AGENCIES. The Summit of East African Community (EAC) Heads of State at their 19th Ordinary Summit held on 29th March, 2022 admitted Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following recommendation by the Council of Ministers. The Chairperson of the Summit, H.E Uhuru Kenyatta, who is also Kenya’s President, informed the meeting that DRC had met all…
By Ouma Stephern Bwire. The government of the Republic of Uganda represented by Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) and Uganda Vinci Coffee company Limited signed the controversy Coffee agreement giving the company monopoly to manage coffee processing and exports. According to the February 2022 agreement, the design, financing, construction and operation…
By Hon Agnes Kunihira Abwoli. Motivation means being guided into action in a manner that makes you feel vigorous and excited or enthusiastic. When an employer motivates a worker, of course she or he will be activated into action which enables him / her to produce good results that are beneficial to the enterprise /…
By Agatha Namirembe. ArembeUPEU Chairperson Challenges and Solutions Social security is a broad term for the range of financial benefits available to virtually all workers. It is a formal arrangement concerned with protection against socially recognized conditions including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment, survivorship, death among others. Currently, some form of social security exists for…
By James Wafula in Nairobi. He died as quietly as he had lived most of his 91 years. He hailed from a poor. humble ¬background of a peasant family in Othaya, Nyeri county. Emilio Mwai Kibaki, the man who loved his pilsner beer cold and played golf, was Kenya’s third President. Given to humour and…
By Our Correspondent in Mogadishu. The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemnS the arrest of independent journalists and the raid on Horn Cable TV, an independent television station in Hargeisa by Somaliland police. The ten (10) journalists were arrested as they covered a standoff between inmates and guards at the Hargeisa Central Prison where…
By Nakato Hellen Musoke. The Uganda Professional Science Teachers’ Union (UPSTU) has threatened to go for industrial action for what they called their unresolved longstanding labour grievances. In a four page notice to Hon Minister for Public Service dated April 22, 2022 and signed by UPSTU National Chairman Mr Vincent Elong and General Secretary Mr…
By Sarah Kibisi Achen. Appearing before the parliamentary Budgets committee chaired by Keefa Kiwanuka, the state minister for finance, planning and economic development Amos Lugoolobi said that the revenue projections are expected from Net tax collections of 23.75trillion and none tax collection of 1.79 trillion in the coming financial year. Lugoolobi said that the biggest…
By Nakato Hellen Musoke. Workers in public markers have appealed to government to fast – track implementation of the recently passed Markets Bill 2021. The bill moved by Workers Member of Parliament Hon Margaret Rwabushaija Namubiru aims at reforming the law relating to establishment and control of markets in Uganda. A survey conducted around main…