Dealers in imported garments have got some reprieve, after the Minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development, announced a waiver of some tax on the goods. In the budget for the financial year 2021/2022 read last month, the minister introduced an import duty of US$3.5 per kilogram of cloth or
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The Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities has appealed to Parliament to waive taxes in the sector due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Doreen Katusiime, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry and other officials appeared on Tuesday before Parliament’s Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industry. The committee is
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Kampala has run out of COVID-19 vaccines. Uganda Radio Network visited some vaccination sites such as the Kampala Capital City Clinic, Kiswa Health Center III, Bukoto Heath Center, Naguru General Hospital and Kisenyi and found no queues of people waiting for vaccines. Charles Lweno, a 30-year-old man found at the
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The Kampala City Trader’s Association - KACITA has given the government a two-week ultimatum to harmonize the import duty tax on clothes or they close their shops come September 1, 2021. The traders are dissatisfied with the new tax policy, which pushed the import duty tax on garments from 25
Read MoreMinistry of Health (MOH) has declared polio a public health emergency after registering two positive cases from Bugolobi and Lubigi sentinel environmental surveillance sites. The new cases come just a year after the World Health Organization-WHO declared Uganda and the entire Africa Wild polio-free in August last year. Uganda Virus
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People who have received one jab of the COVID-19 vaccine and were later infected will have to wait 90 days before they can get their second jab. This is according to an advisory issued by the Ministry of Health. According to data from the health ministry, one million people have
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Makerere University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe (pictured) has expressed disgust over the continued non-use of their innovations despite the need in the country.Picking on the low–cost medical ventilator that researchers studied early into the COVID-19 pandemic before the country was hit hard in the just ended spike, Nawangwe said the
Read MoreThe Criminal Investigations Department has identified cases of fraud and forgeries by managers of saving schemes that were meant to benefit from the teachers revolving fund. This was unearthed as part of the investigations into the embezzlement of 11 out of the 25 billion Shillings which was released by the
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Many citizens are fleeing after the Taliban takeover Uganda will take in 2,000 Afghan refugees fleeing the crisis in their country. Refugees Minister Esther Anyakun told the BBC that President Yoweri Museveni agreed to take in the refugees at the request of the Americans. It follows the weekend’s lightning Taliban
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A gorilla eats leaves in the jungle in Uganda. The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has seen Uganda’s tourism sector and economy at large lose Shs3.891Trn, the Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities has said. Doreen Katusiime, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tourism made the revelation today while appearing before Parliament’s
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