website

Rate Bill due
KAMPALA â€" The Local Governments (Rating) Bill 2003 is in its final stages. The new Bill, which provides for the valuation and levying of new rates on all private property by local governments, was tabled before Parliament by local government minister Tarsis Kabwegyere yesterday. It seeks to replace the existing archaic Local Government Rating Decrees. The debate of the Bill that sets one tenth of two currency points (sh2,000) as minimum annual rate on properties resumes tomorrow.

Healers leave
LUWEERO â€" The traditional herbalists and healers, who had defied the Kabaka’s orders of 1994 to vacate Katwe Jubilee Park, have finally given in. Defence lawyer Kafuko Ntuyo yesterday told Justice Rubby Opio-Aweri that his 33 clients, under the National Association of Traditional Healers and Herbalists, would leave within 30 days. In 2001, Mengo, through Sebalu and Lule Advocates, sued the herbalists, seeking eviction orders and damages for trespass.

WB rapped
KAMPALA â€" The Uganda Law Society (ULS) has condemned the World Bank hiring foreign law firms at the expense of Ugandan ones, to execute local duties. ULS president Andrew Kasirye said Ugandan lawyers felt suppressed by the development. “Whenever the World Bank brings money into the country, they always influence the policy by appointing a law firm from England and they look for a local firm for mere consultancy,” he said. Kasirye was speaking at a one-workshop for Uganda lawyers at the Makerere University Business School yesterday.
APDF is a Kenyan-based NGO.

that funds ULS training courses.