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  • Budget process necessitates Parliament sittings

    Posted: 25 Mar 2020 The need to process the budget has necessitated Parliament to continue holding its sittings in the prevailing COVID-19 situation. Addressing the media on why Parliament continued operating despite...

  • Gov’t to set up quarantine centres in schools

    Posted: 25 Mar 2020 The Minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Hon Matia Kasaija has revealed that government is in the final stages of setting up some schools in Entebbe as quarantine centres. Kasaija...

  • Parliament staff to work in turns

    Posted: 25 Mar 2020  The Parliamentary Commission has downsized the number of staff who will report to work in a bid to decongest the building in the wake COVID-19. Speaker Rebecca Kadaga told a plenary sitting on...

  • Three MPs to be quarantined

    Posted: 25 Mar 2020 The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has directed that three MPs and two staff who returned from Dubai, UAE be quarantined to avoid the spread of the coronavirus to their colleagues and their...

  • MPs urged to support One Dollar HIV/AIDS Initiative

    Posted: 20 Mar 2020 Members of Parliament have been called upon to support that One Dollar HIV/AIDS Initiative that aims at supporting government’s efforts fight against HIV/AIDS. The One Dollar Initiative (ODI) seeks...

  • MPs demand equitable distribution of scholarship

    Posted: 20 Mar 2020 Members of Parliament have demanded the Ministry of Education and Sports promotes equitable distribution of student scholarships. According to MPs, many scholarships are awarded to students from...

  • Minister urges public to focus on import substitution

    Posted: 20 Mar 2020 The Minister of finance, Planning and Economic Development, Hon. Matia Kasaija has predicted a drop in economic growth and appealed to the business community to refocus their investments in filling...

  • AIDS Commission seeks 16billion to counter new HIV infections

    Posted: 19 Mar 2020 The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) is seeking shs16 billion to combat the current rise in new HIV infections. The chairperson of UAC, Eddy Mukooyo says the new trend of HIV infections is worrying and...

  • Parliament restricts access, non-critical staff to work from home

    Posted: 19 Mar 2020 Parliament has rolled out a number of measures restricting and limiting access to the Building, and curtailing MPs’ activities in the constituencies intended to stem the spread of Coronavirus (Covid-...

  • MPs fail to convince EC to re-open voter update

    Posted: 19 Mar 2020 Legislators have failed to convince the Electoral Commission to re-open voter registration to include persons turning 18 before the general election next year. A meeting called by the House Committee...

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