2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you.
Isaiah 60:1-22
2 See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the LORD rises upon you and his glory appears over you.
Isaiah 60:1-22
Government reduces power tariffs
Electricity consumers will start off the New Year on a happy note after the government on Monday announced a reduction in power tariffs by an average 8 per cent across the board. The new tariffs are expected to take effect on January 1, 2010.
According to the new schedule, domestic tariffs will reduce by 9.5 per cent from Shs426.1 to Shs385.6 shading off Shs40 per unit, commercial tariffs will reduce by 10 per cent from Shs398.8 to 358.6 per unit, medium industries by 9.9 per cent from Shs369.7 to Shs333.2, large industries will decrease by a marginal 1 per cent from Shs187.2 to Shs184.8 and street-lights from Shs403 to Shs364.6.
“The worse days are over, even if there is increasing demand it cannot be to the extent it was before and with the construction of the Karuma and Bujagali, [electricity dams] we will be on top of the game,” the State Minister of Energy, Eng. Simon D’ujanga, said yesterday.
An international jury of leading journalists has evaluated all the eligible entries, and the winner is Veena Krishna (39) from Mumbai. Her entry ‘To make the girl-child live’, consisting of a photograph and accompanying text, tackles the issue of child policy in India, where girls are considered inferior to boys. Her prize is an all-expenses-paid week’s internship at RNW’s international newsroom in the Netherlands.
RNW received 535 entries from around the world in response to the question ‘Share your world with the world... What do you want to change?’. The majority of entries came from Arabic and English-speaking countries and from Indonesia. The international jury of leading journalists awarded the second prize to Bai Xiaoci from China and the third prize to Eric Barrantes Garcia from Peru.
Jury chairman Rik Rensen, RNW’s editor-in-chief, commented that Veena Krishna’s seemingly simple photograph reveals an entire hidden world: “Her entry made a powerful impression on me, because it conceals a dramatic story.”
Other prizes Second prize, a digital video camera, goes to Bai Xiaoci from China for his photograph of a man carrying a huge load of chemical drums on his bicycle. Xiaoci’s photograph reminds us that China’s economic development has often taken place at the expense of the environment.
Eric Barrantes Garcia from Peru won the third prize, the choice of a reference book in the field of journalism. The jury noted that his photograph addresses three issues: the problem of poverty and its social consequences, social injustice and the precarious condition of this kind of construction in case of heavy rainfall caused by climate change.
The other nominees are:
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy iv. 7
Huyu ni askofu wa pili katika kanisa la Anglikana na anayehusishwa na mapenzi ya jinsia moja, jambo ambalo limesababisha mgawanyiko mkubwa katika kansia hilo.
Mchungaji Mary Glasspool, kutoka Baltimore, alichaguliwa kama askofu msaidizi, ingawa anahitaji kuungwa mkono na kanisa la Episcopal (Anglikana) nchini Marekani ili kikamilifu kukabidhiwa mamlaka hayo.
Gene Robinson (pichani) alikuwa wa kwanza kuchaguliwa kama askofu wa mapenzi ya jinsia moja, katika dayosisi ya New Hampshire, miaka sita iliyopita, na jambo hilo likasababisha mgawanyiko katika kanisa Anglikana.
source: BBC
THE Dar es Salaam City Council is to take over operations of the National Parking System after expiry of the contract of the current operator, in a move aimed at studying the trend of the business, the City Director, Mr Bakari Kingobi, said.
The announcement comes shortly after the City fathers took over operations of Ubungo Bus Terminal (UBT), following the expiry of the Smart Holding Company's contract.
Owners of the Smart Holding Company are linked with the National Parking System.
Owners of the two companies are also connected to another company which is alleged to have won the tender to run Machinga Complex in the city.