Parliament has passed the National Environment Bill 2017 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |Â The bill passed on Wednesday by Parliament seeks to repeal the National Environment Act Cap.153 and replace it with a law that conforms to existing Government policies and other relevant laws. In the new amendment, corporate companies …
Read More »COMMENT: Your electricity bill
How four government departments push up the rate consumers pay for the electricity COMMENT | FRANCIS MUJJUNI |Â The rationale employed by our hunting ancestors has severally bewildered many today. In droves, our ancestors would hunt down a single tiny rodent with the hope that at capture, they would share it …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Cabinet reviews the Landlords and Tenants bill
Cabinet reviews the Landlords and Tenants bill Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENTÂ | The proposed Landlords and Tenants Bill that seeks to repeal the current Rent Restriction Act of 1959 and the Distress for Rent Act of 1933 will soon be tabled after cabinet reviewed it. This was revealed by Lands …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Traders welcome Landlords and Tenants Bill
THIS WEEK: Traders welcome Landlords and Tenants Bill Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |Â Traders have welcomed the Landlords and Tenants Bill which will put an end to the practice of charging rent on commercial and residential property countrywide in foreign currency especially dollars. Cabinet already approved the bill and it …
Read More »MABIRIZI: Museveni was not guided on Age Limit Bill
Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | One of the petitioners challenging the 2017 Constitutional Amendment Act says President Yoweri Museveni was not guided before he signed the bill into law in December last year. Male Mabiriizi Kiwanuka, in his submission to the Constitutional Court hearing in Mbale district on Wednesday …
Read More »Landlords and tenants bill to restrict payment in shillings
Kampala, Uganda | URN | Cabinet has approved the tabling of Landlords and Tenants Bill which seeks to, among other things, restrict payment of rent in shillings unless the tenant and landlord amicably agree on transaction in other currencies. State Minister for Housing, Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, says the bill will …
Read More »HRM Professionals bill, 2017 to be tabled before Parliament
Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI |Â Government has finalized the drafting of a new bill aimed at regulating Human Resource practitioners and putting in place new measures to professionalize the human resource industry and protecting it from errant officers. This was revealed by the outgoing president of The Human Resource …
Read More »MP Raphael Magyezi on age limit Bill
Kampala, Uganda | AGNES E. NANTABA |Â The Igara West Member of Parliament, Raphael Magyezi is the brain behind the controversial constitutional Amendment Bill No. 2 that was largely known as the Age Limit Bill. The bill was passed on December 20, and had the president assent to it on January …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Law society petitions court over judiciary administration bill
THIS WEEK: Law society petitions court over judiciary administration bill Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Under their professional body Uganda Law Society (ULS), lawyers have petitioned the constitutional court over failure to pass the judiciary administration bill and government actions that impend the judiciary from attaining the self -accounting …
Read More »THIS WEEK: Impasse over GMO Bill
THIS WEEK: Impasse over GMO Bill Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The nation’s scientists are embroiled in arguments for and against the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill, 2012 commonly known as the GMO Bill. Last month, President Museveni rejected the bill and wrote a letter to the Speaker saying …
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