Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament have called for the compensation of health workers and policemen who succumb to COVID-19. The MPs mostly from the National Resistance Movement (NRM) say that while front-line workers were dying in the line of duty, their families are not duly compensated upon …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Internal Affairs Ministry has warned blacklisted labour export firms against withholding the passports and National Identity cards of the people they had planned to send out before their suspension. Last week, the government suspended eight labour export firms. The affected firms include the Middle …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Members of Parliament have questioned the continued payment of legislators without working. The MPs forming part of the Opposition leadership led by Betty Nambooze, MP Mukono Municipality and Kalungu West MP, Joseph Ssewungu, say that the payments of their allowances without work …
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Medics have called for special isolation centres for health workers to receive free services when they contract COVID-19 in line of duty Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Unionists have asked the government to copy from their regional neighbours and reign in on ensuring that health workers get timely treatment when they …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police are hunting down a group of ten suspected thugs who reportedly broke into a house and robbed its Chinese occupants of more than 200 million shillings. Charles Twine, the Criminal Investigations Directorate-CID spokesperson said the thugs broke into the house located in Kisingiri zone, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wakiso district has received an additional 3,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The District Health Officer Matthias Lugolobi says the National Medical Stores-NMS delivered the additional doses on Friday last week. This brings to 8,370, the number of doses received by the district to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has promised to install an oxygen plant at Entebbe National Isolation Centre by September this year. Eng. George Otim, the commissioner of health infrastructure at the health ministry says the plant will be expected to generate at least 300 cylinders of …
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Ntoroko, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Local leaders and farmers in Ntoroko district are living in fear of an outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease following an influx of pastoralists from DR Congo. The pastoralists are running away from instability in Boga. Dr. Bagonza Patrick Businge, the principle production officer Ntoroko …
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Kakumiro, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | An angry mob has lynched two suspected cattle thieves in Kakumiro district. The two raided the home of one of the residents at Katugu village in Nalweyo sub county on Sunday and attempted to steal cows. However, luck ran out for the suspects when one …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fuel stations have maintained prices of fuel even after the new fuel tax of 100 Shillings that took effect on Thursday having been approved by parliament for the 2021/22 financial year. Government increased the fuel tax per litre of petrol and diesel by Ush100 for …
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