By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – PROFLIGHT Zambia will next month reintroduce its 50-seater jet aircraft dubbed Jubilee Jet which will operate on domestic routes. The Bombardier CRJ-100 aircraft, which was originally introduced on a trial basis...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) rules of origin should be be simplified Trade Law Centre (TRALAC) ,a Southern African trade think tank has said. The current scenario...

By HELEN ZULU – THE Zambia Bureau of Standards (ZABS) has seized 95 cases of carbonated drinks known as Maracuja from SGC Investment Limited in Lusaka. The seized product bears labels in Portuguese and had...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – THE National Union for Small Scale Farmers of Zambia (NUSFAZ) has urged the need to provide incentives that will promote production of wheat among the smallholder farmers. National Union for Small...

By KENNEDY MUPESENI – ZAMBIAN entrepreneurs should forge partnerships with their Chinese counterparts to increase non-traditional exports (NTEs) to China, Commerce, Trade and Industry Permanent Secretary Siazongo Sikalenge has said. In 2014, Zambia exported about...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – THE Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) lost the focus of its core business and started concentrating on raising money for salaries as opposed to conserving wildlife, the Tourism Council of Zambia (TCZ)...

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – ZAMBIA’s total honey production in 2014 increased by 250,000 tonnes to one million tonnes. ZHC programme manager Macdonald Kayuuna said in 2014 the industry produced one million tonnes of honey compared...

By JUDITH NAMUTOWE – ZAMBIA Forest and Forestry Industry Corporation (ZAFFICO) has drastically reduced and standardised the monthly volumes of logs sawmillers are supposed to get due to increased number of dealers in the industry....

By MAIMBOLWA MULIKELELA – INVESTRUST Bank Plc has introduced cardless withdrawals at its Automated Teller Machines (ATMs), under the bank’s InvestMobile platform. The feature enables customers on the InvestMobile platform to be able to draw...

By MAIMBOLWA  MULIKELELA – THE Government in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has developed the Renewable Energy Feed-In-Tariff (REFIT) policy for Zambia. This is aimed at creating an enabling environment...