Over 90pc of airports depend on govt subsidies to operate

Govt plans to upgrade airports countrywide
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The government through Tanzania Airports Authority (TAA) has pledged to improve all airports infrastructures depending on availability of funds, the Deputy Minister for Transport Dr Charles Tizeba has said. He told the National Assembly here yesterday when ...

The Tanzania Breweries Limited (TBL) stole the show at the Dar es Salaam Stock (DSE) trading last week despite a drop in the market’s week-on-week turnover, precipitated by the festive-season preparations.

Tanzania depends heavily on agriculture. Yet when it comes to sustaining the sector, our leadership seems to believe it can thrive on its own.

On Wednesday, the Tanzania Heads of Secondary School Association (Tahossa) urged the government to stop sending primary and secondary school funds through district councils, and instead, deposit the monies directly into school accounts. The district councils should have the primary duty of overseeing how the money was being spent, they recommended during the Tahossa annual general meeting in Mwanza recently.

In the Tuesday edition of the Daily News, there is a story on page two with the headline ‘Mugumu Airport now on horizon’. According to this story, a tender for construction of the much-awaited Mugumu Airport has finally been floated.

A new aviation services company has applied for a licence to start operating scheduled domestic and international flights in Tanzania, The Citizen has learnt.

Should we go local or rope in foreign firms when it comes to buying rapid buses and managing the modern transport system we are so looking forward to?

World Trade Organisation member countries agreed to abolish agricultural export subsidies after five days of talks in Nairobi, but failed to make progress on the long-stalled Doha Round of negotiations aimed at lowering global trade barriers.

Don't depend on students' fees, JK tells private varsities
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President Jakaya Kikwete has told private universities in the country to stop depending on students fees as the source of income to run their activities and instead they should be creative in finding other sources of generating income. He issued this appeal on ...
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