IN Europe, it is a requirement for anyone working with children to be cleared by the Police of any sex-related offence. Yet in third world countries like Zambia, we have a record number of adults...

THE incessant killings of old people on suspicion that they practise witchcraft should be stopped immediately. The killing last weekend of a woman in Chibolya is the latest installment in the increasing barbaric onslaught on...

ZAMBIA’S signing of two bilateral agreements at the weekend with Angola on water and railway transport to facilitate easy movement of people and goods, will certainly increase trade between the two countries. The two countries...

HUMAN trafficking is the latest evil that has gripped Zambia and, looking at the rate at which this crime is being perpetrated on an almost daily basis, it is rapidly getting out of proportion and,...

IT is heartening to note that the Government has realised K1,417,500 from the sale of 1,575,000 holograms from September 2013 to December 2014. According to Information and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary Chanda Kasolo, the Government...

THE revelation by the Zambia Heart and Stroke Foundation (ZHSF) that youths in the country are abusing tobacco makes sad reading. It is evidently clear that youths in the country have resorted to spending many...

CASTING a ballot, be it during the general or by-elections, is one of Zambia’s human rights any citizen of voting age is entitled to. However, except for the presidential and general elections of 1991 which...

PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu has obviously taken a hardline stance on the continued pilfering of drugs in the country’s health institutions by advising health authorities to ‘borrow’ his powers if the Ministry of Health does not...

MINING has not been one of the most audited subjects by the Auditor General’s office and concern has continued to prevail on the mining sector’s obligations to pay their taxes to Government. Auditing of mining...

THOSE who have travelled to South Africa without a Yellow Fever Certificate know how inconveniencing it can be to be sent back at the border for travelling without a yellow book. Cross-border traders also recollect...