Ministers seek end to secrecy in major banks

More than 80 countries signed up to a deal that could help end banking secrecy Wednesday in what the sponsors hope will be a major step in the global battle against tax evasion and fraud. A total 51 countries signed up to the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement under which their national tax authorities will exchange information automatically from September 2017.

More than 60 environment and energy ministers tasked with inking a global pact in December to rein in climate change, meet in Paris from Sunday seeking to narrow political rifts.

Last Tuesday’s armed robbery at Barclays Bank in Kinondoni in Dar es Salaam, raises serious questions about our security situation. Armed robberies are increasingly being reported countrywide.

>Constituent Assembly Interim Chairman Pandu Ameir Kificho yesterday put together a reconciliation committee in an attempt to end the controversy over the mode of voting.  The team promptly went into closed-door consultations in the evening, hoping to find common ground between the parties.

Hold talks with responsible ministers to end land disputes
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SECRETARY General of Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), Mr Abdulrahman Kinana, has directed local leaders in Ngorongoro council to meet ministers for Lands, Housing and Human Settlement Development and that of Natural Resources and Tourism to ...

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The year 2020 has confirmed to the whole world that one of the most important and toughest portfolios to hold in a government is that of a Minister of Health.

In Africa, our health ministers have been at the forefront of the fight against the Corona Virus pandemic and with support from the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, there's hope of Africans rising from this pandemic, scathed but stronger.

Primary among the roles of a health minister are overseeing the formulation of...

Process shrouded in secrecy

One of the more salutary decisions of the 19th meeting of the National Assembly this year was its ‘passing’ of the 2014 Tax Administration Bill. Hopefully, the danged thing receives soonest the presidential assent it needs to give it the force of law!