Saturday 30 June 2012

Mbunge wa Korogwe Vijijini(CCM) Steven Ngonyani "Prof. Maji Marefu", akizungumza na waandishi habari 
 
Mbunge wa Korogwe Vijijini(CCM) Steven Ngonyani "Prof. Maji Marefu", akizungumza na waandishi habari 
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Mbunge wa Korogwe Vijijini(CCM), Steven Ngonyani "Prof. Maji Marefu", akizungumza na waandishi habari mjini Dodoma jana, amekanusha madai kuwa alilieleza Bunge kuwa mkasa uliompata Kiongozi wa Jumuiya ya Madaktari na Kamati ya kufuatilia haki zao, Dkt. Steven Ulimboka, kuwa alistahili, SI YA KWELI na KUOMBA RADHI Madaktari nchini kwa jinsi alivyonukuliwa vibaya wakati akichangia hotuba ya Bajeti ya Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu, Bungeni tarehe 28 Juni 2012.

Jana, Mbunge huyo alinukuliwa na vyombo vya habari kuwa alisema, "kipigo alichopata Mwenyekiti wa Jumuiya ya Madaktari, Dkt. Steven Ulimboka, kinastahili ili naye apate machungu wanayopata wagonjwa wengine mahospitalini."

Kauli hiyo ilisababisha tafrani kidogo bungeni, ambapo  Spika wa Bunge, Mhe. Anne Makinda  alilazimika kuingilia kati kumzuia Ngonyani asiendelee kutoa kauli hiyo kwa vila suala la madaktari bado liko Mahakamani. 
Nukuu Ya  Mwanzo Ya  Mbunge wa Korogwe Vijijini(CCM) Steven Ngonyani "Prof. Maji Marefu"
Mbunge wa Jimbo la Korogwe Vijijini, Steven Ngonyani maarufu kwa jina la Profesa Maji Marefu (pichani),jana amesema bungeni kuwa kipigo alichopata Mwenyekiti wa Jumuiya ya Madaktari, Dk. Steven Ulimboka, kinastahili ili naye apate machungu wanayopata waginjwa wengine mahospitalini.

Profesa Maji Marefu aliitoa kauli hiyo wakati akichangia hoja katika bajeti ya Ofisi ya Waziri Mkuu, bungeni Dodoma.

Kauli hiyo ilisababisha tafrani kidogo bungeni na  kumfanya Spika wa Bunge, Anne Makinda kuingilia kati kumzuia Maji Marefu asiendelee kutoa kauli hiyo kwani jambo la madaktari bado liko mahakamani. 

Friday 29 June 2012

UP-DATE: Dkt Ulimboka azungumza kilicho mpata


Mweneyikiti wa Jumuia ya Madaktari nchini Dk Stephen Ulimboka, amepigwa na kujeruhiwa vibaya na watu wasiofahamika.

Dkt Ulimboka anadaiwa kuvunjwa mbavu, miguu yote miwili, kung’olewa meno yote ya mbele na kuumizwa vibaya katika sehemu mbalimbali za mwili wake.

Tukio hilo la kikatili na kusikitisha limetokea usiku wa kuamkia leo jijini Dar es Salaam, na linadaiwa kufanywa na watu wa sio julikana ambapo kabla ya kufanya unyama huo walidaiwa kumteka na kumpiga kabla ya kumtelekeza katika eneo la msitu wa Pande Mabwepande.

DKT. ULIMBOKA ASIMULIA TUKIO
Akisumulia tukio hilo Dkt Ulimboka alisema kuwa  jana usiku alipigiwa simu na mtu aliyejitambulusha kwake kuwa anaitwa Hemed, aliyemwambia kuwa anahitaji kuongea naye, na ndipo walipopanga kuonana katika eneo la Leaders Kinondoni.

Dk Ulimboka aliyekuwa akiongea kwa tabu, aliendelea kusimulia kuwa wakati akiongea na mtu huyo anayekiri kuwa alikuwa akifahamiana naye kabla, alikuwa na wasiwasi kwani kila mara alikuwa akipokea simu na kuwasiliana na watu wengine ambao hawakuwapo eneo hilo.

Alisema baada ya muda alishangaa kuona wanaongezeka watu wengine watano wakiwa na silaha, kisha wakamwambia kuwa anahitajika kituo cha Polisi na kumvuta na kumuangusha barabarani kabla ya kumuingiza katika gari lenye rangi nyeusi na kuondoka naye.

Dkt Ulimboka alisema kuwa wakiwa njiani walimpiga, na kumfikisha katika msitu huo wa pande na kuendelea kumpiga paka alipoteza fahamu.

MADAKTARI NAO WALONGA
Akisimulia mkasa huo mmoja wa madaktari wenzie aliyefahamika kwa jina moja la Dkt Deo, alisema kuwa alipigiwa simu na mtu hasiyemfahamu na kumfahamisha tukio hilo.

Alisema alipofika katika kituo cha Polisi cha Bunju, alimkuta akiwa katika hali mbaya na ilikuwa ngumu kumtambua kwakuwa alikuwa na majeraha mengi eneo la usoni.

Aliongeza kuwa akiwa na wenzie waliamua kumchukua na kumkimbiza katika Hospitali ya Taifa Muhimbili kwaajili ya matibabu.

"Hali yake kwakweli ni mbaya sana, amepigwa mno na ameumizwa kwakweli tumemleta hapa hili aweze kupata matibabu, lakini mimi nilivyomkuta mara ya kwanza nilishindwa hata kumtambua kwa jinsi alivyokuwa ameumizwa"alisema Dkt Deo

Alisema kuwa alisimuliwa na Dkt Ulimboka kwamba watu hao waliomteka na kumpiga walikuwa na silaha na kwamba alishindwa kuwatambua.

Aliongeza kuwa Dkt Ulimboka alidai kuwa wakati akiwa katika halimbaya alikuwa akisikia mazungumzo yao, wakibishana juu ya kumuua wengine wakisisitiza achomwe sindano, na wengine wakitaka kumpiga risasi.

Alisema wakati mabishano yakiendelea kati yao, Dkt Ulimboka aliinuka akiwa na lengo la kukimbia lakini watu hao walipiga risasi hewani iliyomshtua na kuangua chini.

Kwa upande wake Dkt Cathbeth Mcharo ambaye ndiye aliyempokea Dkt Ulimboka Hospitalini hapo, alisema kuwa hali yake ni mbaya na kwamba wanajitahidi kumpatia huduma za haraka.

Alisema kuwa kwa hatua za awali amefanyiwa vipimo mbalimbali, hili iweze kufahamika aina ya matibabu anayotakiwa kupatiwa.

POLISI
Kamanda wa polisi Kanda Maalum ya Dar es salaam Kamanda Suleiman Kova amezungumza na waandishi wa habari kuhusu tukio hilo la utekaji nyara na kujeruhi lililompata kiongozi mgomo wa Madaktari Steven Ulimboka anayedaiwa kutekwa na watu watano wakati akipata kinwaji katika klabu ya Leaders Kiondoni jijini Dar es salaam.

Kamanda Kova amesema Ulimboka aliokotwa na msamaria mwema ambaye hakutaka kumtaja jina lake kiusalama na kutoharibu upelelezi kuwa msamaria mwema huyo alimuokota Ulimboka katika msitu wa Mabwepande na kutoa taarifa kituo cha polisi cha Bunju, ambapo polisi aliyekuwa zamu alichukua maelezo yake na baadae Steven Ulimboka kuletwa katika hospitali ya taifa ya Muhimbili kwa matibabu zaidi.

Kamanda Kova amesema jeshi la Polisi Kanda Maalum limeunda jopo maalum kwa ajili ya uchunguzi na upelelezi wa tukio hilo la utekaji nyara, kwani ni tukio la kwanza kutoke nchini, ameongeza kwamba wahusika wote watakaobainika kuhusika na tukio hilo wachukuliwa hatua za kisheria na sheria itafuata mkondo wake ili kukomesha matukio mengine kama hayo

MUHIMBILI
Wakati hayo yakitokea inadaiwa kuwa Askari Kanzu mmoja alikumbana na kipigo kikali kutoka kwa madaktari hapo Muhimbili kwa kile kilochodaiwa kutambuliwa na Dkt Ulimboka kuwa mmoja wa watu walio mjeruhi.

Pia inadaiwa kuwa Askari huyo aliingia chooni na kufanya mawasiliano na wenzake huku Madaktari hao wakimsikiliza na kutokana na alichokua akiongea chooni humo ndipo alipotoka aliambulia kichapo kikali.

Pia baadhi ya madkatari na wauguzi walikuwa wakisukuma gari alilokuwa amepanda Dkt Ulimboka huku wakiimba nyimbo za Umoja na Mshikamano Daima miongoni mwao.

Hali ya ulinzi ilikuwa kali Hospitalini hapo kwani Picha zilikuwa haziruhusiwi kupigwa.

itisha Kutangaza Tamko La Serikali Kuhusu Mgomo Wa Madaktari


Waziri Mkuu Mizengo Pinda

Waziri Mkuu Mizengo Pinda ametangaza kusitisha Serikali kutoa tamko lake kuhusu mgomo wa madaktari, ambao ulitakiwa kutolewa leo kama alivyoahidi jana Bungeni.
Kauli hiyo imetolewa leo Bungeni na Waziri Mkuu, Pinda, alipokuwa akijibu swali lililoulizwa na Mkuu wa Kambi ya Upinzani bungeni, Freeman Mbowe, aliyetaka kujua Serikali ina mipango gani ya dharula ya kuumaliza mgomo huo.
Alisema kwa hivi sasa, Serikali imechukua dharula, kwa kuwaita madaktari wasitaafu kwenda kwenye baadhi ya Hospitali za Serikali, kushika nafasi maeneo ambayo madaktari waliogoma.
Vilevile Serikali imewataka wananchi waende kuhudumiwa kwenye hospitali za Jeshi, ikiwemo Lugalo.
Pinda ameseama kuwa hata yeye alipopokea taarifa kuwa Dk. Ulimboka ametekwa na kupigwa alisikitika sana, na anamuombea apone haraka ili waendelee na suluhisho la mgomo huo wa madakatari.
Alisema kuwa amemuagiza, Waziri wa Mambo ya ndani kuunda jopo la wataalamu kuchunguza kwa haraka kuhusu tukio hilo.

The Royal African Society’s inaugural Literature and Book festival


Saturday 30 June & Sunday 1 July 2012, 12-6pm
Brunei Gallery Building (SOAS) & Torrington Square

The RAS is pleased to present Africa Writes - a festival celebrating contemporary African literature and writers, taking place on Saturday 30th June and Sunday 1st July 2012.

Africa Writes aims to enhance coverage and discussion about African literature and writers. Every year, Africa Writes will showcase established and emerging literary talent from Africa and the Diaspora during a weekend-long series of events, including a major lecture with a high profile African literary figure; book launches, readings, workshops, panel discussions and children’s activities; a 2-day international book fair showcasing publishers of African literature; and a pan-African food market featuring dishes from around the continent.

This year Africa Writes will mark the 50th anniversary of the African Writers Series.  Confirmed authors taking part in the festival include: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ellen Banda-Aaku, Nuruddin Farah, Kojo Laing, Lily Mabura, Jack Mapanje, Obi Okigbo, Noo Saro-Wiwa, E. E. Sule, Goretti Kyomuhendo and the five shortlisted Caine Prize writers for 2012 - Rotimi Babatunde, Billy Kahora, Stanley Kenani, Melissa Tandiwe Myambo, and Constance Myburgh. Participating poets include: Modeste Hugues, Oxmo Pucion, Kety Nevyabandi Bikura, Shalija Patel, T.J. Dema, Paul Dakeyo, Bewketu Seyoum, Abdulahi Botaan Hassan 'Kurweyne', Warsan Shire, Sam Elmi, Elmi Ali, Inua Ellams,Yemisi Blake, Safia Elhillo, Mariama Khan, Togara Muzanenhamo, and Lemn Sissay.

Festival highlights include: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's main lecture (Saturday, 30th June, 6-7:30pm); an audience with the 2012 Caine Prize Shortlisted writers, in collaboration with the Black Reading Group and the London Afro-Caribbean Book Club (Saturday, 30th June, 3-4:30pm); interactive story-telling for children (Sunday, 1st July, 12-1pm); and panel discussions on the current publishing landscape for contemporary African writing and the dilemmas of African Diaspora writers. The festival's closing event will be Word from Africa, part of Poetry Parnassus at the Southbank (Sunday, 1st July, 6-10pm). 

*All events are free and open to the public except for the Caine Prize event (RSVP to tricia@paulwombell.demon.co.uk) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s lecture (RSVP here).

 

AFRICAN UNION

 

 

UNION AFRICAINE

 

UNIÃO AFRICANA

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia  P. O. Box 3243  Téléphone : 5517 700  Fax : 5511299
website :   www. africa-union.org
DIRECTORATE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
 
AVIS AUX MEDIAS
 
ARRIVEE DU PRESIDENT OLUSEGUN OBASANJO A DAKAR
 
 

INVITATION

 

Quand:             26 juin 2012

 
Heure:                12h30
 

Où:                  Aéroport Léopold Sédar Senghor de Dakar, Salon d’honneur

 
Qui:                 Organisée par la Commission de l’Union africaine. Dans le cadre des élections législatives du 1er juillet courant au Sénégal. M. Olusegun Obasanjo, ancien président de la République fédérale du Nigeria dirigera la mission d’observation électorale de l’Union africaine. Le Président Obasanjo est attendu à Dakar ce 26 juin 2012 à l’aéroport Léopold Sédar Senghor.
 
Les journalistes sont invités à couvrir l’événement.
 

Great Lakes of Africa Coalition Calls for U.S. Action to End Instability in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A United Nations Group of Experts report has documented the Rwandan government's support for rebel groups inside the Congo. Various media have reported that the United States Mission to the United Nations, headed by Ambassador Susan Rice had first attempted to block the report and after pressure has subsequently agreed to allow the publishing of the Group of Experts report. Reuters states that "the (UN) experts have implicated several high-ranking Rwandan officials who are directly involved." The U.N. material has been "verified by five separate sources," identifying Rwandan "officials supporting M23 as Defense Minister James Kaberebe; chief of defense staff Charles Kayonga; and General Jacques Nziza, a military adviser to Kagame." Kaberebe, according to this source, was "in constant contact with M23." In spite of the abundance of evidence demonstrating Rwanda's support of war criminals in the Congo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the U.S. State Department refuses to hold Rwanda to account in spite of a U.S. Law that calls for withholding of aid to countries that destabilize the Congo.
Atrocities continue to mount in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where over 200,000 people have been displaced from their homes in the last three months as a result of attacks by rebel groups M23 and the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP). Support of the M23 militia is only the most recent example of Rwanda underwriting rebellions that continue to devastate Congolese communities; this is the latest of many documented instances of such support. Worth noting are previous rebellions of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire (AFDL) in 1996, the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) in 1998 and the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) in 2006. It is telling that former members of the RCD like renegade general Laurent Nkunda formed the CNDP and that, today, former members of the CNDP and RCD, including indicted war criminal Bosco Ntaganda, are members of the M23 rebellion. These rebellions are not separate, internal rebellions as they are often reported, but are all related recurrences of foreign intervention by the Rwandan government.

According the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navy Pillay, "The leaders of the M23 figure among the worst perpetrators of human rights violations in the DRC, or in the world for that matter, and many of them have appalling track records including allegations of involvement in mass rape, and of responsibility for massacres and for the recruitment and use of children."

While President Obama has long recognized that the DRC has been destabilized by neighboring countries, his administration has yet to get tough on those fueling the cycles of violence. The need to hold the DRC's neighbors accountable was part of the only law he sponsored as a senator in 2006: PL109-456. Section 105 of that law gives power to the US Secretary of State to withhold aid from neighboring countries deemed to destabilize the Congo. US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton co-sponsored this law.

This legislation has been on the books for 6 years, but has yet to be fully implemented. The recent flood of evidence pointing to Rwanda's military aggression in the Congo calls for an enforcement of this law. In the United Kingdom, more than 20 members of parliament have joined the call to suspend financial support to Rwanda in light of the content in the UN report implicating Rwanda in supporting rebels in the Congo. In accordance with its statutes, the US government should withhold any military, bilateral and multilateral budgetary aid until Rwanda permanently ceases its support of rebels in the DRC.

Given the Obama administration's mass atrocities prevention directive, current violence in the Kivu provinces of the DRC tests the US government's political will to fulfill its promises and enforce its laws. Will the administration recognize the atrocities in eastern DRC and use the law Obama wrote to hold destabilizing parties responsible? Historically, economic sanctions have proven effective in curtailing Rwandan aggressions across the border. In late 2008, Sweden and the Netherlands suspended aid to Rwanda after evidence surfaced showing Rwanda's support of the CNDP rebel group.

The CNDP rebellion, parent to the M23 rebellion currently led by the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted war criminal Bosco "The Terminator" Ntaganda, had been devastating eastern Congo, causing thousands of deaths and displacing over three hundred thousand people from their homes. As soon as aid was withdrawn, Rwanda arrested General Laurent Nkunda. With a law on the books requiring that the United States respond as Sweden and the Netherlands did, and as the second biggest donor to Rwanda providing nearly $200 million in aid annually, the US has the power to help stabilize the region or continue to underwrite those who are destabilizing it. In its position, the US has both tremendous leverage and responsibility to take action.

The international community failed Rwanda in 1994 when it did little to respond and help prevent genocide, and nearly a million Rwandans were slaughtered within three months. Aftershocks from that tragedy have been reverberating through the region ever since. Though Rwanda has stabilized significantly, it is still a time to respond to mass atrocity in the region, as more than six million civilians have perished in Congo since 1996, Rwanda's first documented invasion. The United States government must do its best to foster peace and reconciliation in the whole region, not just in Rwanda. This means not merely giving aid but doing due diligence; the best hope for a speedy end to the atrocities is for donor nations to begin withholding aid from governments who perpetrate instability in the region.

Please join the Great Lakes of Africa Coalition in urging the US government to take swift and decisive action in Congo. Call on Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, to help end the impunity in the Congo by enforcing Section 105 of Public Law 109-456. http://www.change.org/petitions/secretary-of-state-hillary-clinton-help-end-the-conflict-in-the-congo

Signatories:
Institute for Policy Studies, Foreign Policy in Focus
Africa Faith and Justice Network
Africa Action
African Great Lakes Action Network
Mobilization For Justice and Peace
Shalupe Foundation
Friends of the Congo

Thursday 28 June 2012


BREAKIN NEWZZZZ!!! MADAKTARI.

TAMKO LA JUMUIYA YA MADAKTARI HILI HAPA

KAMATI YA JUMUIYA YA MADAKTARI TANZANIA

YAH: TAMKO FUPI LA JUMUIYA YA MADAKTARI KWA WAANDISHI WA HABARI LEO TAREHE 29.06.2012

Madaktari wote hatuna imani na tume iliyoundwa na Jeshi la polisi nchini yenye lengo la kuendesha uchunguzi juu ya kutekwa, kunyanyaswa na kupigwa vibaya kwa Dr. Ulimboka Stephen na tunataka chombo huru kiundwe ili kupata ukweli wa tukio hilo.

Pia tunakemea na kuonya juu ya vitisho vyote vinavyotolewa na baadhi ya watawala katika taasisi mbalimbali dhidi ya madaktari mfano Hospitali ya Rufaa ya Dodoma, Bugando, Mbeya na kwingineko ambapo wametishwa na kufukuzwa kwa kutumia mabavu.

Madaktari tunazidi kusisitiza kuwa hakuna njia nyingine yeyote ya kusuluhisha mgogoro huu isipokuwa ni kwa kutekeleza madai na hoja za msingi za madaktari kwa njia ya mazungumzo ya dhati.

Madaktari tumechoka kuona huduma za afya nchini zikizidi kudorora mwaka hadi mwaka, Tumechoka kuona wagonjwa wakilala chini na watoto wakilala wanne katika kitanda kimoja Tumechoka kuona msongamano mkubwa kwa wagonjwa katika hospitali zetu huku kukiwa hakuna mpango wowote wa uboreshaji.

Tumechoka kuona wagonjwa wakikosa dawa, vipimo sahihi na watumishi wa afya wakifanya kazi katika mazingira magumu yanayoviza ubora wa huduma na misingi ya taaluma.

Kwa hiyo, kwa moyo wetu leo tumejitolea kutetea uboreshaji wa sekta ya afya licha ya vitisho tunavyoendelea kuvipata.

Rai kwa Madaktari; Madaktari wote kuwa watulivu katika kipindi hiki kigumu, tunashukuru madaktari wote kwa ushirikiano na kuendelea na mshikamano.

Imetolewa na Kamati ya Jumuiya ya Madaktari.

 

Global Korea Lecture: 'Korean Culture Shining BrightK-Music

Korean Pansori and Western Performer Training
 
DATE: Tuesday 3 July 2012 18.30
VENUE: Korean Cultural Centre UK
Speaker: Dr. Tara McAllister-Viel, Head of Voice
East 15 School of Acting (University of Essex)
 
Celebrating our 2012 summer festival, ‘All Eyes on Korea’, Korean Cultural Centre UK is hosting a series of lectures to support and compliment our programme of events. For this, Music lecturer Dr. Tara McAllister-Viel will have talks on P’ansori, Korean traditional musical drama.  
 
 
P’ansori is a unique form of art, which is unfamiliar in the west. Like the ‘blues’ sound which is linked to particular types of emotions the ‘sori’ of P’ansori is well suited for the performance representation of ‘han,’ or ‘grief.’ Furthermore, today’s P’ansori artists continue to experiment with forms and creating intercultural performances from standard Korean texts in translation, or developing original P’ansori story-songs that address modern topics.
 
Dr. Tara McAllister-viel will share her experience of implementing the Korean traditional vocal art form, P’ansori into an original voice curriculum. This lecture introduces key principles and practices of Korean P’ansori and contrasts the styles of vocal training and performance with Western actor training. The lecture will result in a better understanding of the rich traditions of P’ansori, as well as offering a glimpse at the exciting developments in this evolving art form.
 
Please send us your RSVP to info@kccuk.org.uk or Phone 0207 004 2600
 
* Dr. Tara McAllister-Viel is Head of Voice at East 15 School of Acting (University of Exeter). Previously, she was Visiting Professor-Voice at The Korean National University of Arts, School of Drama, (Seoul, Korea) leading the voice programmes for the graduate and undergraduate conservatoire acting courses. Over the course of four years, Tara designed and implemented original voice curriculum integrating Western voice training with a Korean traditional P’ansori. She studied privately with Human Cultural Treasures Han Nong Son and Song Uhyang.





Labour.org.uk

Press release
Tuesday 26th June 2012
Embargoed until 1800 Hrs 

Getting on with business: Entrepreneurship and social mobility - speech by Chuka Umunna MP, Labour's Shadow Business Secretary, to Hub Westminster

Thank you for that introduction, and thank you for inviting me to speak this evening.

I cannot think of a better group of people to discuss this with than all of you gathered here today: restless people, not satisfied with the world as it is; innovators determined to find new gaps in old markets and to create ideas for new markets.

Our economy and society needs more people like you. More people starting up businesses, building businesses, and – hopefully – succeeding in business. You are engines of growth for an economy that has stalled but a country which has huge potential.

What I intend to do is to first reflect on entrepreneurship, then consider how it can power social mobility, before setting out our ongoing work to help entrepreneurs to set up and grow businesses. What I do not cover in my remarks, I am mo re than happy to pick up on in the Q&A afterwards.

Now, before coming here, some of you may have wondered what on earth is this grandson of a High Court Judge, a private school educated, former City lawyer doing coming here to talk to you about social mobility and entrepreneurship? Well, the legal tradition in my family sits on my mother’s side and I am incredibly proud of it. But it is my late father, a self made man, who makes me so passionate about the transformative power of entrepreneurship.

My father arrived here after a very long journey on a boat from Nigeria in the mid 1960s. When he arrived at Liverpool Docks he had a suitcase and no money. A random stranger lent him the cash to pay for his train fare to London where he was due to take up lodgings with friends.

Once settled in London, he did various jobs. He washed plates in kitchens and he washed limousine cars too. Washing cars was handy because, once he had finished each job, he could sit and study in the warmth and luxury of the limo until its owner arrived to pick it up. He was studying to acquire his business and accountancy qualifications at the time.

Within 15 years he worked his way up from arriving with nothing to running a very successful import and export business doing trade between Europe and West Africa, selling all manner of goods until his death. Sadly, he passed away when I was quite young so I never got to hear the full story from him. But his example continues to inspire me.

My father’s story was particular to him. But in many ways his was an archetypal story common to many immigrant families the length and breadth of Britain. Let us not forget: the Britain of the 1960s - despite the free love, the hippies and the rest – was not the tolerant Britain we live in today. His generation created – through commerce – opportunities that no one else would offer them.

So my family’s story informs my outlook; so too does my London constituency which takes in Streatham and parts of Balham, Brixton, Clapham and Tulse Hill. There I see a vibrant culture of business that must be supported. But it was something more serious that really got me thinking.
I am Chair of the London Gangs Forum which works to reduce gang activity across London. Gang culture has taken hold of a substantial minority of our young people in London. My borough, Lambeth, is one of the most acutely affected areas.

Gangs have been responsible for numerous killings with innocent bystanders being seriously injured in the cross fire between rival groups. The most shocking incident of late was the shooting of 5 year old Thusha Kamaleswaran in her family’s newsagent in Stockwell last year.

Make no mistake: at the heart of these gangs activities are criminality and very serious violence. Each of them lays claim to certain ‘territories’ in Lambeth – in particular in and around our social housing estates. As a community we send a clear message: what the gangs do is completely unacceptable, we will root it out and ensure the strong arm of the law is brought down to bear on the perpetrators. That is exactly what happened with those found responsible for the shooting of Thusha – members of a notorious local gang, who were jailed for life in March.

But if one studies what Lambeth’s gangs do in more detail, it is both shocking and frustrating. They put a lot of effort into building up their gang’s brand. Most are involved with the sale of drugs; but some have branched out into more legitimate activities around fashion and music. You can find music videos they produce to promote their activities on YouTube. BBC Radio 4’s Today programme did a series of reports on this a couple of weeks ago featuring Lambeth’s gangs.

This brand building is alarming because it helps the gangs to be more notorious and glamorises what they do – it is one of the reasons myself and other Labour parliamentary colleagues, Heidi Alexander and Karen Buck in particular, have argued that stronger powers are needed to ensure the gangs’ YouTube videos are taken down.

What frustrates me is this: many of these young people are using skills that – if channelled in the right way – could provide them with an alternative route to success. And yet, in Lambeth, too much of this entrepreneurial instinct is being channelled into totally the wrong thing. Just imagine what our young gang members could achieve if their energies were redirected. Their entrepreneurial zeal, used in a legitimate business setting, could provide them with a ladder up, just as it did for my father. Instead, as things stand, many of them will likely end up in jail with blood on their hands unless we change things.

I spent an evening talking to young people in a youth club in my constituency about this speech last week. A large number of the young people attending that particular club are affiliated to and/or are involved in the gangs which operate in my area. We talked about why young people were choosing to do the wrong kind of business through gangs. One young constituent said simply that illegitimate business was “an easier and faster way to make money”, to “get rich quick”.

When I dug behind this rather glib explanation, my young constituents explained that pursuing gang related business was viewed as a strategy for getting out and getting on. Gang members “have goals”, said one young man, “they do bad to do good”. What he meant was that gang members sought to make money first through illegitimate means, with a view to building up enough finance to run a legitimate business later. The other young people present shared his analysis.

I am sure that many in this room have struggled to access finance to start and grow their business, and will have considered peer to peer lending or maybe finding an angel investor for it. Well, among this group in my constituency there was a perception that profits from illegal commerce were the most viable solution for them.

Of course the reasons why young people get involved in gangs are complex and varied. But what is clear is that the entrepreneurial spirit is strong in them, albeit misdirected. We must make legitimate business a more feasible avenue through which they can realise their dreams even when all else may have failed them.
Reflecting on my father’s experience and the entrepreneurial impulse of our young peo ple, I am convinced that Labour must view entrepreneurship as central to our approach to increasing social mobility.

Social mobility is of course very much in keeping with what Labour is all about. We exist as a movement and as a political party to help more people succeed in life – or, as we put it in our constitution, to secure “the means for each of us to realise our true potential”. Like all the best entrepreneurs, ours is an ambitious mission: putting power, wealth and opportunity in the hands of the many. And, yes, this can sometimes be threatening to the established market players - those who have the power and wealth, and want to hoard it. So be it.

At root it is about helping people to get on in life regardless of where they are from, able to pursue the life they choose and value. It is about making a person’s destiny less dependent on the circumstances of their birth.
Some people view social mobility as a relative concept, meaning that for every person moving up the ladder there must be an equal and opposite reaction of others moving down. But extending opportunity need not be a zero sum game. Removing the ceiling on success that too many experience is to the collective benefit of us all.

And in an interdependent world individual success can strengthen our common bonds, just as strong common bonds can enrich the soil from which individual success grows. Hillary Clinton is fond of quoting the Nigerian proverb which says it takes a whole village to raise a child. I say it takes a similarly strong culture to raise an entrepreneur. Just ask those who have spent time in Silicon Valley about the strong culture there – of hope, possibility and forgiveness, where failure is seen as part of the learning process.

In government, Labour did a lot to fracture the link between a person’s history and their destiny: from Sure Start and unprecedented investment in early years education, to improvements in educational attainmen t across the board; from the educational maintenance allowance, to the expansion of higher education. These are things we can be proud of.

We narrowed the gap in attainment between pupils from more and less advantaged backgrounds – for example, the percentage of those on free school meals gaining five grade A*-C GCSEs rose faster than for those not on free school meals. And there is some evidence that we had begun to weaken the link between family background and educational attainment: research from the University of Bristol suggests family background had less influence on GCSE results for those taking them in 2006, compared to those taking O-levels in 1986. But, despite this, the link remains strong and it is clear there is a long way to go.

However, it seems unlikely that this progress will be sustained if this Government – which has already cut the educational maintenance allowance – also follows through on its plans to return us to a two-tier education system where kids are divided into winners and losers at age 14.

And even where it appears that progress has been made, it takes a long time to quantify. A key indicator for measuring social mobility is earnings. I’m told that the erratic earnings of you entrepreneurs makes it much more tricky to keep track of your earnings than those in employment, meaning you are often excluded from the data. But that’s for another day. Whether a wage earner or an entrepreneur, there is a long time lag until these data are available. For example, the very first kids who benefitted from Sure Start are still only just teenagers today but the benefits they will derive will be long lasting if the US Head Start programme is used as a guide.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Mobility recently set out its excellent “7 key truths about social mobility”. They highlighted the critical importance of early years in developing learning skills and laying the foundations for per sonal resilience and future emotional wellbeing; the impact of high quality teaching and out-of-school programmes; how these feed through into university admissions, the main determinant of later opportunities; as well as pointing out that while early pathways are often highly predictive, they are not determinative, something that policy makers should not forget.

So I do not want to decry the investment in the early years, or to undermine the focus on educational attainment, access to universities, and access to the professions – the last point particularly brought to public attention through the excellent and persuasive work of Alan Milburn more recently. All this remains incredibly important. They are issues I am passionate about and, in the case of universities, form a major part of my brief as Shadow Secretary of State.

But – as Ed Miliband recently pointed out – social mobility shouldn’t just be about changing the odds of people making it to university, as if only one kind of pathway to success matters. We have to improve opportunities for everyone, including those who don’t make it to university. That means ensuring vocational education is seen as just as much of a gold standard as academic education – and that there are good opportunities to switch between the two.

What I wanted to do today, by highlighting the role of enterprise, is to ensure we place the role of entrepreneurship and business policy at the heart of this debate. Increasing social mobility cannot just be a matter for education, at whatever age. It must be a whole government activity. We must harness the power of business to change lives, releasing the entrepreneurial spirit wherever it resides, to open up new routes through which people can shape their own destinies just as my father did.


Entrepreneurship has a key role to play here because running your own business, research suggests, can sometimes offer a better route for weakening the link between where you come from and where you end up, than being in paid employment.

I have been particularly taken with the work of Ingrid Schoon and Kathryn Duckworth at the Institute of Education in this respect. They compared levels of social mobility between those who are employed and those who are self-employed. Their findings suggest that self-employment offers a more likely route to social mobility than paid employment - so one has a better chance of getting on by going into business.

And entrepreneurial success is at the core of Labour’s vision for the dynamic, future economy we need, and at the core of our vision for the dynamic, fair, opportunity s ociety we want to see.

It is central to the better and more productive capitalism Ed Miliband and I have been arguing for – innovative businesses, focused on long-term value creation not short term profit extraction.

It is a vision rooted in our history. We have always stood for increasing autonomy in life and dignity in work as the world of work has evolved and changed. So what are we doing in this area?
We set up our Small Business Taskforce early last year, now led by Bill Thomas, to advise on what we should be advocating to help people start up and grow businesses. Before coming here I tweeted a link on twitter to the Taskforce’s interim report - produced by the late, great entrepreneur Nigel Doughty - for those who have yet to read it. Its next report will be published later this year.


We set up NG:Next Generation, our vibrant entrepreneurs’ network, towards the end of last year to ensure our party is connected into the entrepreneur community and to provide a vehicle through which entrepreneurs can connect with each other. The network’s next event takes place here this evening just as soon as the Q&A session is done.

Labour’s shadow education team, led by my good friend Stephen Twigg - with whom my team is working closely - is looking at the role schools can play in fostering the next generation of entrepreneurs. It is why, for example, we are supporting the campaign by the CBI and others that speaking, presentation and communications skills should be a priority in all state schools following the excellent example of Paddington Academy, as they are in many private schools.

And I am pleased to say that, before being elected, every member of our shadow business team in the House of Commons had either set up and run their own business, or - like myself - professionally advised many entrepreneurs who have done so. So when our manifesto comes, I can confidently say it will be informed by practical experience, as well as our beliefs and values.

In closing, I want to quickly say something about the business environment.

These are difficult times for business. Our economy is in a recession of the Government’s own making. The outlook is uncertain. The full impact of the troubles in the Eurozone have yet to feed through. All the while, the Government continues to fail to show the leadership needed at home, it has failed to show the leadership needed abroad, and it has failed to take the action necessary to guide our economy back to growth. In short, they risk creating a lost generation of businesses and business opportunities.

That said, I remain optimi stic about our national future in the longer term. Looking around the world at the rise of the emerging economies I know we will have to raise our game to compete but I am determined that we will do it. There are, after all, huge opportunities out there.

In the US there is a national story in which the lone entrepreneur plays the lead role, pursuing the American dream. The evidence for this kind of story today may be weak, given that social mobility in the US is as low as anywhere. We all know that in an unequal society it is simply harder to move up the ladder. But there is no doubting the rhetorical strength of their national story, with its unashamed veneration of individual success.

To succeed in the future we must write the next chapter of our own national story – with aspiration at its heart, entrepreneurship as its state of mind, and community as its end. It must encourage your restlessness and inspire my young constituents. That way, together, we will crea te a better future for all in Britain.


DR. ULIMBOKA HOSPITALINI JANA.

PICHA: MAPOKEZI YA DR. ULIMBOKA HOSPITALI YA MUHIMBILI

Wauguzi na Madaktari wa Hospitali ya Taifa ya Muhimbili, wakilisukuma gari la wagonjwa lililombeba mpigania haki zao Dk. Ulimboka wakati akitolewa chumba cha X-ray akipelekwa Taasisi ya Tiba ya Mifupa Muhimbili (MOI).



Madaktari wakisaidia kumuingiza Dk.Ulimboka katika gari la wagonjwa namba T 151 AVD la Hospitali ya AAR.
Mkurugenzi wa Kituo cha Sheria na Haki za Binadamu (LHRC), Dk. Hellen Kijo Bisimba (katikati), akizungumza na waandishi wa habari Hospitali ya Taifa ya Muhimbili wakati akitoa taarifa ya kujeruhiwa kwa Mwenyekiti wa Jumuiya ya Madaktari inayoratibu mgomo wa madaktari nchini, Dk. Stephen Ulimboka, Dar es Salaam jana.
Dk. Cathbert Mchalo wa Taasisi ya Mifupa ya Moi (kushoto), akizungumza na waandishi wa habari baada ya kumpokea, Mwenyekiti wa Jumuiya ya Madaktari Tanzania kwa ajili ya kupatiwa matibabu kufuatia majeraha aliyopata kutokana na kipigo.
Ofisa wa Polisi akimzuia mpiga picha wa gazeti la Tanzania Daima, Francis Dande, asimpige picha wakati wakimuondoa askari mwenzao aliyeshambuliwa na madaktari akituhumiwa kukutwa akipiga simu ya kuwataarifu wenzake kuwa Dk. Ulimboka hakufa.

Mmoja wa wana usalama wa (wa pili ushoto), akizozana na madaktari baada ya kumbaini akijifanya ni mwandishi wa habari na kumuamuru kuondoka eneo hilo mara moja.
Mmoja wa madaktari wa Hospitali ya Taifa ya Muhimbili (MNH), wa pili kulia, akizozana na Askari Polisi waliofika hospitalini hapo wakidai wanatafuta redio yao ya mawasiliano iliyopotea wakati wa pilikapilika za kumpokea Mwenyekiti wa Jumuiya ya Madaktari inayoongoza mgomo wa madaktari nchini, Dk. Stephen Ulimboka, alipoletwa akiwa hoi kutokana na kipigo kutoka kwa watu waliomteka usiku wa kuamkia jana na kumtupa msitu wa Mabwepande.
Madaktari wakiwa wamepigwa butwaa nje ya viwanja vya Hospitali ya Taifa ya Muhimbili kufuatia tukio hilo.

Wauguzi wakiwa nje ya wodi ya Kibasila wakitafakari jambo kufuatia jambo hilo
Wauguzi wakiwa nje ya wodi ya Kibasila wakitafakari jambo kufuatia jambo
       
Labour.org.uk
Press release
Tuesday 26 June 2012
For immediate use

Labour is serious about Lords reform - Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, in a blog '
Labour is serious about Lords reform' on his website, said:

In the 21st Century, I believe that democratic election is the best system for our country and that is why I intend to lead Labour MPs in a vote for the Second Reading of the Bill and in support of reform of the House of Lords.

Labour committed to a fully-elected second chamber in our 2010 manifest o and said we would hold a referendum on the issue. This position is the starting point from which I will judge the Government’s Bill.

The draft Bill presented by the Government is a long way from perfect. There are big questions to resolve about the powers of the second chamber, the exact proportion of elected members, the length of their terms, the system of election, the relationship between Lords and Commons and whether there is a place for bishops.

And the Bill does not contain a referendum. There is little logic in a position which says we have referendums to decide whether we have city mayors, but not to decide whether to alter radically the composition and structure of our Parliament.

I also believe that it will be much harder to get reform through without the clearly expressed popular will of people in a referendum.

Yet despite these flaws in the proposed legislation, we face a clear choice: to vote down reform, or to back it. We will supp ort reform.

Voting for a Second Reading of a Bill, about which you have reservations, is an unusual step for Oppositions. There is plenty of precedent for opposing legislative proposals at this stage.

Indeed, in 1999, the Conservatives, including 11 members of the current Cabinet, proposed and voted for a reasoned amendment and against the Second Reading of Labour’s Bill to abolish most hereditary peers.

I know there are some on our own benches in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords who want to vote against this Bill for reasons of principle. I respect those who hold this view but I disagree with them.

There are more who point out that there are other issues far more pressing for British families and, at a time of double-dip recession, we should not be wasting energy on constitutional reform.

While Lords reform is not the biggest priority for the vast majority of people, it does go to crucial questions of how Britain is gove rned. We did not seek this Bill to be included in the legislative programme but it has been - and we must respond.

We could have chosen to side with Conservative backbenchers who are planning to vote against this Bill at Second Reading and watched it potentially go down in flames. But that would not have been the right thing to do.

Instead, on all the key questions, Labour will seek to scrutinise, amend and improve the Bill during its passage through the Commons: we are serious about Lords reform and we expect Parliament to be taken seriously too.

It is important that there is proper time allocated to scrutinise this Bill. The six clause Bill to abolish hereditary peers, for instance, was opposed by the Conservative Party at Second Reading and took fully nine days to pass through the Commons.

This 60 clause Bill is a far bigger constitutional change and deserves longer than cursory debate. All the indications we have received so far suggest the Gove rnment will not give this Bill the time it needs in the Commons.

An historic opportunity to achieve lasting reform is not an occasion for rail-roading highly sensitive legislation through the Commons simply to avoid further turbulence in the rocky relationship between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties.

Nor is this the best way to achieve the consensus needed if reform is to stand any chance of overcoming another hurdle of opposition when the Bill reaches the House of Lords. One of the best ways to guarantee destruction of legislative proposals is to send them with their flaws intact to the House of Lords.

We need the legislative time to improve this Bill. Therefore, we will vote for the Second Reading of this Bill and oppose the proposed timetable which effectively guillotines debate.

There will be some who say this is Labour’s attempt to wreck the Bill and allow opponents to suffocate it through deliberate delay so the reform never even reaches the House of Lords.

They are wrong. I do not want the reform of the House of Lords to be stuck in the House of Commons. I want a good reform Bill to get out of the Commons and into the Lords so it can be properly discussed in both Houses.

Labour will support this Bill at the Second Reading. We will ensure it is properly debated. And we will play our part in seeking to bring about the historic reform that is right for our country.

Ends


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Salute: The movie premiere


The London Olympic Games -the greatest show on earth- is a little over a month away. In the build up to the games, Operation Black Vote with Freshwater PLC is putting on the London Premiere of the film ‘Salute’. Salute is the untold story, not just about the two African American Olympians, Tommie Smith and John Carlos who in the 1968 Mexico Olympic games both made that iconic salute, but also about the silver medallist Peter Norman from Australia who collaborated and supported the two men.


With today’s pampered sports celebrities and celebrity culture, the story about these three brave men, who sacrificed all to raise the plight of others ought to be a timely reminder about being the best in the world, but also having a conscience that is able to confront injustice.
Dr Tommie Smith will attend this premiere and engage in a Q & A after the film. Other sporting stars, celebrities and politicians will attend.
We still have a few tickets available to be purchased. As many of you will know this is the first time we have ever charged for an OBV event, but we must cover the cost for putting on such a prestigious event. We do hope that you  will come and join us for what will be a memorable evening.
In the meantime, here are some of the highlights covered in the last week on the OBV website:
Patrick Vernon & Emma Colyer honoured
Adidas: Slave to Fashion
Marvin Rees: Bristol’s future Mayor?
UEFA's priorities euro 2012: Pants!
Gang of Four: 25 years since their election, has change occurred?
Police Commissioners: Dhanda and Batson?

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June 28, 2012
A seminar to discuss the legacy, representation and strategies of resistance  following the riots a year ago.
  • Thursday 28 June 2012, 7-9pm.
  • Caxton House Community Centre, 129 St. John’s Way Islington, London N19 3RQ

Tuesday 26 June 2012

 

Families horror as its revealed Co-op funeral firm piled naked bodies up in grim warehouse morgue

  • Channel 4 Dispatches programme shows casket lid was removed to cram four bodies into a van which left elderly woman's nose nearly touching roof
  • Horrific moment when the wrong body is discovered at a funeral and family wait 30 minutes for the right coffin to be found
  • Undercover programme also reveals that if a family member requests to see their relatives again bodies are quickly returned to the funeral home
  • Last year firm handled 100,000 funerals and made £51million profit

 

 

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When someone dies unexpectedly, the Coroner (England and Wales) or Procurator Fiscal (Scotland) is in the main automatically involved. If the deceased has not been under a doctor's care on a regular basis, the emergency doctor, or any police involved, will inform the relevant Coroner’s office or the Procurator Fiscal. Contact us as soon as possible. We can advise on the procedures involved and liaise with the Coroner’s/Procurator Fiscal’s office.



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June 30, 2012
A march to stand up for the right to asylum and to call for justice, freedom and dignity for all.
  • Saturday 30 June 2012, 11am
  • Assemble at Stapleton Road Station, by Eastside Roots Garden Centre to march to Queen’s Square in the city centre