By BRIAN HATYOKA – ZAMBIA has been cited by the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) as one of the top seven best performing countries in the world in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT). First...

By CHARITY MOONGA – THE Auditor General’s report on the Ministry of Local Government and Housing has revealed that out of a provision of K196 million for water sanitation programme support phase one, K47.74 million...

By CATHERINE NYIRENDA – VICE-PRESIDENT Guy Scott has said the repayment of Value Added Tax (VAT) owed to the mining and other companies is within the law and not something Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda wants...

By XAVIER MANCHISHI – TIMES Printpak Zambia Limited Managing Director Godfrey Malama’s contract which expires in October this year, will not be renewed. In Mr Malama’s absence, the Board has appointed deputy Managing Director Chishimba...

By BRIAN HATYOKA – MORE than 100 trucks from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are marooned at Kazungula Border on the Zambian side because authorities on the Botswana side are not allowing them to...

By PERPETUAL SICHIKWENKWE – GAME Stores Zambia manager, Maduramuthoo Mare Palan has pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing a former female employee. Palan, 46, of house number 8 Mass Media in Lusaka told principal magistrate,...

By CATHERINE NYIRENDA – HEALTH Minister, Joseph Kasonde has issued a Statutory Instrument (SI) declaring Ebola as a notifiable disease under the provisions of Public Health Act. The SI 49 of 2014 compels health workers...

By CHARITY MOONGA- SPEAKER of the National Assembly Patrick Matibini has called for the involvement of youths in enhancing democracy and development in the region. Dr Matibini said it was of concern that despite youths...

By CATHERINE NYIRENDA- GOVERNMENT has ordered the closure of the African Health Care Institute of Health Sciences in Chingola, which has been training community health care assistants. The institution under the auspices of the Zambia...

By NAKUBIANA SHABONGO- THE United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, Alexander Aleinikoff, is expected in the country tomorrow for an official visit. Mr Aleinikof, the second in command in UNHCR’s global operations, which is...