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  • MPs start countrywide assessment of FY 2022/23 budget performance

    Posted: 01 Nov 2023 Parliament sittings have been deferred for two weeks to allow MPs to assess the performance of the 2022/2023 financial year budget through oversight visits across the country. The Deputy Speaker,...

  • Roll out of new EAC polycarbonate passport on track - Minister

    Posted: 01 Nov 2023 Government is on track with the issuance of polycarbonate passports to holders of ordinary passports, the Minister of State for Defence, Hon. Jacob Oboth, has said. In a statement presented to the...

  • Treasury memoranda to now be tabled in Parliament

    Posted: 31 Oct 2023 Accountability committees of Parliament will now scrutinise the Auditor General’s Report on the Treasury Memoranda, moving away from the previous procedure which entailed submission of the report to...

  • Fish maw traders petition House committee over taxes

    Posted: 31 Oct 2023 Fish maw traders have petitioned the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries over what they have termed as "excessive taxes."   Specifically, the traders are protesting the eight...

  • Committee directs Health Ministry on CT-scan user fees

    Posted: 30 Oct 2023 The Committee on Government Assurances and Implementation has directed the Ministry of Health to harmonise its position on the user fees charged for the Computed Tomography (CT) scan services in...

  • Committee calls for full operationalisation of health centres

    Posted: 27 Oct 2023 The Committee on Government Assurances and Implementation has called for the full operationalisation of health centres in local governments. The committee led by the Chairperson, Hon. Betty Nambooze...

  • Traders call for retaliation following Kenyan ban on exports

    Posted: 27 Oct 2023 The Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA) has urged government to consider retaliation mechanisms against the Government of Kenya, for what they termed as ill treatment of Uganda and severe injury...

  • Tayebwa in talks to resolve Govt, Opposition impasse

    Posted: 26 Oct 2023 The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Thomas Tayebwa, is in talks with key leaders in government and the Opposition, to settle the stalemate over human rights violations and the latter’s continued...

  • Govt not ready with action taken report on NSSF

    Posted: 26 Oct 2023 The Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Hon. Betty Amongi, has said that the action taken report on the probe of the state of affairs at the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) is not...

  • Animal Feeds Bill introduced in Parliament

    Posted: 26 Oct 2023 The Bill seeks to provide legislative framework for the operationalization of the animal feeds policy by regulating the production, importation, exportation and marking of animal feeds and by...

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