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Saturday May 22 2021
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Indiscipline is perhaps the single biggest contributor to the traffic gridlocks that we experience on most of Kampala’s roads. Government should, among other measures, come up with an awareness campaign on road use.
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The government has borrowed Shs1 trillion from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to fix roads in Kampala City.
Under the terms of the agreement, drainage channels are to be enhanced, 22 road junctions are to be upgraded and 67 kilometres of roads improved.
The works will also entail putting in place facilities for 134 kilometres of non-motorised traffic, provision of street lights and establishment of a scheduled eco-bus service complete with bus depots and dedicated lanes.
Daily Monitor
Thursday May 06 2021
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In June last year, government signed a deal with RippleNami to build a data visualisation system that would match rental properties with their owners as well as estimate the value of rental income from a property.
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A US-based company that government hired to build a digital system that seeks to maximise rental tax collections is now in the final stages ahead of the product launch, according to Ms Jaye Connolly-LaBelle, the RippleNami Uganda chairperson.
The system, which seeks to trace landlords that are non-compliant and those that under declare rental incomes as well as matching properties to real owners, Ms Connolly-LaBelle, said has been undergoing demonstrations with the most recent being a prototype demo at Uganda Revenue Authority (URA).
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Daily Monitor
Thursday December 24 2020
Tourism will be a key focus area as government seeks to change focus on creating employment. PHOTO | FILE
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Government will in the next financial year anchor its planning on maximising job creation through tourism, travel, manufacturing, construction, services, and trade.
However, agriculture will continue to be a key area as government seeks to turn it from subsistence to a cash-based sector.
The details are contained in the 2020/21 National Budget Framework Paper drawn by Ministry of Finance.
According to the Ministry of Finance, out of the 9.1 million Ugandans employed outside subsistence agriculture in 2017, which makes up 60 per cent of the working population), majority were in agriculture (3,257,800k, representing 35.8 per cent) followed by the services sector outside trade (2,639,000, representing 29 per cent), trade (2,065,700, translating into 22.7 per cent) and construction (1,137,500; which represent