THE Uganda Electricity Transmission Company (UETCL) has invited bidders for the supply and installation of LCD projectors, retractable projection screens and white boards.

PRODUCER prices for all manufactured goods increased by 18.3% during the 12 months to March 2008, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics' acting director for business and industry statistics, Imelda Atai, has said.

Improving household incomes is a big challenge to both the citizens and leaders, Janet Museveni, the Ruhaama county MP, has said.

WAKISO district has failed to account for over sh600m advanced by the central Government for the financial years 2002-2005. The district officials recently appeared before the Public Accounts Committee to answer queries about the funds.

I rejected a trip to South Africa, which was partly facilitated by one of the banks that had expressed interest in being the custodian for the Parliamentary Pension Fund, the parliamentary commissioner, Alice Alaso (FDC), said yesterday.

INSURERS are unhappy about the reluctance of donor-aided projects to accept insurance performance bonds from contractors. â-

FINANCIAL institutions should set up branches in the suburbs to meet the increasing demand for their services, the central bank governor has advised.

Aruu county MP Odonga Otto has retracted his earlier accusations against Buvuma MP William Nsubuga that he was bribed to support the Commonwealth summit supplementary budget.

NILE Breweries has donated 40 bicycles to sorghum farmers.

MAMA'S Club, a Ugandan community-based organisation helping people living with HIV/AIDS, has emerged one of the best 25 groups of the Red Ribbon for 2008.

THE Bushenyi district Woman MP has decried the increasing number of murder cases and called upon the Government to beef up security in the area.

THE assistant town clerk for Lubaga division, James Nsereko, has blamed private contractors for illegal garbage disposal in the division.

STOP listening to individuals talking about elections at this time, the Chief of Defence Forces, Gen. Aronda Nyakairima, has advised the people of Masaka

AMERICAN International Group (AIG) has offered free household insurance covers worth sh4.7b to 47 house-owners as part of efforts to boost penetration of household insurance in the country.

WHEN the race for the by-elections in Rubaga Division kicks off in a month's time, one of the candidates will be Moses Makumbi, husband to the late division chairperson, Winnie Makumbi.

NKUMBA University and KCC volleyball teams have withdrawn from the East and Central Africa Volleyball competitions that rolls off in the Kenyan capital Nairobi today.

THE Government should double the health sector budget to over sh960b from sh480.45b that was allocated in the new budget, MPs have said.

Local governments have failed to account for over sh40b advanced to them by the Central Government. The Auditor General, in a report for the year ending June 2007, discovered flagrant abuse and mismanagement leading to loss of billions of shillings.

THREE suspected gangsters said to have carried out robberies, murders and rape in Kampala and Wakiso districts were yesterday charged before the army court.

NINE schools in Wakiso district have been closed by the Ministry of Education over poor facilities and operating without licences.