19/03/2010 by hindu.

RECHARGING the Arusha Declaration in the 1980s was inevitable in order to move with the times because it lacked coherent mechanism to implement the policies of socialism and self-reliance, it was said in Dar es Salaam yesterday.

Former President Mr Ali Hassan Mwinyi made the remarks at the occasion to launch Mkombozi Commercial Bank owned by the Roman Catholic Church in Dar es Salaam.

Mr Mwinyi said: “We had excellent policies to ensure smooth implementation of the tenets of the Arusha Declaration but we lacked dedication towards implementation of the policies. Read the rest of this entry »

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19/03/2010 by hindu.

IT was a tiny group of the ruling party’s elders from Tabora region attending a briefing session on state of affairs in the region done by Regional Commissioner, Abeid Mwinyimsa and Regional Party Secretary, Iddi Ali Ame to President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete.

Soon after Mwinyimsa and Ame’s presentations on state of government and ruling party affairs in the region to the president who is also Chama Cha Mapinduzi National Chairman, the elders’ representative was invited.

Hussein Senyangwe almost started repeating what the RC and CCM Secretary had presented earlier when he cut short his speech on behalf of the elders to make an unexpected announcement. Read the rest of this entry »

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19/03/2010 by hindu.

For his part, prime minister Pinda hailed the conference, challenging researchers to empower local communities through letting them know about their work.

He said the government valued their contribution and has allotted more funds for research in a bid to find solutions to a myriad of problems.

He said the government still believed that the agricultural revolution held the real answer to the end of grinding poverty.  He said while Kilimo Kwanza had attracted cynics and critics, it was generally a good intention to find a vehicle to hasten rural development and bring in the private sector to drive it forward. Read the rest of this entry »

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19/03/2010 by hindu.

A noted chemist, Wolfe is known locally as the vintner and co-owner of the award-winning Banner Elk Winery. But 53 years ago, he was running a movie projector in Sophia,

The film was The Snows of Kilimanjaro, starring Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward, based on Ernest Hemingway’s short story.

 “That was my eyes to the world,” Wolfe said of the cinema, “and the first time I’d heard of Kilimanjaro. You have a quest sometimes, when you think, ‘I can do this, and I can do that.’Mt. Kilimanjaro has always been mine since I was a teenager.” Read the rest of this entry »

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