| Uganda: Vice President's Guard Kills Three Over Woman
A soldier belonging to the security detail of Vice President Gilbert Bukenya on Thursday night gunned down three people in Mbale town. Prof. Gilbert Bukenya is currently on a tour of the eastern region and using Mbale as his base. The soldier, Asaph Muhumuza, who is said to have boasted of belonging to the Presidential Guard Brigade (PGB), is said to have reacted angrily after being fleeced of money and a phone by a woman he had met at a social place. PGB Spokesperson Lt. Edson Kwesiga, however, has however expressed ignorance about the incident. "I am yet to hear of it and I can also not confirm whether it happened and whether the person involved belongs to the PGB," he said on Friday. .
Lottery warning
Guelph Police are warning citizens to look out for a fraudulent letter they may receive in the mail claiming the recipient has won the lottery. Several Guelphites have received the letter from "Carpenters Local Inc." asking them to cash a cheque in the envelope written for $2,700 and then wire a portion of the money via Money Gram or Western Union as a payment for the taxes on the winnings. The cheque is counterfeit and there is no such lottery, said a police news release. People are reminded to never wire any money to an unknown person or company. This scam is similar to one on the Internet where people are selling items or renting properties and are sent counterfeit cheques as payment, said the release. The cheque is usually for more than the asking price of the seller or renter, and the suspect asks the person to send back the difference.
Crème de la crème for Quinn
For the first time in 49 years, Dubliner Joe Burke, among the finest Irish bartenders this side of Eire, will have St. Patrick's Day off. The diminutive barkeep with the ready grin retired last month after 50 years of pulling pints and mixing cocktails around Toronto, most recently at publican Pat Quinn's P.J. O'Brien Irish Pub on Colborne St. But Burke slipped on his crisp, white barman's jacket to stand behind the glossy copper-topped bar at O'Brien one last time to make a layered cocktail he invented to honour Quinn for St. Patrick's Day. Quinn is something of a legend himself, having spent most of the mid-'60s booking British Invasion bands like the Dave Clark Five to play for Canadian teens. Among them was The Rolling Stones, whom Quinn hired for a show at London, Ont.'s now-gone Treasure Island Gardens in April 1965 – their first-ever Canadian gig.
3/14: How Blog Outreach Is Done
WH '08ers can't seem to agree on how to title their official blog advisers (eCampaign Adviser, Blog Outreach Dir., and Dir. of Online Communications are a few choices), and most campaigns also have trouble defining how exactly their blog experts fit into their campaign. Each candidate's strengths in other areas ought to inform how they handle blogs, but Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) aide (he doesn't even have an official title) Patrick Hynes' push-back efforts 3/13 are a textbook example of how the job should be done. After a flurry of posts hit McCain for skipping the Club for Growth's winter conf., Hynes went to work emailing bloggers to let them know CFG only offered McCain dates to speak that coincided with a previously planned trip to Iraq. The retractions and updates Hynes netted his candidate both tampered down implications that he was dissing conservatives and reinforced McCain's strength on just about the only issue conservative bloggers back McCain on.
Spending plan will help track money
A common question many households may ask when finances are tight is "Where did all the money go?"Carthage's Janet LaFon, who gives advice on financial matters through University Extension, said developing a family saving and spending plan is a great way to take care of a family's finances."People having financial problems need to get a hard look at spending," said LaFon. .
BOC shrugs off impact of reserves hike on business
China's third increase in bank reserve requirements so far this year will have little impact on the lending business of Bank of China (3988) as market liquidity remains ample, according to a senior executive of the bank. The increase - announced by the central bank late Thursday as part of Beijing's effort to slow economic growth - will take the reserve requirement to 10.5 percent for big banks and to 11 percent for smaller lenders from April 16. "From a macroeconomic perspective, the reserve hike is a good thing for China," said Zhu Min, group executive vice president of Bank of China, the mainland's second largest lender. "In January and February, loan growth in the banking system was still too fast," he said on the sidelines of a financial meeting in Shanghai. Zhu expects that the central bank can soak up about 180 billion yuan (HK$182.08 billion) from the banking system, which could otherwise have been loaned to firms and households, through the increase of the bank reserve requirement.
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