FinScope survey crucial

FinScope Survey is a FinMark Trust initiative that studies consumers’ perceptions on financial services and issues which give insight into how consumers source their income and manage their financial lives.

FinScope Tanzania 2013 survey results were launched in Dar es Salaam over a week ago. The piece of research contains a massive amount of information about Tanzania’s financial services – who uses them, what they want, what their attitudes are, and what is still missing.

The Constituent Assembly is the most crucial stage among the stages that the process of constitution making has so far passed or is about to pass through. Every responsible Tanzanian and of the majority age (18 years old and above) is anxiously waiting for the start and end of the Constituent Assembly and what will be the outcome.

Today, in a series of my articles which try to respond to the proposals of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) following the publication of the second Draft Constitution, I would like to critically, but constructively differ with CCM’s proposal that the Draft Constitution is too much detailed to the extent that it lacks profundity and brevity as it is supposed to be.

>The delay by the government to present a draft bill in Parliament on the establishment of Tanzania Teachers Professional Body (TTPB) has affected the performance of the Big Results Now (BRN) in education sector, stakeholders said over the weekend.

CCM presidential candidate January Makamba has expressed the need for a close monitoring of the economic performance.

Charles Boniface Mkwasa faces a crucial test today as he leads the national team, Taifa Stars, in search of their first win in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers at the National Stadium today.

>Bitterness rent the air in the US city of St. Louis, Missouri, after another black teenager, Vonderrit Myers, was shot dead on Thursday by an off-duty white police officer.

World Water Day marked on Saturday was a poignant reminder that fresh water is increasingly becoming scarce around the globe, setting the stage for a doomsday scenario in the next few decades. Access to water is at the centre of conflicts in some parts of Africa, and this serves to underscore the magnitude of the problem and its potential to slowly but steadily spiral out of control.