By CHATULA KANGALI – ZAMBEZI Portland has invested US$1.3 million in the establishment of a concrete manufacturing plant. Company operations director Daniele Ventriglia said in an interview that the setting up of the cement plant...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) has cleared US$160 million outstanding debts to contractors and suppliers who were owed by the mining firm. The $160 million, which is part of the $200 million the...

By HELEN ZULU- THE Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) says it will set up an inland customs clearing facility in Livingstone in Southern Province. ZRA Commissioner General, Kingsley Chanda said it was saddening that trucks with...

By CHATULA KANGALI – INDEPENDENT tobacco farmers in Eastern Province have this farming season shunned growing barley tobacco due to lack of market, the Eastern Fodya Association of Zambia (EFAZ) has said. EFAZ president Francklyn...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – SOME stakeholders have challenged the commercial banks and other financial lending institutions in the country to reduce the lending  interest rates in line with the drastic drop in the country’s rate...

By CASSEY  KAYULA – AT LEAST one million smallholder farmers in Zambia and two other countries will benefit from a US$25-million AgriFin Accelerate programme which was launched yesterday. The AgriFin Accelerate Programme will help close...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE new trend of blending emerald with diamond in making jewelry products  has created demand for emeralds, Gemcanton Investments Limited has said. Operations director Eli Sher said the new trend was...

By HELEN  ZULU – THE Swedish government has provided €20 million to the Power Africa Programme to compliment Government’s effort in laying power transmission lines from the main grid to districts in North-Western Province. Swedish...

By CASSEY  KAYULA – AT LEAST one million smallholder farmers in Zambia and two other countries will benefit from a US$25-million AgriFin Accelerate programme which was launched yesterday. The AgriFin Accelerate Programme will help close...

By HELEN  ZULU – THE Swedish government has provided €20 million to the Power Africa Programme to compliment Government’s effort in laying power transmission lines from the main grid to districts in North-Western Province. Swedish...