THE WORKERS EYE
By Sarah Achen Kibisi. Parliament has passed the Lotteries and Gaming (Amendment) Bill, 2023 that will revise the existing tax of 20 per cent under the existing law to 30 per cent for a gaming activity. Clause 48(1) of the Lotteries and Gaming Act, 2016 states that ‘an operator of a casino, gaming or betting […]
Speaker, Anita Among has demanded immediate intervention for residents of the Kigezi-Rwenzori region who were affected by floods. Reports indicated that 18 people died recently as mudslides swept away houses and roads in the districts of Rubanda, Kisoro and Rukiga in Kigezi region. “We want to ask the Minister of Disaster to come and present […]
By James Wafula in Nairobi. The NGO council of Kenya has appealed to President William Ruto to shelve the proposed 16 percent VAT fuel levy saying it will worsen the already high cost of living and create a big burden to Kenyans battling to survive. In a press statement issued May 8, 2023 at his […]
By Sarah Kibisi. To many of us, April 01st 2020 is always considered as fool’s day trick but for URA’s Commissioner General, Mr John Musinguzi it was not fools. He received the instruments of power that ushered him into holding the reins for revenue administration at Uganda’s tax body – Uganda Revenue Authority (URA). While […]
National Council of Sports (NCS) general secretary, Patrick Ogwel has been ordered to pay Shs 100 million to the Uganda Netball Federation (UNF) within seven days. Ogwel and UNF President Sarah Babirye Kityo have been at loggerheads for the past months after Kityo accused Ogwel of asking for bribes whenever disbursing funds to facilitate the […]
By Silvano Kibuuka. For the longest time, sports federation leaders have succumbed into administrative wrangles from amongst themselves, especially over leadership. Everyone assumed that matters of sports would never warrant dragging culprits into prison cells and all the warring factions would settle the matters outside the courts of law and at most through arbitration committees […]
By Our Correspondent in Lusaka. The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), an affiliate of the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) and its parent body the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has won the bid to host the Third African Media Convention in Accra, Ghana in May 2024. The successful bid of the GJA to host the […]
By James Wafula in Malindi. Kenya President William Ruto has set up a commission of inquiry to probe the more than 100 people killed in the coastal Shakola mass graves but opposition leader Raila Odinga has criticized the government for blocking the media from the scene. Odinga’s motorcade was on May 5, 2023 also blocked […]
By James Wafula in Nairobi. The NGO council of Kenya has welcomed the directive by Nairobi governor Johnson Sakaja that the county will employ 3500 youth to help clean up the city, open drainage and blocked sewers saying the move was a step in the right direction for the nearly 5 million long suffering residents. […]
By James Wafula in Nairobi. The NGO council of Kenya has called for a broad consensus in the proposed 2023-2024 Finance Bill that seeks to impose a mandatory 3 percent tax on all income earners in the public sector to go towards housing for low income groups and 16 percent VAT on fuel saying there […]