By SAM PHIRI – WELL-DONE! I must say, to Suwilanji Siame for a brilliant concept of a scintillating reality ZNBC’s Junior President Show! Before delving into the programme’s production issues, let me congratulate the two...

MOST of the people who attended last week’s Stanbic Jazz Festival at the upperdeck of Levy Park Mall in Lusaka confessed to have known American Jazz musician Earl Klugh’s songs through radio. The over 2,000...

By SAM PHIRI – IT’S a thought through fact that Lusaka and other cities of Zambia have become less organised, dirty and unregulated such that one does not even need to ask questions of who...

1.     Mr. Speaker, I beg to move that the House do now resolve into Committee of Supply on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the year 1st January, 2016 to 31st December, 2016,...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – FINANCE Minister Alexander Chikwanda yesterday presented a K53.14 billion 2016 National Budget which will be financed through domestic revenue and grants from cooperating partners. The Budget, which has increased from this...

By SHAMAOMA MUSONDA and  MOSES CHIMFWEMBE – AFTER weeks of controversy and mixed views from various stakeholders surrounding the constitutionality of the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) ‘reconvened’ annual general meeting (AGM), the indaba takes...

By CHARITY MOONGA FINANCE Minister Alexander Chikwanda says the Government will in 2016 limit domestic borrowing to maintain public debt within sustainable levels. In his Budget presentation to Parliament yesterday, Mr Chikwanda said the Government...

By CHARITY MOONGA THE Government is determined to reduce high levels of unemployment and poverty in the country by promoting development of the productive sector, which will lead to the achievement of the real Gross...

By SYLVESTER MWALE – FINANCE Minister Alexander Chikwanda has proposed to increase capital allowance for power generation equipment to 50 per cent from the current 25. The move, which would take effect on January 1,...

By SARAH MWANZA, REBECCA MUSHOTA and MILDRED KATONGO – THE Prisons Care and Counselling Association (PRISCCA) has joined others in commending President Edgar Lungu’s declaration of October 18, 2015 as the day of national prayer,...