Category: Politics
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BUDGET 2023/24: Prioritise healthcare, roads- Speaker tells MPs
The Speaker took issue with Members’ perennial absenteeism, likening it to corruption, and promising stern action against non-complying MPs.
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Parliament approves Shs4.4 trillion supplementary budget request
The allocated funds are intended for the purchase of equipment to be leased to Atiak Sugar works.
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MPs debate minimum wage, mental health after moneylender murder
Speaker Among noted that Parliament in the recent past investigated the SACCO after a whistle-blower claimed that Police big-wigs are using SACCO funds for self-enrichment.
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Marijuana bill to be re-tabled in Parliament
The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance (Control) Bill, 2016 is aimed at controlling the possession and trafficking in narcotic drugs.
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Tororo, Busia HIV/AIDS infections worry MPs
The Committee on HIV/AIDS and Related Matters has prayed for government intervention to curb the spread of the virus in the border districts of Tororo and Busia.
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Boxing federation boss Muhangi arrested for forgery, theft
This comes barely a week after the President of Uganda Netball Federation, Sarah Kityo was interrogated by the Police CID on recommendations of the committee.
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Judiciary PS Bigirimana voted National Administrators’ body Vice President
Dr Bigirimana who will serve in that capacity for the next three years, now deputizes the Head of Public Service, Ms Lucy Nakyobe Mbonye.
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Waist Beads: What they truly mean in the Ugandan Culture
Presented to young women and girls by their mothers, grandmothers and aunties as a symbol of coming of age and other major life moment. African women wear waist beads to help with weight control, to keep a famine shape and train the stomach. When scales weren’t easy to come across waist beads were used to…
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Betting to attract new 30% tax
The committee emphasized the need to adjust the current policy and ensure the tax is only imposed on winnings and not the staked amounts.
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“The Distinguished Order of Source of the Nile Class One Medal”… What you need to know about the highest state honor awarded to Dr Pius Bigirimana
He believes that Government interventions to solve challenges encountered by the citizenry are not an end in themselves.