Uganda’s external debt burden has grown up Uganda’s external debt burden has grown up over the past one year. Appearing before the joint Budget national economy and financial committees on Wednesday, the state minister for finance Aston Kajara, revealed that by March 2011, government’s indebdtedness stood at 4.29 billion shillings from 4.1 billion shillings registered during the […]
Teachers have given the government two weeks to improve their welfare and working conditions or else they go on strike. The teachers through the national teachers union are demanding for 100% increase on all their salaries with the lowest teacher to earn 546000 shillings a month. They also want an increase in the pay as […]
The Ministry of Finance is planning to release 30 billion shillings this week to pay private power distributors to deal with rampant electricity load shedding. The minister of state in-charge of finance Aston Kajara has told MPS on budget committee of parliament his office is in the process of negotiating with private companies to receive […]
Government has received software to aid in the tracking and registration of fire arms brokers in the country. The software obtained from the United Nations regional center for Peace and disarmament will as well help Government to establish and track individuals and companies that engage in brokerage of fire arms. While receiving the software at his ministry, internal […]
The World Bank Board of Directors approved today a US$50 million policy loan for Uganda to help build a more efficient, robust and deeper financial sector which can support broad-based private sector growth. The goal is that by the end of this two-loan program, the country will have a regulated pension sector, an expanded housing […]
The director Uganda Private Vocational Institutes Mirembe Edison has blamed politicians and policy makers for failing to sensitize the mass about values and importance of vocational training Education. Mirembe says the policy makers have failed to advocate for practical education saying that a lot of emphasis has been put on theory which according to him […]
As Uganda marks the world’s population day, experts have advised that there is need to revive the idea of granaries to store more food for the ever increasing population and an avoidable calamity like drought, landslides, floods etc. The total population of Uganda is currently estimated at 33 million people and is said to be […]
The government has moved in to diffuse the tensions between Uganda Taxi drivers and Operators Association and a group of taxi drivers and conductors. Taxi drivers and conductors have today made good their threat to strike over what they termed as unfair treatment by UTODA. The Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi said the government […]
The government has officially kick started a project under which it will provide monthly financial support to vulnerable families across the country. The program being piloted in three districts of Kiboga, Kaberamaido and Kyenjojo. It will later be rolled out to other districts of Uganda. The government on Friday through the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development signed […]
The Shadow minister for finance Geoffrey Ekanya has advised government to invest more in the agriculture sector if it’s to solve the current financial crisis in the country. Speaking before parliament on the intervention by the government on the current depreciation of a shilling, Ekanya said that unless government increases it’s funding into the agricultural […]