By CHUSA SICHONE – GOVERNMENT has assured that it will do everything possible to ensure that it recruits more police officers to meet the more than 9,000 deficit by the year 2016. The Zambia Police...

  By CHARITY MOONGA – Bayport Financial Services has presented scholarships to 50 first year University of Zambia (UNZA) Students. Bayport executive director Martha Akapelwa said 60 per cent of the bursary awards by her...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – SOME non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have called for thorough police investigations in a case where a teenager, was last week found tied to a tree in the bush. Police suspect the 14-year-old...

By BRIAN HATYOKA in Harare – SOUTHERN African Development Community (SADC) member States have been urged to complement each other to attract more tourist arrivals to the region. Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive Karikoga...

By CHILA NAMAIKO – THE construction of Gwembe and Namwala District hospitals has been completed, Southern Province Medical Officer Jelita Chinyonga has said. Gwembe District Hospital phase-one project started in 2013 and cost of about...

By MARISA MWAPE – A TANZANIAN trader has been fined K3,000 for trading in Zambia without a permit. Kitwe magistrate Densen Muchaba convicted Bowas Kitwitika, after finding him guilty of trading illegally at Chisokone Market...

By CHARITY MOONGA – PARLIAMENT yesterday threw out a private members motion which, if passed, would have increased the jail sentence for cattle rustlers from the current 15 to a minimum of 20 years imprisonment....

By CHUSA SICHONE – CHINESE Ambassador to Zambia Yang Youming has pledged to maintain and strengthen the cooperation between his country and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). Mr Yang presented his...

By YVONNE CHATE – THIRTY-FIVE former Mwamona Engineering Company employees in Luanshya have sued the company’s managing director Chishimba Kambwili for wrongfully terminating their contracts. Christopher Mwaba of house number 74 Telecoma Avenue in Luanshya...

By SYLVIA MWEETWA – LIVINGSTONE Town Clerk Vivien Chikoti has pleaded not guilty to two counts of abuse of authority of office before Kabwe magistrate Chimuka Mutafela. Ms Chikoti is jointly charged with former Kabwe Muncipal Council (KMC) director of engineering Cosmas Mpundu, who also took plea before Mr Mutafela on Friday. The two are alleged...