🔺9 frontline health workers from Kampala 🔺1 contact from Buvuma 🔺15 contacts from Kyotera 🔺2 contacts from Mayuge 🔺1 contact from Pader 🔺8 contacts from Yumbe 🔺11 foreigners from earlier collected samples tested positive for COVID-19 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | The Ministry of Health has today …
Read More »Public transport opened up in Kampala after passengers sleep at parks
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Works and KCCA have granted a temporary waiver for public transporters plying upcountry routes who have not yet finalized registration to carry passengers for the next three days. This a day after passengers were forced to sleep at various taxi parks …
Read More »COVID-19: Panic at City Hall as four evacuated
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT & URN | There was drama and panic at City Hall today as health officials evacuated four Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA ) staff feared to have contracted COVID-19. The four KCCA staff were picked by the COVID-19 Emergency Response Team team from City …
Read More »Police impounds 212 taxis for flouting KCCA, COVID-19 rules
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda police impounded 212 taxis and 47 buses in Kampala Metropolitan Area on the very day they returned to the roads for flouting new rules for their operations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. President Yoweri Museveni lifted the ban on public …
Read More »Hundreds of passengers spend night in taxi, bus parks
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 2000 travelers spent Thursday night in city Taxi and Bus parks across Kampala due to curfew restrictions. According to the officials of Namayiba Bus Terminal, USAFI and New Taxi Parks, hundreds of travelers couldn’t get transport means to their destinations because of …
Read More »KCCA releases artistic impression of new ‘Old Taxi Park’
KCCA PLAN 🔵 Register Boda Bodas and Taxis operating in the City 🔵 Creating a digital data base of those operating in the City 🔵 Gazette Parks, stages, routes and stops for taxis and Boda Bodas 🔵 Introduce route numbers and rout colors for all the taxis 🔵 Identification of drivers/riders …
Read More »60 taxis impounded over lack of route charts
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 60 taxis were impounded in Kampala on Thursday over lack of route charts. The drivers were found loading passengers at gazetted and non-gazetted parks yet they had not registered with Kampala Capital City Authority –KCCA and the Ministry of Works to secure …
Read More »Passengers stranded as public transport reopens
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Several passengers were on Thursday morning left stranded as public transport resumed two months after PSVs were thrown off the roads as the country made attempts to contain the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The ban was lifted earlier this week and according to …
Read More »KCCA limits number of taxis allowed in parks to ensure physical distancing
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority- KCCA has reduced the number of taxis that will be allowed in each of the taxi parks in the city as it moves to enforce physical distancing in one of the areas known to have crowds. As part of the guidelines …
Read More »Taxi registration frustrates operators as hundreds are turned away
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dozens of taxi operators have failed to register in the ongoing exercise being conducted by Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA over failure to fulfill what they call unfair conditions. Hundreds of taxi operators converged at Old Kampala Secondary School and Kitante Primary School on Wednesday …
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