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Joseph Almeida is the managing director for Liberty Life Assurance Uganda Limited. He spoke to The Independent’s Julius Businge about their business and sector issues. What has been your contribution to Uganda’s economy since 2006? We pay roughly over a billion shillings a year as tax to Uganda Revenue Authority. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United States slashed down its funding support to Uganda in 2018 by more than 3 Billion shillings below what it disbursed in 2017. The support fell from 3.6 trillion shillings in 2017 to 3.3 Trillion shillings in 2018. According to the Third Report …

COMMENT | Yoweri Kaguta Museveni | Condolences on the killing of the young Bazukulu Nagirinya and Kitayimbwa by the criminals as the two were at the gate of the former’s residence at 23:49 hours on the night of August 28th, 2019. Also condolences on the murder of Joshua Rushegyera and …

    Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has fired manning the CCTV camera centres for failing to act fast following the recent murders in the capital Kampala. “The officer at Kibumbiro Police post- Busega says that she tried to contact the 999 but the 999 was …

Overall performance was hindered by a jump in tax expenses Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | A nearly double growth in income tax expense bullied Uganda’s electricity distributor, Umeme, to record a merely 0.3% growth in net profit to Shs 61.2bn for the past six months ending June.30. The company’s …

The firms are investing in staff, information technology and standards Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | As Uganda slowly moves towards commercial oil production, companies in the freight and logistics sector are preparing their staff, investing heavily in information technology as well as standards to tap into the multi-billion sector. …

Future real estate developments hinge on the newly passed Landlord-Tenant Bill Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | Rent for office space in prime locations in Kampala City has remained stable for the past six months. Property agency firm, Knight Frank has attributed this to the increasing number of tenants seeking …

Lokodo pleased, LGBTs say study misunderstood Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda’s Minister for Ethics and Integrity Fr. Simon Lokodo has welcomed results of a recent massive study that shows that the so-called ‘gay gene’ is a total myth. “Of course there is no person born gay,” said Lokodo …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Three suspects, including a driver captured on CCTV, have been arrested for the kidnap and subsequent murder of social worker, Maria Nagirinya. Nagirinya and her driver Ronald Kitayimbwa were kidnapped on August 28, outside her home in Lungujja, on the outskirts of Kampala, …

My experience | Gyagenda Semakula Zikusooka | I woke up at 3:30am on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 and made up to be able to catch my flight to Nairobi. My only reason for this trip was to be one of the very first commercial travelers of the revamped Uganda Airlines; …