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  • Fast track agriculture projects – MPs

    Posted: 05 Oct 2018 Members of Parliament have tasked the Ministry of Agriculture to speed up efforts in delivering projects to intended beneficiary communities. MPs on the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industries...

  • LOP set for nationwide engagement with political parties

    Posted: 04 Oct 2018 The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament, Hon Betty Aol Ocan, is to embark on a countrywide tour aimed at uniting the Opposition in and outside Parliament. Aol Ocan who was appointed two months ago...

  • LDUs to earn Shs200,000, don military fatigues

    Posted: 03 Oct 2018 The army is to remunerate Local Defense Unit personnel with a monthly stipend of Shs200,000 and offer them military fatigues and guns, Chief of Defence Forces Gen David Muhoozi  has said. Gen Muhoozi...

  • Minister wants phased ban of polythene

    Posted: 03 Oct 2018 The Minister for Trade, Hon. Amelia Kyambadde, has advised against an immediate ban on kaveera but rather a gradual phase out of production and use of the plastic carrier bags. Kyambadde, who was...

  • Uganda in Shs41 trillion debt

    Posted: 02 Oct 2018 The Finance Ministry has put Uganda’s public debt at Shs41 trillion, which is an equivalent of US$10 billion. In a statement to Parliament read by Finance State Minister (Planning), Hon David Bahati...

  • Parliament reduces tax on mobile money

    Posted: 02 Oct 2018 Parliament has voted to reduce the 1 per cent tax originally imposed on all mobile money transactions. With the amendment contained in the Excise Duty (Amendment)(No. 2) Bill, 2018, the 0.5 percent...

  • Cabinet delaying ban on single-use plastics – NEMA

    Posted: 02 Oct 2018 The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) says a stalemate in consensus by an inter-ministerial committee has delayed the implementation of the ban on plastics and their production in the...

  • Parliament to host 20th National Prayer Breakfast

    Posted: 02 Oct 2018 The Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, will next week host the 20th National Prayer Breakfast to pray for the country and renew people’s commitment to God. The National Prayer Breakfast, which...

  • Lack of quorum stalls vote on mobile money tax

    Posted: 28 Sep 2018 Parliament has failed to take a decision on whether the tax imposed on mobile money transactions is reduced or entirely scrapped. The Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2018 passed in May imposed a 1 per...

  • Attorney General promises law on legal aid

    Posted: 28 Sep 2018 The Attorney General, William Byaruhanga, has hawked a Bill on National Legal Aid from Gulu Municipality’s MP Lyandro Komakech (DP), who was seeking leave of Parliament to officially introduce it as...

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