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Quality Education: Kampala Parents School Sets Dates For 2021 Term One Intake Interviews
Kampala Parents School, one of the leading private primary schools in the country, has set dates on which it will conduct interviews for pupils who want to join the school in the first term of the 2021 academic year. The move is to help Parents and pupils interested in joining Kampala Parents’ School in the…
Putin To self-isolate After COVID-19 Detected In Entourage
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he will observe self-isolation for a certain period of time in connection with the COVID-19 cases detected in his entourage. Putin voiced his decision during a phone conversation with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, the Kremlin said in a press release. Putin told Rahmon that due to the quarantine,…
Putin Isolation Something of Western Bias: Report
The suggestion that Russian President Vladimir Putin is isolated may still be something of a Western bias — an assumption based on a definition of the “world” as places of privilege, largely the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan, The Washington Post reported. “Of the 193 members of the United Nations, 141 voted to…
Put Aside Your Unhealthy Kafunda Foods & Rush For Sumptuous Speke Resort Munyonyo’s ‘Weekend Special Dish’ That Will Leave You Speechless
Luxurious five-star Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort and Speke Resort are this Saturday and Sunday hosting a sumptuous Weekend Special mouthwatering dish that will excite the taste buds of Kampala partiers as they go along with their weekend vacations Management said, the ‘Weekend Special’ at Speke Resort Munyonyo features a dish of Buffalo Chicken Wings at UGX 40,000, a…
Pupil’s Interviews For Academic Year 2021 At Kampala Parents School Revised
While schools haven’t been full reopened by the government following their closure due to spread of coronavirus, schools and parents are preparing for the next academic year which normally starts late January. Parents and school administrators are optimistic that the government will reopen the learning centre. Schools, with strict adherence to health guidelines and SOPs,…
Public Urged To Be Vigilant As Police Detonates Improvised Bomb In Kampala
The anti-terrorism squad said Saturday that they had detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Kataba slum, Kabalagala- Munyonyo area on Friday evening. “The police in Kabalagala received information last night of a suspected IED in Kabalagala, and the area where it was dropped is someplace that is very busy, and we went there,…
Public Service To Streamline Salaries Of Art Teachers By 2027
Teachers of arts subjects in secondary schools will earn the same salary as science teachers by 2027, the Ministry of Public service has said. Recently, Government announced that science teachers with degrees will start earning Shs4 million and diploma holders Shs3 million starting in July 2023 while their counterparts, the art teachers remained at shs900,000.…
Public Servants To Face Jail For Under Declaring Wealth
Members of Parliament have passed the Leadership Code (Amendment) Bill, 2020 that seeks to impose punitive measures on leaders and public officers who do not declare their wealth or who make false declarations. The Bill requires a public officer to, within three months of starting work in the public service, declare his or her assets,…
Public Opinion Against The Upcoming Elections
By Steven Masiga With a few months left towards the ascendency of the new cultural leader of the Bamaasaba, a bigger number of people insist that the confusion engineered at the Umukuka offices might cast askance on the outcome, because a group of self seeking officials are now masquerading as central government ministers. Under the…
Public Debt Soars As Gov’t Seeks to Borrow Shs3.5 Trillion To Finance Budget
The Finance State Minister, Henry Musasizi has asked Members of Parliament to approve up to Shs3.5 trillion to finance the Shs48.1 trillion budget. The first loan request which is up to US$464 million translating to about Shs1.7 trillion, is to be sourced from the Standard Chartered Bank. In documents which now stand referred to Parliament’s…