By KENNEDY MUPESENI – COPPERBELT Energy Corporation (CEC) share price has increased significantly by a record 139 per cent on the Lusaka Securities Exchange (LuSE) due to improved sentiments, board chairperson London Mwafulilwa has said...

By CHATULA KANGALI – THE Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries intends to set up fish pens on Lake Tanganyika at the cost of $480,000 to reduce overdependence on capture fisheries which is currently facing serious...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELAGOVERNMENT has said effective and sustainable development of value chains largely depends on building synergies with various livestock stakeholders.Fisheries and Livestock Permanent Secretary Anna Songolo said it was important to build effective and...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has urged all central banks with the trading bloc to ensure that gains attained in recent years on financial system development, and...

Work on bad roads THERE is need for Government and stakeholders to urgently look into the rehabilitation of roads in the country.Of late, the country has witnessed an increasing number of road traffic accidents which...

By MILDRED KATONGO – VETERINARY authorities on the Copperbelt have suspended the movement of pigs for two weeks after a suspected case of the African Swine Fever (ASF) in Chililabombwe District.Provincial veterinary officer Hildah Lumbwe...

By KELVIN MUDENDA – A ZAMBIA Air Force (ZAF) Livingstone station Commander and a student pilot have died after their plane crashed near Makunka area of Kazungula District.Colonel Lyson Siame, 41, of Voucher Street Dambwa...

By CAROLINE NGWENGWE – AN expectant mother has been forced to give birth near a stream which she found had flooded as she was on herway to a health centre to deliver. This happened in...

By KASONDE KASONDE and EMILY KUWEMA – ANXIETY has gripped the atmosphere surrounding the health sector recruitment with a consortium of healthbodies expressing worry that most of their members have been left out.But Health Minister...

By ESTHER NG’ANDU – AS the recruitment process for 11,276 health workersgains momentum, the Young Women ChristianAssociation (YWCA) has cautioned female applicantsnot to fall prey to people who may want sexual favours inexchange for positions.The...