know how Coca cola a new entrant managed to take over the soft drink market. As the management at Pepsi was still puzzled, wondering how they lost their market share, another similar war was happening somewhere else. This time in the telecommunication sector (mobile to be specific). Before its entrance, MTN had realized that people need affordable handsets and cheap call rates. And that’s what they cap...

I must say that I knew the existence of this great man right since 2009, I saw him a couple of times on TV though I never took time to listen to what he had to say until two years back when I decided to expose myself to his literature. This man had an extraordinary story of hope, courage and triumph, a story that has the capacity to bring lives out of despair. A matter of fact his story can light extinguished candles of hope in many lives. Like many of us, this hero began his life at a disadvantage. He was born poor, sleeping on the floor in rags in a 2 bedroom wooden house that his dad had built for the family of 11 children where he comes 6 th , in a lowest income end neighborhood of Benji- a village in the Islands of Bahamas. Dr. Myles was a very inquisitive child, asked more questions and because of his passion to know, he gained more knowledge than any of his siblings. He grew up struggling with self-worth battling the idea of being valuable and feeling important b...

Written by Gadri Sheriff   Everyone has a talent, I have no doubt about that, some people die unfortunately without realizing they have one, some realize it but because of circumstances they never get up to manifest themselves.. The world would be a better place if only people would understand how special they are and embrace it. God did not create us to be like talented and like minded and am sure if he ever made us that the world would be a boring place.  With experience i have come to know that the most fatal way to kill off talent is seeking for approval, you see we all have that subconscious need to be approved but at the best of my understanding none has made a profound trail in this earthly dimension unless he has conquered the fear of criticism. An Irish writer Oscar welde said that if he ever made a decision and he was approved by many he had to go home and change it because he believed that things that make a profound difference were first ridiculed...

  Written  by Justus Kiiza Benjamin   The dictionary or English description of the word Dictator is a “ruler who is unconstrained by the law”. Few are conscious; awake enough to know such a thing is non-existent in a self-proclaimed democratic world. Preying on the abysmal misinformation or lack of any foreign powers manipulate the knowledge of the African mind. Statistical percentage shows most African minds view dictatorship as the characteristic over stay in power. Frustrated by the lengthy time lag and dangerous power hungry minds, masses naively overlook the good generated by stability in turn brought by less power shifts over a couple of years and concentrate on the manipulative knowledge they are programmed to receive. This keeps the continent swirling around the same path. Unable to think out of the box from which they live. Like a bird whose wings are clipped, flying up the sky is a dream yet never to be achieved. If anything, a dictator is inspire...