By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – STARSAT has partnered with StarTimes Group of China to provide affordable digital television services for majority Zambians on the market. StarTimes is a pay television company operating all over Africa and...

By CHATULA KANGALI – GOVERNMENT has partnered with the World Bank to offer grants to fish farmers to boost fish production in the country. Livestock and Fisheries Minister Greyford Monde said the project was in...

BRIEFCASE is concerned with the level of road signals being given by some personnel employed by road contractors on some roads on Copperbelt. Concern about these personnel, most of them young women is that, sometimes...

By CHATULA KANGALI, MILDRED  KATONGOand HELEN ZULU  – LUANSHYA shoprite branch manager Bruce Mapiki said the closure of Baluba mine has resulted in the chain store losing up to 20 per cent sales. Mr Mapiki...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has adopted an action plan and wide-ranging partnerships to transform African agriculture into viable agri-business. The adoption of an action plan and wide-ranging partnerships to transform...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Food Reserve Agency (FRA) has so far spent K177 million on farmers who supplied maize in Northern Province  in the 2015 crop marketing season with only less than K10 million...

By HELEN ZULU – AB BANK Zambia has signed a 3 million Euros micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) investment bond with the European Investment bank (EIB) aimed at enhancing AB bank’s support to MSMEs....

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Zambia Cooperative Federation (ZCF) is in the process of setting up tomato processing plants in four major cities of Zambia at a cost of US$6 million. ZCF director general James...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – LOCAL economist Noel Nkhoma has advised Government against having the major stake in the operations of the Zambian airline. This follows the establishment of the company to operate as Zambia Airways...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Government in collaboration with the Zambia Cooperative Federation (ZCF) has identified land for the installation of the Government sponsored solar milling plant in Kasama. The contractor has since moved on...