Monday's road crash that claimed 15 lives near Kitale was the latest grim reminder that ours are increasingly becoming highways of sorrow.

The Catholic Church in Nyeri is besieged.

Local investment bank, Dyer & Blair, has launched a fully fledged subsidiary in Kampala, Uganda.

Shareholders of the troubled City Finance Bank have approved the sale of 51 of the firm to equity investors at a cost of Sh570 million.

The number of Aids patients has gone down in Trans Nzoia in the past two years.

UGANDA's main referral hospital, Mulago has received its first Ebola patient since the deadly viral disease broke out in Bundibugyo District in August.

The leaders of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) want peace talks with the government to pave way for the return of over 200 combatants currently in north eastern DR Congo.

TELECOM giant, Uganda telecom, has cut hundreds of jobs in a restructuring exercise that will see the company increase its influence in a heated telecoms market.

The top officials of a Bungoma teachers' sacco have been suspended by the government.

More than 2,000 delegates started arriving in Nairobi yesterday for the Kenya National Union of Teachers' annual delegates conference which kicks off today at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani.

SOME reader wrote me an e-mail, asking whether he should concentrate on the company performance in terms of earnings or the share price given that share prices have been going up significantly this third quarter.

The stock broking fraternity has called for the postponement of the Safaricom initial public offer (IPO) to early next year.

FOLLOWING Bank of Uganda's recent warning to the public against depositing money in unlicensed micro-finance outfits, police yesterday arrested three people at FrontPage Microfinance, one of the major such entities in Kampala, over an alleged attempt to destroy property.

Every other day the media publishes reports of brutal murders occurring in the country.

The amputated leg will always be a sad reminder of the cruelty meted against her on that fateful day.

Gangsters raided a children's home and raped a foreigner.

THE Central Bank has cautioned forex bureaus to be on the look out and continuously apply better methods to combat money laundering and other forms of financial fraud.

Elius Kiptum clocked 2:08:22 beat 65 runners to clinch the seventh edition of the Great Lake national marathon in Kisumu on Sunday.

A BID by University Academic Staff Union (Uasu) to have the Government withdraw a case it had referred to the Industrial Court has failed.

The Government has ruled out a proposal that an agricultural training college in Western Province be upgraded to a university campus.