The Government of Uganda through the Health Ministry has announced a two-month jail sentence for anyone who flouts COVID-19 SOPs including appearing in public places without a face mask. This comes after some Ugandans have increasingly continued to violate the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) despite rising cases of coronavirus as the country battles the second…
A section of Members of Parliament from rural areas has called for equitable distribution of COVID-19 relief cash across the country. The government has allocated 53 billion Shillings as relief support to vulnerable people in municipalities and cities which are hit hardest by the lockdown measures, laid out by President Yoweri Museveni to stop the…
President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Kaguta Museveni has officially released the full cabinet list for his sixth political term in office. This follows ongoing media rounds on his leaked cabinet list of minister which prompted the President to release the official list earlier than anticipated. According to the official presidential list, Museveni wrote thus.. I hereby inform…
Nurses and midwives under their umbrella body of the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union (UNMU) have called off their strike, 5 days after they declared to lay down their tools over uncleared lunch allowances. The decision to end the strike was reached after successful negotiations with government to cater for their lunch allowances at Shs.…
The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has cautioned clearing agents and consolidators against unauthorised releases and corruption tendencies, which frustrate UNBS efforts of curbing substandard imports on the market. The remarks were made by the UNBS Imports Inspection Manager, Mr Martin Imalingat, during a sensitization meeting with clearing agents and consolidators held at the Entebbe International Airport. “A good number of clearing…
The Government of Uganda is planning to borrow over Shs10.3trillion from external lenders in the FY2021/22 that starts in July. This website can confirm that according to the latest Budget Framework Paper, maintaining the country’s momentum towards the debt crisis level, the new loans are intended to plug the project revenue shortfalls to fund the…
By Faruk Kirunda By the weekend, the tally from US elections showed that Joe Biden was headed for election as the President-elect of the United States of America (USA) after edging out the incumbent, Donald J Trump, in a tense election held on November 3. Having come to power in 2016 after surprisingly defeating Hillary…
A joint team comprising members from the finance and gender committees in parliament has rejected proposed direct lending by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) to the government. The committee members say that this is intended to avoid abuse of member’s funds and conflict of interest. This is according to the main committee report on…
Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital has only one patient with the coronavirus (COVID-19). The hospital said it is currently managing only one patient, a male Ugandan who was admitted over the weekend. The patient was a case picked from the community in Masaka district. The patient was admitted two days after the hospital discharged the last…
The High Court in Kampala has awarded 95 million Shillings to 19 former inmates who were arrested for flouting regulations on COVID-19 for being denied access to their lawyers. The said group was picked from one house in Kyengera Town Council, in Wakiso District, and held at Nkonkonjeru Police Post at the end of March…
