NAIROBI, July 3 (Xinhua) -- The following are the news highlights in Kenya's major media outlets on Tuesday.
-- Street preaching, taking photos with your smartphone and hawking food will cost you more under new taxes proposed by counties. In Siaya, street preachers will pay 20,000 shillings up front per day to use the lawns maintained by the county government if the Finance Bill 2018 is approved. In Makueni, owners of casinos will be required to pay 30,000 shillings a month as the county government looks to improve revenues to finance the 8.9 billion shillings budget. In Nairobi, supermarkets and shopping malls will surrender a share of proceeds from private car parks and sale of parking bags to shoppers. (The Standard)
-- One of the companies that imported sugar in bulk from Brazil last year had in the past been blacklisted by Parliament. A parliamentary committee investigating contraband sugar was informed the company was blacklisted after imported sugar without permit. (Daily Nation)
-- President Uhuru Kenyatta called off Tuesday's Jubilee parliamentary group meeting as he did not want to be drawn into discussing anything other than the Big Four Agenda. (The Star)
-- Investors' wealth at the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) fell shillings 241 billion in the second quarter of the year as blue chip stocks slid under the weight of profit-taking. (Business Daily)
