By Mbabazi Hanning Gonzaga There is no better replay of the “Affair of the Diamond Necklace” as it happened under the French Bourbon Monarchy than what has transpired in the halls of the Ugandan parliament these last two weeks. During the reign of Louis XV between 1784 – 1785, he offered to have the most…
Seven more coronavirus patients have been discharged from Mulago Specialised National Hospital as the number of Uganda’s virus recoveries rise. The number of patients that have recovered from covid19, the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus – is now at 20 in Uganda. On Thursday, Robinah Nabbanja, the state minister for Health-General Duties, oversaw the…
A section of Ugandan advocates led by Counsel Isaac Ssemakadde the Executive Director of Legal Brains Trust has launched a campaign to collect relief fund for lawyers who are struggling and yet they have no one to run or turn to amidst Covid-19 unprecedented times. In a statement this website has landed on, Counsel Ssemakadde…
Parliament has widened tax exemptions to mechanized agricultural inputs, in a bid MPs said will give the sector the much needed post Covid-19 boost. The Chairperson of Parliament’s Committee on Finance, Hon Henry Musasizi said the removal of Value Added Tax from mechanised agricultural inputs will incentivize investment in the sector. Continued charging of Value…
The Parliament of Uganda has passed the Tobacco Control (Amendment) Bill, 2020 scrapping taxation on processed tobacco restricting it on the unprocessed leaf for export. The Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Hon. Henry Musasizi, in his report to Parliament said that the tax measures are meant to restrict the export of raw tobacco leave…
