Business yet to pick up despite CA multitudes

Business in Dodoma has not picked up despite the arrival of hundreds of visitors in recent weeks, traders said yesterday.

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Last BVR day in Dar attracts multitudes
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Many Dar es Salaam residents registered through the just-ended Biometric Voters Registration (BVR) process, National Electoral Commission (NEC) chairman (retired) Judge Damian Lubuva said yesterday. He said the number was more than the ...
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Today is World Toilet Day… Cheers! The banner ‘Toilets save lives’ might sound mundane, far-fetched... Or, at best: a smart-alecky trader’s way of drawing attention to toilet-related ware be fobbed off upon unwary prospective customers…! 

Seemingly for the umpteenth time, Tanzania’s major partners-in-development have come out in lavish praise for what they described as peaceful, stable transition from one govt to another.

The Bayelsa State Government of Nigeria (http://www.bayelsa.gov.ng) says it has concluded arrangements to host global business leaders between 16th and 18th July, 2014, at its maiden investment and economic forum with the theme ‘Unlocking Bayelsa State’s Economic Potentials’.

Disclosing this at a press briefing in Lagos, the State Commissioner of Trade, Industry and Investment, Barrister Kemela Okara said the Forum was in line with the present administration’s economic blueprint of a...

>The Tanzania Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is pushing for auditing existing tax exemptions in Tanzania to determine their merit or otherwise. [See ‘PAC calls for audit of all tax exemptions,’ Daily News: Jan. 14, 2015].

In all fairness, allow me, o’esteemed reader, to begin this palaver by congratulating former President Benjamin Mkapa on his 77th birthday anniversary today, November 12. Having got this off my chest without having to take off my shirt, allow me to proceed...

>Barely a month after the Tanzania Govt hiked excise duty on beverages (and tobacco goods, among other items), it has again hiked the tax on beers by an incredible 100 per cent!

On Sept. 17 this year, the US Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Board reportedly decided to ‘continue withholding’ disbursement of $472.8 million (roughly Sh1.04 trillion) to Tanzania.